Tag: Sexual harassment
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Heed Maneka’s call
It is not every day that we find cause for such solid endorsement of a minister’s statement: yet it would be both misogynistic and out of sync with prevailing thinking not to go along with the call for the law ministry to scrap the existing “time-barred” rule that militates against women coming out of the …
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October 10, 2018 -
MeToo blog launched by European Parliament workers
"We refuse to get used to sexual harassment and categorically rebut the normalization of abuse of power," the movement said on its blog.
October 9, 2018 -
What lies between the pages
Nobody should be surprised by the idea that sexual harassment exists in the literary world any more than they should be surprised by the fact that it amasses a huge amount of money and power, and is peopled by those who will do anything they can to remain its gatekeepers.
September 9, 2018 -
Auto roadmap
There is a certain heart-rending dimension to the long-delayed blueprint for auto-rickshaw operators in Kolkata, the Durgapur-Asansol region, and the Siliguri-Jalpaiguri belt. The revamped mode of operation, scheduled to come into force from September 1, has been formulated by West Bengal’s transport department after a baby was recently thrown off its mother’s arms onto the …
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August 31, 2018 -
Telangana MP Srinivas’s son arrested for sexual harassment
Telangana Police on Sunday arrested Rajya Sabha MP D. Srinivas' son D. Sanjay on charges of sexually harassing students of his college.
August 12, 2018 -
Madhya Pradesh: Head of training centre hostel arrested for rape, sexual harassment
The victim from Dhar alleged that the accused raped her many times while she was staying at the hostel for nearly a year to train in stitching and embroidery.
August 10, 2018 -
UP: Dalit woman, mother attacked for opposing sexual harassment
A 21-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly sexually harassed and her mother was attacked by a youth for opposing him at Bhokaheri village in the district, police said here on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday when both the women had gone for collecting water from a hand-pump in the village under Bhopa police station, …
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June 27, 2018 -
Women Commission: It’s harassment but not sexual
The Haryana State Commission for Women on Wednesday said the case of sexual harassment against a senior IAS officer appear to be work-related harassment than sexual. After hearing the additional chief secretary (animal husbandry), Sunil Gulati’s defense of the allegations against him leveled by his junior IAS officer, the chairperson of the Haryana State Commission …
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June 14, 2018 -
Women Commission takes notice, officer denies charge
Even as the Haryana State Commission for Women has taken suo motu notice of sexual harassment allegations against a senior IAS officer, the latter on Monday denied the charges made by a junior female IAS officer. On the basis of media reports about allegations of sexual harassment made by the 28-year-old IAS officer against her …
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June 11, 2018 -
Haryana IAS officer alleges sexual harassment by senior
A 2014 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, working in a Haryana government department, on Sunday accused another senior additional chief secretary rank IAS officer of sexually harassing her for finding faults in official files cleared by other officials. In a post on Facebook, the 28-year-old IAS alleged that the senior officer first called her …
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June 11, 2018 -
Sexual harassment row: Finish probe by June, Maneka Gandhi directs Air India
The move comes after the air hostess met the Union Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi in New Delhi on Monday.
June 4, 2018 -
School heads to face action for delay in sexual harassment incidents
Taking cognizance of incidents where school authorities delay or shield accused in sexual harassment cases involving students, the Himachal Pradesh government has issued strict directions to all educational institutions to ensure timely action. Officials said it has been observed that there has been an increase in the number of cases of sexual harassment and sexual …
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May 26, 2018 -
Make the right moves
The #METOO movement has added an entirely new layer of nuance to dating but has the movement’s stratospheric sociopolitical rise also inadvertently fostered a culture of fear in the dating scene?
May 6, 2018 -
The woman who began #METOO
Moira Donegan readily admits that she didn’t know what was coming last fall when she briefly posted a crowd-sourced document identifying dozens of men in the publishing industry who reportedly had sexually harassed or assaulted women.
May 5, 2018 -
Sexual harassment allegations against professor: Delhi HC pulls up JNU admn for inaction
Justice Rajiv Shakdher also issued notice to the professor on the students' petition seeking restriction on his entry into the varsity campus and provision of a safe working environment.
April 26, 2018 -
Sambalpur varsity final year student allege of being sexually harassed by non-teaching staff
A final year girl student of Home Science department in Sambalpur University has alleged sexual harassment by a non teaching staff of the examination control cell. “The concerned staff works in a contractual service basis, but because he holds a post in a crucial department of the examination control cell in the university, he has …
April 12, 2018 -
Attack on women scribes: SHO booked, sent to lines
Delhi Police on Monday registered an FIR against the station house officer of Delhi Cantt accused of molesting a woman journalist on 24 March. The SHO was sent to the lines, police said. A case under section 354 A (making sexually coloured remarks, shall be guilty of the offence of sexual harassment) of Indian Penal …
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March 27, 2018