Nidhi Razdan, a Gulf News columnist, talks about a video that has gone viral in India showing the sexual assault of two women by a mob of men, sparking outrage in the country.

The brutality of this case, as well as the increasing frequency of reports of sexual crimes against women in India — from 25,000 rape cases in 2012 to 31,000 a decade later — has sparked ...

India has long struggled to address gender violence. A 2018 Thompson Reuters Foundation survey of experts on women’s issues ranked the country as the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman.

Grieving women from the family’s neighborhood gathered outside Mr. Kumar’s home Wednesday morning. The Kumar family has lived here for at least two generations. Mr.

In India’s embattled news media, women are fighting to be heard Journalists have been targeted for harassment, and some women are only allowed to speak to the press if they have a male chaperone.