Women

MUMBAI: An official reported that the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) conducted a raid on a gold melting facility and a jewelry shop in Mumbai, leading to the seizure of smuggled gold valued at Rs 3.62 crore, along with Rs 2.95 crore in cash and 2.1 kilograms of gold. This operation took place on Thursday.According to a release from the DRI, eight individuals have been apprehended in...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, which has traditionally been pro-life, was split Wednesday over choosing between stopping the heart of an over 26-week-old healthy fetus and the choice of its carrier, a married woman, to terminate the pregnancy which is impermissible under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and B V Nagarathna, which on Monday had unanimously...

MUMBAI: In what will come as a huge relief to women train commuters, who comprise at least 25% of those travelling by trains, Central Railway announced setting up of women's 'powder rooms', which includes four highly sanitised toilets, at seven busy stations - Ghatkopar, Kanjurmarg, Mulund, Thane, Mankhurd, Chembur and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus."...On our railway premises, it will be a hygienic and...

MUMBAI: The city police have busted a baby-selling racket and have rescued two newborn babies who were sold for Rs 5 lakh each in illegal adoption process. Five women have been arrested in the case which includes kingpin of the racket Julia Lawrence Fernandes, a bogus doctor and three touts from Rafiq Nagar in Govandi.What has baffled the police is the fact that Julia, who has at least seven offences of...

KOLKATA: Police in Kolkata, Barrackpore and Barasat have come across multiple cases where women — some of them teachers, lawyers or with respectable jobs — are receiving extortion calls from cyber crooks after they are being informed of receiving puja gifts in parcels sent through courier.Even as a victim tries to guess who sent them the parcel, she receives a second call, with the person claiming...

NEW DELHI: Unanimity shown by political parties in support of the women's reservation bill, which was introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, is seen by BJP with optimism to add to its ticked list of long-time poll promises.BJP has been consistent in its support for the women's reservation bill. But the one introduced by the NDA government in Lok Sabha in 1998 lapsed with dissolution of the House. The...

NEW DELHI: The long journey of deliberations on women's reservation over the decades has been marked by the demand for a sub-quota for OBC women.The joint parliamentary committee report examining the 1996 women's reservation bill had recommended that quota be provided for OBC women once the Constitution was amended to allow for reservation for OBCs. It also recommended that reservation be extended to...

NEW DELHI: In a big move for women's empowerment, the Narendra Modi government is set to table a constitutional amendment bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday for reserving one-third of seats in Parliament and state legislatures across the country.The decision, pushed by the Prime Minister and cleared by the Union Cabinet at a meeting on Monday evening, aims to secure passage of the bill in the two Houses...

GURGAON: Three men who ran a gang that allegedly duped women from different states after befriending them through matrimonial sites were arrested, Haryana's Gurgaon Police said on Wednesday. A Nigerian national who is reportedly the kingpin of the gang is absconding and police are conducting raids to nab him, they said.PTI quoted a senior police officer as saying that the accused were identified as Aman...

GURGAON: Cyber police in Haryana’s Gurgaon, on Wednesday, arrested four fraudsters busting a gang, which allegedly cheated more than 800 women by luring them to invest in a mobile application and work from home. The gang recently duped a DLF Phase III woman of over Rs 2 lakh asking her to invest through a mobile app and promising her high returns, said police.The accused were identified as Tushar...