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Haryana records 8,723 crimes against women in 2025, rate declines by 38% in one year

May 17, 2026 6:51 pm

The Durga Shakti Mobile Application provides single‑touch emergency access integrated with Haryana 112, while the Durga Shakti Rapid Action Force, comprising 24 companies and 50 dedicated patrol vehicles, maintains visible patrolling across public spaces and transport corridors.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) expressed strong protest regarding the sexual assaults and atrocities committed on small children in Pune and nearby areas. They demanded strict and severe punishment for the accused. (Express Photo by Pavan Khengre) crime against women

AAP protests rising crimes against women in Pune; seek justice in two cases

May 11, 2026 10:26 pm

The party demanded a "zero-tolerance" policy regarding crimes against women and children.

Italy femicide law: March of" Non Una Di Meno" (Not One Woman Less) on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Rome in 2018.

Italy becomes latest nation to legally recognise ‘femicide’: What it means

November 28, 2025 6:38 pm

Italy joins a handful of nations that specifically criminalise femicide. What led to the gender-specific law, and why do the vast majority of countries still lack such laws? We explain.

You can ride the bus, but do you belong? The hidden cost of Delhi’s Pink Passes

August 16, 2025 10:56 am

Free bus travel was never a ‘perk’, it was a lifeline. For working women, it meant savings; for students, independence; for slum dwellers, a rare respite from the humiliation of proving they ‘deserve’ basic services

Made by and for men: Indian cities need women leaders to make it safe and inclusive

May 29, 2025 3:51 pm

Women’s leadership in cities is not about gender equality alone. It is a catalytic agenda that can ensure more jobs, higher economic growth, and targeted provision of infrastructure and services based on community needs and a holistic human development agenda

Don’t impose your own morality: Note to Delhi’s ‘anti eve-teasing’ squads

March 17, 2025 7:36 am

This is the first time Delhi Police will have a team of officers dedicated to women’s safety

Tackling crimes against children, women prioritised under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: MoS

March 12, 2025 3:55 am

MoS for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar said strict punishments up to death sentence have been provided for offences against women

What happens when people read to be 'hurt'

January 14, 2025 11:56 am

To put a “TW” before a literary text is to prepare the reader for what they are to expect. But a woman like Draupadi wouldn’t have access to a world with beep alerts that warn her of the violence of men in a world that is a relentless test of one’s unpreparedness and resilience

‘Delhi tops cities in murder, crime against women’: Arvind Kejriwal seeks discussion with Union minister Amit Shah

December 15, 2024 4:02 am

On rising crime in Delhi, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said that over the last six months more than 300 city schools and colleges as well as 100 hospitals, malls and the airport received bomb threats.

Teen raped before she was choked to death in Gujarat's Valsad, post-mortem report reveals

November 17, 2024 1:47 am

Ten teams of the Valsad district police have fanned for clues and to find the teen’s mobile phone, which could lead to the accused as she had allegedly "gone missing" after speaking to an unidentified person as per her friend’s account to the police.