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
In its bid to ensure smooth travel for working women and girl students, Odisha government has decided to roll out two special buses for women commuters between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. "The special bus service for women will be launched on the occasion of the International Womens' Day tomorrow," transport minister Subrat Tarai told reporters. ...
08:37 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Two days after a magisterial probe was ordered, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday said the policemen found guilty of thrashing a girl in Tarn Taran will be dismissed from service. "There is a system, it is wrong to beat a woman (and) this is against the policy of the state government. In the end after the probe, the cops, if found guilty, will be dismissed from service,"...
07:50 PM, Mar 07, 2013
After promising prompt legislation to curb crime against women, the Cabinet failed to take a stand on the anti-rape law. The bill did not come up at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday. ...
05:42 PM, Mar 07, 2013
In five separate cases, a woman was allegedly gang-raped in a moving car while four minors were raped in the national capital New Delhi, police said Wednesday. In the first incident, a 25-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by four people in a moving car in east Delhi's Welcome area Monday night. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 06, 2013
A fresh criminal complaint was on Wednesday filed by the girl who was allegedly thrashed by policemen in full public view at Goindwal Road in the district. The girl has filed a fresh complaint, alleging that she and her father were being thrashed by two cops on Sunday when she complained to them after being molested by a truck driver and his accomplices, Inspector General Police (IG) of Border Range...
09:37 PM, Mar 06, 2013
A person in authority convicted of rape will have to spend rest of his natural life in jail, according to a proposal in the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill which is likely to be taken up by the Union Cabinet on Thursday. The fresh Bill will replace the ordinance on crimes against women promulgated last month. ...
09:32 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has constituted a committee to look into allegations of sexual harassment at an All India Radio channel office made by some news presenters. The panel will submit its findings within three days. ...
08:58 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The government is reportedly finalising the changes to the Criminal Law Amendment Bill and sources say that it has decided to lower the age of consent for sex from 18 years to 16 years. Also, acid attack and stalking will be considered sexual crimes, the sources said. Sources added that the new note also brings back the word 'rape' instead of 'sexual assault'. The ordinance had used the word 'sexual...
08:36 PM, Mar 05, 2013
A day after CNN-IBN highlighted how a victim of alleged sexual harassment was beaten up in full public view by the Punjab police, some action is finally being taken. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday ordered a magisterial probe into the incident after nationwide outrage. ...
01:41 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The woman who was beaten up in full public view by policemen in Punjab's Tarn Taran district has demanded the strictest possible action against the policemen. "I demand that action must be taken against the policemen who assaulted us. They should be suspended from service. I demand that the matter must be investigated," the woman said. ...
11:56 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Policemen in Punjab's Tarn Taran beat up a young woman and her father after she went to them with a complaint of sexual harassment. While two policemen have been suspended, the state administration has come under a scathing attack from activists and politicians. ...
09:49 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Two Punjab policemen in Taran Taran have been suspended for slapping and beating up a woman in full public view. The police beat up the young woman and her father after she went to them with a complaint of sexual harassment. ...
08:18 AM, Mar 05, 2013
In a shocking incident, several personnel of the Punjab Police were caught on camera beating up a woman in Taran Taran on Sunday. The woman had reportedly complained of sexual harassment. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 04, 2013
In Tarn Taran, Punjab, a young woman and her father were beaten up mercilessly by policemen after they complained of sexual harassment. ...
09:50 PM, Mar 04, 2013
