'The case was meant to create a chilling effect on women that they would not speak out'

'There are tremendous personal, economic and emotional costs to bear in a case.''And those costs were suffered by Priya and Priya alone.''Nobody goes happily to court and you wouldn't wish that on......

BJP leader Mukul Roy's 'brother-in-law' joins TMC

A Bharatiya Janata Party leader, who the Trinamool Congress said is a brother-in-law of the saffron party's national vice-president Mukul Roy, rejoined the ruling party of West Bengal on......

Accused in Anandapur molestation case arrested, sent to custody

A man allegedly involved in molesting and throwing out a woman from his car besides knocking down another woman has been arrested from Dumdum area near Kolkata, police said.  ......

Bloomsbury withdraws book on Delhi riots after backlash

Bloomsbury India on Saturday said that it will not publish an upcoming book on the February Delhi riots after there was outrage over a virtual pre-publication launch, which it said was being......

Should Google own the world's words?

That's the key question in the ferocious debate raging over Google Book Search, writes Nilanjana S Roy. Who owns literature? And would you be comfortable if the answer to that was: "Google"? This......

All about the Google Lively experience

When Google Lively launched recently, the response from many, including diehard Google fans, was underwhelming. Lively is another virtual worlds experiment, on the lines of the hugely popular......

SMEs to invest $50 bn in telecom

Small and medium enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region outside of Japanare on track to invest $50 billion on telecommunications equipment and services this year. This is up some 5 per cent......

Podcasts finally come of age

At a Seattle conference on podcasts recently, the new wave of audio content producers on the web were greeted with postcards that said: "Podcasters! Are you here to join the revolution - or the......

India off to rousing start in women's World Cup

India rode on opener Thirush Kamini Murugesan's maiden century to thrash the West Indies by 105 runs in their opening Group A match of the ICC Women's World Cup in Mumbai on Thursday. Kamini scored......