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TopicSexual harassment

Topic: sexual harassment

Who is Deepak Sharma, the Khad FC coach accused of assaulting women players  

Sharma, a suspended executive member of All India Football Federation, has been accused of assaulting 2 women players during a tournament. His wife owns the football club.

In a Haryana college, 9 girls press on with case against prof over ‘lewd’ clip amid ‘staff politics’

Accused of sharing 'pornographic link' to a WhatsApp group, the prof of college in Kaithal is in judicial custody. Girls worry this incident could cause parents to pull them out of college.

1 yr on, Kalakshetra still fractured. ‘Passive aggressive’ jibes, no student on POSH panel

A year after sexual harassment allegations from students against four staffers rocked the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai, the campus is still ‘polarised and politicised’.

Sandeshkhali violence victims meet President Droupadi Murmu, seek intervention in the matter

According to the Memorandum, the Sandeskhali victims urged the President's intervention to safeguard the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe community in Sandeskhali.

‘Distasteful, disturbing’ — Madras HC on details included in report on sexual harassment at Kalakshetra

Court said it was a blight on Chennai’s premier cultural academy that it sat on students’ complaints for long, and called for an overhaul of guru-shishya parampara practised in the college.

West Bengal reimposes Section 144 in violence-hit Sandeshkhali village till 19 February

The section has been reimposed to maintain law and order in view of the agitation by the BJP over allegations of sexual harassment of women in Sandeshkhali block.

IIT-BHU campus has changed for women after student gang rape. Life stays the same for men

Arbitrary rules and theatrics masquerade as safety measures in most higher education institutions. Demands of IIT-BHU Students’ Parliament similarly reeked of securitisation.

Who wrote the letter alleging sexual harassment? Sirsa university’s focus turns on students

A little over a week after Chaudhary Devi Lal University in Haryana was thrown into chaos by an anonymous letter alleging molestation by the Dean, there are no victims and no FIR.

Delhi Police urges court to frame charges against Brij Bhushan in sexual harassment case

Delhi Police had filed chargesheet against BJP MP and former WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh last June. Court to hear matter next on 20 January.

Amending PoSH Act won’t end harassment at workplace. Here’s what needs to be done

The problem in India is not the law. It is the intent of organisations and their leaders who wish to maintain the status quo with regard to the sexual harassment and abuse of women in the workforce.

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.