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Southasia.Oneworld.net Aarti Dhar 15 November 2010 An overwhelming number of women working in India’s flourishing IT sector have been victims of some form of sexual harassment at their workplace, reveals a survey. Mostly, the perpetrators are senior employees. This is a preview of The Hindu: [...]

Sharmila Bose, a 32-year-old city professional, deleted her Orkut account five years ago. The reason? She could not cope with the “filthy” scraps that were being posted on her page. “They were not links to any site, just very explicit [...]

Physical violence is the most common form of violence reported by women — ranging from being beaten up under influence of alcohol to routine slapping — along with emotional and verbal abuse under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence [...]

It’s sad to see so many cases of women sexual abuse is happening in India. Being a man, I can honestly say, the change has to come in the way the men think about women, especially the one in the [...]

BBC News, Mumbai By Nidhi Dutt It’s an unfortunate truth that women are sexually harassed, and sometimes assaulted, the world over. But in the Indian state of Maharashtra, there is an increasing determination to stamp out “Eve teasing”, as it [...]

IBN Live BANGALORE: New year celebrations soaked in festive spirit are witnessed in every major city including Bangalore. But, 2012 New Year’s Eve began on a grim note for a few citizens. With a series of unfortunate events including acts [...]

DNA Newspaper Open any newspaper and you will see small news items on burglaries. Break-ins and robberies are on the rise. Youngsters are taking to burglary to fund a lavish lifestyle. They rob from the upwardly mobile, the rich and [...]

Hindustan Times Newspaper So what was the 13-year-old girl from Lakhimpur wearing when she was raped and murdered in August last year? How provocatively dressed was the 77-year-old woman raped and beaten up in March in Delhi? And surely the [...]