Woman Heckled

A woman was tied to a pole at a market place at Jowai in Meghalaya and heckled for alleged pickpocketing, prompting police to initiate action against those involved, officials said on Friday.

An NDTV investigation into the case of a young Hindu woman heckled inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh by Hindutva activists because she had married a Muslim man has found multiple weak links in the case and actions against the couple.

A Muslim man and his brother have been arrested by the police in western Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad after he and a 22-year-old Hindu woman tried to get their marriage registered in the district's Kanth area.

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh, known for courting controversies with his comments, made yet another outrageous one on Thursday by saying that a lone woman protestor at a pro-CAA rally in the city who was heckled by the party's cadres should "thank her stars that nothing else was done to her".

The Sabarimala temple will close on Monday at 10 pm after the five-day puja. The shrine had opened on October 18, first time after the Supreme Court's landmark verdict, allowing women in menstruating age groups to enter the temple. In the last four days, nine women in the 10-50 age groups have been stopped by protesters from going to the temple. Ye...

A woman suffered from panic attack and had to be taken to a hospital near Sabarimala after masses of protesters surrounded and heckled her. Earlier today, two women had to turn back after facing similar treatment from groups that have been camping on way to the hill shrine, determined not to let any woman of reproductive age set foot there.

Four days after the doors of the Sabarimala temple inKerala opened after the Supreme Court stepped in to overturn a nearly three-decade-old ruling formalising a ban on women of menstruating age,a sixth women arrived at Pamba, attempting to enter the temple yesterday.

A 40-year-old woman and her family were heckled and intimidated on Wednesday as they walked towards the Sabarimala temple, which opens this evening for the first time since the Supreme Court overturned a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age -- 10 to 50 years -- entering the shrine. Madhavi, who is from Andhra Pradesh, began the climb to t...

Ken Jeong thought he was being heckled in Phoenix on Saturday when a woman in the third row during his set at the Stand Up Live Comedy Club unmoored the comedian with a disturbance. The lights came on, and it became clear the woman was having an apparent seizure, an audience member later said. Then, "The Hangover" and "Community" actor reverted to ...

A Sikh man was asked to remove his turban in a club in Canada by a woman, who also threatened to "rip" off the headgear and heckled him with racist remarks, according to a media report

A 20-year-old woman hanged herself at her home in Chikmagalur in Karnataka, blaming moral policing by a local right-wing organisation in her suicide note. Police said the woman, who was friendly with a Muslim man, named five men who came to her house on Saturday evening and heckled her in front of her parents.

A Sikh lawmaker's measured response to being heckled by a belligerent woman in Canada has impressed many. Jagmeet Singh was subjected to an aggressive and racist rant by a woman at a campaign event in Brampton, Ontario on Wednesday and responded by saying: "We welcome you. We love you. We support you." A video of the exchange is viral.

A young Latina who came to the aid of a Muslim couple who were being verbally harassed by a passenger aboard a crowded New York City subway train is being praised for standing up for the pair.

At least 15 media persons were beaten up and heckled by outsiders during the Salt Lake civic polls in Kolkata today. A woman reporter of a Bengali news channel also claims she was threatened with rape.

Japanese officials on Friday condemned the heckling of a woman member of Tokyo's city assembly, during a debate on support for working mothers, by male members who ridiculed her and called on her to get married.

A woman was tied to a pole at a market place at Jowai in Meghalaya and heckled for alleged pickpocketing, prompting police to initiate action against those involved, officials said on Friday.

An NDTV investigation into the case of a young Hindu woman heckled inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh by Hindutva activists because she had married a Muslim man has found multiple weak links in the case and actions against the couple.

A Muslim man and his brother have been arrested by the police in western Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad after he and a 22-year-old Hindu woman tried to get their marriage registered in the district's Kanth area.

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh, known for courting controversies with his comments, made yet another outrageous one on Thursday by saying that a lone woman protestor at a pro-CAA rally in the city who was heckled by the party's cadres should "thank her stars that nothing else was done to her".

The Sabarimala temple will close on Monday at 10 pm after the five-day puja. The shrine had opened on October 18, first time after the Supreme Court's landmark verdict, allowing women in menstruating age groups to enter the temple. In the last four days, nine women in the 10-50 age groups have been stopped by protesters from going to the temple. Ye...

A woman suffered from panic attack and had to be taken to a hospital near Sabarimala after masses of protesters surrounded and heckled her. Earlier today, two women had to turn back after facing similar treatment from groups that have been camping on way to the hill shrine, determined not to let any woman of reproductive age set foot there.

Four days after the doors of the Sabarimala temple inKerala opened after the Supreme Court stepped in to overturn a nearly three-decade-old ruling formalising a ban on women of menstruating age,a sixth women arrived at Pamba, attempting to enter the temple yesterday.

A 40-year-old woman and her family were heckled and intimidated on Wednesday as they walked towards the Sabarimala temple, which opens this evening for the first time since the Supreme Court overturned a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age -- 10 to 50 years -- entering the shrine. Madhavi, who is from Andhra Pradesh, began the climb to t...

Ken Jeong thought he was being heckled in Phoenix on Saturday when a woman in the third row during his set at the Stand Up Live Comedy Club unmoored the comedian with a disturbance. The lights came on, and it became clear the woman was having an apparent seizure, an audience member later said. Then, "The Hangover" and "Community" actor reverted to ...

A Sikh man was asked to remove his turban in a club in Canada by a woman, who also threatened to "rip" off the headgear and heckled him with racist remarks, according to a media report

A 20-year-old woman hanged herself at her home in Chikmagalur in Karnataka, blaming moral policing by a local right-wing organisation in her suicide note. Police said the woman, who was friendly with a Muslim man, named five men who came to her house on Saturday evening and heckled her in front of her parents.

A Sikh lawmaker's measured response to being heckled by a belligerent woman in Canada has impressed many. Jagmeet Singh was subjected to an aggressive and racist rant by a woman at a campaign event in Brampton, Ontario on Wednesday and responded by saying: "We welcome you. We love you. We support you." A video of the exchange is viral.

A young Latina who came to the aid of a Muslim couple who were being verbally harassed by a passenger aboard a crowded New York City subway train is being praised for standing up for the pair.

At least 15 media persons were beaten up and heckled by outsiders during the Salt Lake civic polls in Kolkata today. A woman reporter of a Bengali news channel also claims she was threatened with rape.

Japanese officials on Friday condemned the heckling of a woman member of Tokyo's city assembly, during a debate on support for working mothers, by male members who ridiculed her and called on her to get married.