A woman was severely injured and her 11-year-old son received minor injuries when her former employee allegedly stabbed them with a kitchen knife in her restaurant-cum-bar at Singtam, about 28km from ...

Senior TMC MP Saugata Roy stirred a hornets' nest on Thursday by saying that not a single incident of violence against women should occur in a state helmed by a woman chief minister and there shou...

Domestic violence is not only physical abuse but can be economic or emotional and that needs to be recognised, a women’s rights organisation said in a campaign launched on Wednesday. The campai...

Crimes against women continue to be a major concern in India. According to the report, Prison Statistics India: 2020, among close to 90,000 prisoners serving time for committing offences, about 1...

A woman should be able to recognise “micro aggressions” in a relationship and not sacrifice her individuality Being in love does not give the man the freedom to violate a woman What a ...

Nearly 31,000 complaints of crimes against women were received by the National Commission for Women (NCW) last year, the highest since 2014, with over half of them from Uttar Pradesh. There was a 30 ...

“No man is born misogynist. It is the socialisation process that teaches men to discriminate. We are not against men but against patriarchy. Patriarchy puts pressure on men, too, to behave in a ...

A man has been arrested in south Kolkata for allegedly sending lewd messages and making threat calls to an actress over the past few weeks. The woman had filed a complaint with Kolkata police. Based ...

A 70-year-old woman has lodged a complaint of assault against her tenants and alleged that they have thrown garbage in front of her Netajinagar home on the southern fringes of Kolkata and then alleged...

A 20-year-old homemaker committed suicide in her Tollygunge home on the southern fringes of Kolkata on Wednesday. During her inquest on Thursday, police found her ‘suicide note’ scri...