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औरतों का मासिक धर्म, सेहत और रमज़ान

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अफ़शां खान  ‘जानमाज़ मत छूना… क़ुरआन से दूर हटो… अपने कपड़े अलग धो लेना… तुम्हारा रोज़ा नहीं, लेकिन सबका है, इसलिए छुपकर खा लो…’ क्या...

‘मुसलमान औरतें कभी पीछे नहीं रहीं, चाहे वो असहयोग आंदोलन हो या भारत छोड़ो...

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Fahmina Hussain, TwoCircles.net सच्चर कमिटी रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक़ ग्रामीण इलाकों में मुस्लिम आबादी के 62.2 प्रतिशत के पास कोई ज़मीन नहीं है, जबकि इसका राष्ट्रीय...

‘Crorepati’ woman to use money on kids’ ‘good education’

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By Shahnawaz Akhtar, IANS,

Will, grit are key to achievement, say power women

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : They balanced homes and careers, often with great success. But breaking bastions and new grounds was not easy, say a cross-section of women who look back on their lives this International Women's Day. And what keeps them going? Determination, they chorus. "My message to the women is that if you have a goal then you have to let all the rest eddy around you - but you need not totally reject all that the Indian society forces on you," Anjolie Ela Menon, the 70-year-old artist, told IANS.

Woman travelling on fake passport arrested

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By IANS, Hyderabad : The police here Thursday arrested a woman who was trying to travel to Kuwait on a fake passport. The woman was arrested at the international airport at Shamshabad near here when she was about to board an aircraft to Kuwait. The police have also arrested a travel agent, who was sending her abroad on fake documents. Bayamma, a native of West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, had paid Rs.40,000 to the travel agent to arrange her a passport and other documents.

Sania Mirza breaks into top-5 for first time

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New Delhi: India's tennis star Sania Mirza Monday broke into the top-five of the doubles WTA rankings for the first time in her career. Sania...

A course to help women get back to work after sabbatical

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By IANS, Gurgaon : Women who often grapple with re-joining work after a sabbatical now have help on hand, courtesy a course offered by a business school here.

Lifelong struggle against the caste system to create a life of dignity

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Sushma Andhare is well known today among Dalit/Ambedkarite movement. She is a professor and teaches sociology and political science. But that...

Mizoram woman found dead in Delhi

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New Delhi: A 24-year-old woman from Mizoram was found dead at her home here and the police are now hunting for her male partner,...

India steps into history with women’s quota bill

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By Minu Jain, IANS, New Delhi: India's politics took a decisive step towards change Tuesday with its upper house passing a historic bill giving one-third representation to women in parliament and state legislatures, crossing the biggest hurdle in the road towards political empowerment for women in the world's largest democracy.

​​Who is Teesta Setalvad? From 2002 Gujarat riots to 2022 SC verdict

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The arrest of Padma Shri awardee Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad has been widely condemned. Muhammed Nihad P V | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — The detention of...

Indian women beat Ireland 2-1

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New Delhi: The Indian women's hockey team put on an inspiring show to beat Ireland 2-1 in their second Test match in Dublin. The win...

Ramadan 1439: Mehnaaz

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By Poornima Marh, TwoCircles.net Mehnaaz, 21, is a psychological counsellor and a career guide at Blue Nile counselling. She says, “This is my passion, something...

Women victims of abuse turn child abusers: study

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By IANS, Washington : Women who have faced abuse at the hands of elders and relatives as children can themselves turn into child molesters, according to an extensive new study. Most people believe women are incapable of committing such acts and the abuse of boys by women is often dismissed as the boys sowing their wild oats, said Susan Strickland of University of Georgia and author of the study.

Women activists, journalists condemn hate speech, online auction of Muslim women during virtual event

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On January 8, ANHAD organised a virtual discussion titled Women Against Hate in response to hate speech against India's Muslims during an event...

From Designing Clothes To Designing Cakes: The Journey of a Hijabi Cake Artist From...

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Sobiya Inamdar/ TwoCircles.net Nadia Aslam, a resident of Panjim, Goa has always had a love for baking cakes. She used to bake delicious cakes for...

Explosion of woman power

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : It was an explosion of art for women and mostly by women at the Art Mall, one of the country's biggest display spaces in the capital. Art Mall unveiled an exhibition "Liberation", showcasing nearly 500 works by over 300 senior artists from across the country on International Women's Day last Sunday. The exhibition will end March 17. The mall is also organising a 10-day workshop of art, graphic, sculpture and drawing. The exhibition, one of the biggest in the capital, was inaugurated by senior artist Anjolie Ela Menon.

