Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said "our heads hang in shame when we hear of instances of crime against women" and that his government has initiated several steps to help women who face violence and abuse....
When her parents asked her to wear a "burqa" (veil) while attending classes at the Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi, Rubina refused to comply with the demand. She was barred from going to the university and sat at home washing dishes....
Ian Gould became the 15th umpire to stand in 100 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) when he took the field in the Australia versus Sri Lanka match in World Cup 2015 at Sydney cricket ground on Sunday....

The Nagaland government is yet to make any arrest in connection with Thursday's incident when a mob broke into Dimapur's high-security central jail and killed a rape accused in full public view....
A Mumbai sessions court on Saturday permitted the prosecution in the Salman Khan hit-and-run case to rely on the statements of his deceased bodyguard Ravindra Patil, who was a witness to the 2002 accident, and a medico who performed the autopsy on the accident victim....
Truckers in Assam on Saturday stopped plying their vehicles from here to Dimapur and other parts of Nagaland in protest against the lynching of a rape accused in Nagaland's commercial hub Dimapur on Thursday....

After being stuck in a grassy shoulder for more than 72 hours in the Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA) in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, a passenger jet of Turkish Airlines was finally moved to the runway on Saturday morning....

Following the death of Kerala assembly speaker G. Karthikeyan on Saturday, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has to perform a tough act as a new speaker has to be chosen immediately, a Congress leader said....
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday sent a get well soon message to SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, but the party had no clue where the Gandhi scion is following his break from the budget session of parliament....

Amid diplomatic moves to forge closer ties, the festering fishermen's issue between India and Sri Lanka on Saturday threatened to snowball into a major row with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe justifying his country's navy shooting intruding Indian fishermen....