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Sep 7, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Swati Shikha |Ammu Joseph
National This accusation comes as Phogat and Punia vowed on Friday to continue their fight against Singh, with Phogat promising to ensure that no other woman endures the same challenges she faced.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gunjan Das |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Swati Shikha |Mohit Ranadip
About two weeks ago, sitting in a State Government administrative building in Kolkata and discussing about the gruesome rape and murder of a Postgraduate Trainee Doctor at R G Kar Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, Anamika Gupta (name changed) looked disturbed when she said, “I stay at this Office till around 8 it in the night to complete my work. During COVID days when the office premises were almost empty, we were here till late hours at at night without feeling that I am unsafe.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gunjan Das |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Swati Shikha |Arun Mitra
A step backwards for Human Rights,Ensure fool proof investigation, competent prosecution and prevent acquittals, Ensure safety mechanisms in the workplace for women. PUCL condemns the proposal by the Mamata Banerjee government to amend the law to provide for death penalty for convicted rapists.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
madrascourier.com | Swati Shikha
India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data shows that a woman is raped in the country every sixteen minutes. Ninety-six per cent of the rapes are committed by someone known to the victim. The recent rape and murder of the doctor killed in Kolkata is just one of the many examples of rape. For now, the streets of West Bengal echo with demands for justice for the 31-year-old medic.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Swati Shikha |Gunjan Das |Azmat Sadiq
by Azmat Sadiq & Gunjan DasIn the wake of nationwide protests over the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College in Kolkata, there has been a reported 160-190 percent surge in Google search rates for the digital footage of that incident. The study carried out by The Quint also revealed that the victim’s name was searched more than 3000 times on various pornographic websites.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Swati Shikha |Arun Mitra |Yanis Iqbal
When a young Anglo-Indian mother named Suzette Jordan was picked up on a February night of 2012 from a watering hole on Park Street, Calcutta’s popular entertainment zone, and repeatedly raped inside a moving vehicle by five young men and the matter became public knowledge following the victim’s report to the police, Mamata Banerjee had said that nothing of the sort happened and dismissed it as a conspiracy to malign her government and her administration.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Swati Shikha |T Navin |Abba Solomon
To Shri H D Kumaraswamy Union Steel Minister I invite your attention to my earlier letter addressed to you on the subject (https://countercurrents.org/2024/06/welcoming-the-revival-of-hmt-instead-of-disinvesting-cpses-they-need-to-be-supported-and-empowered-beml-rinl-are-examples/) and my follow-up letter to Union Finance Minister...
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Swati Shikha |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Arun Mitra |Yanis Iqbal
Each year millions of Indians celebrate the killing of an Asura King by Hindu Goddess Durga for ten days. The Hindu festival, set in casteist narratives has us convinced that the evil is an outsider. TheNational Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data records that every 16 minutes, a rape occurs in some nook, some place in the country. 96% of the rapes are committed by someone known to the survivor or victim.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Swati Shikha
Mumbai Police personnel on duty.(File photo-Representational image) | Photo: PTI Mumbai Police personnel on duty.(File photo-Representational image) | Photo: PTI At a time when Kolkata doctor’s rape and murder case has rattled the country, a woman in Maharashtra’s Thane stopped a man’s advances by injuring his private parts with a metal spatula. Reportedly, the accused man was intoxicated when he attempted to misbehave with the woman at her residence in the Bhiwandi area.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Swati Shikha |Seema Guha
Representative Image Photo: Getty Images Representative Image Photo: Getty Images For the past 22 years, at 9 am on a Sunday, the workers of Michael Aram, an American luxury brand, use their only day off to travel to Sarita Vihar Park in Delhi in June’s scorching heat with nothing but the clothes on their backs and their worn-out footwear. There they begin their weekly three-hour sit-in for minimum wages, and against exploitation.
