Besides FIRs, the petition also seeks a direction to the National Commission for Women to give security and assistance to women who have come out in the open with their allegations.
The presidential dreams that the veteran leader from Delaware had harboured since childhood seemed all but over for a third time until he won South Carolina's Democratic Party primary on February 29 last year, forcing most rivals out of the race and making one of the most dramatic comebacks in American political history.
What perhaps turned the tide against Uber was the plight of the consumer.
A woman alleged multiple instances of sexual, mental and emotional abuse by Sajid Khan where he allegedly forced her to send him photos of herself in a bikini, called her late into the night under the pretence of work.
The DCW chief had been demanding death penalty for rape of minors and setting up of fast-track courts across the country to try rape cases, along with other demands.
The judges described the convict as a 'menace to society' and said rising crime against women should be tackled on all fronts.
Ukraine alleges that Russian soldiers killed scores of civilians during its fight for and occupation of the Ukrainian town of Bucha and other cities and towns.
Harvey Weinstein's indictment is important because it sends out the message that a sexual predator can be brought to justice even if the crime occurred years ago, when the victim did not have the courage or the agency to speak out, notes Shuma Raha.
The suit claims Uber sacrificed customer safety for the sake of profit and expansion.
The nuns -- Alphy, Anupama, Josephine and Ancitta -- were served notice by the superior general of the congregation, Regina Kadamthottu, urging them to take up their assigned responsibilities as befitting members of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation.
So what's up? Why are so many promoters heading for the door? It cannot be that all of them lost their appetite for a good fight at the same time.And if Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways and Subhash Chandra of Zee Entertainment do bow out, will it be seen as chickening out when the going got tough or the entrepreneurial instinct of surviving to fight another battle waned, wonders Shailesh Dobhal.
Facebook's reaction to Barkha Dutt's child abuse proves we know absolutely nothing about rape.
She was kidnapped by child traffickers when she was 14. Today, this 17 year old wants to become a lawyer so that she can help the survivors of such henious acts.
Harris opened her vice-presidential acceptance speech on Wednesday night at the virtual Democratic National Convention by remembering her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, lamenting the fact that she could not be there to see her daughter's achievement.
Nuns doubt Bishop Franco still wields power in the diocese.
She was 86 and passed away on Friday night at her residence in Noida.
Saying that protection of "mothers and sisters" was a big issue before the Indian society, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said here that if women were feeling insecure, the Indian men had no right to call themselves "mard" (manly).
Saying that protection of "mothers and sisters" was a big issue before the Indian society, Gujarat Chief Minister on Friday said here that if women were feeling insecure, the Indian men had no right to call themselves "mard" (manly).
The 54-year old Mulakkal was arrested by Kerala police after intense interrogation in Kochi over the last three days.
A Delhi court on Monday awarded the maximum punishment of life sentence to five convicts in the sensational 2010 Dhaula Kuan gang-rape case in which a BPO executive from the north-east was the victim.
A petition filed by Swapnil Tripathi, a final year student studying at the National Law University, Jodhpur, prompted the Supreme Court to allow live streaming of the opaque proceedings within.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, however, termed the autopsy report of the 17-year-old girl, who was the sister of a BJP activist, a 'cover-up' and reiterated its demand for an impartial probe into the incident. The ruling Trinamool Congress accused the BJP of trying to 'make an issue out of a non-issue'.
Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, who was found dead on Anjuna beach six years ago, has accused the erstwhile Congress government of "hushing up" the case and demanded speedy justice for her daughter.
When running with the bulls, injuries are a given and this year was no different. While some question if the centuries-old tradition should continue, with many raising objections about the cruelty to the bulls, the practice, regardless of all the danger and controversy continues to be a crowd-puller of epic proportions. Here are some glimpses from the festival.
When he thinks no one is looking, the misogyny of a sham feminist man can be as red in tooth and claw as that of the neanderthal neighbour who beats up his wife. Only, it seems doubly unsettling because it comes from someone we trusted, says Shuma Raha.
Third time lucky is an apt phrase to describe the remarkable rise of Joe Biden, a veteran in US politics for around five decades, from being one of the youngest senators in history to the oldest American president-to-be.
The Pune techie didn't escape strangulation. But she was brave woman. She fought back. She said NO.
'Now with many itchy-fingered ex-bosses being raked through the mud, their marriages ruined, their careers trashed, their finances hit, the inclination of many male hiring managers will be to hire fewer women,' believes Rajeev Srinivasan.
Sandeep Pandey salutes women who have contributed to social transformation in India after 1980.
They say that cinema is a reflection of society. If that is true, what kind of society are we living in, asks Paloma Sharma.
'When a criminal assumes a new identity he think everybody knows them by that name only.' 'Criminals forget that the police are always hunting for them to put them in jail.'
While we wait for Batra's latest to drop on Amazon Prime Video on February 11, Sukanya Verma looks at how Bollywood has dealt with affairs of the heart over the years.
'I wish I could tell you that what you had to experience is limited to a few people and a few places in my beautiful country; it is not.' A Mango Indian on the stark ugliness that coexists with immense beauty in India
'He was once a hero. He was the poster boy of investigative journalism.' 'Then suddenly, because the TRPs of his channel were down, his boss decides to sack him.'
'The threat to our pre-schoolers from the worst of Bollywood is far greater than the threat to Sanskrit from German.'
'Why doesn't the prime minister wake up to these social issues?' 'This government is basically saying rape is all right.'
'India is my country and we will raise our voice against anybody who harms the interests of Adivasis, be it the state government or the Maoists.'
The report mentioned the Central Bureau of Investigation raid on NDTV, exit of Bobby Ghosh as the editor of Hindustan Times and arrest of cartoonist G Bala.
'Silencing citizens has become a major institutional process under this regime.' 'The anti-Indian argument is a bogey -- meant to silence independent thinking people in India and turn us into goats and sheep.'
The horrific sexual assault and burning alive of a young veterinary doctor has shocked the nation. A Woman in Today's India reacts to the unspeakable crime that should shame every Indian.
