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New Delhi: Minister for Women and Child Development (WCD) Maneka Gandhi has launched a portal enabling women who are sexually harassed at their workplaces in the private sector to lodge their complaints on it. 
The minister said the online complaint management system -SHe-box (sexual harassment electronic box) - would be hosted on the WCD’s website.

Harassment could include the use of foul language or cracking of lewd jokes, she said.
The complaint mechanism, which the ministry had initiated for government employees in July, is now open for women working in the private sector, too.

New Delhi: Former Union minister and NCP leader Praful Patel asserted that Atal Bihari Vajpayee had invited party chief Sharad Pawar to join the NDA in 1999 when he was the prime minister but the Maratha strongman "politely" declined the offer.

Pawar declined the offer to join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance as he felt his ideology did not match theirs, Patel said.

"In 1999, Vajpayee invited Pawar saheb to join the NDA but he politely declined the offer," Patel said, speaking at the state NCPs two-day brainstorming session which began at a luxury resort at Karjat in adjoining Raigad district.

New Delhi: NATO will boost its training mission in Afghanistan by 3,000 troops, according to chief Jens Stoltenberg.

Around half the new troops will come from the United States, and the overall size of NATO's training and support mission in the unrest-hit country will increase from 13,000 to 16,000, he said.

Speaking a day before NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels, Stoltenberg said the alliance would boost its presence "to help the Afghans break the stalemate, to send a clear message to Taliban to the insurgents that they will not win on the battleground".

New Delhi: The German tourist, who had accused a railway engineer of attacking him for allegedly not replying to the latter's greetings at Robertsganj railway station in Sonbhadra districtwas arrested by the police on charges of travelling with forged visa.

Holger Eric Misch, the tourist, was booked under Sections 14A of Foreigners Act (travelling without valid documents), 419 (cheating) and 420 (fraud) of IPC by the Sonebhadra police following investigation by the foreigner regional registration office (FFRO) of Local Intelligence Unit (LIU).

A case was lodged against Holger with Manikaran police post of Kullu district of Himachal pradesh on July 5 for attacking a person with sharp-edged weapon. His passport and visa had been deposited in CJM court of Kullu.