Month April 2018
Police have been treating Puja Sakat’s death as a suicide and have booked nine persons, on the complaint of her family, on charges of abetting her suicide. Written by Chandan Haygunde | Pune | Puja Sakat. (Express photo by Sandip Daundkar)Members of… Continue Reading →
MRINAL PANDE The avalanche of gross remarks made by NDA ranks against women in recent times even in Parliament, state assemblies and public gathering, reveal a streak of medieval misogyny On the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s departure to… Continue Reading →
Lokniti’s PILs are often taken up with alacrity by the central government. By Indrani Basu NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES Representative image. The public interest litigation (PIL) that led to the contentious central government decision to make it mandatory for millions… Continue Reading →
Deepa Narayan Tragic rape cases have shocked the country. But the everyday suffering of 650 million Indian women and girls goes unnoticed India is at war with its girls and women. The planned rape of eight-year-old Asifa in a temple by several… Continue Reading →
The e-commerce giant distanced itself from a Bollywood star only because she protested the brutal rape of a child. by Sinjini Mukherjee It seems that Amazon’s progressive practices on issues of gender is reserved for women in the US or… Continue Reading →
By Arjun Sidharth A video has been circulated widely on social media, in which a person is seen handcuffed and escorted by policemen. The message along with this video claims that a person called Mohammed Ilyas has been arrested and… Continue Reading →
A Joint Statement April 27, 2018 In the past few weeks, ATMs across India have gone cashless, bringing back nightmares of the cash crunch during demonetisation. Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur and Telangana are some of… Continue Reading →
Mumbai: About 90% of child rape cases were pending trial in India in 2016, no more than 28% of such cases ended in conviction, and there is a 20-year backlog in bringing cases to trial, the latest available national crime data show. These… Continue Reading →
Official efforts to gloss over scandals spark co-ordinated campaigns in universities Protest posters on Monday night at Peking University were quickly removed by authorities but circulated on social media Emily Feng and Yuan Yang in Beijing APRIL 24,… Continue Reading →
Bangalore man fears Muslim men are “taking over our wombs”! By Annie Gowen Ramiz and Lisa, who asked that their last names not be used because of a Facebook threat against Muslim and Hindu couples in India, are an interfaith couple… Continue Reading →