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How old is old enough to be jailed for gang rape and murder?
The crime was horrific, the case shocking, and the trial long. Yet when the much anticipated first verdict in the high-profile Delhi gang rape case was pronounced in India over the weekend, there was...
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Women and New Delhi: the views of travellers
By Aditya Kalra and Anuja Jaiman Assurances from the police and a new anti-rape law have done little to make the streets of New Delhi safer for women, especially for those using public transport,...
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Delhi rape victim’s parents hold firm in desire for death penalty
The family of the trainee physiotherapist who was gang-raped in Delhi last December received a new house and 3.5 million rupees (about $54,000) in compensation for their daughter’s torture and death....
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Reactions on Twitter to the Delhi gang rape sentencing
All four men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi were sentenced to death on Friday. Here is a compilation of politicians and other celebrities reacting on Twitter: Sushma...
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Mumbai police look to Bollywood for image makeover
Mumbai’s police department has deployed an unusual strategy to revamp its sagging reputation and to counter criticism that it hasn’t done a good job at solving crimes against women in the city – it...
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Slow change comes to India a year after Delhi gang rape
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters) One year ago, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was raped and murdered. Her story showed the world that women across...
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Ending the beatings, rapes, murders: Where are India’s men?
Violence against women is widespread across the world. Globally, 35 percent of women have been beaten by an ‘intimate partner’ or suffered sexual violence at the hands of a non-partner in their...
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Short skirts, bad stars and chow mein: why India’s women get raped
By Robert MacMillan The 2012 Delhi bus rape case and an ever-longer list of rapes and murders in India have prompted politicians and public figures in India to cite plenty of implausible reasons why...
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Is this film really so shocking that 1.3 billion people should never be...
By Ananya Bhattacharyya Akshay Thakur (top), one of the four men who were sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young woman on a bus last December, disembarks a police vehicle outside a court...
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Cashier raped inside Infosys campus in Pune – police
A woman cashier at the Pune campus of Infosys Ltd, India’s second-largest IT services exporter, was allegedly raped by two security guards who worked there, police said on Tuesday. An employee is seen...
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