The Supreme Court on Friday served a notice to the Centre seeking its response on a PIL demanding fast-track trial of rape cases and implementation of existing laws for safety of women. ...
12:10 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister MM Pallam Raju on Thursday said the government would take all measures to ensure women are safe inside the campuses of universities and other educational institutions. ...
09:19 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Congress on Monday accused ruling BJP in Chhattisgarh of being "insensitive" towards women issues, claiming the state party leaders had attended New Year celeberations even as the nation mourned the death of the Delhi gang-rape victim. ...
01:48 AM, Jan 02, 2013
Following the outage over the death of the 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gangraped and assaulted in a moving bus in the national capital on December 16, the Centre has set up a special task force to study the issue of women's safety in Delhi. ...
05:22 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Tamil Nadu has become the first state to issue tough measures to deal with crimes against women after the horrific Delhi gangrape shocked the nation. In a statement, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has asked for existing laws to be amended to allow for chemical castration and death to rapists. She has promised fast-track Mahila courts as well and an exclusive helpline. Police in civilian clothing will be deployed at places...
11:26 AM, Jan 01, 2013
As part of its agenda for change, CNN-IBN invites your suggestions on amendments to criminal laws relating to safety and security of women. ...
09:02 AM, Jan 01, 2013
The government's much hyped women's helpline, 181, encountered technical problems and turned out to be a flop show. However, by Monday evening, technical issues seemed to have been resolved and the number was functioning again. ...
11:00 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Security cover has been put in place in Kolkata for the New Year celebrations with 5000 policemen including several senior police officers on duty on Monday. Apart form CCTVs at random locations, civil clothed police men and women have also been deputed around the city. ...
10:25 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Many at Jantar Mantar on Monday continued their anti-rape protests for a safer environment for women, boycotting the New Year's celebrations and maintaining solidarity with the 23-year-old woman who lost the battle for her life on Saturday due to the injuries she sustained during a brutal gangrape and assault. ...
09:41 PM, Dec 31, 2012
A Delhi Home Guard, who was found sleeping during his duty on a night bus, was on Sunday dismissed from service, while the driver of the vehicle was placed under suspension. ...
01:55 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Delhi Metro will soon have a working women's hostel for its staff staying alone in the capital, a move that comes in the backdrop of the brutal gangrape and assault of a 23-year-old paramedical student. The new age transport system has also cancelled the annual celebrations at the Metro Museum and other events relating to the New Year in view of recent incidents in the city. ...
07:29 PM, Dec 30, 2012
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
As the nation focuses on women's saftey following the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old in Delhi, the Mumbai administration is putting some measures in place. Outrage over the Delhi gangrape has also highlighted the safety of women this festive season in Mumbai. Mumbai's new year celebrations have been marred in the past with incidents like the Juhu and Gateway molestation cases. So the city police has decided to take a...
09:53 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Amid nationwide outrage over the Delhi gangrape, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday called for changing "negative perceptions" about women and said they should be provided a safe, secure and congenial environment in which their talents can prosper. ...
03:22 AM, Dec 26, 2012
BJP on Tuesday termed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s television address promising all possible efforts to ensure safety of women in the country as a "face-saving device and a futile exercise to cover up his government s complete negligence" of the issue. ...
01:53 AM, Dec 26, 2012
With the increasing popularity of smartphones, women have a friend at hand in times of distress. ...
02:06 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Appealing to people agitated over a gang-rape here to maintain peace, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday said providing security to public should take precedence over VIP security which needed pruning. ...
02:59 AM, Dec 24, 2012
Women in the country can now look forward to alerting their friends and family through the push of a button on sensing danger using a mobile application called 'Fight Back'. ...
01:35 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tarun Vijay on Saturday wants his Z plus security cover to be taken back, claiming that the common people needed even more protection than politicians. ...
05:38 AM, Dec 23, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday asked Home Minister SushilKumar Shinde to ensure people feel safe in Delhi and incidents like the gangrape of 23-year-old woman are not repeated, officials said. ...
04:58 AM, Dec 23, 2012
