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Strengthen the NCW to effect real change | Opinion
The NCW should be an organisation which can step up to the plate and fulfil its mandate, but that does not seem likely given its current composition
Published on Oct 31, 2020 09:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Actor after filing FIR against Anurag Kashyap: ‘I am being grilled while he is chilling at home’
Days after filing her FIR against filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, the actor has now said that after filing the case, accused is ‘chiling at home’ while she is being ‘grilled and questioned’. NCW chief came forward to assure her that she has written to Maharashtra DGP regarding the case.
Published on Sep 26, 2020 06:30 AM IST
Parliament monsoon session: LS passes Homoeopathy and Indian systems of medicine bills
The bills were passed in Rajya Sabha in January, 2019, to regulate alternative systems of medicine on the lines of the National Medical Commission Bill, and create a new regulatory body for homoeopathy in the country
Updated on Sep 14, 2020 03:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
How Covid-19 invisibilises concerns of women, girls
A much stronger gender lens needs to be built into the Covid-19 response so that we don’t lose hard won gains made in regard to women’s rights and well-being in education, health and empowerment
Updated on May 31, 2020 06:56 AM IST
Shireen Vakil and Aparna Uppaluri
Domestic violence, child abuse cases on the rise in this lockdown: Experts explain why
With violence against women and children surging amid the ongoing lockdown, we talk to experts about the reasons and how to seek help
Updated on May 30, 2020 11:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rishabh Suri
TikTok faces criticism as NCW leads calls for ban over hate content
TikTok, a video-sharing social networking site owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, where millions of Indians post short videos of just about anything is in the midst of a storm with the National Commission of Women and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh both turning their guns on it.
Updated on May 20, 2020 06:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Amrita Madhukalya
Coronavirus update: Send back children in conflict, says Centre in view of Covid-19 crisis
In its advisory, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights asked states to take care of children of migrant workers goinghome.
Updated on Mar 30, 2020 03:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Amrita Madhukalya
High court upholds minority status of Chandigarh’s St Kabir School
In Feb 2018, action on admn’s petition, court had stayed Sikh minority status granted to Sec-26 school by national commission
Updated on Mar 21, 2020 01:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
JNU violence: Panjab university students disrupt Haryana speaker’s address
Carrying banners, the students belonging to some Left-leaning student bodies, shouted slogans against the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad when the Haryana speaker was speaking
Updated on Jan 06, 2020 04:45 PM IST
Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India, Chandigarh
Chandigarh: St Kabir School fails to get high court’s nod to admit general category students in EWS quota
The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has not granted permission to the Sector 26-based St Kabir School to admit general category students against 25% seats reserved for students from economically weaker sections (EWS) in nursery classes. Though a detailed order is awaited, the HC bench of justice Arun Monga, while disposing of the plea, said it would hear the main appeal listed for January 10.
Updated on Dec 13, 2019 01:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
RS panel to consult social media firms on how to stop kids from accessing porn
The group held its first meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday and laid the broad contours of MPs’ task. The panel is likely to give its report by the end of this month after talking to experts and agencies, said a member of the group.
Updated on Dec 04, 2019 05:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Minority issue: HC seeks response from Chandigarh admn on school’s plea
St Kabir has approached the court demanding that it be allowed to take admissions as per regulations for minority schools
Updated on Nov 26, 2019 12:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
Punjab chief secretary to probe reduction of teachers’ salaries
The commission has given 15 days to the chief secretary to collect data and submit the action report.
Updated on Nov 25, 2019 10:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Patiala
It’s #TimesUp! Removal of Anu Malik from national TV is testimony: Sona Mohapatra
Singer Sona Mohapatra reacts to Anu Malik stepping down from Indian Idol as a judge in the wake of the constant questioning of his reinstation.
Updated on Nov 22, 2019 03:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Radhika Bhirani, New Delhi
Anu Malik quits as Indian Idol 11 judge after renewed protests led by Sona Mohapatra: report
Music composer Anu Malik has reportedly stepped down as a judge on singing reality show Indian Idol, after renewed protests surrounding allegations of sexual misconduct made against him.
