India Archive

A shocking incident has once again highlighted the deteriorating safety of women in West Bengal. Park Street gang-rape convict Naser Khan has been accused of molesting and physically assaulting a woman at the five-star Hyatt Regency hotel in Kolkata.

In a disturbing case that has shocked Bengaluru, a 24-year-old food delivery agent named Darshan was killed on 25 October after a Kalaripayattu martial arts instructor and his wife deliberately rammed their car into his scooter.

On October 25, shocking allegations surfaced from Kerala’s Kasaragod district, where PV Sangeeta, the 35-year-old daughter of Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader PV Bhaskaran, revealed that her own father had imprisoned and abused her for wanting to marry a Muslim man named Rasheed.

In the early morning of October 6, 2025, a sudden blaze broke out in a fourth-floor apartment in Delhi’s Gandhi Vihar, Timarpur. As firefighters battled the flames, neighbors watched in horror. When the fire was finally put out, police discovered a body—burned beyond recognition. The deceased was identified as Ram Kesh Meena, a 32-year-old UPSC aspirant.

The Jaisalmer bus fire on October 14 that killed 26 passengers was not a mystery of explosions or fireworks but a result of pure negligence. A forensic science laboratory (FSL) report has confirmed that the tragedy was caused by a short circuit in the air-conditioning system.

A disturbing incident in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has raised serious concerns about women’s safety and international sports security. Two Australian women cricketers were allegedly stalked and molested by a man while returning to their hotel after visiting a café on Ring Road around 11 a.m. on Thursday.

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 is now under the scrutiny of India’s highest court after it issued a notice in a case that challenges whether the law can be applied to a female accused.

A young female doctor in her late twenties was working on contract as a medical officer at the Phaltan Sub-District Hospital in Maharashtra’s Satara district. She was close to completing her mandatory rural service bond, with about 23 months behind her, and she had plans to pursue a postgraduate medical degree.

On Thursday, October 23, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra once again found herself in the centre of a storm after she appeared to endorse a Christian extremist’s hateful remarks against Hindus and India’s most loved festival, Diwali. The MP, who has a long record of making controversial and divisive comments, triggered widespread anger after she responded to a deeply offensive post on X (formerly Twitter) by simply saying “I agree.”

A recent video from Kerala has gone viral, showing burqa-clad female students sitting apart from male students behind a partition wall inside a classroom, sparking widespread anger and debate. The footage reignited concerns over increasing gender segregation in educational spaces across the state.