Unsafe abortions claim lives of 4,500 women per year

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By IANS, New Delhi: As many of 4,500 deaths or eight percent of all maternal deaths occur due to unsafe abortions every year, parliament was told Friday.

Rapes make country’s head hang in shame: Modi

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday the country's head hangs in shame whenever there is news about rape. "Our heads hang in shame...

पल्लबी घोष : मासूम बेटियों की रिहाई के लिए जूझने वाली बहादुर एक बेटी

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जाकिर अली त्यागी Two circles.net के लिए  पल्लबी घोष नाम वाली एक लड़की अब तक विंभिन्न जगहो पर कैद 5 हजार  से ज्यादा मासूम लड़कियों को आज़ाद...

Two Bengaluru school officials held for girl’s death

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Bengaluru: The chairman and director of a school in which a teenage girl was shot dead were arrested on Thursday for failing to comply...

Night shift for Madhya Pradesh women workers opposed

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By IANS, Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh's decision to amend a law to allow women to work in factories up to 10 p.m. has been opposed by women groups alleging it will lead to their exploitation. "The Madhya Pradesh government has Saturday issued a notification allowing women in factories to work from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.," an official said Monday adding that the notification has been issued in keeping with the Factories Act, 1948.

Gujarat woman wants son’s biological father to pay maintenance

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By IANS, Ahmedabad: A woman Tuesday moved the family court here seeking maintenance from the biological father of her five-year-old son. The court has issued notice to the biological father of the boy returnable Aug 16. The woman had earlier accused the boy's father of rape and dragged him to court which sentenced him to jail. He was later acquitted by the Gujarat High Court. According to the woman's lawyers Shamshad Pathan and Asif Sheikh, she has now sought Rs.9 lakh for the past five years during which she brought up the child.

National shooter attacked for protesting wife’s harassment

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Women’s groups continue protests against Andhra governor

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By IANS, Hyderabad: Women's groups staged protests near the Raj Bhavan here Saturday demanding that Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D. Tiwari resign over his alleged involvement in a "sex scandal", an allegation he has denied and termed "malicious". Holding placards and raising slogans against the governor, activists of various groups tried to march towards Raj Bhavan, the official residence of the governor, but were prevented by the police. Protesters were arrested as they squatted on the busy Khairatabad crossroads.

Rajya Sabha members condemn acid attacks

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New Delhi: Cutting across party lines, Rajya Sabha members Friday condemned the many incidents of acid attacks and demanded stringent punishment for their perpetrators,...

CBI consulting legal experts in Rathore case

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By IANS, New Delhi : After facing criticism for mishandling the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday said it was seeking legal opinion to include charges of abetment to suicide against former Haryana director general of police S.P.S. Rathore.

This young educator is breaking taboos around menstrual hygiene

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The objective of Farheen Naaz’s organisation is to break the taboo that has been built around menstrual hygiene since ages and normalise period...

Half of Delhi’s women voters turned out for polls

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By IANS, New Delhi : An elated Election Commission Saturday said that over 50 percent of women voters in the capital came out to cast their votes for the Lok Sabha polls, showing much more enthusiasm than in the last general elections. "We were flooded with calls from women voters enquiring about the poll process and clearing doubts over their identity proof," Uday Baxi, joint chief electoral officer, told IANS.

Woman lawyer stabbed to death in court

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By IANS, Bangalore: An advocate allegedly stabbed a woman lawyer to death in the Karnataka High Court Thursday over a failed love affair, a police official said. Advocate Raju, 28, stabbed junior lawyer Naveena, 25, many times with a knife and then attempted to commit suicide by slitting his throat and consuming poison. He also attempted to stab himself in the stomach, Cubbon Park police sub-inspector Jagdish told IANS. By the time Naveena was rushed to a nearby hospital, she died. Raju was taken to a private hospital for emergency treatment and is under intensive care.

BJP derails Rajya Sabha over triple talaq row

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New Delhi, (IANS): The ruling BJP on Wednesday forced an unprecedented adjournment in the Rajya Sabha as the opposition pressed for the triple talaq Bill...

1.22 lakh Delhi women fined for not wearing helmets

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New Delhi : A staggering 1,22,523 women two-wheeler riders in the national capital have been fined by the Delhi traffic police in the last...

Sushma seeks support for women’s reservation bill

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New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party Wednesday said the 16th Lok Sabha should be the one which passes the much-delayed women's reservation bill. "A...

