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Strengthen the NCW to effect real change | Opinion
By Lalita Panicker | Hindustan Times
PUBLISHED ON OCT 31, 2020 09:53 PM IST
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
Actor after filing FIR against Anurag Kashyap: ‘I am being grilled while he is chilling at home’
PUBLISHED ON SEP 26, 2020 06:30 AM IST
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.
Parliament monsoon session: LS passes Homoeopathy and Indian systems of medicine bills
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 14, 2020 03:36 PM IST
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
How Covid-19 invisibilises concerns of women, girls
By Shireen Vakil and Aparna Uppaluri
UPDATED ON MAY 31, 2020 06:56 AM IST
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
Domestic violence, child abuse cases on the rise in this lockdown: Experts explain why
By Rishabh Suri | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON MAY 30, 2020 11:32 AM IST
With violence against women and children surging amid the ongoing lockdown, we talk to experts about the reasons and how to seek help
TikTok faces criticism as NCW leads calls for ban over hate content
By Amrita Madhukalya | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 20, 2020 06:26 AM IST
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.
Coronavirus update: Send back children in conflict, says Centre in view of Covid-19 crisis
By Amrita Madhukalya | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 30, 2020 03:42 PM IST
In its advisory, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights asked states to take care of children of migrant workers goinghome.
High court upholds minority status of Chandigarh’s St Kabir School
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON MAR 21, 2020 01:49 AM IST
In Feb 2018, action on admn’s petition, court had stayed Sikh minority status granted to Sec-26 school by national commission
JNU violence: Panjab university students disrupt Haryana speaker’s address
By Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON JAN 06, 2020 04:45 PM IST
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
Chandigarh: St Kabir School fails to get high court’s nod to admit general category students in EWS quota
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON DEC 13, 2019 01:01 AM IST
RS panel to consult social media firms on how to stop kids from accessing porn
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 04, 2019 05:53 AM IST
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.
Minority issue: HC seeks response from Chandigarh admn on school’s plea
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON NOV 26, 2019 12:45 AM IST
St Kabir has approached the court demanding that it be allowed to take admissions as per regulations for minority schools
Punjab chief secretary to probe reduction of teachers’ salaries
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Patiala
UPDATED ON NOV 25, 2019 10:49 PM IST
The commission has given 15 days to the chief secretary to collect data and submit the action report.
It’s #TimesUp! Removal of Anu Malik from national TV is testimony: Sona Mohapatra
By Radhika Bhirani | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 22, 2019 03:18 PM IST
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.
Anu Malik quits as Indian Idol 11 judge after renewed protests led by Sona Mohapatra: report
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON NOV 21, 2019 07:00 PM IST
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.
Chandigarh has no women commission
By Munieshwer A Sagar | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Chandigarh
PUBLISHED ON NOV 13, 2019 01:16 AM IST
Having 45% women population, city has no association with state or national panels either
MSP raised for wheat, pulses; masoor gets biggest push
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 24, 2019 01:09 AM IST
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.
Trial against ex-bishop Mulakkal to start on Nov 11
By Ramesh Babu | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Thiruvananthapuram
PUBLISHED ON OCT 23, 2019 11:28 PM IST
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.
Review child guardianship laws: NCW to Government
By Amrita Madhukalya | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 12, 2019 01:36 PM IST
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.
64 died cleaning sewers in Delhi, says panel; govt counters claim
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON SEP 25, 2019 05:31 AM IST
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).
Committee set up to revisit criteria for creamy layer submits report
By Smriti Kak Ramachandran | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 21, 2019 01:36 AM IST
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.
India’s shame: Manual scavenging must end
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
PUBLISHED ON SEP 19, 2019 05:42 PM IST
This requires battling caste, enforcing the law; and restoring dignity to workers
Low convictions, lack of infrastructure major hurdles in justice for child rape victims
By Vatsala Shrangi | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 28, 2019 09:42 PM IST
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”.
Ghaziabad sewer deaths: Supervisor held
By Peeyush Khandelwal | Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad
PUBLISHED ON AUG 24, 2019 05:31 AM IST
Government has blacklisted contractor and suspended work after making first arrest.
Officer investigating Jaipur rape case removed from posting
By Press Trust of India | Jaipur
UPDATED ON JUL 31, 2019 12:57 PM IST
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.
NHRC amendment bill cleared in House
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JUL 20, 2019 01:11 AM IST
The Government assured that steps will be taken to protect human rights ‘round-the-clock’.
SC seeks attorney general’s aid to deal with plea on defining minority
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUL 20, 2019 02:19 AM IST
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.
BJP MP’s guards attack Agra toll booth employees
By Hemendra Chaturvedi | Hindustan Times, Agra
PUBLISHED ON JUL 06, 2019 11:17 PM IST
The incident came just a few days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned BJP lawmakers that violent behaviour was unacceptable.
BJP MP Ram Shankar Katheria’s bodyguards thrash toll plaza staff in Agra
By Hemendra Chaturvedi | Hindustan Times, Agra
UPDATED ON JUL 06, 2019 03:18 PM IST
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.
Sona Mohapatra slams Shahid Kapoor for doing ‘misogynistic, patriarchal’ Kabir Singh: ‘Does the actor have no responsibility’
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 25, 2020 09:53 AM IST
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.