Updated on Nov 21, 2019 07:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Chandigarh has no women commission
Having 45% women population, city has no association with state or national panels either
Published on Nov 13, 2019 01:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Munieshwer A Sagar, Chandigarh
MSP raised for wheat, pulses; masoor gets biggest push
According to decisions announced by the Cabinet, the highest MSP increases were for lentils (masoor) and gram, two largely consumed pulses the country often imports to meet domestic demand.
Updated on Oct 24, 2019 01:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Trial against ex-bishop Mulakkal to start on Nov 11
The district court in Kottayam has summoned him on November 11 when charges against him will be framed.The chargesheet against him was filed two months ago after agitating nuns threatened another round of sit-in protest.
Published on Oct 23, 2019 11:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Ramesh Babu, Thiruvananthapuram
Review child guardianship laws: NCW to Government
The set of recommendations, reviewed by HT, moot changes in the 1956 Hindu and Guardianship Act and asks that mothers be considered the default legal guardian in cases where the woman has been deserted by the husband or divorced.
Updated on Oct 12, 2019 01:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Amrita Madhukalya
64 died cleaning sewers in Delhi, says panel; govt counters claim
Delhi’s social welfare minister Rajendra Pal Gautam, however, said the deaths took place in septic tanks of malls and high-rises which are inaccessible to sewer cleaning machines of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB).
Published on Sep 25, 2019 05:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Committee set up to revisit criteria for creamy layer submits report
Income ceiling is the threshold over which OBC candidates would be barred from caste-based reservation in government jobs and admission to government- funded educational institutions.
Updated on Sep 21, 2019 01:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Smriti Kak Ramachandran
India’s shame: Manual scavenging must end
This requires battling caste, enforcing the law; and restoring dignity to workers
Published on Sep 19, 2019 05:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Low convictions, lack of infrastructure major hurdles in justice for child rape victims
A recent study by the DCPCR titled ‘Mapping of needs and priorities: study of child rape victims in Delhi’ revealed that only 15% victims of child sexual abuse received compensation, which too in most cases, was “delayed” and “inadequate”.
Updated on Aug 28, 2019 09:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vatsala Shrangi
Ghaziabad sewer deaths: Supervisor held
Government has blacklisted contractor and suspended work after making first arrest.
Published on Aug 24, 2019 05:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad | Peeyush Khandelwal
Officer investigating Jaipur rape case removed from posting
Vaishali Nagar police station incharge Sanjay Godara will be under awaiting posting orders (APO) status till an investigation is over. The case has been transferred to the Crime Branch of the CID, Additional Commissioner of Police Santosh Chalke said.
Updated on Jul 31, 2019 12:57 PM IST
Jaipur | Press Trust of India
NHRC amendment bill cleared in House
The Government assured that steps will be taken to protect human rights ‘round-the-clock’.
Published on Jul 20, 2019 01:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
SC seeks attorney general’s aid to deal with plea on defining minority
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who is Upadhyay’s lawyer, submitted before the court that the law which allows declaration of minority community on the basis of national data was illegal.
Updated on Jul 20, 2019 02:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
BJP MP’s guards attack Agra toll booth employees
The incident came just a few days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned BJP lawmakers that violent behaviour was unacceptable.
Published on Jul 06, 2019 11:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Agra | Hemendra Chaturvedi
BJP MP Ram Shankar Katheria’s bodyguards thrash toll plaza staff in Agra
The toll plaza staff claimed that trouble began after they asked drivers in Ram Shankar Katheria’s cavalcade to exit in a proper queue so that the boom barrier does not fall on any of the vehicles but the MP’s staff got down and thrashed them.
Updated on Jul 06, 2019 03:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Agra | Hemendra Chaturvedi
Sona Mohapatra slams Shahid Kapoor for doing ‘misogynistic, patriarchal’ Kabir Singh: ‘Does the actor have no responsibility’
Sona Mohapatra slams Shahid Kapoor for taking up a film like Kabir Singh. She also lashed out at National Commission of Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma for lauding his performance in the film.
Updated on May 25, 2020 09:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent