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TopicDomestic help abuse

Topic: domestic help abuse

Rs 2.5 lakh ‘settlement’, but nightmares persist — how ‘tortured’ Assam worker ‘moved on’

After alleging she was beaten and confined in a Haryana IPS officer’s house last year, Assam domestic worker accepted a 'settlement' to ‘move on’, her parents claim.

‘Choked, burnt with tongs’: Horrific story of 14-yr-old help rescued from Gurugram couple’s home

The couple who allegedly assaulted her were arrested under sections of IPC and POCSO. NGO says trafficking of minors, especially from Jharkhand, is common in the NCR region.

‘Want to study’ — Jharkhand tribal woman who was ‘kicked, tortured, choked’ by BJP woman leader

For 3 years, Sunita Xaxa was tortured, allegedly at the hands of suspended BJP leader Seema Patra, at whose Ranchi home she worked as a domestic help. Patra was arrested Wednesday.

BJP’s ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ J’khand ex-chief arrested for ‘hitting maid, breaking teeth’

Matter came to light after politician Seema Patra’s son asked a friend to help the 29-year-old tribal.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

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.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

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.