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Kerala Government all-party meeting called on Thursday to resolve the stand-off over permitting women of menstrual age into the Sabarimala shrine failed to cut any ice amongst political parties in kerala with the Kerala government firm on implementing the Supreme Court order but the Opposition walking out in protest. After the nearly three-hour long meeting, Read More…
In a major setback to tradition seeking Hindus The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay its verdict allowing entry of women of all age groups into the Sabarimala temple but agreed to hear in open court on January 22 a batch of review petitions in the matter. The review petitions against the September 28 Read More…
SC bench led by CJI Gogoi on Tuesday deferred hearing of three fresh writ petitions regarding entry of women of all age groups in Sabarimala temple. SC said writ petitions would be heard after the review petitions are decided either way. So now, three fresh writ petitions will only be heard by a bench comprising Read More…
A case of gangrape has been registered against 15 people including a former MLA, a BJP leader and another RSS pracharak in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh. On November 5, a woman had attempted to immolate herself along with her two daughters in front of UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s residence. The police promptly stopped them from Read More…
Hundreds of frenzied devotees had tried to attack and prevent the 52-year old woman, Lalitha Ravi, from offering prayers at the temple. A 29-year old man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the incident relating to the alleged assault of a woman pilgrim at the Lord Ayyappa Temple in Sabarimala, suspecting her to be Read More…
In a shocking revelation, Kerala’s BJP President PS Sreedharan Pillai has revealed that the Sabarimala agitation ‘was part of BJP’s agenda’ and that ‘it was a golden opportunity for them in the state’. Pillai courted a controversy Monday as TV channels aired a video clip in which he purportedly said that Sabarimala temple chief priest Read More…
A minor was allegedly gang-raped in the ICU of a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly town. The victim, who had been admitted to the hospital after being bitten by some poisonous insect, was on oxygen as she had difficulty in breathing, according to the police sources. The culprits, who were hospital staff, allegedly administered Read More…
In Silicon Valley, women also are becoming fed up with the male-dominated composition of the technology industry’s workforce a glaring imbalance that critics say fosters unsavoury behaviour akin to a college fraternity house. Hundreds of Google engineers and other workers around the world walked off the job Thursday to protest the internet company’s lenient treatment Read More…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined early hearing on petitions seeking review of its September 28 verdict allowing women of all age groups into the Sabarimala temple in Kerala and said they have been already listed for hearing. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices U U Lalit and K M Jospeh was Read More…
Kerala police Thursday detaining over 1000 people in a crackdown on those allegedly involved in the violent protests against entry of women of all ages into the hilltop sabarimala temple In the regard Kerala police had filed cases against 2000 persons and issued a lookout notices against 210 persons. “In a major swoop, we detained Read More…
Kuriakose Kattuthara aged 62 was taken to the hospital but was declared brought dead. Kuriakose had earlier given his statement against the accused bishop to Kerala Police as an independent witness and according to sources privy to information, was getting calls to withdraw his statement. He had also told media persons recently that he was Read More…
Amid ongoing protests, feminist activist Rehana Fathima, reporter Kavitha Jakkal and Woman devotee Mary Sweety tried to enter the Sabarimala temple today, three days after it was opened for women of all ages. As the temple entries are blocked by devotees against the Supreme Court verdict to allow women of menstruating age to enter the Read More…
Sandalwood actress Sruthi Hariharan has accused actor Arjun Sarja of sexual harassment during the shooting of the movie ‘Vismaya’, according to TV reports. This is the first instance in Sandalwood (Karnataka ) where an actress has named the “perpetrator”. Recently, another actress Sangeetha Bhat had levelled allegations against some “top directors” but she refrained Read More…
Punjab Civil Secretariat in Pakistan’s Lahore has denied entry to women without a headscarf or dupatta upon ministerial orders. The diktat was given by Primary and Secondary Healthcare Minister of Punjab, Dr Yasmin Rashid. A Twitter user, Sidra Butt, recorded her experience and shared the video on the micro-blogging site. Sidra captioned the clip with Read More…
Kerala Minister EP Jayarajan on Wednesday blamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) for violence that broke out during the protest as women attempted to trek to the Sabarimala from the base camp. Addressing media, Jayarajan said, “RSS criminals hid in forests and attacked the Ayappa devotees. 10 media personnel, 5 devotees Read More…
Tension was palpable in the southern state since Tuesday, when crucial talks held in the capital Thiruvananthapuram among the tantri (supreme priest of Sabarimala), the erstwhile royal family of Pandalam (considered the custodians of the temple) and Travancore Devaswom Board, or TDB ,(responsible for the administration of the temple), could not reach a solution. On Read More…
