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Death penalty for rape, tough provisions in Maharashtra's proposed 'Shakti
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 10 (ANI): Maharashtra Cabinet has approved draft bills for strengthening the law on prevention of atrocities against women, children while "Shakti Act" which envisages death sentence for rape, acid attack and child abuse and the period of investigation
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CM Banerjee has stopped reporting number of crimes against women to Nation
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 9 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda on Wednesday said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has stopped reporting number of crimes against women to the National Crime Records Bureau and even refused to report the number of COV
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Congress to make new members in Scheduled Caste wing to ensure social just
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 4 (ANI): Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said the party will make new members in its Scheduled Caste wing to ensure social justice, prevent crimes against Dalits and protect scholarships of Dalit
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Priyanka Gandhi slams UP govt for rising crimes against women
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday lashed out at Yogi Adityanath government for failing to control crimes against women in Uttar Pradesh.
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US hate crimes rate reached decade high in 2019: FBI
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 17 (ANI/Sputnik): Law enforcement agencies reported a total of 7,314 hate crimes in the United States in 2019, the highest figure in a decade, according to a yearly report data released by the FBI on Monday.
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UN Chief concerned by attacks on journalists, urges action to tackle impun
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his concern over attacks on journalists in conflict zones worldwide and called for coordinated efforts to address the impunity for such crimes, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a pr
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Top election crimes prosecutor in US resigns in protest after Attorney Gen
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], November 10 (ANI): Richard Pilger, the director of the US Department of Justice's Election Crimes Branch, has resigned after Attorney General William Barr sent out a memo to federal prosecutors giving them a nod to probe allegations of fraud in the 2020 US presidential po
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Need commission to probe into war crimes as peace in Afghanistan and Pakht
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 1 (ANI): Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has demanded a 'truth and reconciliation commission' to investigate the war crimes against Pashtuns as the peace in Afghanistan and Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan is "inextricably linked to each other".
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Plea in SC seeks SIT probe into 'forceful conversion' of Hindus in Haryana
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 30 (ANI): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the setting up of a special investigating team (SIT) to probe into the alleged forceful conversion of Hindus and crimes against women of the community in Nuh district of Haryana.
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No further extensions of interim bails to undertrials involved in heinous
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has ordered that there shall be no further extension of interim bails to those 2,318 undertrials involved in heinous crimes, who were granted interim bail by the District Courts and directed them to surrender them in a phased manner f
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Excise dept destroys 40,000 litres of Lahan in Ferozepur
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 21 (ANI): The Punjab Excise Department recovered and destroyed 40,000 litres of 'Lahan' from Ferozepur as part of 'Operation Red Rose', whereby teams of the Police department and Excise officials work in close coordination to effectively nail excise relat
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23 sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against women, children in UP
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 21 (ANI): As many as 23 persons were sentenced to life imprisonment from October 19 to October 20 in connection with cases of crime against women and children, said State Home Department, Uttar Pradesh.
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