Khaki loses sheen to urban monotony, Hindustan Times, 22/12/2011 After more than a century of wielding imperial might, the inherent ‘troubles of urban living’ seem to have reduced the uniformed police officer to public enemy number one. More..
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Men in khaki under attack, Hindustan Times, 21/12/2011 With a steady rise in crime against police personnel, it seems even the law-keepers are not safe in Delhi. More..
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Children’s Day: The kid in the driver’s seat, Times Of India, 13/11/2011 Many years ago, legendary marketing guru Philip Kotler, in his seminal work Marketing Management listed the four essential Ps of marketing: "product", "price", "place" and "promotion" . More..
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The unsafe sex, Times Of India, 13/11/2011 A shocking bit of statistic hit us last week. There has been an 800% increase in rape cases in the last 40 years More..
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Con notifications, Hindustan Times, 25/09/2011 *On September 19, a Facebook post by her boyfriend saying he had dumped her, allegedly drove IIM-Bangalore student Malini Murmu to suicide More..
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Changing approach to dealing with rape-, LiveMint.com, 29/05/2011 A new crop of rape counsellors is working with the police to help gather vital clues about the crime.
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Cops and the city, Hindustan Times, 29/05/2011 They don't understand mobile technology or online social media, are scandalised when the girl next door sports a tattoo or goes pubbing and are awkward dealing with teenagers who work long hours at call centres and party harder. More..
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Project Hope , Times Of India, 22/05/2011 Now that the United Nations has chosen a private NGO in Delhi for its 2011 Public Service Award, will it put new heart into India's troubled NGO sector?
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Mind over batter, India Today, 03/01/2011 Increasing police atrocities on suspects have led a parliamentary committee to recommend capital punishment to police officials for custodial deaths. The committee has suggested that "threats of rape" during interrogation would be considered torture More..
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Victim becomes role model for women, Hindustan Times, 06/12/2010 The 30-year-old BPO employee, who was abducted from Dhaula Kuan and gangraped in a pick-up van, has become a role model for women in distress across the city. More..
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70% rape accused are repeat offenders: Study, Hindustan Times, 04/12/2010 For one of the two arrested men in the Dhaula Kuan gangrape case it wasn't his first time committing such a heinous crime.
The police had arrested him in another gangrape case in 2007 that was reported from Faridabad. He was out on bail when he got involved in the Dhaula Kuan rape and was later arrested.
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NGO flooded with calls from women, students, Hindustan Times, 01/12/2010 Concerned about their own safety after a 30-year-old BPO employee from Mizoram was abducted and raped on November 21, a Delhi-based NGO is getting frantic calls from women students and executives of northeast-Indian origin.
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Unknown assailants more dangerous’, Times Of India, 30/11/2010 Last week’s abduction-cum-gangrape has turned the Delhi Police’s logic of being unable to prevent crimes of passion on its head. Every time a woman is raped here, the Delhi Police seeks refuge behind the fact that more than 95% of rape victims are known to their offenders. More..
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Abused siblings will never lead normal life, Hindustan Times, 27/09/2010 The three siblings who were drugged, sodomized and systematically abused for over a year by their 38-year-old school cab driver and four teenagers are highly unlikely to lead ‘normal’ lives, says the psychologist who counseled them. More..
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For Delhi, love is a reason to murder, Times Of India, 11/07/2010 It is passion that is driving Delhiites to crime — so the Capital's police claim. According to Delhi Police records, this year, the city has seen a spurt of incidents that could well be crimes of passion. More..
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Art of healing, The Indian Express, 11/07/2010 A group of 42 girls sits huddled in a room at the MCD primary school in Gopalpur village in North Delhi, creating sculptures out of clay. Their art represents reality. So, dowry, female foeticide and harassment are some of the images the girls recreate.
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Be Alert, The Asian Age, 13/04/2010 Last week we talked about paedophiles and sexual assault. To understand such people better is to be equipped to deal with them. Remember that many paedophiles develop an intimacy with children too fast. More..
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In Cautious mode, The Asian Age, 06/04/2010 Sexual assault is a violation of your body. It in no way means that you are responsible for any attack on your person. Research shows that there are people who are attracted to chidren’s bodies. These people are called paedophiles. More..
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Chexting is new flirting, The Asian Age, 05/04/2010 When digit-happy Tiger Woods and Jesse James were texting their mistresses behind their wives’ backs, they had never imagined they would inspire pop-culture. But that is exactly what they did, when ‘chexting’ got out of classrooms and entered newsrooms. More..
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Emotional outrage can trigger killer tendencies, The Asian Age, 17/03/2010 Love is in the air, they say, but so is hatred. The acts of revenge spurred by those facing rejection in love generally stays limited to hate mails and messages; harmless threats also are forgotten in due course of time, but the need to press the panic button arises when the extent of avenging rejection moves beyond all these to physical abuse, More..
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'Assaults made to resemble rituals', Times Of India, 13/03/2010 NEW DELHI: The ongoing yagna in the new Nangloi house was a family occasion. Incense, marigold and low-hum chants had transported everyone present into a state of bliss. The head priest moved upstairs to a room along with the daughter of the house for a special puja, More..
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A holistic new approach needed to curb crime, Times Of India, 06/03/2010 Proper diagnosis of a problem is vital for effective treatment and so is application-oriented analysis of crime statistics to formulate a holistic strategy on crime prevention.
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Rape that shamed Delhi, Hindustan Times, 18/01/2010 Punjabi looking.
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Lending a shoulder when it matters most, Times Of India, 10/01/2010 The Ruchika Girhotra case could have taken a different turn if the 14-year-old victim of molestation had had a clinical psychologist to offer her succor. More..
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What makes Delhiites kill?, Hindustan Times, 10/01/2010 A man murdered his neighbour for kicking his dog at Ranhola village in Outer Delhi. Another was killed for breaking the queue at a public toilet in Civil Lines, north Delhi. More..
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'Over 85% sexual assault victims' families threatened', Times Of India, 01/01/2010 It wasn't just Ruchika Girhotra's family who were intimidated for filing complaints. Interviews of NCR-based families of other sexual assault victims reveal that over 85% of them were regularly threatened when they filed complaints. More..
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SINHA'S PORTRAIT - `Incapable of a normal relationship' , Hindustan Times, 28/10/2009 He managed to top entrance exams to the country's best academic institutes, but if Delhi Police are to be believed, he wasn't able to win over his wife.
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Brush with art helps kids get over blast trauma, Times Of India, 20/10/2009 A year on, they have learnt to smile again, understand that the incident need not forever mark their lives. And importantly, they've learnt to express with their hands, mucking around with Plaster-of-Paris (PoP) and paint.
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Hoax calls are on the rise, Hindustan Times, 09/09/2009 Some Delhiites certainly enjoy setting off false alarms. In 2007, 3,835 hoax alerts were recorded by Delhi Police. A year later, the number went up to 5,806.
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Hannah Montana: Dreamgirl uninterrupted, Times Of India, 09/08/2009 She is a schoolgirl by day, rock star by night -- on television. But for millions of tweens across the world, she is much more: style icon, role model, diva, fountainhead of the universe. Hannah Montana rules.
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Social rift fuelling violence , The Hindu, 08/08/2009 Recent incidents of kidnapping for ransom and murders involving persons known to the victims have raised serious concerns over the breakdown of human bonding and relationships in urban societies. More..
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Death sentence upheld Man had killed his two nephews, The Hindu, 07/08/2009 NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to a 37-year-old man for killing two children of his brother-in-law to take revenge “for not being extended financial aid by the father of the two unfortunate victims” at Subhash Nagar in West Delhi in 2003.
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Mental illness is a curse she lives with every day, Times Of India, 26/07/2009 For decades, India has locked the mentally challenged away in institutions. Locked up and forgotten. The indifference extends to the most shocking cases that make the news. There is no outcry when a 19-year-old mentally challenged girl is raped by those who were meant to watch over her. More..
