Nirbhaya Fund

03 Dec 2019
On Tuesday, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal said the police stopped her from sitting on an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar.

08 Aug 2018
Women and Child Development Ministry has ordered a social audit of over 9,000 child care institutions across India in two months, an official said today.

25 May 2018
Becoming the first of the eight 'safe cities' earmarked by Centre for utilizing Nirbhaya Fund, Mumbai Police have made an elaborate plan to ensure women's safety.

14 Apr 2018
On December 16, 2012, a paramedical student was brutally gang-raped on a bus in Delhi, an incident that forced India to confront the horrors of gender-based sexual violence prevalent in the country.

03 Mar 2018
Just two months after an eight-month-old baby girl was raped in Delhi, there's been another horrific incident in India.

02 Mar 2018
The Central government on Thursday approved Rs. 2,919 crore under Nirbhaya Fund to create eight "safe cities" that will have patrolled public spaces and quicker response systems to curb crimes against women.

16 Feb 2018
The SC was shocked to find out that Madhya Pradesh (MP), which got the highest amount among states from the Nirbhaya Fund, spent around just Rs. 6,000 on an average per rape victim.

02 Feb 2018
In the Union Budget 2018-19 announced on Thursday, the Delhi Police has been allocated Rs. 7,426 crore for the next fiscal year, that shows an increase of Rs. 1,048 crore over the current year.

16 Dec 2017
Today marks five years of the gruesome gang-rape of Nirbhaya, an incident that triggered country-wide protests forcing the government to formulate new laws on crimes against women.

14 Nov 2017
A rape incident needs to stand out to get noticed in India.

15 Aug 2017
Railway stations in the Delhi Division have seen some horrific crimes in recent times. In June at Ballabgarh, Junaid Khan was lynched on a train.

21 Jun 2017
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal approved the transport department's proposal of installing CCTV cameras and panic buttons on 6,350 DTC and cluster buses.

05 May 2017
In December 2012, the brutal rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who was tortured and left to die on the roadside, shook India and the world.

20 Feb 2017
Delhi witnessed the hottest February 19 in five years with maximum temperature soaring to 30.8 degrees Celsius, six degrees above the normal 24.8.