Even as rural Haryana remains in the stranglehold of the defiant caste panchayats, honour killings continue in their most horrible form: On Sunday, the family members of a girl allegedly killed her and her teenaged lover and hanged them as exhibits in their house for the village to see their "fate." According to police, Monika (18) and her lover Rinku (19), both from Jat families, were brutally killed for honour...
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UPA-I opposed increase in Bhopal payout by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The alacrity shown by the government in setting up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to look into all issues of the Bhopal gas tragedy - including adequacy of compensation - was clearly missing just three years ago when the UPA government opposed tooth and nail any enhancement of payment to the sufferers. Two applications by NGOs - Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (BGPMUS) and Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog...
More »14-yr-old beaten up with hot pan for stealing Rs 15 by Indrani Basu & Dwaipayan Ghosh
A 14-year-old boy was allegedly thrashed with a hot pan by his employer — his own maternal uncle — in Sadar Bazaar after the boy reportedly stole Rs 15 from the roadside dosa stall where he worked. According to Sushil Kumar, his son Suvam was employed with Vikram, 20, for the last six months. ‘‘On Wednesday, Vikram reportedly forced Suvam to drink alcohol when he came to know about the...
More »India Steadily Increases Its Lead in Road Fatalities by Heather Timmons and Hari Kumar
India lives in its villages, Gandhi said. But increasingly, the people of India are dying on its roads. India overtook China to top the world in road fatalities in 2006 and has continued to pull steadily ahead, despite a heavily agrarian population, fewer people than China and far fewer cars than many Western countries. While road deaths in many other big emerging markets have declined or stabilized in recent years,...
More »Couple stoned to death for caste defiance by GS Radhakrishna
A Dalit father of two and his upper-caste lover were allegedly stoned to death in an Andhra village in a suspected honour killing case being dubbed the state’s first. The bodies of S. Sunkari Srinivas, 32, and Swapna Reddy, 22, bearing Injury marks caused by stone hits, were found on the outskirts of Krishnajiwadi village in Nizamabad district last night, police said. The attackers were alleged relatives of Swapna, who could...
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