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The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, replaces the word 'rape' by the phrase 'sexual assault' and seeks to widen the scope of the offence.

Amit, Surender, Pratap and Gaurav molested the girl from their car, following which the girl's brother called up the police.

She fought back when the miscreants tried to forcibly take her away and the locals managed to nab one of the accused.

The lawyers of the Saket Bar Association have resolved not to represent the accused in the gangrape of 23-year-old student.

The experts said that the pendency of cases often compels judges to give a go-bye to the guidelines on sensitivity.

According to a new study, certain nerve cells are specialised to detect itchy sensations, and those receptors don't detect painful sensations.

The top-ranked Serb rallied past Nicolas Almagro of Spain 6-7, 6-3, 6-4.

The IMA sought to ask the government whether the reason to shift the patient was purely for medical purposes or there were other factors.

Experts say child marriage remains among the biggest hurdles to women's development in India and has a domino effect.

Twenty men, a majority of them drug addicts, had also died in Lahore in November after drinking the Tyno cough syrup.

This fall, NYU announced it would close its graduate film school in Singapore because of financial trouble.

Malik had also suggested that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari should launch his political career by revealing the report.

Just over a week after winning the Tour de France, Wiggins won a gold medal in the London Olympic time trial.

The Titan and living legend who spawned scores of imitators introduced a whole new school of acting.

The body has been moved to the mortuary in the Singapore General Hospital and will be flown back to India by a chartered plane.

Sixty-eight persons were killed in the blast on Samjhauta Express near Panipat on February 8, 2007.