While political leaders have been endorsing tough laws to deal with crimes against women, there is hardly action on the ground to show that women are any safer. While members of the government assured that tough anti-rape laws will be brought into effect soon, Parliamentarians called for unity to fight crimes against women during a debate on the occasion of Women's Day on Friday. ...
03:59 PM, Mar 08, 2013
The Lok Sabha took up the issue of safety of women in India on the occasion of International Women's Day on Friday. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said, "The empowerment of women has to be social, economic and political." ...
12:30 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Delhi has witnessed around four rape cases a day in 2013, almost double the rate in 2012, in an indication that crime against women has not abated in the capital despite campaigns and stepped up police action. The city witnessed a total of 181 rapes between January one and February 15, Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran told Rajya Sabha in a written question. ...
03:34 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Budget Session of Parliament has formally begun with President Pranab Mukherjee's address in which he laid out the government's agenda in the forthcoming session. Pranab Mukherjee spoke on issues including safety of women, economic slowdown, inflation and also laid stress on cross-border relations. ...
12:57 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday promised that no stone will be left unturned to ensure safety of women in the capital and said girls need not be scared or shaken after the incidents like the one on December 16 but should emerge stronger. ...
04:58 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Students and women from Delhi, Kolkata and women held protests a month after the Delhi gangrape as they say they still feel unsafe. They demanded that a strict law be brought in place to make women feel secure. ...
03:42 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Dear Justice Verma, The outrage will not stop until steps are taken. The politicians have failed. The justice system of India needs to take ...
12:34 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Amidst the outrage over crimes against women in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the safety and security of women was the government's highest concern. Speaking at the National Development Council meet in the national capital, the Prime Minister said, "Growing threats to safety and security to women are a concern. We must reflect on this problem which occurs in all regions of our country." ...
11:15 AM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: By ending their 10-match win-less streak against England in the first one-dayer at Hyderabad, Team India once again exhibited their invincibility at home, to the dismay of the opposition. The depleted Team India, which is without the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma and Zaheer Khan, will go head to head in the second encounter at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi hoping to take a...
03:45 PM, Mar 10, 2008
