Raipur: With a view to check incidents of eve-teasing and molestation at schools, colleges, coaching centres and parks, a special patrolling vehicle for women’s safety was launched on Friday. The patrolling team of six women police personnel would take rounds across the city to get hold of anti-social elements andContinue Reading
As many as 358 million Indian women (61 per cent) have bank accounts, up from 281 million (48 per cent) in 2014, the biggest jump for “banked” women among eight South Asian and African countries surveyed by Intermedia, a global consultancy. The survey revealed that more women in India areContinue Reading
New Delhi: At least four women were raped and modesty of nine outraged every day on an average between 2012 and 2015 in the national capital, according to data compiled by the Delhi Police regarding crimes against women. In these four years, the number of rape cases increased threefold. WhileContinue Reading
Protesters ransack & shut four hooch shops in Jamshedpur’s urban slums; city SP asks for restraintContinue Reading
Lucknow: Amid raging debate over entry of women at religious places, city’s famous Eidgah in Aishbagh has for the first time made special arrangements for women allowing them to offer ‘namaz’ in the premises on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr on Thursday. “Separate arrangements have been made for the first timeContinue Reading
New Delhi: Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi told the Lok Sabha on Friday that an analysis of statistics from the years 2012 to 2014 showed that at least 20 women were killed for dowry every day, adding up to 25,000 women murdered or driven to suicide by dowry-demandingContinue Reading
Officials of Maharashtra’s Shani Shingnapur temple today said that women won’t be stopped from entering the templeContinue Reading
UN reports point out that women globally constituted less than 4% of signatories to peace agreements and less than 10% of negotiators at peace tablesContinue Reading
Vatican City: Priests are not obligated to wash the feet of women during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, a Vatican official has clarified. Cardinal Robert Sarah. prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, told reporters in Rome on February 26 thatContinue Reading
A series of essays in the semiofficial Vatican newspaper is urging the Catholic Church to allow women to preach from the pulpit at Mass, a role that has been reserved almost exclusively to the all-male priesthood for nearly 800 years. “This topic is a delicate one, but I believe itContinue Reading