Uddhab Bharali, a leading innovator and Padma Shri recipient from Assam, was on Friday remanded in 14 days’ judicial custody for alleged sexual harassment of a minor girl under his foster care. ...

The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday called for a Supreme Court-ordered probe into the online harassment of women journalists and urged the government to take urgent steps to dismantle the “mis...

A Padma awardee of Assam, accused of sexually abusing a minor girl he was fostering, has obtained an interim anticipatory bail from Gauhati High Court to evade arrest after a case was registered again...

JNU has modified the language of its public invitation for counselling on sexual harassment to remove the sentence “girls are supposed to know how to draw a tangible line between them and their ...

National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma has sought the withdrawal of a “misogynist” circular issued by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) that says girls are “sup...

“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 ...

Facing charges of harassment of a female Anesthesia Technician, Dr UN Verma has been removed from the post of Head of the Department of Anesthesia of Sahid Nirmal Mahto Memorial Medical College and Ho...

Bangle seller Taslim Ali, who was assaulted in Madhya Pradesh by a group that accused him of using a fake name and later arrested on the charge of sexual harassment, has got bail after spending three ...

Power hides behind virtuous guises. The recent remarks of a Supreme Court bench headed by the judge, D.Y. Chandrachud, laid bare this aspect of power with regard to an appeal in a case of sexual haras...

A man has been arrested for allegedly misbehaving with a woman co-passenger in an autorickshaw.  The incident happened at Behala in southwest Kolkata on Sunday night when the woman, 21, was retu...