A new variety of mango, harvested at Uttar Pradesh's famous mango centre Malihabad, has been named Nirbhaya after the 23-year-old Delhi girl who was brutally gang-raped on December 16 last year and died of her injuries two weeks later.

Two persons on Thursday have been sentenced to life imprisonment and five others were awarded seven years of jail term by a local court here for rape and murder of a minor girl.

A 25-year-old woman was gang-raped by five men, including her brother-in-law and kept locked for two days in a room, police said on Wednesday.

A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped by three people, including two neighbours, police said on Monday.

The male companion of December 16 gang-rape victim has written a letter to Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde seeking a government job. It is to be noted that the Centre has given a flat to the victim’s family and government job to her brother as ex-gratia.

A 13-year-old victim of gang-rape, who was recuperating in hospital after consuming an overdose of sleeping pills on April 20, yet again tried to commit suicide late on Sunday night at the hospital, her relatives said.

The Supreme Court on Friday said that CD of the interview of the December 16, 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim's male friend to a news channel could not be produced as evidence in the trial of the case.

The Supreme Court has held that the two-finger test on a rape victim violates her right to privacy, and asked the government to provide better medical procedures to confirm sexual assault.

Barely a week after a minor rape victim was detained in a lock-up in Uttar Pradesh, a 16-year-old gang-rape victim on Tuesday claimed she was beaten up by police when she went with her parents to file a complaint.

A teenage girl succumbed to her injuries at a hospital after she was allegedly gangraped and set ablaze by three men in Chitbadgaon area, police said.