Kolkata gets its edition of 'SlutWalk'

Kolkata gets its edition of 'SlutWalk' Kolkata: With a group of youngsters coming forward to hold a 'SlutWalk' rally on Thursday, Kolkata joined the global movement of protest marches against sexual harassment. Led by a group of students and teachers from Jadavpur University and other institutes, the group of around 300 youngsters marched from the varsity campus to Triangular Park challenging the stereotype that 'women are abused sexually because they dress up like sluts'. "We are...
08:11 PM, May 24, 2012

Keenen-Reuben case: Charges to be framed today

Keenen-Reuben case: Charges to be framed today New Delhi: A Mumbai fast-track court is all set to frame charges on Friday in the horrific Keenan-Reuben case of October 2011. The two youngsters, Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez, were stabbed to death by a mob for taking on a man who harassed their female friends. The duo was attacked with choppers by a group of four. While Keenan died on the spot, Reuben died in a hospital later....
07:35 AM, May 18, 2012

Cabinet clears bill to protect women at workplaces

Cabinet clears bill to protect women at workplaces New Delhi: The Cabinet on Thursday cleared the Women Protection Bill. The new bill is aimed to protect women against sexual harassment at workplace. The new law will cover all women staff including domestic help. According to the Women Protection Bill, workplaces will have a panel for redressal of complaints. In a major decision in the Cabinet Committee meeting, according to sources, the clause that allowed the accused to prove...
07:59 PM, May 10, 2012

Nagpur: 3 persons lynched over sexual harassment

Nagpur: 3 persons lynched over sexual harassment Nagpur: Three persons were allegedly lynched to death by an angry mob over sexual harassment in Bharat Nagar area of the city this morning, police said. One of the three men was apparently dressed in a saree, while the other two, in the guise of policemen, indulged in sexual harassment, following which an angry mob, including women, pelted them with stones and beat them with sticks. By the time police...
02:01 PM, May 09, 2012

Bangalore: 60-year-old beaten to death by teenagers

Bangalore: 60-year-old beaten to death by teenagers Bangalore: A 60-year-old man identified as Alageshan was brutally beaten to death by two teenagers. The victim had confronted them after they allegedly misbehaved with his niece. Life will never be the same again for his Alageshan's niece, a class 9 student. Fed up of being misbehaved with by two teenagers over the last several weeks, she had complained to her family on Monday night. "On the road, they used...
07:14 PM, May 02, 2012

Bangalore: Senior citizen beaten to death by teenagers

Bangalore: Senior citizen beaten to death by teenagers Bangalore: A 60-year-old man died in Bangalore after being assaulted by two teenagers. The man, identified as Alageshan was beaten up by two teenagers who he had reportedly warned against sexually harassing his niece. The police said that Alageshan confronted the two boys on Monday night. When he slapped one of them, they in turn hit him on his chest, following which he went unconscious and was declared dead in...
04:06 PM, May 02, 2012

Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill sent to GoM

Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill sent to GoM New Delhi: With a number of ministers raising eyebrows over certain provisions, the amendments to the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill failed to get the Union Cabinet's nod on Thursday. Sources said the bill has, therefor, been referred to a Group of Ministers headed Home Minister P Chidambaram. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath are other members of...
09:10 PM, Apr 26, 2012

Cabinet likely to clear sexual harassment bill

Cabinet likely to clear sexual harassment bill New Delhi: The Cabinet is set to to pass the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill aimed at protecting women against sexual harassment at workplaces on Thursday. The bill will also include domestic workers and the workplace will be defined to include the unorganised sectors as well. The bill will make it mandatory for an employer to set up an internal committee to probe a...
10:14 AM, Apr 26, 2012

Woman officer accuses Lt Col of sexual harassment

Woman officer accuses Lt Col of sexual harassment Dehra Dun: A woman army officer has filed a case against a Lieutenant Colonel in Dehra Dun, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the pretext of marrying her. The woman officer, a Lieutenant in the Army Hospital, filed a police complaint against the Lieutenant Colonel, posted in Uttarkashi, in the Cantt police station alleging that he cheated and sexually harassed her over a period of time after promising to...
06:15 PM, Apr 23, 2012
TWTW: Cyrus' take on Mamata Banerjee and the cartoon row

TWTW: Cyrus' take on Mamata Banerjee and the cartoon row

Cyrus Broacha also talks about the Agni-V missile test fire and IIT Madras' attempts at curbing sexual harassment on campus. ...
12:32 PM, Apr 22, 2012

Rajasthan: Girl commits suicide after harassment

Rajasthan: Girl commits suicide after harassment Jaipur: Two days back when Deeksha Sharma locked herself in her room, her parents thought she was studying for exam. They had no idea that the college student had lost her lonely battle to sexual harassment. Accused had hounded her for four months. When her parents broke the room open they found her hanging from the ceiling fan. "The were hounding her for four months....they would stalk her, make indecent...
08:25 AM, Apr 22, 2012

AP: Principal thrashed for sexual harassment

AP: Principal thrashed for sexual harassment Khammam: A private school principal was beaten up by the parents of two girl students in Khammam on Monday. It was alleged that P Skylab, principal of the school at Mustafar Nagar, was sexually harassing two SSC girl students. When the girls informed the matter to their parents, they went to the school and thrashed the principal. Speaking to newsmen, the principal denied the charge. Skylab said when the two...
07:40 AM, Mar 08, 2012

Malawi: Women protest attacks over skirts, pants

Malawi: Women protest attacks over skirts, pants Blantyre: It's been 18 years since the late dictator Hastings Kamuzu Banda's "indecency in dress" laws were repealed in Malawi, but mobs of men and boys in the largely conservative southern African country have recently been publicly stripping women of their miniskirts and pants. On Friday, hundreds of outraged girls and women, among them prominent politicians, protested the attacks while wearing pants or miniskirts and T-shirts emblazoned with such slogans...
01:17 PM, Jan 21, 2012

Jind: 2 girls escape harassment, die in accident

Jind: 2 girls escape harassment, die in accident New Delhi: A harassment incident led to death of two class twelve students in Jind, Haryana. Two schoolgirls riding a two-wheeler were crushed to death by a truck after men on motorcycles allegedly tried to tease them. The truck driver and the two motorcycle-borne men are all absconding. ...
11:17 AM, Jan 21, 2012

Mumbai: Peeping Tom arrested after 50 complaints

Mumbai: Peeping Tom arrested after 50 complaints Mumbai: The long and winding road to justice is fraught with obstacles -- none knows this truth better than sexual harassment victim Saroj Gupta, who can only take some comfort in the fact that in her case, justice was delayed, but not denied. The 45-year-old Malad resident had to make at least 50 trips to the police station and register 14 non- cognizable complaints against her harasser before the cops...
12:37 PM, Jan 17, 2012
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