President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday accepted MJ Akbar’s resignation as Minister of State in External Affairs a day ahead of the hearing of his criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani at Delhi’s Patiala House court. Kovind accepted the resignation of Akbar from the Union Council of Ministers with immediate effect. Akbar, who was Read More…
Author Anna Burns has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel ‘Milkman’, becoming the first author from Northern Ireland to win the most prestigious English-language literary award. Burns, 56, who was born in Belfast, is the 17th woman to bag the award in its 49-year history and the first woman since 2013. It was Read More…
In a dramatic development that could upset BJP Minister Akbar’s strategy more than a dozen women journalists fused as a force and have urged the court to hear their testimonies against MJ Akbar, claiming many of them suffered sexual harassment by the minister and others have been a witness to it. A group of current Read More…
The Travancore Dewasom Board president, who has earlier made misogynist comments as well, says women’s entry into the temple will also lead to security issues The chief of the board that runs Kerala’s Sabarimala temple has said that allowing women inside will lead to “immoral activities” and turn the place into a “spot for sex Read More…
The body of an aspiring model was found stuffed in a suitcase in Mumbai’s western suburb of Malad on Monday. The woman identified as Mansi Dixit, aged around 20 years, had moved from Kota, Rajasthan, to pursue her modelling dreams. Within hours, the police managed to arrest 19-year-old college student Muzammil Sayyed, a resident of Read More…
Hillary Clinton has said her husband Bill’s affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky was not an abuse of power and he was right to not resign from the US presidency in the wake of the scandal. The two-decades old episode has come under renewed scrutiny in the #MeToo era, with critics questioning whether Read More…
Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs, M. J. Akbar on Monday filed a defamation case in Delhi’s Patiala House Court against Priya Ramani, the journalist who alleged that Akbar sexually harassed her. A statement from Akbar’s lawyers confirmed that the complaint has been filed under sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code. Read More…
Union minister MJ Akbar has said the allegations of sexual harassment against him are “fabricated” and “spiced up”. He said he will take legal actions against the women journalists who have levelled these allegations against him. “The allegations of misconduct made against me are false and fabricated, spiced up by innuendo and malice. I could Read More…
India’s #MeToo chorus is being heard from every corner of the country. The campaign took India with a storm with women naming out men who sexually harassed them. So far 11 allegations have emerged against journalist-turned- politician and BJP Minister MJ Akbar. Akbar’s colleagues, including Smriti Irani and Maneka Gandhi, have acknowledged the online testimonies Read More…
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Madhya Pradesh women wing chief Lata Ketkar said that she does not consider women journalists so “innocent” that they could be misused by anyone. And yes she again she stirred up a controversy in social media against her by her own words This statement comes in the wake of recent allegations Read More…
‘Will form four-member committee of retired judges to conduct public hearings of #MeToo cases,’ Union Minister Maneka Gandhi said. With the #MeToo movement intensifying in the country with every passing day, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday said that four retired judges will hold public hearings of the sexual assault and harassment cases. “Will form Read More…
Kollam Kanjaveli Kuttilazhikathu Thulasidharan Nair is an actor in Malayalam cinema and was speaking in Kerala. Actor Kollam Thulasi who is also a supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made the horrifying remark at an NDA rally that drew blank amongst Social media bloggers Actor Kollam Thulasi made a bizarre statement on Friday saying Read More…
Amid ongoing demand for the resignation of Union Minister MJ Akbar after more than six women journalists accused him of sexually harassing, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday said that the gentlemen concerned would be in a better positioned to speak on this issue. As the MeToo campaign gathered momentum in India, some women journalists Read More…
Trouble mounted for veteran actor Nana Patekar after the Mumbai police on Thursday registered an FIR against him following charges of harassment, indecency and obscenity levelled by model-actress Tanushree Dutta. The incident dates back a decade ago during the shooting of ‘Horn OK Pleasss’, at Filmistan Studios at Goregaon of Mumbai. The FIR was registered Read More…
A group of schoolgirls of kasturba Gandhi Girls School brave hearts resist harassers were beaten up by local villagers for protesting against sexual harassment by local youth in Bihar’s Supaul district, Police said over 40 schoolgirls who were injured in the attack were later admitted to a local hospital for treatment. Earlier this year, cases Read More…
A Vice President of the BJP Yuva Morcha,Vasai has been charged by the Vasai police for allegedly molesting, and stalking a 32 year old woman over a week period been filled FIR on June 2nd 2018 yet to be traced and arrested The accused took advantage that the victim’s husband was working in abroad Read More…
A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two Hindu priests of a temple in Goraghat in Datia district in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on the night of October two. According to the police, the accused, Raju Pandit (55) and Batoli Prajapati (45), lured the victim to the temple with Read More…
