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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicWomen's rights

Topic: Women's rights

Modi govt’s triple talaq bill places burden on Muslim women to prove the offence

Apurva Vishwanath -
Government’s tokenism will only end up causing more trouble while leaving out glaring violation of women’s rights.

Even after #MeToo, powerful men like Ali Zafar will always win in Pakistan

Mahwash Ajaz -
Stringent action against sexual harassment is a tall ask in Pakistan where even a woman stabbed 23 times doesn't get justice.

India not only doesn’t want to scrap Victorian adultery law, it wants women included too

Apurva Vishwanath -
The adultery law does not exclude women to supposedly 'protect' them, but to deny them an equal right in a marriage.

Lawyers argued women are untouchables at Sabarimala, because Constitution left term vague

Vineeth Krishna -
Constituent Assembly did not restrict scope of Article 17 to caste-based untouchability. Lawyers in Sabarimala cas e invoked it to argue ‘gender untouchability’.

Women have constitutional right to enter Sabarimala temple: Supreme Court

PTI -
Women cannot be discriminated against with regard to offering prayer in a temple, observed the apex court.

BJP supporters had praised the Reuters poll on women’s safety when Congress was in power

Yashasvini Mathur -
The same survey had ranked India the fourth worst country for women’s safety in 2011 and BJP supporters had used it attack the UPA government.

Is India really the most dangerous place for women?

Divya Narayanan -
Experts caution against study by Thomson Reuters Foundation, call it a 'superficial survey', say systematic studies would be better.

Asma Jahangir’s funeral terrified Pakistan’s right wing because it shows their failings

Ammar Rashid -
Some hardliners claimed that the mixed-gender gathering at the human rights lawyer's funeral was an affront to Islam.

Don’t be a rape apologist. Marital rape is rape

Trisha Shetty -
The definition of rape in India is still looked at through the lens of a woman’s marital status. If you oppose criminalising marital rape, you are a rape apologist.

Even when Indian companies provide period leave, there are few takers

Makepeace Sitlhou -
Consensus still divided over menstrual leave; even 4 organisations which introduced this have received lukewarm response from their employees.
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India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

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

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

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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