Society

Click-bait media spreads misconceptions about laws in India and affects the actual reporting of cases.

The Education Minister of Kerela, the state which just announced that it is getting ready to set up a first-of-its-kind gender-focussed research-oriented university in...

Laws, Legislation & Court Orders The Supreme Court had held that a wife becomes absolute owner of property willed to her for “maintenance” by her husband...

Laws, Legislation & Court Verdicts The Supreme Court has said that a daughter's right to ancestral property does not arise if the father died before...

Recently self-proclaimed fighter of “women’s rights” Kundan Srivastava, decided to teach women a lesson or two in how they should dress while out in public. He posted pictures of two women wearing clothes (of course without their consent) that revealed their bras underneath and sternly told his forty eight thousand followers (bigotry attracts bigotry I suppose) that women shouldn’t dress in “such fashion”. He also proceeded to tell women that they need to have some dignity.

Two days ago, fresh news reports of the resignation of the complainant who filed a sexual harassment case against Director-General of TERI (The Energy...

A large number of students sitting outside the UGC office, protesting against the decision to scrap the non-NET fellowship were brutally lathi charged and...

Dalit Children Burnt Alive A Dalit family's house was set on fire by people belonging to the "upper caste" and two children (aged two and...

By now, it has almost become a matter of great ennui to discuss the ways in which technology, irrespective of its supposed benefits, is unleashing its evils on us. And yet, many these ‘evils’ largely remain out of popular discussions even till today. One of them is, online sexual harassment, popularly called ‘Revenge Porn.’

Feminist news from around the country.