Guwahati Victim

Four years after Guwahati blasts, victims still await justice

Written by Kishalay Bhattacharjee; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Tuesday October 30, 2012

28-year-old Naren Tumung's memory loss is slowly improving. He can now recall the moments before the blast on October 30 2008 in Assam which killed close to one hundred people and injured several hundreds. He parked his auto rickshaw under the Ganesh...

Guwahati molestation case: Madhya Pradesh minister says women should follow Indian culture

Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Saturday July 21, 2012

Days after chairperson of National Commission for Women (NCW) Mamata Sharma's remarks on how women should dress drew criticism, now a Madhya Pradesh minister said the safety of women and respect accorded to them depend on what they wear and how well ...

Guwahati victim's photo was office mistake, why should I apologise, asks Chief Minister

NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday July 17, 2012

The chief minister of Assam has said that he accepts the blame and responsibility for a press statement sent out on Monday evening that shared the photo of a young woman who was molested on camera outside a pub in Guwahati a week ago. Tarun Gogoi sa...

Guwahati case: Did no wrong, says editor of channel that filmed molestation

NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday July 17, 2012

The arrests are slowly adding up -too slowly to matter, really. A week after a TV camera in Guwahati filmed a young woman being attacked, groped, pulled back from the road that she tried to race down, 11 of the 30 people who assaulted her have been ...

Guwahati molestation case: Chief Minister's office accidentally names victim, then retracts

Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Tuesday July 17, 2012

First the Class XI student in Guwahati suffered at the hands of her molesters and now it is the repeated insensitivity of government officials. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's office released a press release with her name and photograph on Monday evenin...

Guwahati molestation case: Cigarette burns found on victim

Written by Janaki Fernandes with PTI inputs | Sunday July 15, 2012

Shocking details emerging on the condition of the girl molested in Guwahati. A team from the National Commission for Women (NCW) flew to Guwahati from Delhi and visited the girl on Saturday. They say she had burn wounds on her body indicating that th...

Give me justice, or allow me to end my life, says acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee

Indo-Asian News Service | Monday July 16, 2012

"Main bahut himmatwali thi (I had lots of guts)", she says looking at you with eyes reduced to unseeing opaque white mottled orbs and her once-pretty face a mass of melted flesh. But acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee is still a fighter, as she batt...

Guwahati's shame: Main accused aka James Bond on Facebook, still missing - Latest developments

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Saturday July 14, 2012

After a video of a young girl being molested went viral, a series of complicated questions need to be addressed. Leading the list is why only four men of a mob of 50 have been arrested. But the atrocities committed on the girl have also evoked a para...

Assam boat tragedy: Search operations still on

Press Trust of India | Monday May 7, 2012

Search operations continued for the eighth day today to find survivors of the Dhubri boat tragedy with the Army, NDRF and BSF trying to trace victims. Police said no bodies were found either yesterday or today. Bodies of 38 victims have so far been r...

Assam boat tragedy: Families wait in torrential rain for news of missing members

Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 1, 2012

Hundreds of people wait at the banks of the Brahmaputra for information on their family members missing in the ferry capsize, as rescuers braving torrential rain search the river at Jaleswar for any signs of survivors. The double-decker ferry broken ...