Policewomen

A shocking video of two Telangana policewomen dragging a protesting student by her hair has emerged online and is being widely circulated.

Crime against women is on the rise in the metros and many states, but the number of women police personnel in most parts of the country is extremely low, according to data from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

As incessant rain battered Himachal Pradesh over the past few days, causing floods and landslides and leaving many people stranded, young women serving in the police force led from the front.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is apparently so annoyed with policewomen who posed for selfies with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra that he is contemplating action against them, the Congress leader said on Friday, offering to be punished instead.

She may have been stopped by the police from travelling to Uttar Pradesh's Agra to meet the family of a man who died in police custody, but that did not stop Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to pause for selfies with several policewomen on the way.

"Try and remove me," a woman in a red silk sari, eyes blazing with defiance, declares as she points a sword at policemen tasked with enforcing a 21-day nationwide lockdown to fight coronavirus. The bizarre showdown, caught on mobile phone camera, ended with a group of policewomen arresting her and dragging her away in a van.

Female mannequins dressed as policewomen will soon be deployed at places frequented by women in Bengaluru, a police officer said on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya hit out at Congress's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra a day after the alleged police action on her, and said "nautanki" (theatrics) will not fetch her party votes. The Congress leader alleged on Saturday that she had been manhandled and "grabbed by the throat" by policewomen as they tried to stop her f...

A drunk woman created ruckus at a police station in Hyderabad and attacked two police women in the early hours today, police said.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today scrapped the order issued by the Deputy Commissioner (DC), Manpreet Singh Chhatwal, Fazilka, imposing a dress code on its employees.

In a rare light-hearted moment captured on camera, women police officers in Delhi grooved to a popular Haryanvi song 'Teri Aakhya Ka Yo Kajal' during a recent event.

Fifteen policewomen have been posted for security at the Sabarimala shrine in Kerala, for the first time in its history. Their main qualification for this job is that all are 50 and above, compliant with the temple's ban on women of a menstrual age or between 10 and 50 years.

The row over protests at Sabarimala peaked today as a video surfaced that shows Kerala BJP chief Sreedharan Pillai allegedly taking credit for the way the protests unfolded. As local television channels aired the video, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan tweeted that it proves the BJP "connived to create trouble in Sabarimala". Around 2,300 security p...

A woman fell 30 feet to the ground from a mobile tower in Bhopal today while protesting for regularisation of pay. The police were trying to bring down the woman - an Asha (Accredited Social Health Activist) worker - from the mobile tower, barely 200 metres from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's home, when she fell. Two policewomen were also i...

Lawmakers of Mamata Banerjee's TMC were on Thursday stopped at an airport in Silchar airport in Assam, where they were planning to campaign against the Assam NRC. Women in the Trinamool team were seen running as they were chased and restrained by policewomen in dramatic footage from the airport.

A shocking video of two Telangana policewomen dragging a protesting student by her hair has emerged online and is being widely circulated.

Crime against women is on the rise in the metros and many states, but the number of women police personnel in most parts of the country is extremely low, according to data from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

As incessant rain battered Himachal Pradesh over the past few days, causing floods and landslides and leaving many people stranded, young women serving in the police force led from the front.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is apparently so annoyed with policewomen who posed for selfies with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra that he is contemplating action against them, the Congress leader said on Friday, offering to be punished instead.

She may have been stopped by the police from travelling to Uttar Pradesh's Agra to meet the family of a man who died in police custody, but that did not stop Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to pause for selfies with several policewomen on the way.

"Try and remove me," a woman in a red silk sari, eyes blazing with defiance, declares as she points a sword at policemen tasked with enforcing a 21-day nationwide lockdown to fight coronavirus. The bizarre showdown, caught on mobile phone camera, ended with a group of policewomen arresting her and dragging her away in a van.

Female mannequins dressed as policewomen will soon be deployed at places frequented by women in Bengaluru, a police officer said on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya hit out at Congress's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra a day after the alleged police action on her, and said "nautanki" (theatrics) will not fetch her party votes. The Congress leader alleged on Saturday that she had been manhandled and "grabbed by the throat" by policewomen as they tried to stop her f...

A drunk woman created ruckus at a police station in Hyderabad and attacked two police women in the early hours today, police said.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today scrapped the order issued by the Deputy Commissioner (DC), Manpreet Singh Chhatwal, Fazilka, imposing a dress code on its employees.

In a rare light-hearted moment captured on camera, women police officers in Delhi grooved to a popular Haryanvi song 'Teri Aakhya Ka Yo Kajal' during a recent event.

Fifteen policewomen have been posted for security at the Sabarimala shrine in Kerala, for the first time in its history. Their main qualification for this job is that all are 50 and above, compliant with the temple's ban on women of a menstrual age or between 10 and 50 years.

The row over protests at Sabarimala peaked today as a video surfaced that shows Kerala BJP chief Sreedharan Pillai allegedly taking credit for the way the protests unfolded. As local television channels aired the video, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan tweeted that it proves the BJP "connived to create trouble in Sabarimala". Around 2,300 security p...

A woman fell 30 feet to the ground from a mobile tower in Bhopal today while protesting for regularisation of pay. The police were trying to bring down the woman - an Asha (Accredited Social Health Activist) worker - from the mobile tower, barely 200 metres from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's home, when she fell. Two policewomen were also i...

Lawmakers of Mamata Banerjee's TMC were on Thursday stopped at an airport in Silchar airport in Assam, where they were planning to campaign against the Assam NRC. Women in the Trinamool team were seen running as they were chased and restrained by policewomen in dramatic footage from the airport.