Jadavpur University will engage mental health professionals to talk to the family of the student who has been forced to leave home because of domestic violence.The student has been staying in the univ...

The Centre on Monday extended the lives of 195 centres researching social exclusion and discrimination by one more year, yielding to protests weeks before the general election.This was a fallout of th...

Police have submitted a chargesheet against cricketer Mohammad Shami, slapping him with section 498A of the Indian Penal Code that deals with physical and mental torture by husband or his relatives.If...

A young engineering graduate from Kerala has arranged a second marriage for his divorced mother who he says had walked out on her first husband years ago because of domestic violence.Kollam resident G...

An 81-year-old farmer in Nadia was allegedly beaten up by his wife, son and daughter-in-law and thrown out of his home after he did not agree to make a gift deed to hand over his two-storied house in ...

A number of women who have faced violence at home are reaching out to women in their neighbourhoods and making them aware of their rights through plays. The theatre group has performed in the city’s...

Seemingly innocuous practices often have a nasty way of snowballing into serious — criminal — misdemeanour. This is what appeared to have happened a few days ago when it was revealed that the all-...

Parents confined in homes and bickering over uncertainty in their workplaces is affecting children, the state child rights watchdog has said.The state commission for protection of child rights has ask...

Senior citizens living alone are soft targets for various kinds of violence. A series of murders of elderly people across Calcutta has raised, once again, questions about the unsafe existence of this ...

My 11-year-old comes back home from school and announces that her class is studying the status of women in the late Vedic age in history. I ask her what she has learnt. She answers that the status of ...