New Delhi: The Delhi government's 181 helpline for women in distress, which was launched in the wake of the December 16 gangrape, has received over two lakh calls in the last four-and-half months. Officials said most of the calls received by the round-the-clock help line were related to stalking, eve-teasing, obscene calls and facing sexual abuse and domestic harassment.
The helpline was launched on December 31, 2012 to help women in distress and check increasing rate of crime against the fairer sex. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday reviewed functioning of the helpline at a high-level meeting attended by representatives of various stakeholders, including police, Delhi Commission for Women and department of women and child welfare. The Chief Minister asked all stakeholders to work in close cooperation to ensure a better response system for women in distress and suggested that cyber crime targeting the fairer sex should also be taken up seriously as there has been increasing cases of such crimes.
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02:35 AM, May 17, 2013
High blood pressure and hypertension are the new lifestyle diseases afflicting India's urban middle class. Dr Ravi R Kasliwal, Chairman, Clinical & Preventive Cardiology, Medanta-The Medicity, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. What kind of cooking oil is good for heart & esp for high BP patients? Is it olive, mustard, desi ghee or refined oils like Saffola/Fortune? Asked by: Honey A. Olive oil, Mustard oil,...
05:58 PM, Apr 05, 2013
A court on Tuesday granted bail to Sharlet Furtado, the headmistress of the school in Vasco town, where an unidentified man raped a seven-year-old student on January 14. The Goa Children's court granted her bail on a surety of Rs 25,000. ...
05:30 PM, Jan 22, 2013
A seven-year-old girl was raped at her school in the port town of Vasco, resulting in huge protests in Goa's Panaji Monday night. Police have detained the headmistress of the school on charges of negligence. ...
09:55 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Even as the nation prays for the 23-year-old gangrape survivor in Delhi, psychiatrists tell CNN-IBN that it could take quite some time to deal with the emotional trauma. The extensive media coverage could also trigger trauma in other rape survivors. ...
09:36 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Washington: A doctor-patient relationship built on trust and empathy has much more going on than merely putting patients at ease -- it helps the brain beat pain and stress. Recent studies have shown that doctors who listen carefully have happier patients with better health outcomes, but the underlying mechanism was unknown, said Issidoros Sarinopoulos, professor of radiology at Michigan State University. "This is the first study that has looked at...
09:26 AM, Dec 04, 2012
London: A wide circle of friends on Facebook may make you feel popular but it can also give you stress! The more people you have as your Facebook friends, the more likely you are to get stressed trying not to cause offence, according to a new report. The report from the University of Edinburgh Business School has found that the more groups of people in someone's Facebook friends, the greater...
11:51 AM, Nov 27, 2012
On this episode we take a look how stress and depression is affecting lives. ...
11:11 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: For 35-year-old Ritika (name changed), everything seemed a burden. She suddenly started losing interest in both work and people around her. Even ordinary tasks seemed Herculean to her. A call centre employee, she no longer paid attention even to her personal life. "I did not feel like getting up in the morning, I had to push myself to office, and I was a chronic late-comer. If I was...
03:25 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Bangalore: Dont angry me. When Akshay Kumars Rowdy Rathore character punched his way and struck a chord with the masses, it unconsciously amplified the inner feelings of many a million. Today, stress is considered to be a common physical reaction to the multiple frustrations and pressures of daily life. Anger is often the emotional expression of that stress. How your body reacts to physical and emotional stress is very similar...
03:29 PM, Aug 28, 2012
London: Your smartphone may soon be able to tell you when you are most stressed, with the help of a new software that can identify stress from the patterns in your voice. The app called 'StressSense' is first trained to recognise a person's unstressed voice. For that, users must relax and read a 3-minute passage from a book into their phones. The system then compares this recording to its pre-programmed...
04:54 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The corporate employees of Kochi stand third among other cities in the country switching over to ayurvedic treatments to combat high stress levels. A study conducted by the The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) revealed that 72 per cent of the corporate employees are turning to treatments like naturopathy, massage, acupuncture and acupressure. The survey titled, Demand of homeopathic and ayurvedic medicines in metros was...
01:43 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Quito: The mother of Julian Assange, visiting Ecuador on Monday to plea for her son's asylum request, said the WikiLeaks founder is under extreme psychological stress and feels his only option is to seek safety in Ecuador. Assange has been taking refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 19. The former computer hacker, who enraged Washington in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website published secret US diplomatic cables, is...
01:37 AM, Jul 31, 2012
Bangalore: Working mothers perform most of the household chores, but the onus of taking care of the children too falls on the mother, apart from her job responsibilities. Nowadays, stress loads are high for working mothers resulting in frustration, tension and no quality time for themselves. This is the status of working women all over the world and Bangalore that has more than 40 per cent working mothers is no...
04:09 PM, Jul 09, 2012
According to a new Lancet study, India has the highest suicide rate in the world with maximum number of young people on the brink, worse it may soon turn out to be the biggest killer in the country. ...
11:58 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Mother Maiden Mistress documents the journey from a time in which cinema was considered a profession beneath the dignity of 'respectable' women to an era when women actors are icons and idols. Authors Bhawana Somaaya, Jigna Kothari and Supriya Madangarli sift through six decades of history, bringing to life the women that peopled cinema and the popular imagination, and shaped fashion and culture. Here's an extract from the book: The...
01:17 PM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: According to a new Lancet study, India has the highest suicide rates in the world with maximum number of young people on the brink, worse it may soon turn out to be the biggest killer in the country. According to Registrar General of India's first national survey, 2001-03, suicides claim twice as many lives per year as HIV-AIDS and could take over maternal mortality as the biggest killer...
07:59 AM, Jun 23, 2012
London: A "space drink" developed by NASA to protect astronauts from radiation can also reduce wrinkles and reverse the telltale signs of ageing in just four months, say researchers, following a human trial. A team at Utah University has found in its research that the concoction, known as AS10, dramatically reduces wrinkles, blemishes and sun damage after four months. At the start of their trial, the researchers took visia photographs...
04:16 PM, May 27, 2012
'So what do you want to be when you grow up?' I remember how I used to absolutely dread this question since it used ...
12:46 PM, May 19, 2012
MUMBAI: Actress Shabana Azmi said that she doesn't have a problem with item numbers but they should be situational. "I have far less problem with women doing item numbers than them falling on men's feet. Item numbers will continue to happen. It is part of what women do and what they are. Whether it is required on the situation or not that matters," she said during the release of book...
11:49 AM, May 19, 2012
