A BPO employee was gang raped by 10 men and she was found unconscious near a hillock in Pune. Conflicting stories are doing the rounds regarding the circumstances of rape. One indicates that she might have been raped in her room and another points to the company pickup cab driver who called her out and incidentally drove her to an isolated place where she was raped by him and his cronies.

Another incident that reveals how unsafe single working women are in India. After the Scarlet Keeling case there was a British journalist who lodged a similar complaint and the accused received instant bail. These incidents have become a regular feature of ‘Shining India”.

Men seem to be viewing women only as an object of sexual gratification and nothing more. The male dominated society of India seems to be incapable of accepting working women whom they see as easy prey and consider “open” in their views of sex.

The school is giving the students a lot of conversation fodder at the local water cooler but a nightmare to the parents.

A local newspaper – Sign on San Diego – is reporting that for the second day of their classes, students at the year-round Otay Ranch High School were in lockdown for an hour on Tuesday after police said there was a “dangerous suspect” in the area.

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So far honor killing or daughter killing had been witnessed as a social ill (but a phenomenon nonetheless) only in Asia. But not any more.

The perpetrators are the same but due to immigration the problem has now reached the shores of United States as well. An incident has been reported in Georgia where the father, of Pakistani descent, killed the daughter after she refused to marry the man picked out by him.

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Varsha Sabhnani, who is an Indian origin American was today sentenced to 11 years in prison for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves, forcing them to work up to 20 hours a day for years after confiscating their passports.

Varsha Sabhnani and her husband, Mahender Sabhnani, were convicted in December of forced labor, peonage, harboring aliens, document servitude and conspiracy in what prosecutors called “a case of modern-day slavery.”

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A man who ran away from the country for England, his native country after his wife and daughter were killed was found guilty for their murders.

29 year old Neil Entwistle closed his eyes a lot of time as if in remorse and shook his head as the guilty verdict was read out. He has been found guilty of two first-degree murder charges, possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition. Read the full story