Strict curfew in Kashmir: Women march to ‘Pather Masjid’ foiled; 5 injured

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By Bilal Furqani, AIP Srinagar: Despite a strict security in Kashmir, scores of people including women and children tried to take a protest march to Pather Masjid today afternoon on the call given by Hurriyat (G). Dozens of women demonstrators, led by the Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chief Asiya Andrabi, defied the strict security lockdown in the Srinagar and staged a noisy anti-India rally. The women later dispersed after police tried to block the rally.

Woman kills her two children, attempts suicide

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Hyderabad : Distressed over financial problems, a woman poisoned to death her two children and later attempted suicide with her mother by jumping into...

Women safety initiative ‘Panic Button’ launched in 18 states

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New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The much awaited safety tool for women Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) called "Panic Button" was on Tuesday launched...

25-year-old woman raped in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped inside a car here, police said Saturday. "The victim met the accused at a discotheque in Chanakyapuri Wednesday night after which they both had liquor. The accused introduced himself as Raj to the victim. He offered to drop the victim at her home in Safdarjung Enclave area," a police officer said.

Government says no to women in combat

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government Monday said there is no proposal to induct women in combat roles in the Indian armed forces. "At present there is no proposal to induct women in combat duties in the defence forces including that of fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force," Defence Minister A.K. Antony said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. "A study, carried out by headquarters of the Integrated Defence Staff in 2006 on all aspects of employment of women officers in the armed forces, recommended exclusion of women officers from close combat roles," he said.

BJP women leaders to protest in Lucknow against BSP

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Lucknow : Women workers, supporters and leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be staging a sit-in and demonstrate in the state capital...

नौकरानी को प्रताड़ित करने वाली रांची की भाजपा नेता गिरफ्तार

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Two circles.net रांची से इंसानियत को कलंकित करने वाला मामला सामने आया है। यहां एक 29 वर्षीय आदिवासी महिला को पिछले आठ वर्षों...

‘Sports can empower women’

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New Delhi: Social pressures shouldn’t restrict any woman to pursue a career in sports, said a former international volleyball player who believes sports has...

Tripura women assembly members sworn in on International Women’s Day

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By IANS, Agartala : Five newly-elected women members were sworn-in in the new Tripura assembly on International Women's Day Friday.

Muslim woman laborer tortured, ‘molested’ in West Bengal

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,

Rs.4.75 lakh course for aspiring women politicians

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By IANS,

Ladies’ kite club, where passion meets a soaring business

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By Azera Rahman, IANS, Mysore: You have heard of ladies' clubs, but a ladies' kite club? Kite flying may not be one of the usual hobbies that you hear women take to, but here in Mysore, 10 women who love the sport have come together to form this unique club of women-only kite flyers. Chopping vegetables, taking care of her family and tending to the household chores like any other homemaker would, there is nothing that seems out of the ordinary about Kavita Bylokenda - one of the members of the club - at the first instance.

Woman brutalised with iron rod discharged

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By IANS,

Kerala government floats new policy to empower women

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By IANS, Palakkad (Kerala) : The Kerala cabinet has approved the adoption of a new policy to ensure gender equality and prevent crime against women, Pinarayi Vijayan, state secretary of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said here Thursday. Vijayan, who is on a tour of the state, told reporters that the main objective of floating the new policy was to ensure social justice for women. "Our goals can be achieved because Kerala is far ahead of other parts of the country with regards to women's literacy and life expectancy," said Vijayan.

Probe lodged into woman’s death in hospital during outage

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By IANS, New Delhi: A three-member team will probe a 74-year-old woman's death in a government hospital here last week when her life support device stopped working during a power cut, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said Wednesday. Sharda Gaur, who was admitted to the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, died Oct 11 after her life support system failed during power cut. "The committee will look into matter and will submit its report within seven days," said Kiran Walia.

Hijab is my ornament: Mumbai corporator Afreen

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TCN Special Series on Women of Inspiration By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

Marginalised students of JNU can now speak for themselves: Bhupali Magare, President, BAPSA

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By Atul Anand and Dhrubo Jyoti for Twocircles.net Bhupali Magare, one of the students suspended from JNU for speaking out against the authoritarian decisions...

NGOs want protection of men in sexual harassment bill

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By IANS, New Delhi: A group of NGOs working for men's rights Saturday demanded that the bill on prevention of sexual harassment of women at the workplace be made gender neutral to also protect men being harassed at the workplace. The NGOs under the banner of Save Indian Family Foundation said the draft bill, which is likely to be introduced in the monsoon session of parliament starting July 26, should be discarded and a fresh gender neutral draft should be prepared. The draft bill was prepared by the Women and Child Development (WCD) ministry.

