Close on the wheels of alleged rape of a minor by two constables, the chairman of a civic body and the son of a senior BJP leader allegedly killed a woman after outraging her modesty in Sawaimadhop

Two British women - university students working on a wildlife conservation project - have been gang raped by six masked men on a remote beach in the Caribbean island of St Lucia, officials said.

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BSP MLA and former Uttar Pradesh Minister Anand Sen and two others were today sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court for murdering a dalit girl student four years ago.

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They may have been love birds and tattooed their names on each other's body but a court has sentenced the youth to five years in jail on charges of kidnapping and raping the girl.

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The African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released on Wednesday shows that it's even worse than previously thought: 1,152 women are raped every da

More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), making sexual violence against women 26 times more common than previously thought, a study concluded Wednesday.

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A 13-year-old lesbian girl in South Africa has become the latest victim of ‘corrective rape’ - so called, when men rape a woman to try to ‘fix’ her homosexual orientation.

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The often emotive debate over whether rape convicts should be castrated is back in the public domain.
A Delhi judge's suggestion that castration, whether surgical or chemical, be explored as a punish

After a judge suggested castration as an alternative punishment for rapists, a group of men in the virtual world have come out in full support through a forum called 'Support castration' under the gro

A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a 52-year-old Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) in a moving train in Rajasthan's Sirohi district, GRP sources said on Saturday.

The victim, hailing from Abu