Kolkata's largest festival, Durga Puja, is unfolding amid some of the city’s most fervent protests in years.

The government has opposed petitions in the country's top court that seek criminalisation of marital rape.

A video of the woman, detailing her alleged abuse by police, has gone viral and led to an outcry in India.

The West Bengal government has agreed to remove a top police officer and two senior health officials.

Junior doctors in Kolkata are still protesting despite India's top court asking them to get back to work.

In 1992, powerful men in Ajmer city raped young girls and used photos and videos of the act to blackmail them.

Kolkata police use tear gas to disperse thousands protesting the rape and murder of a trainee doctor.

Parents of the doctor, who was raped and murdered, talk about their caring and affectionate daughter.