External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj started a Twitter poll, seeking public opinion on the personal attacks she received in the form of tweets recently. Around 43% people voted in favour of the hate she received on social media. The minister was subjected to hate-filled, abusive comments after her ministry granted passport to an interfaith couple and transferred the […]

Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj’s Twitter abuse at hands of trolls took a misogynist turn recently. One man tweeted to her husband, the former Governor of Mizoram, Swaraj Kaushal, that he should beat his wife when she gets back home and “teach her not to do appeasement”. All this hatred towards one of the […]

The Central government has rejected the plea to criminalizing marital rape. It submitted an affidavit to the Delhi High Court on Tuesday stating its stand on the issue, while responding to an RTI filed by an NGO. It said, “Defining marital rape would call for a broad-based consensus of the society,” Financial Express reported. The centre opines […]