New indian express [ Updated 05 Dec 2013, 23:46:36 ] PRINT FONT SIZE Bhubaneswar: In a bid to protect women from being branded witch through the prevailing hunting and other similar practices, the Assembly today unanimously passed the Odisha Prevention of Witch-Hunting… Continue Reading →
The Indian Express So that she can speak Ania Loomba The recent incident of sexual harassment at Tehelka has underlined the urgent necessity for implementing the Vishaka judgment and the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and… Continue Reading →
“If the death penalty has to be awarded for a 19-year old, poor, illiterate and socially backward boy for committing gangrape, what should the corresponding punishment be for a father figure and the highest authority in the organisation, for finger… Continue Reading →
Asha Kowtal I was not yet in my first standard of school when the strategies of the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) (earlier known as Special Component Plan for Scheduled Castes) were put into force. Way back in… Continue Reading →
Week after SC’s damages award, IMA wants doctors out of consumer law’s ambit Express news service Posted online: Fri Nov 01 2013, New Delhi : A week after the Supreme Court awarded a landmark compensation of Rs… Continue Reading →
Frontline : November 15, 2013 G. Moorthy Visually challenged persons working in the BPO set up on the Indian Association for Blind premises in Madurai. Indian courts have shown that they are ready for progressive interpretations of the law on the… Continue Reading →
Priyanka Chaturvedi Tuesday, 22 October 2013 18:49 In 1989, Rajiv Gandhi government brought the Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to prevent atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The Act was passed because the normal provisions… Continue Reading →
Syed Khalique Ahmed : Ahmedabad, Wed Oct 16 2013, IE The Gujarat government has ordered an inquiry into the mass conversion of Dalits to Buddhism at Dungarpur village in Junagadh district on Sunday. Junagadh district collector Alok Pandey told The Indian… Continue Reading →
THE TIMES OF INDIA Deeptiman Tiwary, TNN | Oct 16, 2013 NEW DELHI: The recent acquittal of all accused in the Laxmanpur Bathe massacre case is not an isolated example of justice denied to dalits. In terms of conviction rate in cases… Continue Reading →
PRABHA SRIDEVAN Contrary to the perception that she is vengeful and abuses the law, all she wants is a life of dignity Is there an Ordinary Woman? We need an image of her, if we have to negotiate a space… Continue Reading →
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