Pm Modi On Kathua Rape Case

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday ripped into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, criticising it on multiple issues as he launched his year-long "Save the Constitution campaign". While the programme was seen as an outreach to the Dalit community, the Congress chief spoke of farmers, women, corruption and demanded a 15-minute debate with ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a stinging rebuke again to party motormouths on Sunday, who have covered a wide range of subjects from terror and rape to Mahabharata and Darwin's theory over the last six months. In a video-conference with lawmakers across the country, PM Modi ripped into the leaders, reminding them that this was affecting their...

Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by the cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl.

As the centre clambered to introduce harsher punishment for child rapists to cap public outrage over sexual crimes, a group of 637 academics in India and abroad have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, telling him that his statements on the "monstrous crimes" had been "wholly inadequate, platitudinous" and gave "non-specific ass...

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Indian authorities, starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, should pay more attention to women in the country, Christine Lagarde, the IMF chief, said at a media conference in Washington on Thursday.

Amid an outcry over the Kathua and Unnao rape incidents, DCW chief Swati Maliwal, who is on hunger strike for six days, said on Wednesday that she will continue her fast till Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to India and holds a discussion with her on her demands, including death penalty for rapists of minor girls.

Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for breaking his silence on the rape-murder of an 8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir and the rape of another in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress demanded that he should now take "some serious action", instead of giving "assurances".

In a move to cap the spiralling public anger over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said such incidents could not be part of any civilised society and promised to make sure that the culprits do not get away. "As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it (rapes)," PM Modi said of the crimes that have jolt...

In his first remarks on the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, which have sparked nationwide outrage, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said no culprit will be spared. "Incidents being discussed since past two days cannot be part of a civilised society. As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it," the prime minister said.

Continuing his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases that have sparked widespread protests, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today questioned the PM's silence.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was at the heart of the national capital at midnight to demand justice for the young girl gang-raped and killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager in Unnao. Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi joined the protests that are seen to be an effort to put the ruling BJP at the cent...

Delhi Commission For Women chief Swati Maliwal today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concern over the increasing cases of sexual violence against women, and said she would go on a indefinite hunger strike at the Rajghat from tomorrow to protest the Unnao and Kathua rape incidents.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday ripped into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, criticising it on multiple issues as he launched his year-long "Save the Constitution campaign". While the programme was seen as an outreach to the Dalit community, the Congress chief spoke of farmers, women, corruption and demanded a 15-minute debate with ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a stinging rebuke again to party motormouths on Sunday, who have covered a wide range of subjects from terror and rape to Mahabharata and Darwin's theory over the last six months. In a video-conference with lawmakers across the country, PM Modi ripped into the leaders, reminding them that this was affecting their...

Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by the cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl.

As the centre clambered to introduce harsher punishment for child rapists to cap public outrage over sexual crimes, a group of 637 academics in India and abroad have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, telling him that his statements on the "monstrous crimes" had been "wholly inadequate, platitudinous" and gave "non-specific ass...

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Indian authorities, starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, should pay more attention to women in the country, Christine Lagarde, the IMF chief, said at a media conference in Washington on Thursday.

Amid an outcry over the Kathua and Unnao rape incidents, DCW chief Swati Maliwal, who is on hunger strike for six days, said on Wednesday that she will continue her fast till Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to India and holds a discussion with her on her demands, including death penalty for rapists of minor girls.

Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for breaking his silence on the rape-murder of an 8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir and the rape of another in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress demanded that he should now take "some serious action", instead of giving "assurances".

In a move to cap the spiralling public anger over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said such incidents could not be part of any civilised society and promised to make sure that the culprits do not get away. "As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it (rapes)," PM Modi said of the crimes that have jolt...

In his first remarks on the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, which have sparked nationwide outrage, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said no culprit will be spared. "Incidents being discussed since past two days cannot be part of a civilised society. As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it," the prime minister said.

Continuing his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases that have sparked widespread protests, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today questioned the PM's silence.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was at the heart of the national capital at midnight to demand justice for the young girl gang-raped and killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager in Unnao. Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi joined the protests that are seen to be an effort to put the ruling BJP at the cent...

Delhi Commission For Women chief Swati Maliwal today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concern over the increasing cases of sexual violence against women, and said she would go on a indefinite hunger strike at the Rajghat from tomorrow to protest the Unnao and Kathua rape incidents.