Lijjat – Empowering women through papads for 50 years

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By Quaid Najmi, IANS, Mumbai : A group of illiterate housewives with lots of time but no resources used to spend the day gossiping in their cramped, lower middle-class Mumbai building till they hit upon the idea of selling papads. Fifty years later, their entrepreneurial effort, Lijjat Papad, is an award-winning company with an annual turnover of Rs.5 billion (Rs.500 crore/$97 million).

Women feel dowry most severe form of gender disparity: Survey

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New Delhi : Most Indian women feel that dowry is the most severe form of gender disparity when it comes to marriage, according to...

Madrasa student, a national level athlete raped; accused in police custody in WB

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net

Inner Line Permit issue has Biharis in Manipur on the edge

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Imphal, Manipur: Anil Kumar Gupta, 56, runs a tea stall in Imphal. Although his roots go back to...

सियासत और लालच की भेंट चढ़ गुमनामी के कगार पर पहुंच गया है बाँदा...

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आकिल हुसैन । Twocircles.net  2006 को तीन महिलाएं संपत पाल,हेमलता पटेल,सुमन सिंह चौहान दबी कुचली पीड़ित महिलाओं को उनके अधिकारों के प्रति जागरूक करने के...

Attitude toward women is changing: Activists

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New Delhi : There has been a change in the attitude towards women and on the gender issue, women activists said Thursday. "There is change,...

Women in Chhattisgarh protest award of liquor shop licences

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By IANS, Raipur : Hundreds of women laid siege to the collector's office in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh Tuesday to protest the district authorities' move to award a large number of annual contracts for opening liquor shops in villages. The protesters said that district authorities are allotting several liquor shops in each village in Rajnandgaon district to raise revenue but it would lead to rise in violence against women as males will waste money on consuming liquor.

Little has changed; Modi should ensure women’s security: Parents

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(Two years after Dec 16, 2012, gang-rape) By Rajnish Singh, New Delhi : Saying that nothing has changed since the brutal Dec 16 gang-rape that shook the nation two years ago, the parents of the victim have now pinned their hopes on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to initiate a mission for women's safety on the lines of his Clean India Campaign.

Rajiv killing conspirators not to be free for now, kin dismayed

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New Delhi/Chennai: The Supreme Court Friday said that the seven conspirators in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination will not be released for now, a...

शाहीन बाग़’ की बड़ी जीत, मोदी सरकार बातचीत को हुई तैयार

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यूसुफ़ अंसारी, Twocircles.net नागरिकता संशोधन क़ानून के ख़िलाफ़ पिछले डेढ़ महीने से ज़्यादा वक्त से धरन पर बैठी महिलाओं के हौंसले ने आख़िरकार मोदी सरकार...

Vani, Mehar in joint lead in women’s golf

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Bengaluru : Delhi's Vani Kapoor and defending champion Mehar Atwal scored two-over 74 and 75 respectively to share the lead in the second round...

Protest in Kolkata over nude photos of women with ‘Allah and Muhammad’ texts

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kolkata: Several Muslim groups led a protest in Kolkata angered by photographs published in a Bengali Daily of women protesting in nude, with Arabic texts, including names of Allah and Prophet Muhammad.

MPs’ panel wants ‘flexible working hours’ for women in banks

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New Delhi : A parliamentary panel has lamented that its recommendation that "flexible working hours" be introduced for women in banks has not been...

PM reiterates commitment for quotas for women

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By IANS, New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday reiterated his government's commitment to providing reservations for women in local bodies, state legislatures and parliament.

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind women presses for women’s rights in Gujarat

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By TwoCircles.net special correspondent, Ahmedabad: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind(Women’s wing), Gujarat, organized a statewide women’s campaign ``Aapnu Abhiyan,Nari Sanman”(The March Towards Dignity) last week. During the week-long campaign, public meetings, symposiums and rallies were organized at different places in the state including Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Vijapur, Junagadh, Modasa, Bhuj, Patan, Dhori, Himmatnagar, Lamadia, Idar Dasaj, Panvad, Chhotaudepur and Vapi.

Sexual harassment case against Pachauri heads to trial

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New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) A Delhi court on Saturday paved the way for trial as it framed sexual harassment charges against noted environmentalist...

NCW rules out sexual assault in mid-air scuffle

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) has ruled there was no sexual assault on an air hostess during a mid-air scuffle on board an Air India flight last month. The NCW report was submitted to Civil Aviation Minster Praful Patel and Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath Monday. The committee, headed by NCW member Wansuk Syiem, took nearly one and a half months for the probe.

