India Politics

The Shakti Mills gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in August 2013 shocked Mumbai. A retrospective on the crime, the convictions, and what followed.

On Raksha Bandhan 2013, PM Manmohan Singh urged the nation to recommit to women's safety — while a viral CNN iReport exposed how little had changed.

The BJP named Narendra Modi chairman of its 2014 election campaign committee at the Goa conclave — a generational shift over LK Advani's opposition.

In 2012 India recorded 24,923 rapes with a 24% conviction rate — and behind every number was a woman. A 2013 editorial on the stories that forced a nation

The family of 8-year-old Gurkiren Kaur Loyal claimed she died after a mystery injection in Punjab in April 2013, and that her body returned to Britain

India worships women as goddesses yet tolerates rape and blames victims. A 2013 op-ed on the hypocrisy — and who will fight for women's rights.

A profile of Varun Gandhi — Sanjay Gandhi's son, who charted his own political course with the BJP and won Pilibhit in 2009.

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh lay on a ventilator in a Lahore hospital after a jail attack, with conflicting reports over whether he was brain dead.

A school bus driver was arrested in Bikaner for allegedly raping a 15-year-old student; a hostel warden in Jaipur was also held in a separate case.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by five youths in Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh, in April 2013. Police said three were detained.

Police arrested a second suspect in the rape of a five-year-old in East Delhi, as the child continued treatment at AIIMS.

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's remark that rapes happen across India, made after the Delhi child rape case, drew sharp criticism from the opposition.

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped in East Delhi in April 2013, sparking protests and renewed scrutiny of police handling of sexual assault cases.

Four NALSAR students say Hyderabad TV crews filmed them against their will, then aired edited ‘anti-pub culture’ stories painting them as drunk.

After Anoushka Shankar's revelation and a damning Human Rights Watch report, a 2013 TV panel confronted India's child sex abuse crisis — and the silence

A 2012 remark by a Karnataka High Court judge sparked outrage — but a national health survey found 54% of Indian women themselves said wife-beating could be

The National Commission for Women and some parliamentarians on Monday came out in support of Kashmir's first all-girls rock band 'Pragaash' whose singing was…

David Coleman Headley received 35 years in a U.S. federal prison for scouting the 2008 Mumbai targets, spared the death penalty by his cooperation.

After the January 2013 Mendhar beheading, Indian intelligence sources claimed Hafiz Saeed had offered Rs 5 lakh for an Indian soldier's head as a trophy.

A man who stepped in to protect a woman from harassers was beaten for his trouble, then found the law turning on him when her account changed.