-Outlook Congress-ruled Delhi has earned "a most dubious reputation" from the point of view of women's safety, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has said while giving suggestions to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to improve it. In a letter to Dikshit, the Rural Development Minister has suggested that the women helpline (181) should only have women telephone operators so that te caller can convey her problem without any hesitation. Student volunteers could also be considered...
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Politicians, officials clean up Rs 101 crore meant for poor -Prafulla Marpakwar
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Roiled by a rash of corruption charges, the Maharashtra government appears to be headed for deeper trouble. An investigation has unearthed the involvement of thousands of officials and politicians in a decade-old fraud, in which Rs 101 crore of public funds were siphoned off and disbursed to 1.49 lakh bogus beneficiaries. Of the numerous recipients of the dole meant for the destitute, the probe found, 19,367...
More »India: examining the motivation for rape -Ruchira Gupta
-Open Democracy Were Ram Singh and his cohort simply claiming a notion of masculinity promoted every day by their role models in politics, business and the media? Ruchira Gupta writes of the steady creeping of a rape culture into the fabric of India, and what needs to be done to counter the idea that women are commodities Let us talk about Ram Singh, the chief rapist accused in the case of Damini,...
More »Few takers for death penalty, many States want 16 as juvenile age bar -Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Many State governments favour bringing down the age bar for juvenile offenders from 18 years to 16 to deal with growing cases of sexual assault. A meeting of State Directors-General of Police and Chief Secretaries held on Friday here, however, could not come to a consensus on awarding the death penalty to rape convicts. In the rape case of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student, one of the six people allegedly involved...
More »Government to amend law to nail juvenile rapists: minister -Moushumi Das Gupta
-The Hindustan Times In the wake of the barbaric gang rape on a Delhi bus in which one of the attackers is thought to have been a juvenile, India will amend its laws to treat such criminals as adults for the purposes of punishment in some cases. Women and child development minister Krishna Tirath told HT on Friday that the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act will be amended to treat those over...
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