Railway Minister Lalu Prasad has ordered an inquiry into the matter.
The NCW recommends compensation between Rs 2 and Rs 5 lakh.
Marriage registration will curb child marriages, says NCW.
With just 8.4 million jobs in the organised private sector, as compared to 104 million SC/STs in the workforce, the impact can only be marginal.
NCM Chairman S Tarlochan Singh had made the statement while discussing census data pertaining to the Christian community at a recently held seminar in Kochi in Kerala.
The apex court imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the Union women and child development ministry.
The Human Resources Department ministry has cleared Vyas's name and an official announcement is expected soon.
Commissions of inquiry are potentially powerful instruments to fix responsibility on public functionaries, but everything possible has been done to blunt this instrument, says Dr Madhav Godbole, retired Union home secretary.
Some members of the Treasury benches objected to the allegation of Selja who was supported by several Congress members who were on their feet.
'If a person is tortured in custody the flag of civilisation must fly at half mast,' says National Human Rights \nCommission Chairman Justice A S Anand.
She added that the Centre had already reviewed the harassment bill and had consulted them while studying the domestic violence bill.
Under attack from opposition parties, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday decided to recommend a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the gang rape and murder of two Dalit sisters in Badaun.
'The problem is not lack of evidence, but the unholy alliance between political parties and church authorities.' 'If you are raising a voice against the priest, you and your family will suffer.'
Divorce by pronouncing talaq thrice at one go is prohibited in several Islamic nations, including Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the book compiled by NCW member Nafisa Hussain says.
The company will spend Rs 10,141 crore to buy 15.5 per cent stake from minority investors.
The Court of Inquiry formed to probe sexual harassment charges levelled by Gupta against her three superior officers set the process of inquiry in motion in Bangalore on Monday.
They have told the government that all bargirls in the state be rehabilitated before shutting down the bars.
Rediff Labs investigates the issue of child drug abuse in India in an attempt to quantify the seriousness of the issue.
Rubbishing Arun Jaitley's claims that no judge will lend himself to the 'political and malafide' exercise targeting Narendra Modi in the snoopgate row, Law Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said that a judge would be named before May 16 to investigate the case.
The film, which allegedly depicts the sexual escapades of a priest, has been facing a lot of criticism from different Christian groups.
Feeling "hurt" by the Delhi gang rape and other recent incidents of crimes against women, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said a society which cannot provide security and dignity to its women is not worth considering a civilised one.
The incident took place on Monday night in the presence of Kejriwal, a senior official alleged.
Irked over the notice sent to him by the National Commission for Women over his remarks on rape, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday accused the NCW of insulting him.
The National Commission for Women on Friday expressed "amazement" at some teachers in a Kolkata school being barred from taking classes for wearing lipstick.
Changes will be carried out, essentially to "de-saffronise" the books, in the next session, Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
The convict offered to marry the victim on the day the quantum of his sentence was to be decided.
The team, comprising two members of the NCW and two from a non-government organisation, met the victim in her parents' presence.
The term of the previous commission, headed by Mohammed Shamim, had expired on January 24, 2003.
NCW to conduct separate probe into gang-rape.
"It is a brief letter of appeal and she has written that since the commission has been redressing the problems of women, we can understand her suffering."
'We received a letter from her today in which she has complained of being coerced to name innocent persons in the case by Setalvad and her NGO,' Tarlochan Singh said.
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