The JPMorgan harassment suit against Lorna Hajdini that went viral has one massive problem — it may be fakeThe latest buzz in financial circles revolves around a controversial harassment lawsuit targeted at a top JPMorgan executive. Chirayu Rana,...
20 May, 2026, 11.00 PM IST
UK PM Starmer 'takes responsibility' for Labour election lossesThe ballot was the biggest electoral test for Starmer since Labour ousted the Conservatives following 14 years in power in a landslide elec...
09 May, 2026, 12.37 AM IST
Pope urges US and Iran to return to peace talks and condemns capital punishmentPope Leo XIV calls for renewed talks between the United States and Iran to end the war. He strongly condemns capital punishment and advocat...
24 Apr, 2026, 09.47 AM IST
Belgium's world-first law allows sex workers to work at par with others, enjoy pensions: All you need to knowBelgium formally recognizes sex work as a legitimate profession, granting workers employment rights such as health insurance, paid leave, a...
02 Dec, 2024, 11.22 AM IST
Children cannot be called illegitimate, even if they are born out of non-marital relationships: NCW ChairpersonNational Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Rekha Sharma has stated that children born out of non-marital relationships must not be cal...
13 Jul, 2023, 03.23 PM IST
Health clinic for sex workers, their families opened in Delhi's G B RoadNGO Sewa Bharti started this clinic in collaboration with Utkarsh Initiative to provide medical facilities to sex workers and their familie...
01 Jan, 2023, 03.36 PM IST
Every individual including sex worker has right to dignified life: Supreme CourtAn SC-appointed panel has recommended various guidelines including one that "Whenever there is a raid on any brothel since voluntary sex wo...
26 May, 2022, 11.41 PM IST
Provide Aadhaar cards to sex workers without home proof, SC tells UIDAIThere shall be no breach of confidentiality in the process, including assignment of any code in the Aadhaar enrolment numbers that identify...
26 May, 2022, 12.19 AM IST
Even sex-workers have right to refuse: Supreme CourtThe apex court judgement on Tuesday came on a 1997 gang-rape case in the national capital, asking the convits to surrender within four week...
01 Nov, 2018, 10.27 PM IST
Sex workers in West Bengal demand rights, ask parties to keep promisesThe project, christened 'Muktir Alo' (Light of Freedom), a pet project of Mamata Banerjee, is aimed at bringing back the sex workers and th...
30 Mar, 2016, 11.04 AM IST
Rights of sex workers: Should prostitution be legalised?Sex workers are also human beings and hence they are entitled to a life of dignity” (Buddhadeb Bhattacharya versus State of West Bengal: (2...
07 Dec, 2014, 09.55 AM IST
Community workers to assist transgenders, widows, others through civil society initiativeSpirited community workers have come together through ivil society initiative to help deprived sections of society negotiate with power cen...
16 Sep, 2014, 12.55 PM IST
Sex workers in Bengal to press NOTA as political parties ignore there demandsDisillusioned and embittered with political parties, nearly 65,000 sex workers and their family members across Bengal have decided not to v...
19 Apr, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
TOI manifesto for minority voices: The never-heard voices from the country's red-light districtsFed up over neglect, these elections, probably for the first time ever, rights groups led by sex workers are exploring the option of pressi...
04 Apr, 2014, 10.58 AM IST
- Sonia's advice to PM on national policy for domestic workers
Sonia Gandhi has written to PM Singh advising that the proposed national policy for domestic workers should ensure remuneration without sex...
19 May, 2011, 03.38 PM IST
- IGNOU launches educational programme for sex workers
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has set a benchmark of sorts by pioneering a special educational programme for sex worke...
10 Mar, 2008, 03.52 PM IST
- Labour panel wants IDs given to sex workers
No sex please, we’re Indian. Two decades or more after women’s groups here first attempted to kick off the covers and officially recognise ...
24 Sep, 2002, 06.01 AM IST