New Delhi: Women journalists who hurled allegations of sexual harassment and molestation against former editor M.J. Akbar on Wednesday expressed happiness over his exit as the Minister of State for External Affairs and vowed to continue their fight. Besides those who levelled the charges against Akbar, government bodies meant to[Read More…]
New Delhi: In a major decision on investigating the #MeToo allegations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP government decides to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to lead the investigation on Wednesday. However, earlier Women and Child Development Ministry (WCD) led by Union Minister Maneka Gandhi had announced to[Read More…]
Amid #MeToo allegations, MJ Akhbar on Wednesday October 17, reportedly resigned from his post of Minister of State for External Affairs after being slapped with sexual harassment charges. #MJAkbar resigns from his post of Minister of State External Affairs MEA. pic.twitter.com/dxf4EtFl5P — ANI (@ANI) October 17, 2018 Junior Foreign Minister[Read More…]
#MeToo movement: Another survivor accuses Kailash Kher of sexual harassment. In her narration, Singer Varsha Singh Dhanoa accuses Kailash Kher and another Music Director Toshi of misconducting with her in different instances. “We were in his car and I asked him (Music Director Toshi) when are we going to record.[Read More…]
Mumbai: Within a week of setting up a special committee on sexual harassment, the Producers Guild of India has made it mandatory for all members to sign a declaration affirming that laws around sexual harassment of women at workplace are instituted and implemented. Last week, the Producers Guild appointed a[Read More…]
Mumbai: Actress-filmmaker Nandita Das, whose father — artist Jatin Das — has been accused of sexually harassing a woman, says while she will continue to add voice to the #MeToo movement, she believes the truth will prevail in the “disturbing allegations” against the Padma Bhushan recipient. “As a strong supporter[Read More…]
Adding to the chain of events amid #MeToo movement in India, recently it was reported that Jatin Das, father of actor, director and writer Nandita Das, has been accused of sexual misconduct. A well-known and revered Indian painter Jatin Das, also a Padma Bhushan awardee, was accused by a woman[Read More…]
Mumbai: Veteran singer-composer Bappi Lahiri feels women should have shared their sexual harassment stories when they happened as he feels they would have got due justice for it. Bappi interacted with the media at the music launch of “Mausam Ikrar Ke Do Pal Pyar Ke”, along with the film’s cast[Read More…]
While India is severely hit with #MeToo movement with more and more women coming out to share their experience of sexual misconduct, Sukhnidh Kaur, a legal aid counsellor in Mumbai, has come up with a song to convey an important message about consent. In her song, she described various situations when consent[Read More…]
Over the last week, Indian women have shown courage and rose to speak about what has been dirty experiences and abuses and harassment they went through in the hands of few celebrities and famous faces of India. The incidents are bound to revive the disturbing memories of being assaulted by[Read More…]
National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) national president Fairoz Khan has reportedly stepped down after slapped with sexual harassment allegations. According to the reports, Khan, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, submitted his resignation on Monday. Last week, Khan was accused of harassing and exploiting at least 5 girls from NSUI. The[Read More…]
Life on this piece of rock that we call Earth has never been a bed of roses, especially for women. Man, in his arrogance and self-pride, has kept women deprived of their basic human rights, even the right to live. Man considered woman as a commodity, that he could own[Read More…]
Yash Raj Films sacks its senior executive Ashish Patil after #MeToo allegations emerged against him on social media. Tuesday morning the YRF announced to terminate the services of Ashish with immediate effect following the sexual harassment stories. pic.twitter.com/swTvIYBGin — Yash Raj Films (@yrf) October 16, 2018 Ashish was Vice President[Read More…]
Another woman takes back her allegation of sexual harassment against MJ Akbar saying that he did not do anything and that she might be imagining it. The woman who had given brief description of the experience she had with MJ Akbar when he was with The Asian Age. In her[Read More…]
Chetan Bhagat claims that author Ira Trivedi’s #MeToo allegations on him were false and baseless. To prove his claims he has pulled out her old email from 2013 and made it public saying, “self-explanatory email from 2013 to me. So who wanted to kiss whom?” This came as a reaction[Read More…]
Mumbai: Former Miss universe Sushmita Sen is proud of the women who have spoken up about their unsavoury experiences, as a result of the MeToo movement. She says now is the time to listen, believe and let justice prevail. Sushmita Sen interacted with the media at the Bombay Times Fashion[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Minister MJ Akbar on Monday filed a criminal defamation complaint against a journalist, Priya Ramani, who had accused him of sexual harassment. Akbar has been accused of sexual harassment by several women journalists who had worked with him. He has denied the charges as “false, wild and[Read More…]
Mumbai: Actress Kriti Sanon on Sunday urged people to handle the #MeToo movement responsibly and to not dilute the movement with their anonymity. She believes men and women must reveal their identity before imposing serious allegations against someone. The “Barielly Ki Barfi” star Kriti Sanon took to Twitter to share[Read More…]
In yet another revelation under #MeToo, now a filmmaker Nishtha Jain names a very famous face of media fraternity, Vinod Dua. Nishtha took to social media platform Facebook to share her experience with the veteran journalist and explains how sexually harassed her 29-years back in 1989. In her post, she[Read More…]
Hyderabad: Post allegations of sexual harassment by an anonymous woman, a complaint has been filed against filmmaker Subhash Ghai by model-actress, Kate Sharma, who has accused him of molestation. Kate alleged that the ‘Taal’ filmmaker molested her by forcefully trying to kiss and hug her. “He called me to his[Read More…]
After India, now #MeToo movement has started at the border country, Nepal with women from different parts of the country coming forward to share their stories and expose guilty sitting in powerful positions. However, most women sharing their stories on sexual assault in Nepal have largely refrained from naming and[Read More…]
Mumbai: As many as 11 women Indian filmmakers on Sunday came together to support the raging #MeToo movement in India, saying they have taken a stand to not work with proven offenders. Alankrita Shrivastava, Gauri Shinde, Kiran Rao, Konkona Sen Sharma, Meghna Guizar, Nandita Das, Nitya Mehra, Reema Kagti, Ruchi[Read More…]
Mumbai: Actress Kirron Kher said that every organisation should follow the Vishakha Guidelines to curb sexual harassment at workplaces. Kher was interacting with the media launch of television reality show “India’s Got Talent” season 8 along with co-judges Malaika Arora and Karan Johar on Saturday here. Reacting to the #MeToo[Read More…]
New Delhi: Reacting to the allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) on Saturday asked him to submit an explanation within a week. In the latest case of the #MeToo movement in cricket, Johri has been accused of sexual assault[Read More…]
Mumbai: Two eminent Mumbai-based lawyers, Mrunalini Deshmukh and Vaibhav Krishnan, have volunteered to provide legal aid to victims of sexual harassment and assault, without charging any fee. Several commentators have said that the #MeToo movement would fizzle out unless legal recourse is taken by or on behalf of women who[Read More…]
