-The Hindu In protecting husbands from marital rape and khap panchayats from accountability for sexual wrongs, the government has lost an opportunity to change the way in which our society treats women In its eagerness to demonstrate that it is “doing something” about rape in response to the overwhelming protests over the brutal rape and murder of the 23-year-old Delhi student last December, the government has issued an ordinance that is both...

-Reporters without Borders Access the 2013 World Press Freedom Index here. After the “Arab springs” and other protest movements that prompted many rises and falls in last year’s index, the 2013 Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index marks a return to a more usual configuration. The ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments. This year’s index is a better reflection of the attitudes and intentions of...

-The Times of India JASHPUR (Chhattisgarh): It's a cold, windy morning in Thuthiamba village in the interiors of Jashpur district and Basanti, 20, is clutching her one-year-old son close to her chest for both warmth and comfort. She is ravaged by the thought that the child will grow up never knowing who the father was. Basanti was just 12 when she was taken to New Delhi for domestic work by a woman...

-The Indian Express India lost a whopping $123 billion in black money during 2001-2010, making it the eight largest victim of illicit financial outflow, a US-based research and advocacy organisation said in a report. However, India’s black money loss of $123 billion in 10 years is far less than that of China, which according to the report suffered a loss of $2.74 trillion during the same period (2001 to 2010), followed by...

-The Hindustan Times An international battle for control of the internet thankfully ended inconclusively in Dubai, though no thanks to India. The world conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) enjoyed a few weeks of infamy largely because of a determined effort by a group of countries, all of them one-party governments or dictatorships of some sort, to put control of the internet in the hands of a United Nations body....