'If there is anyone who is a victim of vendetta politics, it is me.'
A Delhi court on Tuesday issued death warrants against all the four convicts in the gang rape-murder case. Pawan Jallad is said to be considered for the job, though he is yet to receive an official order.
"I am Dawood Ibrahim that is why I am being hounded," St Stephen's college principal Valson Thampu on Thursday said, expressing anguish over the "way" he is being "attacked" in connection with a research scholar's sexual harassment case.
The term, 'pro-Pakistani', is helpful for the BJP to depict its opponents as anti-nationals while the sedition law is handy for locking up or harassing the government's critics, points out Amulya Ganguli.
The HRD ministry on Friday asked St Stephen's college to expedite its probe into the sexual harassment complaint filed by a PhD student.
News agency Reuters talked to women in New Delhi to learn about how they are coping with the menace of sexual harassment.
'She said she could have taken so much energy from her father had she got a chance to meet him before his death.'
Wilful non-compliance of such mandatory features could attract imprisonment of up to a year or a fine that could go up to Rs five lakh or both.
'#metoo has put front and centre an issue that society has suppressed for far too long,' says Kanika Datta.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya over the suicide by a Dalit scholar saying the ministers and the vice chancellor have "not acted fairly" that forced him to take the extreme step.
'Soli steadfastly believed in Voltaire's famous dictum that he would disagree violently with anyone but defend to death that person's right to disagree with him.'
United States President Joe Biden has nominated Indian-American lawyer and rights activist Kiran Ahuja to head the Office of Personnel Management, a federal agency that manages America's more than two million civil servants.
A 13-year-old girl committed suicide after being allegedly eve teased by some youths in West Bengal's Burdwan district, police said on Tuesday.
Here's a look at what exactly happened at the institute and the developments that have taken place so far.
The hounding of former AMU students by some alumni over their 'wining and dining' during Ramzan is deeply disturbing, says AMU Professor Mohammad Sajjad. 'Intolerance, irrationality, bigotry, religious/sectarian hatred, and all such pernicious tendencies must be fought and resisted, more particularly by university campuses, in order to build a better society.' 'Have we, as academics, failed, and that too, quite miserably?' he asks. 'I feel like confessing and saying yes, we have indeed failed.'
General Asad Durrani's disclosures could leave considerable egg on the face of those currently wielding the stick in Pakistan, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
The Gurugram Police detained and questioned Harpal Singh, a gardener at the Ryan International School.
'One does not understand why you should launch your attack against the Constitution, against Gandhiji, against the Left and Congress regimes at a moment when the Hindutva regime needs such attacks against them.' 'By doing so, don't you think you are playing into the hands of Hindutva forces?', Mohammad Sajjad, who teaches history at Aligarh Muslim University, asks Sharjeel Imam who was arrested on charges of sedition on Tuesday, January 28.
The NHRC issued notice to the Union ministries of home and human resource development seeking a report over the reported ill-treatment of Kashmiri people in the aftermath of the attack.
The Congress unit described Ramesh's suicide an outcome of "targeted harassment" of their rank and cadre to keep them away from the party.
DMK blamed the Centre and state government for 'not taking appropriate, timely steps' to ensure conduct of the event and announced a state-wide stir.
The new allegations take the total number of his accusers to 12.
Bringing the curtains down on the four-month-long unrest at Jadavpur University, Vice-Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti on Monday agreed to step down from the post following the intervention of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Tadvi's roommate and friend Snehal in her statement to the police, which is part of the chargesheet, has said Ahuja, Meher and Khandelwal used to harass and ill-treat them in front of other juniors, hospital staff and patients.
The Chandigarh government is trying to ensure that students from the north-east are not discriminated against.
In booty shorts and carrying placard reading "It's a dress, not a yes" and "Our body, our choices" thousands of women will launch 'SlutWalk', a parade to protest against sexual harassment in India's 'rape capital' -- New Delhi.
'Publicity looks good, but the reality is different... all sections are feeling harassed'
The Trump administration cited too many lawsuits and legal loopholes in the Obama-era regulation, which required public schools to allow students to use the bathrooms corresponding to their gender identities, as one of the reasons for its roll back.
'In Bollywood, the power is disproportionately in the hands of a few men, whether they are actors or producers or directors.' 'The woman who makes an allegation against them can forget working in the industry again.'
According to a new study, some people use sexting as foreplay for sexual behaviours, later on, some sext for the relationship reassurance they receive from their partner.
In the Shahid Kapoor starrer Kabir Singh, a remake of Telugu superhit Arjun Reddy, a medical student's drinking problem encourages toxic behaviour and romantic distress.
Parliamentarian from the northeast on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in wake of the outrage over death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh in New Delhi, an incident which the latter described as condemnable.
On April 15, 2013, the convicts had shoved objects in the victim's private parts and leaving her in a house believing she was dead. The child was rescued 40 hours later on April 17 and had to undergo multiple surgeries at All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Delhi.
Governing council to meet on Friday to decide his fate afresh
While the clouds of controversies surrounding St Stephen's college continue to darken, principal Valson Thampu says no other institution in the world has been subjected to such "harassment" but it is strong enough to withstand 1000 other controversies.
The indefinite economic blockade by United Naga Council since November 1, 2016 in Manipur against the state government's decision for creation of seven new districts has severely hit supply of essential commodities, including fuel.
Rohith Vemula's suicide exposes all of us as a nation, argues Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Marking an end to his tenure as St Stephen's principal, the college will on Sunday bid farewell to Valson Thampu who referred to himself as "controversy's child".
The court also directed that police officers, who were earlier appointed as nodal officers to deal with incidents of mob lynching, would be now responsible to deal with cases of alleged assault on Kashmiris.
There have been other several instances where women have stood up and taken on eve teasers and molesters. Rediff.com lists a few such cases where the victims have fiercely fought back.
