The Christian Women’s organization claims that the government has not been utilizing the Nirbhaya Scheme. By Manasi Pawar Bengaluru, March 12, 2019. The Indian Christian Women’s Movement, in collaboration with the North East Solidarity, held a silent protest for the rising crimes against women in the IT hub. The women complained about the schemes for […]
Continue Reading
Chief Minister of Karnataka H D Kumaraswamy, in presence of Sudha Murthy, chairman of Infosys Foundation, inaugurated the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation Training & Research that has been set up at Criminal Investigation Department, in order to tackle the growing number of cybercrime cases in the city. The centre is set up as part of […]
Continue Reading
The police are looking into the case and will hold responsible the engineers and officials involved. The officials who were responsible for the maintenance work being done in Rajkumar Park without proper safety measures will have to pay compensation to the boy’s family if they are proven guilty. On February 24, Uday Kumar, a seven-year-old […]
Continue Reading
Even though India has progressed to the 21st century, cases of honor killings are still prevalent. The nation has achieved milestones in various fields. But, certain social norms and rules have held the nation back. One such rule made by society is the disallowance of marriage between two people who belong to different caste and […]
Continue Reading
They drug them and put them to sleep so that they do not disturb them while begging. Around 90 per cent of the infants carried by beggars are not their own, but are kidnapped from various places, said A.B. Nandesh, Chief Warder of Beggars Colony. By Esther Esha. Bangalore, Jan. 29, 2019. According to a survey conducted […]
Continue Reading
The Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA) was enacted to regulate the real estate sector in India in 2017 – however, it is far from being a success. By Ajay Ramanathan Bengaluru, Jan. 29, 2019. The RERA is nearing its two year anniversary. Coming into effect in May 2017, the Act aimed to ‘establish the Real […]
Continue Reading
There is a 47 per cent rise in the cases of social media harassment, according to the Bengaluru Cyber Crime Police Station. By Manasi Pawar Bengaluru, Jan. 24, 2019. Last year, the IT capital of India recorded 5,036 cybercrime cases, taking the second spot of the most reported cybercrime cases among metro cities, according to […]
Continue Reading
According to a survey conducted by the National Centre of Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a United States based commission, around 2.4 million children online sexual abuse cases were reported in India last year, out of which 80 percent of them were girls under the age of 14. Justice Girish Chandra Gupta said that in June 2016, […]
Continue Reading
Instead of calling it sexual harassment, ‘eve-teasing’ is used to describe most scenarios of this traumatic experience. By Praveena Parthiban Bangalore, Jan. 23, 2019. There has been an increase in the number of incidents reported of sexual harassment of girls who walk on roads alone, particularly in the remote areas of Bangalore. According to the […]
Continue Reading
UNESCO reveals the dangers of journalism. By Surbhi Jain Bengaluru, Nov. 23, 2018. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Director General’s report, on the safety of journalists and the danger of impunity, regarding the killings of journalists between January 2016 and to December 2017, 182 journalists were killed. 1010 journalists killed […]
Continue Reading