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...

An app cab driver has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman scooterist and her friend who tried to protest against the driver’s alleged reckless driving. The incident happened around 8...

AISECT will reach out in seven remote locations of Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the issue of safety of women, alleging that women are unsafe in the state. Her attack came after media r...

Social bonding makes life easier, but this perfectly natural association is far from democratic. In fact, according to a study by a World Bank economist, a large number of Indian women are deprived of...

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...

A man has been arrested in Canning, in South 24-Parganas district, for allegedly assaulting an elderly woman and robbing her Tallah home in north Kolkata on Diwali night when she was alone.  Pol...

When the male teacher had warned her a day before the school reopening, “I told him my clothing was my choice and I was entitled to wear anything in school as long as it was decent,” Lisa,...

One of the two Indian Union Muslim League student leaders accused by women colleagues of harassment and misogyny has been named in the chargesheet. Kerala police have not explained why they have only...

Tribal jewellery made by adivasi women of Jharkhand will now be sold under the brand name Adiva to be sold via Palash marts, a chain of stores run by the Jharkhand S...