Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar has denied allegations of sexual harassment and refused to step down. This after 14 journalists, including a Carl Zeiss award-winning environmentalist, accused him of sexual harassment at work.

Independent journalist Sandhya Menon, whose tweet on October 5 about KR Sreenivas of Times Of India placing his hand on her thigh on the drop back from work, led to an avalanche of complaints from other women, told mid-day that she wants to see those accused lose their jobs.