India

New Delhi, Apr 22: The government was ready to debate all issues, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday as he appealed to the opposition for smooth functioning of parliament. "It is my sincere wish that house will function. If there are any concerns of the opposition we are willing to debate all those issues which are worrying the opposition," Manmohan Singh told reporters shortly before

New Delhi, Apr 22: One more person allegedly involved in the rape of a five-year-old girl here a week ago has been arrested, police said today. Pradeep, the second accused, was apprehended from Bihar in a joint operation by Delhi and Bihar Police, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. "He will be brought to Delhi today after getting a transit remand from Darbhanga court," Kumar said. Manoj

Vadodara, Apr 22: Mother Dairy, Gandhinagar, a unit of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) has now emerged as world's largest milk film manufacturer. And, the Indian dairy model of supplying daily milk to consumers in the form of pouches is now being adopted by the western world and even in neighbouring Pakistan. Marketers of Amul brand, GCMMF, has enhanced the milk film

New Delhi, Apr 21: Scores of people protesting the rape of a 5-year-old girl descended at police headquarters and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's residence on the second consecutive day today raising slogans and demanding removal of Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. Placard-wielding protests also gathered at AIIMS where the girl is undergoing treatment. Workers of BJP's womens wing, Mahila Morcha

New Delhi, Apr 21: Citing the horrific Delhi gangrape incident and gruesome assault on five-year-old girl here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there was a need to make "vast improvements" to ensure women's safety in the country. He asked people to work collectively to uproot such depravity from the society. "It is widely accepted that, as a country, we have vast improvements to make in

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Washington, Apr 21: India's civil society continues to express concern over the Gujarat Government's failure to protect people or arrest those responsible for communal violence in 2002, a US report on human rights has said. The report, titled 'Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012' released by the US State

New Delhi, April 21: The five-year-old girl who was brutally raped here is in "stable" condition after undergoing surgery, doctors said Sunday. "She is stable and is responding well to treatment," D.K. Sharma, medical superintendent of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), told reporters. "Her vital parameters are ok and she faces no threat to her life. She is alert and spoke to her

New Delhi, Apr 21: As protests against the brutal rape of a five-year-old continue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday called for collective action to root out such depravity from society. "The gruesome assault on a little child reminds us of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity," the prime minister said in his address on Civil Services Day here. The PM also called

Mumbai, Apr 21: Terming as "a deadly attack on Hindus" the Gujarat government's nod for seeking death penalty for former BJP minister Maya Kodnani and nine others in the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case, Shiv Sena today said Hindus have different expectations from Chief Minister Narendra Modi. "There is a feeling that Modi is a protector of Hindus. Seeking death penalty for Kodnani and Bajrangi is

New Delhi, Apr 20: In a throwback to days of December last, Delhi on Saturday seethed in anger over the rape of a five-year-old girl and police insensitivity in dealing with it as protests erupted demanding justice for the victim and removal of Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar. On a day the accused Manoj Kumar was arrested from Bihar's Muzaffarpur, protesters clashed with police outside the