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The woman beat up the men with slippers after which they ran away. (Photo: ANI)

Karnataka: 55-yr-old woman beats eve-teasers with slippers

The elderly woman was waiting at the bus depot, when two men started misbehaving with her.

13 Mar 2018 2:15 PM

The student alleged that the professor used to send her lewd messages and would make obscene calls to her until she confronted him and recorded the incident. (Photo: ANI)

DU students protest against sexual harassment by male professor

A woman student of Bharti College, filed a complaint to DU VC Yogesh Tyagi, alleging sexual harassment by a male teacher of the college.

07 Feb 2018 9:10 PM

Dhir, who worked at Heathrow Airport, allegedly met Mund and Raizada while they were students in London and had plotted the murder by hiring contract killers since 2015. (Photo: Facebook)

UK: Indian-origin woman accused in 12-yr-old orphan’s murder faces extradition to India

Arti Dhir had been arrested in 2017, after an Interpol alert over the murder of the 12-year-old boy in February same year.

23 Jan 2018 1:37 PM

The video shows women beating up the priest who, in a white kurta and with bare legs, tries to defend self. (Photo: Twitter | Screengrab)

Video: Man holds UP priest by choti, women beat him up for molesting girls

The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested the priest who according to an ANI report has been accused of molesting girls on several occasions.

27 Dec 2017 7:29 PM

The incident occurred at the jawan's native Alur village under Umarga tehsil of Osmanabad district, police said. (Photo: File | Representational)

Mumbai: Army jawan garlands woman with slippers, parades her on streets; held

Police said that jawan Shivananda Swamy committed the act after he found out that the victim was allegedly spreading rumours about his wife.

23 Dec 2017 7:22 PM

According to police, the accused, who were the neighbours of the victim, allegedly use to feed some intoxicating material to the parent of the victim and harass her thereafter. (Photo: PTI | Representational)

Offenders set minor girl ablaze in UP on reporting repeated molestation

The victim was taken to a mini PGI hospital in Saifai for treatment and now she is said to be out of danger, say police.

15 Dec 2017 11:11 AM

A case has been registered at Uklana Police station and SP Manisha Chaudhary has formed a Special Investigation Team to investigate the case. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

6-yr-old raped, violated with wooden stick, murdered in Haryana's Hisar

'The body was found violated with a wooden stick. There was blood everywhere, even coming out of her mouth,' the girl's uncle said.

10 Dec 2017 12:47 PM

The driver, Rajashekar Reddy kept molesting her and held her captive until he was forced to unlock the car when she began screaming and banging the windows. (Photo: Representational | File)

B’luru: Ola driver harasses woman, child locks cab; suspended

The incident took place around 10.30 pm on Sunday, in a deserted spot on the Ring Road in south east Bengaluru.

06 Dec 2017 6:44 PM

Women’s panel launches mobile app

The commission receives at least a 100 complaints every month.

04 Dec 2017 2:12 AM

Our staff is trained to handle all complaints sensitively, says Quaiser Khalid

Mumbai itself accounted for 5,128 cases of crimes against women.

04 Dec 2017 2:10 AM

File photo of women boarding the local train.

Many working women no longer find city safe

According to NCRB on statistics, 5,128 cases, out of a total of 41,761 cases of crimes against women across the country, were registered in Mumbai.

04 Dec 2017 2:07 AM

The incident took place on November 18, when the woman was driving back home. She saw two youngsters on a motorcycle following her. She ignored them for a while but they continued following her and gesturing at her, police said. (Photo: Representational | File)

Delhi: 2 men on motorcycle stalk, gesture at 22-yr-old woman; complaint lodged

According to police, special teams have been deployed to identify and nab the accused.

27 Nov 2017 1:20 PM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Bisexual women face higher rates of sexual violence

In fact, 50% of bisexual women have experienced rape at one point of their lifetime while within the United States.

16 Nov 2017 10:04 AM

The woman was allegedly raped by four men for about three hours near railway tracks in Bhopal when she returned home after attending a coaching class on the night of October 31. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Gangrape unfortunate, will deal crimes against women with 'iron hand': Bhopal IG

Last week, the state police suspended five policemen for alleged negligence, which led to the delay in registering the case.

10 Nov 2017 2:00 PM

India's rape survivors degraded by 'finger test' despite reforms, report says

HRW called for India to introduce a victim and witness protection system to encourage people to come forward.

09 Nov 2017 6:31 PM

The Russian woman alleged that on September 22 she was taken to a house, where she was raped and that her ordeal continued since then. (Photo: File/Representational)

Bank manager threatens, rapes 20-yr-old Russian woman in UP; held

The woman, who came to India on September 17, befriended the suspect on Facebook.

04 Nov 2017 2:52 PM

'The principal threatened her of dire consequences if she would tell anyone. She didn't tell her parents and had stopped going to school. Now when she told them, they approached us,' the Station House Officer said. (Photo: File/Representational)

Bhopal: School principal rapes 16-yr-old girl student; arrested

The Station House Officer said, the girl, in her complaint, alleged that the principal called her to his house and committed the crime.

02 Nov 2017 4:17 PM

Nuns take part in a rally in Kolkata to protest against the gangrape of a 72-year-old nun at Ranaghat. (Photo: PTI)

WB: Trial in 72-yr-old nun gangrape case concludes; verdict due on Nov 7

The nun was gangraped at a convent on March 14, 2015 allegedly by a group of suspected Bangladeshi nationals.

30 Oct 2017 3:59 PM

The victim has expressed an apprehension that Sahil Bagga, against whom she had earlier lodged an FIR for rape on the promise of marriage and for causing medical termination of pregnancies registered in Greater Noida, could be behind this incident. (Photo: File/Representational)

Delhi: 2 bike-borne men sexually assault woman; investigation underway

When the victim resisted their efforts to drag her into bushes, the assailants caused injuries on her body and thereafter fled.

12 Oct 2017 8:43 AM

The woman, originally from Achra in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra bordering Goa, is currently staying in Vasco, according to police. (Photo: File/Representational)

Goa: Police book self styled godman from K'taka for raping teenager

The victim also said that the godman threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed the matter to anyone.

07 Oct 2017 12:45 PM

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