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Mind of a rapist , India Today, 25/06/2009 Every day the headlines unleash a new horror. On June 12, three boys take turns at raping a Class XII girl in the backseat of a moving car in Surat and record the act for perversity on their phones. Two days later, More..
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Couple trouble when one omits to commit, The Asian Age, 08/04/2009 Apart from the fame, paparazzi and fan-following, actors Salman, Saif and Brad Pitt, now have another thread binding them together — they all have slightly more famous better halves in Kareena, Katrina and Angelina Jolie, respectively; and while their ladies wish to live life sans any boundaries, the boys in question expect full commitment from the More..
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Rural sisterhood forms rings of steel for victims of rape, Times Of India, 29/03/2009 No institution assures them justice, no organization fights for their rights and no counsellor helps them pick up the pieces of their lives. But the initial findings of a nationwide study reveal that rural victims of sexual abuse are beginning to fight back in their own way.
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Incest, murder, rape: Why are we hooked on horror?, Times Of India, 22/03/2009 The trial of 74-year-old Austrian building engineer Josef Fritzl, who locked his daughter in a ratinfested dungeon for 24 years and fathered seven children by her, is behind us, but it will be years before the case is closed in public memory. There has been intense global interest in the horrors perpetrated by the “monster of Amstetten”, More..
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Accounting for missing kids Law & order , The Hindu, 07/03/2009 Following the recent public hue and cry over children going missing from different parts of the Capital, the Delhi police have finally set up a dedicated helpline number for such cases. However, the decision appears to be more of a knee-jerk reaction More..
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Shell shocked, Hindustan Times, 05/02/2009 Shell shockedCrowds set Nanhe Paswan’s heart racing. Loud reports leave the 36-year-old gardener startled and agitated. The Chhattarpur resident is a victim of last year’s blast in the crowded Mehrauli market.
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2008 was safest for women in years, Hindustan Times, 02/01/2009 There was a significant decrease in cases of rape and molestation
Going by the latest crime figures released by Delhi Police on Friday, the city is finally becoming safer for women.
The police’s annual report shows a 22 per cent drop in rape cases in
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Tree of hope in Delhi blast , Times Of India, 01/01/2009 Tree of hope in Delhi blast
NEW DELHI: A giant peepal tree in Karol Bagh, struck by shrapnel during the September 15 bomb blast, has become a symbol of strength and More..
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18% rape cases false: Study, Times Of India, 29/12/2008 NEW DELHI: A little less than 20% of sexual-assault cases reported in and around Delhi are false, shows a five-year study. In almost every fifth incident, or, in 18.3 % cases to be precise More..
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Four years of torture, no complaint, Times Of India, 22/10/2007 NEW DELHI: Women victims of domestic violence endure torture and abuse for an average 4.2 years before filing a complaint with the police. An overwhelming 78% of such victims say they faced physically aggressive behaviour in front of in-laws, children and in public. More..
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There's no excuse for use of torture, Times Of India, 11/01/2009 The incident caused shock even in the badlands of west-central UP. On December 24, 2007, when state PWD engineer M K Gupta refused to pay the money demanded by a bunch of goons allegedly led by BSP legislator Shekhar Tiwari, he was beaten with a baton, subjected to electric shocks and eventually died as a result of his ordeal. In Mumbai, the bodies More..
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Talking terror, Times Of India, 30/11/2008 Shreya Ganju sounded serious when she told a friend at school: “Pata hai, atankvadi ne bahut logon ko goli se maara aur bomb bhi phenka,” she said, with the innocence and awe that only a five-year-old can invest in her grisly description of terrorists killing people More..
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Tackling post-terror trauma Law & order , The Hindu, 24/01/2009 The trauma that victims of terror strikes are subjected to is too immense to be felt by others. The suffering becomes unbearable especially for those who lose their near and dear ones or get seriously injured in the attacks, and it leads to complicated More..
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KP children share trauma of exodus, Excelsior Correspondent, 20/11/2008 JAMMU, Nov 20: Swanchetan Society for Mental Health, Delhi and Youth Wing All India Kashmiri Samaj (YWAIKS) organized a workshop here at TRT Butanagar today.
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