New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) A team of global researchers on Thursday said that deepfakes, AI-assisted rape and unwanted advances are pushing women out of public life.The report by UN Women, City St George’s (University of London) and data forensic company TheNerve found that online violence against women in public life is becoming increasingly technologically sophisticated.“AI-assisted ‘virtual rape’ is now at the fingertips of perpetrators. This phenomenon accelerates the harm from onlin…
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Islamabad, April 24 (IANS) A leading minority rights organisation on Friday highlighted a disturbing pattern of violence against women, citing 6,543 cases of gender-based violence reported last year.According to the Voice of Pakistan Minority (VOPM), the violence against women recorded in 2025 rose sharply from 5,253 in 2024—a 25 per cent increase in just one year.“This is not just a trend; it is a warning. It signals that despite laws, policies, and public discourse, women across the countr…
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) Veteran actor Rakesh Bedi has expressed his thoughts on divorce, and has urged the society to change its perspective.He asked people to not treat it as an end, but infact as a new beginning.Taking to his social media account, the actor posted a video where he expressed his views on how women who seek divorce should be supported by family and society rather than judged and trolled.Rakesh said that any and every girl who returns to her parental home after separating from he…
Geneva, April 23 (IANS) The United Nations experts expressed serious concern over the continued and widespread abduction and forced religious conversion and marriages targeting women and girls from minority communities in Pakistan, warning that the climate of impunity fuels the relentless practice across the country. “Any change of religion or belief must be genuinely free from coercion, and marriage must be based on full and free consent, which is not legally possible when the victim is a child…
Islamabad, April 20 (IANS) The latest annual report by the Digital Rights Foundation has revealed that online abuse in Pakistan is evolving faster than the systems designed to contain it, a report has stated. “The main factor is Artificial Intelligence, which is transforming harassment into something more scalable, more anonymous and far harder to trace. The most disturbing consequence: children, some as young as six, are now being pulled into an ecosystem of harm that the state is woefully unpr…
Mumbai, April 20 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Monday claimed that the defeat of a constitutional amendment bill for delimitation in the Lok Sabha, ‘which was presented under the guise of women’s reservation’, exposed the government’s “deceptive tactic”.The Thackeray camp in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, said the administration relied on its “Modi hai to mumkin hai” (Modi makes it possible) mantra, “allegedly attempting to secure votes through defection or…
Mumbai, April 19 (IANS) Popular television actress Rupali Ganguly expressed her anger over the Women’s Reservation Bill’s defeat in the Lok Sabha.The ‘Anupamaa’ actress published a video on social media, voicing her disappointment. She was heard saying, “A country where Mother Durga is worshipped, where we consider women as power, where there is a woman in every house, who takes care of the whole family alone. In that country, for the past 30 years, a women’s reservation bill has been pending….
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal on Saturday stepped up the Centre’s attack on the Opposition, a day after the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill did not pass in the Lok Sabha, alleging that MPs opposed it due to political considerations, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s growing popularity.Notably, the Bill proposed increasing the Lok Sabha’s strength from 543 to 850 seats and also aimed to operationalise the 33 per cent reservation for …
Jaipur, April 18 (IANS) Rajasthan BJP chief Madan Rathore has strongly criticised the Congress party, terming it “anti-women” and asserting that its historical track record reflects consistent neglect of women’s rights. Citing the Shah Bano case as a prominent example, he stated that the then Congress government overturned a Supreme Court judgment through legislative action, thereby denying justice to a woman.According to him, this decision not only affected the individual concerned …
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Congress General Secretary and Wayanad MP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Saturday said that through the “unity” of the Opposition, the Centre’s “conspiracy” to allegedly alter the federal structure and weaken democracy was “defeated”. She made these remarks during a press conference following the defeat of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, in the Lok Sabha a day earlier.The Bill, which aimed to provide 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament, failed to…