Collective efforts needed to prevent harassment of women: DLSA Secretary

Collective efforts needed to prevent harassment of women: DLSA Secretary

District Legal Services Authority Secretary K. Ratna Prasadu addressing the awareness session on prevention of harassment against women in Eluru, on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: HANDOUT District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Secretary K. Ratna Prasadu called for collective efforts to prevent harassment of women in society. He said that despite educational progress in modern times, … Read more

Kerala High Court allows bail plea of Boby Chemmanur in sexual harassment case

Kerala High Court allows bail plea of Boby Chemmanur in sexual harassment case

Businessman Boby Chemmanur. File Photo: R.K.Nithin The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (January 14, 2025) allowed the bail plea of prominent businessman Boby Chemmanur who has been arrested and is in judicial custody in a sexual harassment case filed against him by a female Malayalam actor. “Allowed,” the case status of the plea on the … Read more

सिस्टम ने ली AI इंजीनियर की जान या पत्नी की प्रताड़ना से था परेशान? जांच के लिए जौनपुर पहुंची बेंगलुरु पुलिस

सिस्टम ने ली AI इंजीनियर की जान या पत्नी की प्रताड़ना से था परेशान? जांच के लिए जौनपुर पहुंची बेंगलुरु पुलिस

कुछ नहीं बदलने वाला. ना ये सिस्टम, ना सिस्टम की सोच. ना पुलिस का रवैया. ना न्याय प्रणाली की रफ्तार. ना सुधरेगा भ्रष्टाचार. कुछ भी इसलिए नहीं बदलेगा, क्योंकि हमारे देश में एक दिन अचानक जागकर फिर लंबी गहरी नींद में सो जाने वाली सोच समाज में फैली है. जिसे क्रांति तो चाहिए लेकिन अपने … Read more

Doctor facing harassment allegations to continue as District Surgeon on insistence of Karnataka Minister

Doctor facing harassment allegations to continue as District Surgeon on insistence of Karnataka Minister

Women staff and women’s organisations had accused Dr. H.C. Lokesh, Associate Professor in the Department of General Medicine at Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, who was holding additional charge of District Surgeon, of misconduct.  | Photo Credit: Prakash Hassan Shivamogga The District Surgeon of Hassan, who was removed from the post by the Department of … Read more

Kerala High Court closes filmmaker Ranjith’s anticipatory bail plea in a sexual harassment case

Kerala High Court closes filmmaker Ranjith’s anticipatory bail plea in a sexual harassment case

File picture of filmmaker K. Ranjith | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Kerala High Court on Wednesday (August 4, 2024) closed a petition filed by film maker and former chairperson of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy Ranjith seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered on a complaint of a Bengali actor for outraging her modesty, in view … Read more

At Ujjain’s Mahakal temple, evicted vendors allege harassment; say have no hope from polls

At Ujjain’s Mahakal temple, evicted vendors allege harassment; say have no hope from polls

Roadside vendors on the premises of the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain sell prasad and religious souvenirs | Photo Credit: FARUQUI AM A Friday evening drizzle near the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain sent roadside vendors selling prasad and souvenirs scurrying. Looking for cover, they folded their mats, packed their wares and shut shop for … Read more

Karnataka CM asks PM to help bring Hassan MP, accused of sexual harassment, back to India

Karnataka CM asks PM to help bring Hassan MP, accused of sexual harassment, back to India

A file photo of Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah | Photo Credit: File photo Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to cancel the diplomatic passport of Prajwal Revanna claiming the MP of Hassan has ‘fled the country sensing the impending nature of the … Read more

Madras High Court refuses to exempt former special DGP Rajesh Das from surrendering in sexual harassment case

Madras High Court refuses to exempt former special DGP Rajesh Das from surrendering in sexual harassment case

Former Tamil Nadu Special DGP Rajesh Das. File photograph The Madras High Court on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, dismissed a petition filed by former special Director General of Police (DGP) Rajesh Das, seeking exemption from surrendering despite a trial court as well as an appellate court having found him guilty of making sexual advances towards … Read more

Cyber harassment allegations impact opposing campaigns in Vadakara Lok Sabha constituency

Cyber harassment allegations impact opposing campaigns in Vadakara Lok Sabha constituency

K.K. Shailaja, the LDF candidate in the Vadakara Lok Sabha constituency, campaigning at Uralloor on Wedensday. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT A row over the misuse of cyberspace for denigrating candidates appeared to monopolise the Lok Sabha campaign narrative in Kerala on Wednesday. Online slander spreads like invasive digital weeds, dehumanising candidates and blurring their … Read more