KOLKATA/BHUBANESWAR, Aug 17 — Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients except for emergency cases today as medical professionals staged a 24-hour shutdown in protest over the rape and murder of a doctor this month in the eastern city of Kolkata.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 17 — Police have arrested a fortune teller to assist in the investigation of a rape case involving a woman in an incident in Puchong.

MUMBAI, Aug 16 — Anger over the brutal rape and murder of a doctor in eastern India showed no signs of dying down today, as medics called for the largest shutdown of hospital services in recent times, and political parties geared up for protests.

MUMBAI, Aug 15 — Thousands of women marched across several Indian cities overnight and Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for strict punishment for crimes against women, as outrage and protests against the gruesome rape and murder of a doctor escalated.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 7 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence of a former sawmill worker to 40 years in prison for killing and raping a nurse nine years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 5 — A former deliveryman convicted of raping a Year Six student failed in his appeal for a lighter sentence when the Court of Appeal upheld the 18-year imprisonment and 10 strokes of the cane imposed by the Sessions Court two years ago.

JAKARTA, Aug 2 — New rules issued this week by Indonesia will make the police the only authority allowed to give the go-ahead for abortions for rape victims, drawing criticism from rights activists who said the changes were regressive.

KUALA TERENGGANU, July 31 — The Sessions Court sentenced a labourer to 30 years in prison and 30 strokes of the cane today after he pleaded guilty to raping his disabled daughter.

KUALA PILAH, July 24 — A rubber tapper pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court today to two counts of raping his daughter.

IPOH, July 19 — Two schoolboys are among four teenagers who have been arrested for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl in Teluk Intan.

PUTRAJAYA, July 2 — The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence imposed on a former barber for the murder of an 11-month-old baby girl known as 'Zara', who suffered serious vaginal injuries caused by sexual assault six years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, May 29 — The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence of a former businessman for the murder of a female marketing executive 18 years ago.

SEREMBAN, May 8 — A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and five lashes by the Sessions Court today after pleading guilty to raping his daughter from the age of 12 until she gave birth.

KUALA TERENGGANU, May 8 — The Sessions Court has sentenced a man to 36 years in prison and 40 strokes of the cane for raping and sexually assaulting his underage niece.

SEREMBAN, May 5 — The police received a report of a 20-year-old woman claiming to have been raped by her own father since she was 12 years old until she gave birth in an incident in Kampung Chuah, Port Dickson.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 — Rape cases involving underage girls have increased in the last three years, and the police believe most of them began with grooming via social media, including chat applications like WhatsApp.

MUAR, March 14 — The Sessions Court has sentenced a lorry attendant to five years in prison and three strokes of the cane for physical sexual assault and rape of a teenage girl last month.

PUTRAJAYA, March 1 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has refuted allegations that his ministry will amend the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 to rein in Malaysian online media.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 27 — The Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentence of a former lorry attendant for the murder of an 85-year-old woman after raping and sodomising her five years ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — The number of cases of statutory rape involving teenagers, aged 16 and below, has increased in recent years and is becoming increasingly worrying.