Day: September 29, 2020

Dalit woman gang-raped in Hathras dies in Delhi hospital

7:17 pm September 29, 2020

New Delhi: A 19-year-old woman, who was brutally gang-raped in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district two weeks ago, died of her grievous injuries at a Delhi hospital on Tuesday morning, prompting outrage and angry protests. Recalling the horrors of the Nirbhaya case, the Dalit teen was allegedly sexually attacked by four men on […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Bold feminist poster campaign strikes a chord in Paris and beyond

7:13 pm September 29, 2020

Paris: A feminist poster campaign in Paris that draws on street art techniques to denounce rape, sexual harassment and murder is striking a chord with city residents and inspiring copycats as far afield as China, its creator said. Over the last year, activists have been pasting walls with white A4 paper sheets painted with black […]

UK’s duchess Kate toasts new scout appointment with marshmallows

6:54 pm September 29, 2020

London: Kate, Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, marked her appointment as joint president of Britain’s Scout Association on Tuesday by joining scouts in north London for their traditional activity of toasting marshmallows over a camp fire. The duchess, wife of Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Prince William, joins the monarch’s cousin, the Duke of Kent, as president of the organisation which […]

Megan Fox blames her post-‘Transformers’ image for poor reception to ‘Jennifer’s Body’

6:49 pm September 29, 2020

Los Angeles: Actor Megan Fox says her image in the media following her role of glamorous Mikaela Banes in the “Transformers” franchise had a catastrophic effect on her 2009 movie “Jennifer’s Body” . The horror-comedy, written by Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama, featured Fox as a demonically possessed high school girl who kills […]

12-year-old boy charred to death in J-K's Samba

Cook arrested for sodomising 8-year old boy

6:36 pm September 29, 2020

Coimbatore: A 54-year old cook was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly sodomising an eight-year-old boy at Athipalayam in the city. The man, who works in a mess, took the boy, his neighbour, to the first floor of his house yesterday when his parents were away and indulged in the act, police said. The boy […]