Indian nationals in the UK saw the largest percentage increase in sexual offence convictions among foreign nationals between 2021 and 2024, according to the data shared by the UK Ministry of Justice. Convictions of Indians for sexual offences rose by 257 per cent over this period, climbing from 28 cases in 2021 to 100 in…
India’s Charge d’Affaires at the United Nations, Eldos Mathew Punnoos NEW DELHI: In an address at the UN Security Council Open Debate on ‘Conflict-Related Sexual Violence’ on Tuesday (local time), India’s Charge d’Affaires Eldos Mathew Punnoos brought attention to Pakistan’s history of sexual violence since 1971.During his statement, Punnoos acused the neighbouring country of sexual…
India hit out at Pakistan at the UN after Islamabad alleged that women in Jammu and Kashmir were being targeted with sexual violence, sharply reminding its neighbour of its own “deplorable” track record of crimes against women. Speaking at the UN Security Council’s open debate on conflict-related sexual violence on Tuesday, Indian diplomat Eldos Mathew…
new video loaded: Uber’s Sexual Assault Problem Emily Steel, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, got access to sealed court documents revealing more than 400,000 reports of sexual assault or misconduct after Uber rides over six years. She explains how Uber came up with solutions to address the problem but set some of…
Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor on Thursday lost his legal appeal against a civil court’s finding that he sexually assaulted a woman at a Dublin hotel. In November a jury at the High Court in Dublin found McGregor liable for assaulting Nikita Hand, who says he “brutally raped and battered” her in a hotel…
British actor Micheal Ward has been formally charged with two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault, according to a statement issued by the Metropolitan Police on Friday. The charges stem from alleged incidents involving a single woman that reportedly took place in January 2023. The 27-year-old actor is set to appear at…
Balasore girl set self ablaze after being forced by principal to apologise to harasser, drop plaint, claims kin BHUBANESWAR/BALASORE: Minutes before a 20-year-old college student set herself ablaze on July 12, she was allegedly coerced by her college principal to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against a senior faculty member and apologise to the accused,…
NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has constituted a four-member fact-finding committee to look into the self-immolation of a 20-year-old BEd student on campus of a government-run college in Odisha’s Balasore. UGC secretary Sudeep Singh Jain said that the committee will examine “the circumstances surrounding the incident, assess compliance with regulatory provisions, and suggest…
Cricketer Yash Dayal had moved the Allahabad High Court seeking stay on his arrest and quashing of FIR. The Allahabad High Court has granted interim protection from arrest to cricketer Yash Dayal in a sexual exploitation case. The 27-year-old cricketer was facing allegations of exploiting a woman for five years under the pretext of marriage,…
NEW DELHI: Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday announced the death of the 20-year-old girl student from FM Autonomous College, Balasore, who had attempted self-immolation earlier this month after alleging sexual harassment by a faculty memberThe victim, a second-year BEd student at FM Autonomous College, was undergoing treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar after sustaining…