Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to take "appropriate and immediate action to protect women", party sources said Saturday, a day that saw massive protests at Raisina Hill over the brutal gang-rape of a woman in New Delhi December 16. ...
01:50 AM, Dec 23, 2012
A crackdown has been launched against 400 buses having tinted windows and over 250 for picking up passengers in an unauthorized manner, the Delhi Police said on Saturday. ...
12:39 AM, Dec 23, 2012
All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA) secretary Kavita Krishnan while asking for Delhi Chief Minsiter Sheila Dikshit resignation in an interview with Tehelka said freedom of women without fear is what needs to protected. ...
11:49 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Till now, we have known two kinds of India. One which supports the government and second that supports the Opposition. Post independence, these two types ...
03:22 PM, Dec 22, 2012
What steps can the police take to ensure safety for women in India? Senior IPS officer K Salim Ali shared his perspective on this matter with IBNLive readers. ...
04:32 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Delhi lives up to its notoriety for being the most unsafe place for women, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics which gives figures for 2011. ...
02:02 PM, Dec 19, 2012
The government has circulated new guidelines on how to enforce the controversial section 66 (A) of Information Technology Act following the Facebook arrest row. Sources tell CNN-IBN that the government advisory tells states how Section 66 (A) of the IT Act is to be implemented. ...
02:32 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Lucknow: Claiming that women and girls of Uttar Pradesh were not safe during the previous BSP tenure, the Samajwadi Party on Saturday said Akhilesh Yadav government was paying attention on their safety and welfare and had also launched schemes for the purpose. "Girls faced humiliation during the BSP rule but Akhilesh Yadav has issued clear directives to prepare a district wise list of miscreants to ensure safety of women" SP...
01:16 AM, Nov 18, 2012
Hyderabad: Dozens of people, mostly children, were injured in accidents during Diwali celebrations in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night. As many as 25 people, including 12 children, were brought to the government-run Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital in Hyderabad. The children, all aged below 10 years, were admitted with grievous eye injuries sustained while bursting crackers. Concerned parents said some of the children had tried to find out why a cracker...
11:55 AM, Nov 14, 2012
Greater Noida: When everyone is in the fast lane, his may seem a low-key job, driving a car at a slow speed. Never mind the speed, he has a crucial role - to ensure nothing untoward happens on the track and beyond. He drives what is known in Formula One a safety car and his responsibility is to make sure everyone around the circuit is safe and secure. A safety...
05:25 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Amnesty International has slammed the Jammu and Kashmir government for continuing to use the Public Safety Act (PSA) to detain people without charge or trial in violation of their human rights and demanded its repeal. Terming the PSA, under which police can arrest any suspect and keep him/her in jail for two years without trial, as a "lawless law", Amnesty has demanded that all PSA detainees "must be...
11:38 PM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: Strengthening the safety infrastructure, Railways has developed a new system to prevent train accidents. The new system, Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), is a fusion of Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) and Anti-Collision Device (ACD). "Automatic braking system will be applied if two trains come closer on a same track with the TCAS in force," said Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal. TPWS and ACD are already operational on...
01:53 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi/Mumbai: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday again made it clear that Kingfisher Airlines cannot fly until it satisfies all the mandatory safety norms. "In order to give them (Kingfisher Airlines) permission to fly again, they have to satisfy the DGCA (Directorate-General of Civil Aviation) on all safety issues," Singh said as the airline extended its lockout for another week. Asked whether the airline's licence will be cancelled...
02:09 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Hyderabad: A decision to ensure safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) is expected to be taken at the ongoing UN convention here on bio-safety. The LMOs are the organisms that have been genetically modified through biotechnology. The sixth meeting of the Conference of Parties (to the Cartagena Protocol on Bio-safety (COP MOP 6)), that began on Monday, is discussing capacity-building, bio-safety clearing-house, socio-economic considerations concerning LMOs...
04:06 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Mumbai: Taking a cue from Union Minister Ajit Singh's statement that Kingfisher Airlines could approach other carriers for safety certification, the Vijay Mallya-promoted airline has reportedly approached Air India and others for getting its aircraft checked for certification. "Kingfisher Airlines is in talks with Air India, IndiGo and Jet Airways to get its aircraft certified by their engineers for flying," an airline source said on Monday evening. All these carriers...
02:26 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Bangalore: Eight-year-old Wajid Pasha was the darling of his family. He had gone out to play after school on Tuesday, but never returned home. His worried parents searched in vain, until on Wednesday morning, they found his body in a water sump at a construction site nearby. The shattered family is now demanding answers. Irshad Ahmed, Wajid's grandfather slams the local administration for not conducting safety checks at construction sites....
09:35 AM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday made it clear that it can stop commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant if it finds that the mandatory safety requirements for it have not been put in place. A bench of justices KS Radhakrishanan and Deepak Misra said the safety of plant and the people living in its vicinity is its prime concern and issued notices to the Centre and Tamil...
06:02 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has expressed concerns over environment and safety aspects of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. The apex court has told the Centre that it will stop the Nuclear plant if the environment and safety measures are not met. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India has filed an affidavit that even if a Fukushima-like incident happens, Kudankulam is fully equipped to deal with such an unlikely event....
12:10 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Bangalore: Even as massive protests have stalled the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear plant, activists have now raised concerns over the safety of another nuclear site in Tamil Nadu. The activists claim that there is documentary evidence that the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) in Kalpakkam near Chennai sits near an undersea volcano. They have demanded a thorough investigation of the hazard potential of the volcano by the Department of...
05:42 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Kochi: The explosion at the cracker unit in Sivakashi, killing 38 persons, raises fingers over the checks and enforcement activities carried out by the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) in the south. According to the list of petroleum and explosives accidents in the country during 2010-11, the highest number of accidents were reported in the south circle comprising Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. During 2010-11, there were 13...
02:59 PM, Sep 17, 2012