The Supreme Court had opened the doors of Sabarimala to women of all ages in a 4-1 judgment on Friday, annulling the centuries-old tradition of the temple to deny the right of worship to women aged between 10 and 50 years. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Wednesday In a statement, the RSS also called upon Read More…
While she was taking a bath in the River Ganga during a religious ritual on Monday, 45-year-old woman was gangraped in Barh police station area in rural Patna district of Bihar , police said on Wednesday. Officials said two men, including the person who captured the crime on video and later shared it on social Read More…
Couple of days after Tanushree Dutta’s allegations of sexual harassment against veteran actor Nana Patekar on Horn OK Pleassss sets resurfaced in her recent interviews, the Cine and TV Artists’ Association (CINTAA) has accepted that the actress had filed a complaint with them in the year 2008, but it wasn’t addressed back then. In an Read More…
A heartwarming photograph of Head Constable Mujeeb-ur-Rehman trying to comfort the crying baby outside the exam centre went viral after it was shared on Twitter by IPS officer Rema Rajeswari. Rahman, who is posted at Moosapet police station, was deployed at the examination centre at the college as part of the security arrangement for the Read More…
Days after Tanushree Dutta alleged that actor Nana Patekar had harassed her 10 years ago on the sets of a film shoot, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday came out in support of the actress saying that harassment of any kind will not be tolerated. “Harassment of any kind will not be tolerated. We were Read More…
A high-power committee meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan discussed various arrangements to be made for women devotees, days after the Supreme Court opened the gate of the temple for women of all age. Chief Secretary Tom Jose, Chief Minister’s Private Secretary M V Jayarajan, Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) member K P Sankardas and Read More…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday appointed Indian-origin Harvard University professor Gita Gopinath as its new chief economist. “International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde appointed Gita Gopinath on Monday as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Research Department,” IMF said in a statement. “Gita is one of the world’s outstanding economists, Read More…
According to reports, the woman alleged that the Major raped her on July 12 when she was cleaning his house. According to reports, the woman alleged that the Major raped her on July 12 when she was cleaning his house. The Delhi Police has registered a First Information Report (FIR) against a serving Army Major Read More…
The picture that triggered women in Sabarimala in 90s is the triggering point of today judgement says Social activists who follow up long battle of women entry in to Sabarimala A usual visit to the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in Kerala by freelance photographer A P Joy began the debate when he took a photo of Read More…
Tamil Nadu actor 42 years old age Gayatri Sai recently went live on Facebook to expose senior journalist Prakash M Swamy, who she claims has been sexually harassing and physically abusing her over the last two years. Sai said she went up to police to file a case but they refused to file an FIR Read More…
The Supreme Court, in a historic verdict on Friday, allowed the entry of women of all ages into the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in Kerala. here come the reactions of various Hindu outfits , political parties and women activists been updated RSS : ‘No normal women devotee will defy the traditions’ BJP leader and former South Read More…
In a recent interview, Tanushree Dutta spoke about the #MeToo movement in Bollywood highlighting her personal experience. After two days of stoic silence, Bollywood woken up and finally came out in support of actor Tanushree Dutta, who has alleged that veteran actor Nana Patekar sexually harassed her during a film shoot 10 years ago. Several Read More…
Actor turned Politician Former Congress MP from Karnataka Divya Spandana, the youth icon of Congress’s social media chief, was booked Tuesday in uttar pradesh Lucknow’s Gomtinagar for a tweet calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “thief”. She was booked under Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code (sedition) and Section 67 of the Information Technology Read More…
Apollo Hospitals has informed the Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission its inability to submit the CCTV footage recorded during the hospitalisation period of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa at its Chennai premises as the footage in the hospital’s server is programmed to be replaced after 30 days to accommodate new files. The inquiry commission Read More…
Closely on the heels of the brutal honour killing in Miryalaguda, where the father hired paid killers and killed his son in law again a father today attacked and injured his daughter and son-in-law in a broad daylight on Erragadda Road in Hyderabad. While the condition of the girl is critical, the boy is recovering. Read More…
The curse of honour killing in the name of caste claimed another life on Friday when a Dalit man was hacked to death in broad daylight in front of his seven-month pregnant wife and his mother, at Miryalaguda in Nalgonda district on Friday. The victim, P. Pranay Kumar, 24, had married Amrutha Varshini about six Read More…
Haryana Police chief BS Sandhu on Saturday said that the main accused who gangraped a 20-year-old woman from Rewari at Kanina in Mahendragarh district is a soldier posted in Rajasthan. “A police team has been sent to arrest him. We are getting a warrant against him. The other two accused will also be arrested soon,” Read More…