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Question: What to make of the Supreme Court when it asked a rapist 'are you ready to marry the girl you raped, then possibly you can walk free with the trophy bride?'Of course, the top court did not ask in so many words, but that's about the gist of the astonishing offer. And, mind you, the criminal on escape row, if he couldn't believe his ears, replied rather regretfully, 'Yes, your lordships, I would marry her except that I am now regretfully a married man!'

It is indeed baffling to consider whether Chief Justice S A Bobde made his ‘offer’ to an accused rapist to grant him protection if he agreed to marry his victim after due consideration of the consequences of his offer or whether it was a spur of the moment remark. If it was a premeditated suggestion, the approach of flexibility needs to be appreciated, but his solution is outlandish and worse than the crime.

It was a coincidence that on the day while addressing an election rally in West Bengal’s Malda, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was blaming the TMC government for poor law and order situation in the state, the saffron criminals in his own state were brutally assassinating the father of the poor dalit girl who was raped and killed barely a month back in Hathras by them. Once again his police was proved to be inactive as even after knowing of the intentions of the killer it did not arrest them and save the poor father from being killed by the marauders.

The national capital is the face of a country, an index that points towards the real condition of the people, their hopes and frustrations, and the direction of psyche of the nation. Delhi civic bypolls results are nothing less than an evidence of the chagrin under which the people of Delhi have been reeling for quite some time. The people have not only totally rejected the BJP, but have served it a humiliating defeat. They rather put four of the five seats into the AAP’s bag, and the fifth to the Congress. It has kindled some new hope for the opposition, and has put the BJP in great distress on the eve of the assembly election for the five politically sensitive states.

Dusseldorf: India once again impressed in defence but couldn’t stop Germany from winning their third consecutive game in the four-match Women Hockey series here in Dusseldorf on Monday.

New Delhi: Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom and World Championship bronze medallist Manish Kaushik received easy draw in their opening matches at the Boxam International Tournament to be held in Castellon, Spain.

New Delhi: Manisha Keer, failed to make qualify for the final round but, recorded a best ever finish at an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun stage, ending seventh in the Women’s Trap competition on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt.

New Delhi: Young paddler Sreeja Akula overpowered a higher ranked opponent to progress into the last round of the women's singles qualifiers alongside Manika Batra at the WTT Contender in Doha on Tuesday.

New Delhi: National Coach Igor Stimac on Tuesday named 35- probables, including ten new faces, for the Indian National Team’s forthcoming back-to-back International Friendlies against Oman and UAE, scheduled to be held in Dubai, UAE on March 25 and March 29 respectively.

On Thursday, February 25th, the government notified new rules under the Information Technology (IT) Act dubbed the ‘Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code’. These rules introduced a number of guidelines for social media and Over The Top (OTT) platforms which make such companies more accountable to the government and law enforcement authorities.