The proposed anti-rape Bill, which seeks to hand down stringent punishment for crimes against women, including rape and acid attack, and lower the age of consent for sex to 16, is set to face hurdles in an the all-party meeting convened by the government on Monday. Samajwadi Party, which extends outside support to UPA, has openly come out against the provisions relating to stalking and lowering of consent age from...
07:08 PM, Mar 17, 2013
As the government gets ready to present its anti-rape Bill in Parliament, first arrest for stalking under the amended section of the Indian Penal Code was made in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Saturday. A Mumbai police team arrested a man accused of stalking a woman, even after she moved to Mumbai. ...
05:28 PM, Mar 16, 2013
At least 115 child rape cases have been registered in 59 days, the month of January and February this year, in Odisha, the state assembly was informed on Thursday. These child rape cases were reported in 30 of the 36 police districts in the state, Women and Child Development Minister Usha Devi said while replying to a written question in the Assembly. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Sources said that in the final draft, the word 'sexual assault' has been replaced by 'rape', thus making the anti-rape bill women-centric. The age of consent for sex has been reduced from 18 to 16. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The Group of Ministers (GoM) that met on Wednesday to thrash out differences over the anti-rape bill has finalised the changes to it, Union Minister Kapil Sibal said. The Cabinet will take up the draft on Thursday. ...
08:06 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Though there was a rise in rape cases across the country from 2007 to 2011, the conviction rate of accused remained stagnant at 26 per cent. The number of registered rape cases rose to 24,206 in 2011 from 20,737 in 2007, an increase by 3,469, with Madhya Pradesh recording a highest number of such incidents, according to a data given by Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh in...
05:47 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A class 9 girl student set herself on fire in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh after she was repeatedly sexually harassed. She was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition in Moradabad from where she was referred to Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. ...
03:46 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A law which ensures protection of working women against sexual harassment at work places will soon be a reality. Parliament has passed a Bill to protect women against sexual harassment and for the first time domestic helpers and women who work in unorganised sector will come under its purview. ...
11:52 AM, Mar 12, 2013
The Cabinet meet on anti-rape law begins. The Delhi gangrape case of December 2012 triggered the government's proposed new anti-rape law. The Cabinet will take it up the new law on Tuesday. But consensus has eluded the government specifically on clauses relating to the use of the term 'rape', voyeurism, and reducing the age of consent from 18 to 16 years. ...
10:00 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Two Punjab Police constables have been arrested for physically abusing a woman in Tarn Taran last week. The 22-year-old girl and her father were thrashed in full public view when they demanded action against some people who harassed her. ...
11:40 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, which proposes jail term to a rape convict for his entire life, will be taken up at a special meeting of the Union Cabinet on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said. Seeking to dismiss reports of any differences in the Cabinet over the Bill, Shinde said, "There is a difference of opinion on legal points, which is being addressed to and it will...
06:00 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Dumka district sport officer-in-charge on Friday was arrested on the charge of exploiting a college student sexually for the last six months, police said. ...
01:20 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Women won't feel safe until the mindsets change - that's what CNN-IBN has been campaigning for. Even as we wait for stronger legislation and better implementation to prevent crimes against women, today, many more promises were made. Almost every woman politician made sure that they were in the public eye on International Women's Day, each one making all the politically correct statements. ...
08:12 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Women in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, said that if women wanted to see the change they wished to see, they needed to make it happen. ...
05:44 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Women in Mumbai and Bangalore say they feel relatively safer than their counterparts in the national capital. ...
04:10 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Amid rising cases of crime against women, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday said "our heads hang in shame" due to recurring incidents of rapes and other violence against women. Flagging concerns about female foeticide and crime against women, Gandhi exhorted women not to bow down to difficulties in future and face them with courage as the country needs them at all responsible positions. ...
03:42 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Today is International Women's Day. In spite of being in the middle of a three-day international Shakespeare seminar, when CNN-IBN asked me to do a ...
01:52 PM, Mar 08, 2013
A lady journalist of an English newspaper was allegedly molested in Delhi on Wednesday night. The journalist was on her way home from her office in South Delhi when two motorcyclists allegedly molested her in Mansarovar Park of Northwest Delhi. ...
08:15 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Bigoted, insensitive, and uninformed - that's the reality of our police. Posing as researchers, CNN-IBN reporters met over 50 policemen in over 25 police stations in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, encountering prejudice in almost every thana. Even as lawmakers consider stronger laws against sexual offences, most keepers of the law that we met insisted that a woman cannot be raped without her consent. ...
09:10 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A day ahead of International Women's Day, the Union Cabinet failed to take up the anti-rape law. ...
08:47 PM, Mar 07, 2013
