Sexual Harassment Incident

Police in Pakistan on Thursday arrested 15 people allegedly involved in the sexual assault of a YouTuber girl on Independence Day at the historic Minar-i-Pakistan, after the incident sparked nationwide outrage and drew international condemnation.

Two minor girls died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh in separate incidents on Tuesday, one after she was allegedly gang raped and the other, after allegedly sexual harassment.

A man has been arrested for allegedly raping three girls in Gujarat's Vadodara, the police said. The incident came to light when one of the girls started crying during a class on sexual harassment and informed her teacher of the assault.

A former model has accused US President Donald Trump of groping and forcibly kissing her in 1997 -- the latest allegation made against the Republican incumbent just weeks before he seeks reelection.

In a shocking incident, a 22-year-old man carrying a gun allegedly sexually harassed a 21-year-old woman, fired in the air and tried to kill her in Maharashtra's Pune district, police said on Monday.

Details of the alleged incident of sexual harassment by former Union minister MJ Akbar, when he was a journalist, against another journalist, Priya Ramani, were "so bizarre" and "inappropriate" that it created a lasting image, Ms Ramani's friend, in whom she had confided about her experience, told a Delhi court Friday.

Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien on Wednesday shared that he was sexually abused as a teenager and urged people to talk about such experiences instead of repressing them, as he participated in a debate in parliament on a law on sexual crimes against children.

A 51-year-old businessman was stabbed to death allegedly by four people when he confronted them for harassing his daughter in Delhi's Moti Nagar area on Saturday night. The victim's family members claimed that passersby remained apathetic through it all, shooting the incident on their mobile phones instead of trying to help him.

A Tripura minister seen on video groping a female ministerial colleague on stage in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has landed in a major controversy with the opposition demanding that he be fired and charged with sexual harassment.

"I never realised it because, I escaped. Because the person did not touch me and I managed to ward it off," Swara Bhasker said

A woman was beaten up, stripped and made to run naked in her village in Gopiganj area of the Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh for resisting sexual harassment, police said on Sunday.

A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly sexually harassed by a youth in a village and beaten up by him when she objected to his behaviour, police said today. The incident took place in Malira village on Sunday when the girl went to buy milk. She was intercepted by the youth, who allegedly misbehaved with her. When she objected to his behaviour, the ...

Nearly a thousand woman students protested last night at a college near Chennai after a student was allegedly sexually harassed in the hostel by a worker. A second-year undergraduate student at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Kancheepuram district said she was sexually harassedby a male worker in the hostel lift on Thursday afternoon...

A week after 20,000 employees walked out in protest over sexual misconduct and inequality at Google, the company said Thursday that it will commit to building a safer workplace, which includes ending forced arbitration and increasing its transparency on reported incidents of sexual misconduct.

Editor-turned-politician MJ Akbar, who had to resign as union minister amid sexual harassment allegations piling up against him, has now been accused of rape by a US-based journalist who worked with him over three decades ago. MJ Akbar has dismissed the incidents and allegations as false, his lawyer told The Washington Post, which has publis...

Police in Pakistan on Thursday arrested 15 people allegedly involved in the sexual assault of a YouTuber girl on Independence Day at the historic Minar-i-Pakistan, after the incident sparked nationwide outrage and drew international condemnation.

Two minor girls died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh in separate incidents on Tuesday, one after she was allegedly gang raped and the other, after allegedly sexual harassment.

A man has been arrested for allegedly raping three girls in Gujarat's Vadodara, the police said. The incident came to light when one of the girls started crying during a class on sexual harassment and informed her teacher of the assault.

A former model has accused US President Donald Trump of groping and forcibly kissing her in 1997 -- the latest allegation made against the Republican incumbent just weeks before he seeks reelection.

In a shocking incident, a 22-year-old man carrying a gun allegedly sexually harassed a 21-year-old woman, fired in the air and tried to kill her in Maharashtra's Pune district, police said on Monday.

Details of the alleged incident of sexual harassment by former Union minister MJ Akbar, when he was a journalist, against another journalist, Priya Ramani, were "so bizarre" and "inappropriate" that it created a lasting image, Ms Ramani's friend, in whom she had confided about her experience, told a Delhi court Friday.

Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien on Wednesday shared that he was sexually abused as a teenager and urged people to talk about such experiences instead of repressing them, as he participated in a debate in parliament on a law on sexual crimes against children.

A 51-year-old businessman was stabbed to death allegedly by four people when he confronted them for harassing his daughter in Delhi's Moti Nagar area on Saturday night. The victim's family members claimed that passersby remained apathetic through it all, shooting the incident on their mobile phones instead of trying to help him.

A Tripura minister seen on video groping a female ministerial colleague on stage in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has landed in a major controversy with the opposition demanding that he be fired and charged with sexual harassment.

"I never realised it because, I escaped. Because the person did not touch me and I managed to ward it off," Swara Bhasker said

A woman was beaten up, stripped and made to run naked in her village in Gopiganj area of the Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh for resisting sexual harassment, police said on Sunday.

A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly sexually harassed by a youth in a village and beaten up by him when she objected to his behaviour, police said today. The incident took place in Malira village on Sunday when the girl went to buy milk. She was intercepted by the youth, who allegedly misbehaved with her. When she objected to his behaviour, the ...

Nearly a thousand woman students protested last night at a college near Chennai after a student was allegedly sexually harassed in the hostel by a worker. A second-year undergraduate student at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Kancheepuram district said she was sexually harassedby a male worker in the hostel lift on Thursday afternoon...

A week after 20,000 employees walked out in protest over sexual misconduct and inequality at Google, the company said Thursday that it will commit to building a safer workplace, which includes ending forced arbitration and increasing its transparency on reported incidents of sexual misconduct.

Editor-turned-politician MJ Akbar, who had to resign as union minister amid sexual harassment allegations piling up against him, has now been accused of rape by a US-based journalist who worked with him over three decades ago. MJ Akbar has dismissed the incidents and allegations as false, his lawyer told The Washington Post, which has publis...