Women Security
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Online shopping frauds to fake cosmetics, how to avoid common frauds targeting women
Lifestyle | Jun 06, 2022, 06:29 PM ISTFraudsters are increasingly exploiting online platforms to sell counterfeit/fake products such as copycat apparel, FMCG products, cosmetics, electronics, mobile phones, etc. Many women get attracted to great offers, unique discounts, and free gifts.
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Chinese woman allegedly assaulted for feeding stray dogs in Greater Noida
News | May 30, 2020, 08:09 PM ISTIn a shocking incident, a Chinese national woman was allegedly beaten up by a man at her residential society after dispute over feeding of stray dogs.
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Is India the most unsafe country for women? Here's what survey says
World | Dec 02, 2019, 07:37 PM ISTIndia is ranked the most dangerous country for women, according to a survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Even though the survey was published in 2018, not much has changed.
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Bengaluru police sets up separate wing to enhance women security
India | Dec 02, 2019, 05:44 PM ISTBengaluru police have set up a separate wing for women, strengthened the helpline and improvised its mobile app 'BCP Suraksha' in the wake of the gang rape and murder of a woman veterinarian in Telangana.
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Ensure severe punishment for crimes against women: President Ram Nath Kovind
India | Jun 20, 2019, 12:16 PM ISTAddressing the joint session of Parliament, Kovind said the penal provisions for crimes committed against women should be strictly enforced.
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NCW rejects survey that ranked India as world's most dangerous country for women
India | Jun 26, 2018, 09:33 PM IST548 experts on women’s issues were asked questions relating to risks faced by women in six areas including healthcare, access to economic resources and discrimination, customary practices, sexual violence, nonsexual violence, and human trafficking. 43 of these 548 experts are from India.
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BHU tense, breaks early for Dussehra after police crackdown on protesting students
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Nirbhaya Gangrape Case: Do women in India feel safer after the night of 16th December 2012?
Life | May 05, 2017, 02:48 PM ISTAfter the incident that shook entire nation, where do we stand on women safety?
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Intolerable that women don't feel secure in India, says President
India | Mar 08, 2017, 08:12 PM ISTOn occasion of International women’s day, President Pranab Mukherjee today emphasized on the security of women in the country, saying it is inexcusable that women in India do not feel as secure and safe as
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Rail Budget may focus on CCTVs and female constables for security
India | Feb 04, 2015, 09:26 PM ISTNew Delhi: The security of female passengers in trains might become the top priority of the Rail Budget this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been focusing on women empowerment since he came to power
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Mobile application to help women, senior citizens
India | Jan 16, 2015, 06:58 AM ISTKolkata: Two years after the gruesome ‘Nirbhaya' incident, a mobile application can now come to the aid of traveling women in distress. “The one-stop mobile emergency can be of use to everybody in emergency situations
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Women unsafe in BJP rule in Chhattisgarh: Congress
National | Jan 11, 2015, 01:08 PM ISTRaipur: Women are not safe in the BJP government's rule in Chhattisgarh, main Opposition in the state, Congress has alleged.“It is unfortunate that the BJP, which succeeded in forming the government in the state by
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Delhi Police plans to set up server-system for women's safety
India | Jan 04, 2015, 10:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi Police is mulling setting up a system to enable women travelling in cabs or autorickshaws share registration number plate pictures on a police server to ensure that the driver behaves responsibly and
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Aamir Khan stresses upon women's security
Bollywood | Dec 11, 2014, 07:14 PM ISTHyderabad: Superstar Aamir Khan, who does his bit to bring social change in the country via his show "Satyamev Jayate", is disturbed over the sexual assault on a young woman in Delhi. He stressed upon
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Married women safer on streets than in matrimonial homes: Delhi HC
India | Sep 30, 2014, 07:02 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday observed that married women in India are ‘safer on the street than in their matrimonial homes' as it upheld life imprisonment for a man convicted of killing
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Congress hits out at BJP for failing to secure women
National | Aug 09, 2014, 08:52 PM ISTNew Delhi: Hitting out at the BJP-led Central government, Delhi Congress today said that it has totally failed to protect the safety and security of women. “The Union Home Ministry, headed by Rajnath Singh, has
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All necessary steps be taken for women's security: Rahul Gandhi
India | Jun 05, 2014, 11:21 PM ISTNew Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today called for taking all necessary steps to improve law and order to ensure safety and security of women in the wake of repeated incidents of rape coming
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NaMo app developed for women in distress to summon police
India | Feb 22, 2014, 11:50 AM ISTAhmedabad: In a Facebook initiative to promote brand Narendra Modi, Tejenderpal Singh Bagga has developed an app to help women in distress. Bagga told the newspaper The Economic Times that if a woman finds herself
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Sheila Dikshit with a six-point plan to ensure women's security in Delhi
India | Dec 02, 2013, 07:44 AM ISTNew Delhi: In an attempt to ensure a fourth term, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today endorsed a six-point plan, 'Delhi Womanifesto', to ensure women's security and promised to work tirelessly to implement it within the
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President bemoans 'repeated failure' to ensure women's security
India | Apr 20, 2013, 01:30 PM ISTNew Delhi, April 20: President Pranab Mukherjee has expressed deep shock and anguish at the latest incident of sexual assault and rape in the capital and said "urgent steps must be taken to bring the