India

Instead of covering the 25-km distance from Pari Chowk to Noida, the empty bus ran 47 km to Kashmere Gate in Delhi, and the gangrape took place in the moving bus in the course of this distance, according to police accounts.

Engineer-turned-education reformer Sonam Wangchuk, whose real-life innovations in Ladakh became the emotional backbone of Rajkumar Hirani’s superhit Bollywood film ‘3 Idiots’, finally breaks his silence and rebuts Aamir Khan’s claim with a joke.

The attack on youths reading books at a park in Ahmedabad was the sequel to Bajrang Dal and VHP members earlier protesting the presence of books by Malala Yousafzai and Annie Frank in a school library and asking, “Why are there non-Hindu teachers in a Hindu school?”

After trolls targeted actress Faria Abdullah’s Muslim background, questioned her faith, and went as far as labeling her a "kafir" (infidel), she said her family is deeply secular and that her father is a converted Muslim who chose Islam out of personal conviction, while her mother found inspiration in Hindu spirituality.

At the rally for which the FIR has been filed, Mamata Banerjee had hit out at what she called “political atrocities” being inflicted on her party’s supporters in West Bengal, alleging these were being orchestrated “at the initiative of the BJP.”