Women Safety
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Explained: 10 years after Delhi gang rape, how women still fear for their safety
•A decade after the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a Delhi bus, many women are still afraid to travel at night in India's capital, a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people
Jharkhand horror: Need to create safe environment for women, says Rahul Gandhi on Dumka girl burnt to death
•The Jharkhand government on Monday handed over a compensation of Rs 9 lakh to the next of kin of the girl
TMC targets govt over issue of women safety citing rape allegation against Gujarat BJP MLA
•The TMC, in its official Twitter handle, too raised the issue of women safety referring to the same allegations
Civic agencies to light up more than 1,000 dark spots in Delhi to strengthen women safety efforts
•A web portal and mobile application to monitor the functioning of the lights and keep them in working condition by prompt maintenance will also be launched
'Call It Out': Network18 and Truecaller to host event on women’s online safety today
Fp Staff •The event which is being held at the Oberoi Hotel will be addressing issues pertaining to online safety and security in today’s digital world and take into account the steps taken toward making the online space safer for women and building a safe environment for them
Network18 joins hands with Truecaller to spread awareness about harassment of women through #ItsNotOK Campaign
Fp Staff •The key focus of the campaign will be on what women can do at an individual capacity and what our society can do collectively to curtail harassment of women. As per a Truecaller Survey, 1 in every 3 women receives sexually inappropriate calls or messages and 8 out of 10 women receive harassment & nuisance calls in India
Fast-track courts for rape cases only solution for justice, says ex-J&K women commission chief as sexual crimes rise in Kashmir
Bisma Bhat •Vasundhara Pathak Masoodi says she continues to receive complaints from distressed women even a year after the J&K State Women Commission was abolished by the governnment
BJP activist's wife gang-raped in West Bengal's Patulia; FIR filed against unidentified men, but party blames TMC for incident
Fp Staff •Amar Banerjee, husband of the 40-year-old survivor and the BJP activist, lodged an FIR at the Khardah Police Station.
Woman thrashes banker in Karnataka for demanding sexual favours in exchange for loan; firm sacks employee
•The video from Karnataka has gone viral, the woman can be seen dragging the manager by the collar and then beating him up with a stick and slippers.
Woman thrashed, gang-raped by four men in Haryana's Ballabgarh; police to interrogate suspects
•According to Haryana Police an FIR has been registered and have launched a manhunt to nab the culprits