NC provincial president Devender Singh Rana also appealed to the people to maintain communal harmony and asked political parties to rise ab...

Gandhi also announced that a review of the 140 centers would be conducted by Prayas, along with all other stakeholders such as National Leg...

The Centre's stand against making marital rape a criminal offence saw legal bigwigs take a divided stand.

Serious concern was raised today in Rajya Sabha over the rising air pollution in Delhi, with a Congress member saying that many countries h...

elhi records the maximum particulate matter in the air with 163 microgram cubic per meter (MGCM), as against 154 in Kolkata.

Maneka Gandhi also said there is an immediate need to increase the enrolment of women to at least 33%in police forces to make police statio...

The government today said it would utilise Rs 3,000 crore accumulated under the Nirbhaya Fund for setting up one-stop crisis centres for wo...

Maneka Gandhi mooted the idea of an exclusive taxi service for women and said her ministry was in talks with some business enterprises to l...

The TNS India survey, conducted a few days before the Uber-rape incident, highlights this growing concern.

Centre was ready to launch Rape Crisis Centres across the country that would offer a range of support services for women victims of molesta...

"Women need to be protected in many ways and there are no superficial solutions," she told reporters after participating a book release fun...

The centres will be set up in all the 640 districts and 20 additional locations in the country and the project will cost 477 crores approxi...

The Helpline will provide efficient and fast-response mechanisms for addressing post-violence trauma and also ensure protection of women.

BJP also stepped up pressure on the UP government by saying the Centre would intervene if UP governor BL Joshi sends a report on the situat...

She said the incident in Badaun is a "terrible, terrible case" which is symptomatic of what is happening all over the country.

"While more women are now joining the formal economy as a result, a corollary of these developments has been the heightened risk to their s...

The groups in a memorandum to P Chidambaram, specifically demanded "priority attention" in the budget for rape and acid attack survivors.