Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday refused to comment on a statement made by actor and Trinamool Congress legislator Chiranjeet that short dresses worn by women were one of the reasons behind the increase in incidents of harassment. "I don't know anything about it," Banerjee said when asked to comment on the statement made by her party MLA. However, after facing criticism, Chiranjeet tried to clarify his...
11:34 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Kolkata: Bengali actor and Trinamool Congress legislator Chiranjeet aka Dipak Chakraborty on Saturday contended that short dresses worn by women were one of the main reasons behind the increase in incidents of harassment of women in his constituency in the North 24 Parganas district. "Eve-teasing is a very old thing. It has been going on for ages. One of the reasons behind the increase in incidents of eve-teasing is short...
08:51 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Washington/Bhubaneswar: A senior Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Surendra Prasad Mohapatra, who is in the US on a training course, has been detained by police in Pennsylvania following a woman staff's complaint of "sexual assault" at a hotel where he was staying. The incident is reported to have happened on Tuesday night following which the officer was put under detention by the local police, sources said on Thursday. Mohapatra is...
02:33 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Mumbai: Charges will be framed in the Keenan-Reuben murder case in the Bombay High Court on Friday. The two youngsters were stabbed to death by a mob in October in 2011 for fighting against sexual harassment. Four people were arrested for murder and sexual harassment and several others were booked for rioting in the case. On October 20, 2011, 28-year-old Reuben Fernandez and 25-year-old Keenan Santos were attacked with choppers...
08:21 AM, Jun 21, 2012
On Mother's Day, Forbes magazine published a list of world's most powerful moms, representing influential women, who are politicians, CEO's & billionaires. This list symbolized ...
06:43 PM, Jun 12, 2012
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
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
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: 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: 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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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
