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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.
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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.
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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.
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Days after the December 2012 Delhi gang rape, Amitabh Bachchan asked the question haunting India: a nation that worships goddesses yet brutalizes daughters.
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Shaheen Dhada questioned Mumbai's shutdown for Bal Thackeray's funeral on Facebook. She was arrested. Her friend was arrested for liking the post.
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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.
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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.
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In September 2012, Mamata Banerjee withdrew TMC support over FDI in retail — and Manmohan Singh's UPA government held on anyway.
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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
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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
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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.
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The sharpest of Aseem Trivedi's anti-corruption cartoons — and why the sedition charge under colonial-era Section 124A collapsed under legal scrutiny.
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India trains huge numbers of doctors and loses many to emigration. Why rural service bonds don't work — and what might actually keep them.
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Aseem Trivedi was arrested for sedition over anti-corruption cartoons in September 2012 — the sedition charge was dropped a month later.
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The Washington Post's 2012 profile called Manmohan Singh 'a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat' — the UPA government demanded an apology.
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In September 2012, a Karnataka High Court judge told an abused wife to 'adjust' — and was removed from family cases after the outrage.
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On September 6, 2012, Union Minister Sachin Pilot became the first serving minister commissioned as a regular officer in the Territorial Army.
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Alleged MNS workers vandalized a Maharashtra theatre screening a Bhojpuri film — part of a 2012 campaign against north Indians in the state.
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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.
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The eve-teasing debate keeps blaming what women wear. The evidence — and plain logic — says the jeans were never the problem.
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