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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Timely resolution of cases, NRI cell in each district — House panel pushes for more powers for NCW

Panel has asked National Commission for Women to draft fresh amendments to 1990 Act and recommended giving the body ‘additional powers to ensure accountability of police towards them’.

‘100 complaints of sexual, verbal & mental harassment’ at Kalakshetra, TN women’s panel to prosecute staffers

Illustrious dance academy a 'toxic place', students tell chairperson of Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women, who has urged them to call off protest, appear for exams.

Tamil Nadu CM Stalin vows action if sexual harassment charges proved in Kalakshetra row

The CM was responding to a resolution put forth by opposition MLAs in the Assembly regarding the sexual harassment case in Kalashetra Foundation. The NCW inquiry has not found any evidence.

Kalakshetra ‘sexual harassment’ row: College closed till 6 April after students protest

Students demand suspension of assistant professor and 3 other senior repertory dancers. After day-long protests, college instructs hostellers to vacate, postpones exams.

‘Sexual harassment’ at Kalakshetra Chennai: NCW to rescind letter to DGP demanding inquiry

NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma says complainant said she only had student-teacher relationship with staffer. In official statement, Kalakshetra Foundation calls charges 'baseless'.

NCW seeks action from Tamil Nadu DGP against Kalakshetra teacher facing sexual harassment charge

Panel takes cognisance of ThePrint’s report about allegations against a senior teacher at the institute of national importance based in Chennai.

BJP’s Khushbu Sundar says she was sexually abused by her father when she was 8

Actor and National Commission for Women member said she was glad to have stood up against her father because ‘had he been in the family, she would not have reached so far.’

‘Highly objectionable’ — NCW chief seeks Punjab CM Channi’s resignation over #MeToo allegations

Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi had allegedly sent an inappropriate message to a woman IAS officer of the Punjab cadre in 2018.

NCW asks Twitter India chief to remove all pornographic, obscene content from platform

National Commission for Women has given a week's time to remove the content. NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma also wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner to investigate the matter.

‘Free Covid vaccine’ manifesto in Bihar and rising cases of ‘love jihad’

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On Camera

Indian shipping sector is vulnerable to geopolitical unrest. Build local, invest in air cargo

With the ongoing conflict at the Red Sea, India needs to take a long-term view of the PLI scheme and its ambition to emerge as a hub of shipping containers.

Complaints to RBI ombudsman up 68% in FY23, banks biggest cause for customer grievances

Data shows large public sector banks received highest number of complaints in absolute terms, but fared better than several private banks when looked at on complaints-per-branch basis.

Tiger Triumph-24 — India-US tri-services exercise to boost coordination begins

The exercise will be simulated to undertake HADR operations in a ‘friendly island nation’, where troops will execute amphibious landing ops.

CAA comes not with a bang, but with a whimper. Without NRC, it will fade into academic debate

For BJP, CAA was strategic move that did not quite work out because those it would benefit could’ve been accommodated under existing laws, and new entrants would remain excluded.