-The Hindu A farmhouse at Igatpuri, near Mumbai yielded six skeletons. Expensive flats in posh suburbs at Andheri and Oshiwara were scenes of gruesome murders. Mumbai no longer needs horror movies or comics. Open the newspapers every morning, the horror stories hit you. Not just murder, but decapitation and further mutilation. A disgruntled man thought nothing of bashing to death six members of his family and burying their bodies. The inside...
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UN-backed commission finds that punitive laws stifling global AIDS response
-The United Nations Punitive laws and human rights abuses are costing lives, wasting money and stifling the global AIDS response, according to a report released today by a United Nations-backed commission. Entitled HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights and Health, the report by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law – made up of former heads of state and leading legal, human rights and HIV experts, and supported by the UN...
More »Records show rise in crimes against women-Bageshree S
-The Hindu Women living in Karnataka, especially in Bangalore, have little to cheer about as the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has released the statistics on crimes against women for 2011. While Karnataka ranks 10 in terms of percentage share to the overall national figures of crimes against women, Bangalore is the second highest contributor when cities of the country are compared. In fact, Bangalore has moved up from position three to...
More »Bengal tops list of crime against women-Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph This is one ascent to the top Bengal could have done without. The National Crime Records Bureau has put the state at the top of the list of crimes against women. According to the bureau’s latest report — for 2011 — Bengal accounted for nearly 12.7 per cent of the total number of crimes against women registered in India. Of them, 2,363 were cases of rape. The report has come at a...
More »Naxals may have used tribals as human shield in Chhattisgarh op-Vicky Nanjappa
Security forces will need to retool their strategy to ensure that innocent lives are not lost in anti-Maoist ops, reports Vicky Nanjappa The killing of 19 persons alleged to be Maoists in Sarkeguda in Chhattisgarh on June 29 in a major operation by the Central Reserve Police Force has sparked off a major controversy, with villagers crying foul and calling the entire operation a fake one in which innocents were killed. According...
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