A friend of a 23-year-old Odisha college student, who was allegedly gang-raped by unidentified men near her institute in West Bengal’s Durgapur, is also under the scanner and the police must consider interrogating him, the women’s body has said.

Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi addressed a press conference in Delhi with both male and female journalists present, following criticism for excluding women from a previous event. Muttaqi stated the earlier exclusion was due to short notice, not deliberate intent. This visit marks the first by a senior Taliban minister to India since the group’s takeover.

In shocking remarks in the aftermath of an MBBS student’s gangrape in West Bengal’s Durgapur, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has tried to shift the responsibility of students’ security to private colleges