NEW DELHI: An acid attack left four sisters in north India with burns, police said on Wednesday, in a particularly brutal example of what is a growing problem in South Asia.
Published04 Apr, 201305:02am
NEW DELHI: They may never know her name, but the protesters were determined that the gang-rape victim would serve as a “tipping point” in the battle to end a culture of violence against women in India
Published29 Dec, 201209:05pm
NEW DELHI: When Sonali Mukherjee spurned the advances of three of her fellow students, they responded by melting her face with acid.
Published24 Dec, 201202:56am
NEW DELHI: India's bitter colonial past hangs heavily over the government's renewed drive to open the inward-looking economy to foreign investment, even 65 years after independence, analysts say.
Published10 Dec, 201212:03am
NEW DELHI: Fifty years ago India tasted bitter defeat at the hands of China in a brief border war, and the memory still spooks New Delhi’s leaders as they try to compete with their powerful Asian neighbour.
Published19 Oct, 201210:31pm