'What enables police violence?'

'Why potentially anybody, not only Muslims and Dalits, can be subjected to custodial death?' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com In the space of seven weeks, four people have died either in......

Brutal crimes against women that make you shudder

The gruesome gangrape of a girl in Delhi last month has once again highlighted how unsafe India's women are. The National Crime Record Bureau statistics show that crimes against women have......

DNA tests in Manorama case

Blood samples collected from 31 Assam Rifles personnel in connection with the rape and killing of Thangjam Manorama have been sent to the Central Institute for Forensic Laboratory at Kolkata for......

Manipur: Semen found on Manorama's clothes

Forensic tests have detected stains of human semen on the clothes of Thangjam Manorama Devi who had been picked up on July 10 by Assam Rifles personnel in Manipur and found dead the next day at......