Imphal, March 8 (IANS) Manipur legislators and government have been failing to take effective measures against the increasing crimes against women, said a network of social organisations on the occasion of International Women’s Day. “During…
Kannur (Kerala) March 8 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday allowed the CBI three days of custodial interrogation of CPI-M politician P. Jayarajan who is an accused in the murder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)…
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sought an early passage of the long-awaited bill that seeks to reserve a third of legislative seats…
Jammu, March 8 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir’s criminal investigation department (CID) late Monday evening registered a first information report (FIR) against a journalist for posting inflammatory content on his Facebook social networking account. Sources in…
By Rajat Gupta Comments on women’s physical shape appear to be proliferating on social media as body-shaming is becoming common, especially among bullies who derive sadistic pleasure out of calling names whether one is heavy…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 8 (IANS) Malayalam movie artistes are currently caught in a ‘catch 22’ situation as two senior members of their Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) are most likely to take on each other…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Offering the fairer sex more reasons to cheer this International Women’s Day, online pharmacy BigChemist.com, an omnichannel market place for medicines and healthcare products is offering up to 50 percent…
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) At least two people were killed and as many injured in crude bomb explosion in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Tuesday, police said. The explosion occurred in Bharatpur area in the…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sought an early passage to the bill that seeks to reserve a third of legislative seats in India for women. Sonia Gandhi said that…
Bombay Stock Exchange. (File Photo: IANS) Mumbai, March 8 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading flat at 28.61 points, or 0.12 percent, higher during the afternoon…
Chennai, March 8 (IANS) Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts serving life term for her role in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was granted one-day parole on Tuesday by the Madras High…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) A major change taking place in India’s financial system is the greater responsiveness of the formal banking sector to the articulated needs of the population, the government said on Tuesday….
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Though socially advanced with high literacy rates, the northeastern states of Nagaland and Mizoram have an unenviable record of women’s representation in their legislatures, people in the know said on…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, March 8 (IANS) It is not always that you have royal secrets laid out before you attracting greedy, and hungry, looks. And when you dig into this royal plate, you have…
Panaji, March 8 (IANS) A BJP-backed panel on Tuesday failed to win the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), the municipal corporation here, which Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has represented as legislator five times…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the government was withdrawing one of the much-resisted budget proposals to partially tax withdrawals from the employees’ provident fund accounts. “A number of…
Jammu, March 8 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir’s criminal investigation department (CID) late Tuesday evening registered an FIR against a journalist for posting inflammatory content on his Facebook social networking account. Sources in the state police…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Ensuring women’s safety in public places will go a long way in giving them equal space in the decision making process, say women MPs cutting across party lines as Prime…
Lucknow, March 8 (IANS) A Class 11 student was set on fire by family members of her harasser in Aligarh, police said on Tuesday. The severely burnt girl, who was set on fire late Monday,…
By Rohini Pande, Charity Troyer Moore and Jennifer Johnson While marginally more women work in India than in Pakistan (27 percent and 25 percent, respectively), Pakistans female labour-force participation rate is growing and Indias is…