A 52-year-old PWD executive engineer was left with nine stitches on his head after he and more than 10 other residents of New Town were assaulted when they tried to rescue a woman who was being teased...

In Andhra Pradesh, she spent time with fisher-women who “toil hard from dawn to dusk”. “After collecting fish from a harbour, they bring the catch home to dry it under the sun. They...

South Eastern Railway has introduced a new initiative titled My Saheli to ensure women passengers feel safe while travelling in trains. SER chief public relations officer Sanjay Ghosh said Operation ...

Sir — This year there will be a 35-day gap between Mahalaya and Mahashasthi because, for only the second time in the 21st century, there will be two new moons in Ashwin. This phenomenon — ...

There are benefits to attracting attention for the right reasons. This was evident recently in India’s jump to the 34th position on the global tourism index from a rank of 40 in the year 2017. An as...

An FIR has been registered against a police inspector in Mumbai for 'inaction' in the case of alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman who later died at a hospital, police said on Sunday.The woman, who bel...

A group of women fighting against violence, schoolgirls and artists have set an otherwise quiet wall of La Martiniere for Girls talking. To turn the wall vocal, the group has painted on it a mural tha...

A 14-year-old girl from a village in South 24-Parganas was trafficked to Bihar after being lured by her best friend a year older than her, kept confined for 28 days and assaulted.Both the minor girls ...

Debut novelist Damyanti Biswas is not as concerned about her tag as a writer as she is about the strong purpose behind her writing, which is to make her voice heard about the injustices and violence a...

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