Namita Bhandare

But is it rape? Understanding the law that criminalises sex based on a false promise to marry

They met in 2017 over a phone conversation. She was then working at a call centre. They met a few times and in January 2019 began a sexual relationship. She now says it was forced and he had threatened her. In September she filed a police complaint accusing him of rape. He filed a petition

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Workers not volunteers says Gujarat high court about anganwadi workers

In a ruling that will have an impact across the country, the Gujarat high court has said anganwadi workers and helpers in the state are entitled to be absorbed as permanent employees with all the benefits of government employees. Justice Nikhil S Kareil has asked the Gujarat government to prepare plans to induct these women

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What Donald Trump’s decisive win says about gender in America

Less than 24 hours before American voters cast their ballot, pundits and pollsters were dead sure of a close verdict. “National polling is neck and neck but even swing states are so,” conservative historian Niall Ferguson said in an interview. We know now that Donald Trump won, and decisively, 301 to Harris’s 226. It’s a victory that

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The government will not recognise marital rape as a crime

Even the government concedes that a husband does not have a right to violate his wife’s consent. But to use the word rape to describe such a violation is “excessively harsh” and would “shake the institution of marriage”. The government was making its stand clear on the contentious issue of criminalising marital rape through a 49-page affidavit

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