Employers will be afraid to hire women workers,says SP MP

If misuse of rights happens,employers will be afraid to hire women employees,Agarwal said.

While the sexual assault case involving Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal has put the spotlight on the law against sexual harassment at the workplace,Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Agarwal Wednesday kicked up a controversy by voicing his apprehensions over its misuse.

I have always had apprehensions about the misuse of the law against sexual harassment at the workplace on the similar lines as the anti-dowry and anti-SC/ST atrocities Acts have come to be misused in many instances. If similar misuse happens,employers will be afraid to hire women employees, Agarwal said.

Agarwal,however,sought to delink his remarks from the current controversy over the sexual assault case against

Tejpal. ENS

India will be back on negotiating table in 1-2 months seeking a deal, 'saying sorry', says US Commerce Secretary Lutnick

India will be back seeking a deal, ‘saying sorry’, says US Commerce Secretary Lutnick

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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicts that India will apologise and return to the negotiating table within the next month or two to sign a trade deal with the US. He urges India to choose between supporting the US or aligning with Russia and China. Lutnick also criticised India's retaliatory tariffs and calls Prime Minister Modi's meeting with Chinese and Russian leaders "bravado."

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