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The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have reached a ‘principal understanding’ to ally ahead of next month’s Haryana Assembly election, sources told NDTV Tuesday evening. The next step is to discuss seat-sharing, for which Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha for the AAP and KC Venugopal for the Congress will meet either tonight or tomorrow. All of this comes hours after it emerged that Rahul Gandhi suggested the INDIA bloc members continue a partnership formed before the April-June general election. In Haryana the Congress and AAP contested the state’s 10 Lok Sabha seats 9:1, with the former winning five and the latter none. Mr Gandhi, sources said, is keen to sweep as many of the… Read More »Congress-AAP Alliance In Haryana? Negotiations To Begin Soon: Sources

A woman and her partner from Cornwall have been sentenced to prison for plotting to drug and rape her six-year-old daughter. The couple, whose identities are being withheld to protect the victim, were sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court on Friday, August 30. The woman, from East Cornwall, received a 17-year prison sentence, while the man, from North Cornwall, was sentenced to 13 years. Both were also given a 20-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, reported ITV News.  The investigation began in 2021 when the man accidentally left his phone with someone at a pub, who then discovered disturbing messages related to the sexual abuse of a young girl. Police seized the phone as evidence and subsequently… Read More »UK Woman And Partner Jailed After Planning To Drug, Rape Her Six-Year-Old Daughter

The housing of Central Industrial Security Forces, deployed at the hospital where the shocking rape-murder of a doctor took place last month, appears set to be the next flashpoint between Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP. The Centre has now gone to the Supreme Court, contending that the Bengal government must house the CISF personnel who have been delegated to ensure security at the hospital. Anything less, it said, would amount to contempt of court.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee – whose government is under fire over the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital – launched a fierce defence of her administration and the city’s police force Tuesday, pointing to equally horrific instances of assault on women in other states. She referred to the rape of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras in 2020 and the rape and barbaric slaughter of a college student in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district in 2013, as well as the rape of a child last week at a government-run hospital in Rajasthan’s Jaipur. “In the Kamduni case (the North 24 Parganas rape) we demanded capital punishment… but… Read More »Mamata Banerjee Cites Unnao, Hathras In Statement On Kolkata Rape

The Bombay High Court had expressed serious concern about the flaws in the implementation of the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. While hearing a petition regarding the sexual assault on several nursery-level children at a school near Mumbai that sparked massive protests last month, the court said a committee should be formed to suggest standard operating procedures for police, hospitals and schools when it comes to investigating sexual assaults on minors. The court also said the progress in the investigation was “unsatisfactory”. “Efforts must be made to ensure that inform private doctors become aware that they cannot refuse to examine a rape victim under the POCSO Act. They cannot say, ‘go to… Read More »High Court Raps Investigation In Thane Rape Case, Implementation Of POCSO