Nirbhaya Documentary
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After Nirbhaya documentary fiasco, govt bans entry of journalists, film makers into jails
India | Jul 25, 2015, 12:08 AM ISTNew Delhi: The government has banned the entry of journalists, NGO activists and filmmakers into jails for writing articles or taking interviews of inmates, except under special requests.The decision came after a series of incidents
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Ban on 'India's Daughter' led to higher viewership: Leslee Udwin
India | Mar 10, 2015, 02:01 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nirbhaya documentary maker Leslee Udwin said that the ban imposed by the Government of India led to a higher viewership of the short-film.In an interview to Economic Times, she also accused the government
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œIndia is not a country of rapists, German Ambassador to professor who denied internship to Indian student
India | Mar 10, 2015, 08:41 AM ISTNew Delhi: In context of the Indian student turned down by a professor of a German University on grounds of ‘rape culture in India', German Ambassador Michael Steiner reacted strongly by condemning the professor's response
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India committed 'international suicide' by banning rape documentary, says director
India | Mar 08, 2015, 01:18 PM ISTLondon: India committed "international suicide" by banning a documentary about the gang rape and murder of a woman in Delhi, said Leslee Udwin, the maker of controversial documentary film ‘India's Daughter' based on December 16
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Nirbhaya documentary to be screened in USA
World | Mar 07, 2015, 12:42 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nirbhaya documentary which created furor in India, will be screened in City University in New York on March 9 and will be attended by Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep and Frieda Pinto in
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BCI issues show cause notice to lawyers in Dec 16 case
India | Mar 07, 2015, 04:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has issued show cause notices to two lawyers, who had allegedly made derogatory anti-women remarks in the documentary on the December 16 gangrape case, on the ground
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Nirbhaya documentary maker mislead MHA, Tihar officials for shoot inside jail
India | Mar 06, 2015, 12:06 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nirbhaya documentary maker Leslie Udwin had misled the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Tihar Jail authorities by not clearly revealing her sole intention to interview convicts while seeking permission from officials to
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YouTube pulls down BBC's Nirbhaya documentary on government's request
India | Mar 05, 2015, 05:16 PM ISTNew Delhi: You Tube has pulled down BBC's controversial documentary on Nirbhaya, a Delhi rape victim, following Government request.India's Daughter, the documentary features an interview of one of the convicts of December 16 Delhi gang
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Banned Nirbhaya documentary circulating on social media
India | Mar 05, 2015, 02:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: The controversial documentary ‘India's daughter' featuring the barbaric December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case has started circulating on social media sites like Facebook.The banned documentary's telecast was restricted in India by Supreme
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Justice matters, documentary debate of no use for us: Nirbhaya parents
India | Mar 05, 2015, 01:30 PM ISTNew Delhi: Paying no heed to the ongoing debate over telecast of the controversial ‘Nirbhaya documentary', the victim's parents said that only thing that matters is justice for their daughter."Our daughter is dead, nothing will
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No telecast of Nirbhaya documentary in India: BBC
India | Mar 05, 2015, 11:44 AM ISTNew Delhi: The BBC has said that it has no plans to telecast the controversial documentary on December 16, 2012 gang-rape incident in India even though it went ahead and broadcast it in the UK,
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Government to take action against BBC for telecasting Nirbhaya documentary
National | Mar 05, 2015, 01:42 PM ISTNew Delhi: Government of India has taken a serious note of the telecast of controversial Nirbhaya documentary titled ‘India's Daughter' by the BBC in United Kingdom.Sources said that the government may take stern action against
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Nirbhaya rape convict's remarks 'unspeakable': Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson
World | Mar 05, 2015, 11:45 AM ISTUnited Nations: The remarks by one of the Delhi gang-rape convict blaming the victim for the assault are ‘unspeakable', UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson has said, stressing the need for men to get involved in
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Nirbhaya filmmaker appeals PM Modi to watch 'India's Daughter'
India | Mar 05, 2015, 11:09 AM ISTNew Delhi: Nirbhaya documentary maker Leslee Udwin has made an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to watch the film titled ‘India's Daughter' and not let the issue get out of hand.While describing government's decision
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BBC telecasts controversial Nirbhaya documentary despite India's objection
India | Mar 05, 2015, 01:58 PM ISTLondon: Even as the Government of India pressed it not to telecast the controversial Nirbhaya documentary, the BBC on Wednesday aired the film in the United Kingdom on BBC Four at 10 pm.According to Indian
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Govt exploring how Nirbhaya documentary telecast can be stopped abroad
National | Mar 05, 2015, 08:01 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Central government has said that there is a ‘conspiracy to defame' India through the telecast of the Nirbhaya documentary containing the interview of December 16 gang-rape convict and would explore ways how
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Nirbhaya documentary row: Home ministry against its screening in abroad
India | Mar 04, 2015, 09:41 PM ISTNew Delhi: After stalling the broadcast of BBC documentary which features an interview of Mukesh Singh, a convict in the heinous Nirbhaya gangrape case of 2012, the Home Ministry has intensified its pitch to stop
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Am hurt, surprised over permission to shoot Nirbhaya documentary: Home Minister in RS
National | Mar 04, 2015, 02:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: Government today said it would not allow broadcast of a controversial documentary featuring a Nirbhaya gangrape convict as members of Parliament, cutting across party lines, expressed outrage over the incident. Maintaining that it would
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Even I was sexually assaulted at 18, reveals Nirbhaya filmmaker
India | Mar 04, 2015, 08:54 AM ISTNew Delhi: British filmmaker Leslee Udwin, who is in news for quite some time now for interviewing Nirbhaya gang-rape convict Mukesh Singh, has claimed that she too was sexually assaulted when she was 18 but
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Govt bans telecast of Nirbhaya documentary
India | Mar 04, 2015, 08:37 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Information & Broadcasting Ministry has issued an advisory to all news channels against showing the Nirbhaya documentary titled ‘India's Daughter'.Earlier, the Delhi Police approached a court of law seeking a restrain order