-The Times of India   Children, many between five and 10 years, were forced into oral sex and performing yoga in the nude at the Rohtak shelter home raided by a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) team early May. An inmate was found to be HIV positive.  Such revelations are part of a report submitted on Wednesday by two members — advocate Anil Malhotra and Sudeepti Sharma — of a...

-The Hindu Police arrested 25 members of Students Federation of India (SFI) here on Tuesday when they tried to picket the office of the Chief Education Officer demanding implementation of 25 per cent reservation of seats for poor students in educational institutions, as assured by the Government under the Right to Education Act. They tried to enter the CEO's office when the police stopped them and arrested them. Arularasan, district secretary of...

-Daily Bhaskar Bhopal: A dozen men from Kushwaha community chopped off the tongue of a dalit youth just because they didn't like the 'temerity' of a Jatav vrooming on bike fast in front of them. The gory crime occurred in Jaitpur Square under Narwar police station of Shivpuri on Monday. Prakash Jatat ( 31) was admitted to a government hospital where his condition is stable. Eyewitnesses say Jatav was on bike...

Indefinite curfew was imposed in the remote Joga town of Mansa district in Punjab on Sunday when angry villagers attacked, set afire and razed a factory, after reports spread that the premises was used for cow slaughter. Two houses of factory owners were also destroyed. No loss of life has been reported. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal ordered the suspension of district police chief S.S. Chahal for dereliction of duty. Tension had...

-CNN-IBN Beed: The Maharashtra state government has promised to act against rampant female foeticide in Beed district that was reported by CNN-IBN earlier. The state government will meet Maharshtra Medical Council (MCI), Indian Medical Association (IMA) and radiologists to find a way to curb foeticide. They will all be looking at a proposal to shut down all stand-alone sonography centres and ban some abortion drugs. The decision comes after CNN-IBN reported from Beed...