Delhi University's English Professor Dr Brinda Bose joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on how to make India safe for women. ...
07:31 PM, Mar 08, 2013
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
It's weird being a woman. Today. It's odd to have to constantly defend what you stand for - to have to play the part - ...
01:11 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
Shaken by the anger on the streets, government had pushed in an anti-rape ordinance to show it cares about women safety, but still the Cabinet failed to take up the anti-rape law today. ...
11:00 PM, Mar 07, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee released a message in a statement on eve of International Women's Day, which is observed every year on March 8. ...
06:56 PM, Mar 07, 2013
After the brutal Delhi gangrape incident, the government faced pressure to come up with stringent anti-rape laws to curb sexual violence against women. The Justice JS Verma committee proposed certain amendments in the existing rape laws. The Home Ministry now has proposed a few changes in the ordinance. ...
07:59 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said that his government was committed to ensure the safety and security of every woman of the country. ...
03:26 AM, Mar 07, 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 Dreamliner planes of Air India may fly again by mid-April 2013, with the airline expressing hope that a permanent solution to the battery-fire that led to the grounding of all the 50 Boeing 787s flying worldwide will be achieved by the month-end, official sources said on Monday. ...
09:34 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The IGI airport here, operated by DIAL, has become the first Indian facility to bag the 'International Safety Award' from British Safety Council. "This makes Indira Gandhi International airport (IGI), as the first and the only airport in India to win this prestigious award in field of health and safety. The award benchmarks health and safety performance of an organisation on an international level to recognise the leaders in this...
07:05 PM, Feb 28, 2013
IIM-Ahmedabad's Professor G Raghuram joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the impact of Railway Budget on people & economy. ...
07:14 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Delhi has been voted as the most unsafe metro city in the country by women travelling alone for leisure, business or both, a recent survey has found. Mumbai was rated as the safest metropolitan city by a majority of respondents (34 per cent), while Ahmedabad and Bangalore were voted second with 12 per cent votes each. ...
10:59 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is set to present his maiden Rail Budget on Tuesday. While a hike in rail fare seems to be imminent, the Rail Minister is also likely to announce many new trains and safety and modernisation measures. ...
08:32 AM, Feb 26, 2013
The annual railway budget should focus on safety and modernisation, industry association Assocham said on Friday. Assocham said its team interviewed 7,000 people representing all sections in 20 cities and 60 per cent of them voted in favour of a moratorium on new passenger trains. ...
04:41 AM, Feb 23, 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
Four men tried to abduct this girl in an SUV when she was on her way to tuitions just a kilometre away from her home on a busy main road in Jaipur at 6:30 pm on last Saturday. She fought them tooth and nail and managed to scare them away. All this while, people stood by and watched. The 15-year-old brave girl from Jaipur who fought off four male assaulters...
05:46 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Beatles, the evergreen all time favourite rock band from Britain's Liverpool, has come to the help of Kolkata Traffic Police in its efforts to instill road safety awareness among the youth. ...
02:23 PM, Feb 18, 2013
For women facing sexual harassment in Delhi Metro or railway stations of the city, help will soon be available at the spot -- from police desks run by women officers. ...
02:39 AM, Feb 16, 2013
Social activist Aruna Roy, who is trying to do her bit to support the 'One Billion Rising' campaign in Jaipur, talks about bringing a change in context of all the violence that has been happening across the country against women. ...
04:00 PM, Feb 14, 2013
