-The Hindu ‘If the protector of women’s rights becomes a mute spectator where can I go?’ Mumbai: She faced sexual harassment at a reputed multinational company and was terminated from services after she sought an enquiry as per Vishakha guidelines (norms laid down by the Supreme Court for the employers to deal with such cases at workplace). A heart patient who has undergone open heart surgery, she has been fighting a long-drawn, bitter...

-CNN-IBN Mumbai: The rape and murder of the three sisters in Maharashtra's Bhandara district has led to some status check on the increasing rate of crime against women in the state. An RTI inquiry shows such crimes are on the rise in Maharashtra. The distraught mother who lost her three daughters to unknown rapists - the triple rape case has brought to focus the growing number of sexual crimes against women in...

-The Times of India BHOPAL: Brides are being bought in Madhya Pradesh - sometimes in exchange for a buffalo and some cash. It might have sounded bizarre had there not been such a tragic tinge to it. In districts like Ashoknagar and Guna, where men far outnumber women probably due to female foeticide, desperate grooms are turning to human traffickers to find a wife. It's no problem if they don't have deep...

-The Hindu Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s budget for 2013-14 will be remembered not only for its strategies to stimulate economic growth and control fiscal deficit, but also for the importance given to the needs of the underprivileged sections of our society. In the field of agriculture, he has adopted the following three pronged strategy: 1. Defend the gains already made in the original green revolution areas like Punjab and Haryana: For this purpose...

-First Post While Finance Minister P Chidambaram played the knight in the shining armour role to the hilt, going all out to woo the Indian woman – with an all-woman bank, the ‘Nirbhaya’ fund and an empathetic lecture on the girl child- after the shock value wears out, we are only left with measures which at best might only scrape the tip of the iceberg that is women’s development and security...