by Editors | Apr 19, 2021 | #MeToo, Features
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2013 (collectively known as the POSH Act) was passed by the Lok Sabha on 3 September 2012 and in the Rajya Sabha on 26 February 2013. The Bill received the assent of the...
by Editors | Apr 18, 2021 | #MeToo, Features
There are several provisions in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) that declare certain acts to be criminal offences of “sexual harassment” and prescribe punishment for these crimes. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act of 2013 in the wake of the gang-rape and murder of a...
by Editors | Jan 27, 2021 | Features, Obituary
By Rupa Mehta Vasuben was the first Gujarati woman to become a Station Director of All India Radio. She devoted more than three decades of her life to the medium of radio at a time when it was the most popular (also male-dominated) medium of mass communication. She...
by Editors | Sep 24, 2020 | Community, NWMI Fellowship
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is pleased to announced that Telangana-based independent journalist Kavitha Katta, 40, has been conferred the Fourth NWMI Fellowship (2020), instituted to support women journalists working in various kinds of...
by Editors | Sep 1, 2020 | Features, Obituary
By Smitha Ramanathan Veteran media woman Indu Ramesh passed away on August 26, 2020. She was 83 years old. She started out as a transmission executive with All India Radio and retired more than 30 years later as the station director of Bangalore’s Commercial...
