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New Delhi: In yet another incident that raises questions on the safety of women in the national capital, a 19-year-old call center employee was allegedly gangraped by an autorickshaw driver and his friends.

What is shocking is that the vicitm was held captive for 12 hours. The main accused has been arrested and the police is on the look out ( Read more... )

• Pity that nation that jails those who ask for justice'
• 'No one should be killed, raped, imprisoned or have their finger-nails pulled out in order to force them to say they are Indians'

India's most famous novelist meets with the husband and brother of two Kashmiri women raped and killed by Indian Army soldiers. All major Indian newspapers warn Roy of ( Read more... )

Praful Bidwai

When the Indian government announced "a new political initiative" on Jammu and Kashmir on September 25, lofty expectations were raised that high-level interlocutors would soon begin a dialogue with the state's parties and civil society. This was considered the only novel, and most important, feature of the 8-point plan of action, ( Read more... )

Nazir Ganaie
Scores injured one among them critical

Srinagar: Defying curfew restrictions, massive pro-freedom protests and clashes broke out in the north Kashmir town of Baramulla on Tuesday injuring three civilians one of them critical.

Eyewitnesses said that the trouble broke out when youth pelted stones at the cavalcade of the Senior ( Read more... )

By Issam Ahmed

While an insurgency raged against Indian authorities in the early 1990s, thousands of young men, including Rana Altaf's father and uncle, were arrested by authorities, beaten, and tortured. Fearing for their lives, they eventually crossed the line of control that separates Indian-controlled Kashmir from the Pakistani side. They ( Read more... )

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON - Over the last nine years, as the Army has cycled hundreds of thousands of soldiers through combat duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, it has also court-martialed 34 on murder or manslaughter charges in the killings of civilians in those conflict zones. Twenty-two were convicted, and 12 acquitted.

Some cases gained a measure ( Read more... )

By Sharmila Faruqui

The current violence in Indian-held Kashmir is rooted in the struggle of the people for the right of self-determination. It started in June 2010, when the Indian army and police fired upon the peaceful demonstrators who were demanding freedom from the Indian occupation. Hundreds of men, women and children have been killed or ( Read more... )

Abhishek Anand

Brutal sexual assault on 5-year-old in southeast Delhi; victim's private parts to be reconstructed


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By Zaheerul Hassan

On June 3, 2010 "Times of India" really gave me shock when I was going through the news on internet while sitting in my room in a relaxing mood. I started feeling pity on that force where its subordinates and families are not even safe from their seniors and are not having confidence over them. According to "Times of India", Lt ( Read more... )

S.O.S Kashmir

The global human rights agency, Amnesty International (AI), has been given access to visit Indian-occupied Kashmir for the first time since an armed insurgency erupted in the state in 1989. A two-member team of Amnesty International (AI) landed in Srinagar for a first-ever visit on Monday, with the freedom to "go anywhere" and "meet ( Read more... )