A group of sex workers presented a cheque of Rs. 21,000 drawn in favour of the Prime Minister's Relief Fund for Kerala flood victims to resident deputy collector Prashant Patil in Ahmednagar on Monday, said a functionary of an NGO working for them.
A team comprising 16 promising children of sex workers is scheduled to fly to Denmark to take part in a football tournament.
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has now decided to give rice at Rs two per kg to sex workers and poor HIV patients in the state. In this initiative of government all deaf and
On hearing the word ‘red-light', the very image that pops up in our mind is of a flesh trade where ladies sell their body for money and we call them sex workers. But, often we
New Delhi: The change is happening and it is happening for good. Quite a vague idea by a 3-year-old kid of a sex worker in the brothels of Delhi's GB road has now turned into
Kolkata: Children of sex workers in West Bengal, including one of Asia's largest red light areas - Kolkata's Sonagachi, were Monday auditioned for a pan-Indian singing contest where they will later wield the microphone with
Kolkata: Sex workers in West Bengal's Sonagachi area, said to be the largest red light area in Asia, are a disappointed lot on being denied permission to scale up their Durga puja festivities this year,
Kolkata: The 50-lakh-strong community of sex workers in India is seriously considering to opt for the NOTA option while exercising their franchise in the Lok Sabha election to register protest against deprivation and apathy. Since
Mumbai: At a special screening of Nagesh Kukunoor's "Lakshmi" for sex workers held at the centre of a red-light area here, the filmmaker was accosted by a group of extremely overwrought sex workers who wanted
Kolkata, Bollywood actor Kunal Kapoor has supported a crowd-funding portal Ketto and helped them to raise more than Rs 45 lakh in the last one year. The portal fights for causes like rehabilitating a sex-worker's
New Delhi: In 2002, an Act was passed by the Social Democrat Green coalition government in Germany to legalize prostitution in order to raise the social status of sex workers in society.Since then, the sex
Kolkata: Retired sex workers from Asia's largest red-light district of Kolkata's Sonagachi, who are forced to live a life of penury after falling out of favour with customers because of advanced age, would soon be
New York: As details emerge about how the New York Police Department insulted India's deputy consul general Dr Devyani Khobragade, there is a sense of outrage in India, with Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and
Aizwal: The prevalence of HIV in Mizoram has come down appreciably in the last few years, thanks to the hard work put in by former sex workers and HIV patients in spreading awareness about the
Agartala: The Congress in Left-ruled Tripura has demanded a CBI probe into a major scam involving AIDS funds given to an NGO, which had allegedly prepared fictitious lists of nearly 600 housewives showing them as
Kolkata, Apr 30: Dreams of a better life turned into a nightmare for several sex workers in Kolkata's largest red light district Sonagachi, who lost their lifelong savings in Ponzi schemes which promised to double
New Delhi: Reshma, 20, a sex worker in Delhi's infamous red light district, loves the colours of Holi. But she and dozens of other sex workers keep away from the festivities due to the hordes
Kolkata, Mar 23: To check circulation of fake currency notes among them, sex workers in Kolkata and neighbouring areas are being trained to detect such notes manually and through machines, an NGO activist said here
New Delhi, Jul 26: The Supreme Court today modified one of its order on welfare and rehabilitation of sex workers on the Centre's submissions that the last year's order gave an impression that it seeks
New Delhi, Jul 12: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine Centre's plea that sex workers should not be allowed to operate in the country under the cloak of working "with dignity" as suggested
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