Citing Uphaar case, mom warns against laxity
‘They were educated, old and had social status’
Delhi resident Neelam Krishnamurthy wants to caution the people of Bengal and the families of the AMRI fire victims that the pursuit of the case could be a struggle once the headlines die down.
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On a day Anna Hazare threatened to lay siege to the homes of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and fill jails from January 1, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said “people on ... |
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Clinging to a boulder and wrapped in two pairs of trousers, Asit Sarkar had managed to keep up a conversation with his wife and two sons throughout the cold night till help c ... |
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Battlelines were drawn for the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council election, with the Assam State Election Commission today announcing January 4 as the polling date. ... |
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Jharkhand has dispatched a senior police officer to Bangalore to discuss payments with HAL, where the state helicopter Dhruv has been undergoing annual maintenance for ne ... |
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Citing lack of evidence, Jharkhand High Court today acquitted four alleged Maoists, sentenced to death for opening fire on spectators of a football match in Giridih in Octobe ... |
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Neelam Krishnamurthy, whose children Unnati, 17, and Ujwal, 13, died in the Uphaar fire. For over 14 years, Krishnamurthy has been pursuing the case from court to court. (File picture) A week on, a 14-year lesson
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New Delhi, Dec. 17: A 23-year-old woman was raped and brutalised by a group of men inside a private luxury bus with curtains she had boarded last night in Delhi, and is now on a ventilator with her intestines and uterus ruptured. | Read»
New Delhi, Dec. 31: The protests against the December 16 gang rape appear to have unwittingly led a teenaged Delhi student to commit suicide after being arrested for lewd behaviour with a girl on a bus. | Read»
Patna, Jan. 3: A pregnant lady was found unconscious on rail tracks in Bihar this afternoon, prompting police to investigate accounts that suggested she jumped off a train after a soldier tried to rape her in the toilet of an AC coach. | Read»
Lucknow, Jan. 6: The hand-wringing over masking the identity of the Delhi rape victim turned largely academic today after two British tabloids published her name and her father led his village in demanding disclosure in India. | Read»
India is no longer a land that worships the mind. More than anything else it worships the material. Even our temples have become grounds for quid pro quo where blessing is not what people seek but just riches. We are no longer happy with homes. We want to live in monuments.... | Read»
The past fortnight has been rather unique for a Delhi that often gives the impression of being detached not merely from Bharat but from India as well. For the first time in living memory, the festive season was marked by candlelight marches rather than candlelight dinners.... | Read»
New Delhi, Jan. 1: The six December 16 gang-rape accused would habitually drink through Sundays and take out the chartered school bus at night to pick up sex workers, a senior police officer said. | Read»
Sadly, there is little to look forward to in a city where more things change more they remain the same. Calcuttans this year will continue to go through the motions of filling up shops, restaurants and, yes, hospital beds... | Read»
Calcutta, Jan. 1: Operators camping on Trinamul-associated premises in the heart of Calcutta are openly demanding money in the name of elected representatives to facilitate illegal construction, an undercover investigation by The Telegraph has established. | Read»
The Mamata Banerjee government has thrown the baby out with the bath water, withdrawing from the East-West Metro project on the grounds that it is no longer part of the UPA and therefore not responsible for any hitch. | Read»
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