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At Nitish Kumar's Janata Darbar in Patna, a young woman slashed her own palm to be heard. All she wanted was computer training and a chance at a job.
NCRB data showed a rape reported in India every 22 minutes, and experts agreed the real figure was far higher. Then December 2012 broke the silence.
Days after the December 2012 Delhi gang rape, Amitabh Bachchan asked the question haunting India: a nation that worships goddesses yet brutalizes daughters.
Shaheen Dhada questioned Mumbai's shutdown for Bal Thackeray's funeral on Facebook. She was arrested. Her friend was arrested for liking the post.
A student of the National Law School of India University was sexually assaulted on campus in October 2012, sparking protests over safety at Indian universities.
In October 2012, Arvind Kejriwal alleged a quid pro quo between Robert Vadra and DLF. DLF and the Congress denied it. What was claimed — and denied.
In September 2012, Mamata Banerjee withdrew TMC support over FDI in retail — and Manmohan Singh's UPA government held on anyway.
Bravery-award winner Henna Bakshi was booked under the IT Act for allegedly abusive posts on Chandigarh traffic police's Facebook page after her stolen-car
The Indian Staffing Federation projected FDI in retail would create 10 million jobs in a decade. The claim, the opposition's rebuttal, and why the number
The Bombay High Court granted Aseem Trivedi bail on a Rs 5,000 bond in September 2012, freeing the cartoonist three days after his sedition arrest.
The sharpest of Aseem Trivedi's anti-corruption cartoons — and why the sedition charge under colonial-era Section 124A collapsed under legal scrutiny.
India trains huge numbers of doctors and loses many to emigration. Why rural service bonds don't work — and what might actually keep them.
Aseem Trivedi was arrested for sedition over anti-corruption cartoons in September 2012 — the sedition charge was dropped a month later.
The Washington Post's 2012 profile called Manmohan Singh 'a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat' — the UPA government demanded an apology.
In September 2012, a Karnataka High Court judge told an abused wife to 'adjust' — and was removed from family cases after the outrage.
On September 6, 2012, Union Minister Sachin Pilot became the first serving minister commissioned as a regular officer in the Territorial Army.
Alleged MNS workers vandalized a Maharashtra theatre screening a Bhojpuri film — part of a 2012 campaign against north Indians in the state.
In August 2012, former Noida SP K.K. Gautam told a special CBI court he was pressured to suppress the rape angle in Aarushi's postmortem report.
The eve-teasing debate keeps blaming what women wear. The evidence — and plain logic — says the jeans were never the problem.
The Income Tax Department moved to cancel the tax-exempt status of Ramdev's Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust, raising a Rs 34.68 crore demand.