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Maha minister slams Maneka Gandhi for comments on Tigress Avni
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]. Nov 5 (ANI): Hitting back at Union Minister Maneka Gandhi over her comments on the killing of Tigress Avni, Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said that he would have been happy if Gandhi had spoken to him before commenting on the matter.
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Maneka Gandhi slams Maha govt for 'brutal murder' of Tigress Avni
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 04 (ANI): Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Sunday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Maharashtra government over the killing of man-eating tigress Avni and termed it a "straight case of crime".
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#MeToo: Maneka Gandhi to look into institutional mechanisms of media organ
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Following a request of the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC), Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has decided to examine the institutional mechanisms of all the media organisations amid multiple allegations of sexual harassments by wo
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Maneka Gandhi urges political parties to form sexual harassment committee
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 18 (ANI): With the rising number of alleged sexual harassment cases surfacing since the #MeToo campaign raged in India, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday urged all the political parties to form internal complaint committees.
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'Akbar's continuation as minister sends out wrong message'
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 16 (ANI): Demanding an "impartial and fair inquiry" into the multiple sexual harassment allegations levelled against Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs MJ Akbar, Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC) penned a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Min
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Centre to set up committee to examine #MeToo cases
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 12 (ANI): The Ministry of Women and Child Development on Friday announced that it will be setting up a committee constituting of senior judicial and legal persons to examine all issues tumbling out from the #MeTooIndia movement.
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Maneka Gandhi happy about MeToo movement, hopes it doesn't go out of contr
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 8 (ANI): Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi on Monday said she is happy that #MeToo movement has started in India.
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Maneka Gandhi asks Rajnath to launch 'Panic Button' at earliest
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 4 (ANI): Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday appealed to Home Minister Rajnath Singh to launch the panic button feature on mobile handsets in the country as soon as possible.
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Raise time span of reporting sexual abuse to 30 years: Maneka Gandhi
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 3 (ANI): Ministry of Women and Child Development is mulling over increasing the time limit for lodging complaints of sexual harassment to 30 years.
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Harassment won't be tolerated: Maneka Gandhi on Tanushree Dutta
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], Oct 2 (ANI): Days after Tanushree Dutta claimed that Bollywood actor Nana Patekar harassed her on the sets of a film, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi stood in support of the actor.
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Leaders across parties hail SC's Sabarimala verdict
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 28 (ANI): Hours after the Supreme Court announced its verdict allowing entry of women of all ages into the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple in Kerala, politicians across party lines welcomed the historic judgement, saying that the right to pray should not be discriminated ag
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Over 1cr fake Anganwadi beneficiaries detected: Maneka Gandhi
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 11 (ANI): Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday announced that the ministry has found and eliminated approximately one crore fake beneficiaries.
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