It’s five years since the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government first started the Nirbhaya Fund in 2013 to tackle the appalling state of women’s safety in India. The non-lapsable corpus fund was constituted after the country outraged against five men who gang raped and murdered 23-year-old Jyoti Singh in 2012. The Congress government allocated […]

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, led by senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, has reviewed the Himmat Plus app developed by the Delhi Police in its attempt to tackle crime against women. The committee said that the app has failed in ensuring safety of women as very few people have downloaded it in a city […]