Unnao Girl Death

The water given to the three Unnao girls was laced with a herbicide named Sulfosulfuron, leading to the death of two of them, Uttar Pradesh Police said on Thursday.

The two people arrested in connection with the death of two teenage girls at an Unnao village were sent to 14-days judicial custody by a court on Saturday.

A case against Congress leader Udit Raj was registered on Saturday for his tweet over the death of two girls in Unnao, with the police alleging he propagated fake news that the teenagers were raped and their bodies cremated against the will of their family.

A man and a boy have been taken into custody over the deaths of two girls in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao on Wednesday. A massive investigation was launched after three girls aged 16, 15, and 14, all cousins, were found in a field hours after their family realised they were missing. Two of them died in hospital and a third is critical.

Six police teams have been formed to probe the deaths of the two girls under mysterious circumstances in Unnao district on Wednesday, and a breakthrough may be expected soon, officials have informed. While no injury marks have been found on the bodies, ruling out suggestions that their hands were tied up, all angles are being looked into, including...

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the alleged poor law and order situation, claiming that a "free hand" given to police is responsible for it.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the issue of women safety, after two teenage girls were found dead in a field in Unnao.

No injury marks have been found on the bodies of the two teenage girls who were found dead in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao and the cause of their death could not be ascertained in the autopsy, Uttar Pradesh Police Chief Hitesh Chandra Awasthi said on Thursday.

Two girls were found dead in a field in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao last evening, the police said today, adding that a third girl found with them is critical in hospital.

A teenage girl in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly raped and set on fire on Saturday, just days after massive outrage in the country over the death of a woman who was set on fire in the state's Unnao district earlier this month by men accused of raping her.

The CBI today arrested two sub-inspectors of the Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with the reported death of the father of a minor girl, who was allegedly raped by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger at Unnao, in judicial custody.

DCW chief Swati Maliwal Sunday ended her hunger strike after President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated an ordinance to give stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years.

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.

Demonstrations were held in several cities across India, including Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa and Bhopal on Sunday as public outrage over a spate of rape and murder of children spiral. Over the last two weeks, two cases have shaken the nation. Last Sunday, a 16-year-old, who was allegedly raped by a BJP lawmaker in Unnao,...

The water given to the three Unnao girls was laced with a herbicide named Sulfosulfuron, leading to the death of two of them, Uttar Pradesh Police said on Thursday.

The two people arrested in connection with the death of two teenage girls at an Unnao village were sent to 14-days judicial custody by a court on Saturday.

A case against Congress leader Udit Raj was registered on Saturday for his tweet over the death of two girls in Unnao, with the police alleging he propagated fake news that the teenagers were raped and their bodies cremated against the will of their family.

A man and a boy have been taken into custody over the deaths of two girls in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao on Wednesday. A massive investigation was launched after three girls aged 16, 15, and 14, all cousins, were found in a field hours after their family realised they were missing. Two of them died in hospital and a third is critical.

Six police teams have been formed to probe the deaths of the two girls under mysterious circumstances in Unnao district on Wednesday, and a breakthrough may be expected soon, officials have informed. While no injury marks have been found on the bodies, ruling out suggestions that their hands were tied up, all angles are being looked into, including...

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the alleged poor law and order situation, claiming that a "free hand" given to police is responsible for it.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the issue of women safety, after two teenage girls were found dead in a field in Unnao.

No injury marks have been found on the bodies of the two teenage girls who were found dead in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao and the cause of their death could not be ascertained in the autopsy, Uttar Pradesh Police Chief Hitesh Chandra Awasthi said on Thursday.

Two girls were found dead in a field in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao last evening, the police said today, adding that a third girl found with them is critical in hospital.

A teenage girl in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly raped and set on fire on Saturday, just days after massive outrage in the country over the death of a woman who was set on fire in the state's Unnao district earlier this month by men accused of raping her.

The CBI today arrested two sub-inspectors of the Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with the reported death of the father of a minor girl, who was allegedly raped by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger at Unnao, in judicial custody.

DCW chief Swati Maliwal Sunday ended her hunger strike after President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated an ordinance to give stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years.

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.

Demonstrations were held in several cities across India, including Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa and Bhopal on Sunday as public outrage over a spate of rape and murder of children spiral. Over the last two weeks, two cases have shaken the nation. Last Sunday, a 16-year-old, who was allegedly raped by a BJP lawmaker in Unnao,...