Victim Blaming

The Hathras stampede tragedy has a number - 121; 121 lives lost, many families devastated. The political blame game and the rumble of government machinery often drowns out the wails of those who lost someone dear.

While commenting on the gang-rape of a woman, TV presenter Andrea Giambruno, said women could avoid sexual assaults if they ''do not get too drunk''.

A man allegedly died by suicide over the delay by police in probing the gang-rape of his 15-year-old daughter. A station house officer and another policeman were suspended on Tuesday, police said.

An Italian court has ruled some of the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake were partly to blame for their own deaths and compensation for their relatives should be reduced, media reports said Wednesday.

Two Dalit sisters, 17 and 15, were raped, murdered and hung from a tree in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur.

A circular for a counselling session by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on sexual harassment, which says girls are "suppose to know how to draw a tangible line between them and their male friends", has drawn the ire of student outfits.

The White House said on Sunday that it was reaching out to victims of a wide-ranging ransomware outbreak that is centered on a Florida-based information technology company Kaseya and had an impact on hundreds of businesses worldwide.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he was the victim of "judicial activism" after a Supreme Court judge ordered the Senate to launch an inquiry into his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Banking Authority, a key EU financial regulator, says it has fallen victim to a hack of its Microsoft email system which the US company blames on a Chinese group.

French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country's second attack blamed on Islamist terrorism this month.

An octogenarian man who had tested positive for coronavirus along with two of his family members died today in Delhi. The victim's family from the national capital's posh Defence Colony had claimed that they had contracted the highly contagious virus from their security guard.

Asha Devi, the mother of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim, on Friday blamed the convicts' lawyer AP Singh for trying to delay the justice by misguiding the court.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today blamed the Uttar Pradesh government for not providing security to the Unnao woman, who died at a hospital in Delhi during treatment for burn injuries she suffered after she was set on fire by men accused of raping her,despite a similar incident taking place earlier in the same district. In a tw...

A 24-year-old gang rape victim allegedly committed suicide in a village under Dataganj police station in the district blaming police for not registering her complaint, officials said Monday.

The BJP has accused Trinamool Congress activists of hacking one of its workers to death at Ketugram in West Bengal's Burdwan district today. News agency IANS quoted sources as saying that the victim -- 50-year-old Sushil Mandal -- was killed while he was putting up BJP flags to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony in New Delhi l...

The Hathras stampede tragedy has a number - 121; 121 lives lost, many families devastated. The political blame game and the rumble of government machinery often drowns out the wails of those who lost someone dear.

While commenting on the gang-rape of a woman, TV presenter Andrea Giambruno, said women could avoid sexual assaults if they ''do not get too drunk''.

A man allegedly died by suicide over the delay by police in probing the gang-rape of his 15-year-old daughter. A station house officer and another policeman were suspended on Tuesday, police said.

An Italian court has ruled some of the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake were partly to blame for their own deaths and compensation for their relatives should be reduced, media reports said Wednesday.

Two Dalit sisters, 17 and 15, were raped, murdered and hung from a tree in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur.

A circular for a counselling session by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on sexual harassment, which says girls are "suppose to know how to draw a tangible line between them and their male friends", has drawn the ire of student outfits.

The White House said on Sunday that it was reaching out to victims of a wide-ranging ransomware outbreak that is centered on a Florida-based information technology company Kaseya and had an impact on hundreds of businesses worldwide.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he was the victim of "judicial activism" after a Supreme Court judge ordered the Senate to launch an inquiry into his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Banking Authority, a key EU financial regulator, says it has fallen victim to a hack of its Microsoft email system which the US company blames on a Chinese group.

French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country's second attack blamed on Islamist terrorism this month.

An octogenarian man who had tested positive for coronavirus along with two of his family members died today in Delhi. The victim's family from the national capital's posh Defence Colony had claimed that they had contracted the highly contagious virus from their security guard.

Asha Devi, the mother of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim, on Friday blamed the convicts' lawyer AP Singh for trying to delay the justice by misguiding the court.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today blamed the Uttar Pradesh government for not providing security to the Unnao woman, who died at a hospital in Delhi during treatment for burn injuries she suffered after she was set on fire by men accused of raping her,despite a similar incident taking place earlier in the same district. In a tw...

A 24-year-old gang rape victim allegedly committed suicide in a village under Dataganj police station in the district blaming police for not registering her complaint, officials said Monday.

The BJP has accused Trinamool Congress activists of hacking one of its workers to death at Ketugram in West Bengal's Burdwan district today. News agency IANS quoted sources as saying that the victim -- 50-year-old Sushil Mandal -- was killed while he was putting up BJP flags to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony in New Delhi l...