Police registered 349,355 cases of domestic violence from January to May 2023, compared with 231,244 over the same period in 2022 and 190,277 in the first five months of 2021.
10-yr-old rescued from employers’ house with swollen eyes & wounds is one of many victims of child labour & abuse. Parents say don't want money, were told she'd 'have a good life'.
India recorded 22.8 lakh crimes against women between 2016 to 2021, of which about 7 lakh, or 30 per cent, were under Section 498A of IPC, says MoSPI report, released this month.
Mandeep Kaur married Ranjodhbir Singh Sandhu in India in 2015. Last month, she hanged herself at her US home after posting a video about her husband's alleged domestic abuse.
The worker, a native of Mangaldoi, said she was tortured between March 2021 and February this year at IPS officer’s Panchkula residence. She is under treatment at Safdarjung Hospital.
With the #HothurEmpowers initiative, Hothur Foundation aims to not just help the abused, but educate people & children at the grassroots level, provide them employment & mentor them psychologically.
Chingari Adalat set up in UP's Banda in 2019 is teaching women to challenge societal norms that tell them to "adjust" to suffering, and giving them the voice to demand justice.
New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic significantly altered people's lives and most significantly family dynamics. The nationwide lockdown, imposed in March last year, was especially difficult...
Abdul Rashid Shora wrote to J&K Police DGP asking for security cover, but Shehla Rashid says it was his way of responding to a restraining order from a court.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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