New Year celebrations scaled back in india
New Year celebrations scaled back in india
India has scaled new year celebrations, such mourned the death of a woman whose gang rape on a bus two weeks ago led to public outrage. The army has canceled all official celebrations by the states of Punjab and Haryana.
The President of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, also said that she would not be celebrated. Meanwhile, protests continued Monday in the capital, Delhi, where the 23-year-old medical student was attacked.
The victim was dead Saturday morning in a Singapore hospital where she was treated for serious injuries. She was cremated in Delhi on Sunday. The attack resulted in massive protests expressing anger attitude to women in India and prompted a change in the law on violence against women.
If vigils continue to be held, hotels, clubs and corporate houses and celebrities announced that they would be canceled or weakening of the events planned for New Year's Eve.
The victim's family said they would fight to ensure that the death penalty is given to the prisoners.
"The battle has just begun. We all want the accused hanged, and we will fight for it until the end," her brother told The Indian Express newspaper.
Speaking to the newspaper, the woman's father added that his family was consumed by grief. The Indian army spokesman Veerendra Singh told the BBC that all its formations across the country were advised to cancel official celebrations.
Mrs. Gandhi also appealed to her fellow party members and benefactors not "New Year wishes to expand in the wake of mass rape incident". Meanwhile, the municipal authorities are planning to establish a new telephone hotline for women in distress launch is the result of a delayed "technical problem", officials said.
The 24-hour hotline number 181 will operate from offices Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and will be linked to all the 185 police stations in the city.
Officials have announced a series of measures aimed at the city safer for women.
These include more police night patrols, control of the bus drivers and their assistants, and a ban on buses with tinted windows or curtains. But many of the protesters say that women are treated as second-class citizens, and that a fundamental change in culture and attitude, supported by the law, it is necessary to protect them.
India has scaled new year celebrations, such mourned the death of a woman whose gang rape on a bus two weeks ago led to public outrage. The army has canceled all official celebrations by the states of Punjab and Haryana.
The President of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, also said that she would not be celebrated. Meanwhile, protests continued Monday in the capital, Delhi, where the 23-year-old medical student was attacked.
The victim was dead Saturday morning in a Singapore hospital where she was treated for serious injuries. She was cremated in Delhi on Sunday. The attack resulted in massive protests expressing anger attitude to women in India and prompted a change in the law on violence against women.
If vigils continue to be held, hotels, clubs and corporate houses and celebrities announced that they would be canceled or weakening of the events planned for New Year's Eve.
The victim's family said they would fight to ensure that the death penalty is given to the prisoners.
"The battle has just begun. We all want the accused hanged, and we will fight for it until the end," her brother told The Indian Express newspaper.
Speaking to the newspaper, the woman's father added that his family was consumed by grief. The Indian army spokesman Veerendra Singh told the BBC that all its formations across the country were advised to cancel official celebrations.
Mrs. Gandhi also appealed to her fellow party members and benefactors not "New Year wishes to expand in the wake of mass rape incident". Meanwhile, the municipal authorities are planning to establish a new telephone hotline for women in distress launch is the result of a delayed "technical problem", officials said.
The 24-hour hotline number 181 will operate from offices Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and will be linked to all the 185 police stations in the city.
Officials have announced a series of measures aimed at the city safer for women.
These include more police night patrols, control of the bus drivers and their assistants, and a ban on buses with tinted windows or curtains. But many of the protesters say that women are treated as second-class citizens, and that a fundamental change in culture and attitude, supported by the law, it is necessary to protect them.
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