Govt. scheme for leadership development of Muslim women

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By TCN News,

‘इस्लाम ने ही पहली दफ़ा औरतों को उनका हक़ दिया’ –जस्टिस राजेन्द्र सच्चर

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‘मुसलमान औरतों की आवाज़: सड़क से संसद तक’: बंदिशों की बेड़ियों को झकझोरने की कोशिश Fahmina Hussain, TwoCircles.net बदलते समय, बदलते समाज, बदलते परिवेश के बीच...

Anti-trafficking Bill to be introduced in Parliament soon: Maneka Gandhi

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Chandigarh : Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the government will soon bring an anti-trafficking legislation in Parliament to...

Rahul wants equal chance for women in politics

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By IANS, Tumkur (Karnataka) : India cannot be a superpower unless its women were empowered and given equal chance in politics, Congress vice president Rahul...

Divorced women in dire straits: Survey

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By IANS, New Delhi : Approximately 80 percent of divorced or separated women in India live below the poverty line, with a monthly income of less than Rs.4,000, a survey said.

Woman pursuing Ph.D commits suicide in Ghaziabad

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Ghaziabad : A woman here committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her bedroom, leaving a note stating that she was...

Women to spread breast cancer awareness through car rally

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By IANS, New Delhi : Sixty women, some of them survivors of breast cancer, will drive from Delhi to Agra spreading awareness about the disease that kills 40,000 women in India every year. The car rally, which will see doctors, health and community activists accompany the women, will begin here Oct 2.

Jammu lawyers protest bill to strip women of property rights

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By IANS, Jammu: About 100 lawyers were arrested here Wednesday when they tried to lay a siege around the state assembly to oppose a bill moved last week in the upper house that seeks to deprive women of their permanent resident rights if they marry outside Jammu and Kashmir. More than 150 lawyers of the Jammu Bar Association marched from the high court complex to the civil secretariat where they were intercepted by police.

SC allows Jamiat-e-Ulema to intervene in rights of Muslim women matter

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday permitted an intervention application by the Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind contending that Muslim personal law was protected by the...

Woman wins 22-year property battle, but gets no land

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By Sugandha Pathak, IANS, New Delhi : It took 22 long years for a court to direct the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to return a plot to coal depot owner Darshna Rani. But six months after the verdict, the 75-year-old is still to get her due. "It's been almost six months since this judgment came in our favour, but getting the land is still a distant dream. I am sure they (the MCD authorities) will file an appeal in the high court. I don't know for how many more years this case will go on," said a visibly frustrated Vinod Kumar Batra, Rani's son.

Nigerian, woman associate held for duping Mumbai man

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By IANS, New Delhi : A Nigerian who posed as a senior diplomat and his Indian woman accomplice who masqueraded as a customs official have been arrested for cheating a Mumbai resident of nearly Rs.230,000, the police said Friday. Sleuths of Delhi Police's Crime Branch arrested Chima John Kenneth alias Johnson Smith, 28, and his accomplice Nirupma Tiwari, 32, from Gandhi Vihar in Timarpur area of north Delhi. The police said they began investigating the matter on the complaint of Mumbai resident Shailesh Singh.

Women’s day and Muslim women: A perspective

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By Asghar Ali Engineer,

Bhagana Dalits get open death threats from Haryana Khap Panchayats for converting to Islam

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi : Death threats have started pouring in for protesting Bhagana Dalits by the Khap Panchayats...

Women’s quota bill: Despite opposition, government firm

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By IANS, New Delhi : Even as Samajwadi Party (SP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Sunday launched fresh attacks on the women's reservation bill in its present form, the government said there was no option but to push forward with the legislation in the absence of a consensus. The government has timed the consideration and passage of the bill in Rajya Sabha with the 100th year of international women's day Monday. The landmark legislation seeks to reserve 33 percent seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women.

Woman’s solo mission helps Ladakh schools bloom

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By Shudip Talukdar, IANS,

Bangladesh opposition unites against Hasina’s women’s policy

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by IANS,

NCW meets Air India staff involved in mid-air scuffle

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By IANS, New Delhi: The National Commission for Women Wednesday recorded statements from the Air India air hostess, the flight purser and the two pilots involved in the Oct 3 mid-air scuffle and alleged molestation on board a flight. "The committee constituted by the NCW met the air hostess, the flight purser and two pilots. They have recorded their statements," committee member Manorama Bawa from All India Women's Conference told IANS.

A masjid for women in Shillong

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By Anju Azad for TwoCircles.net,

AMU Convocation: Women take centre stage, bag 122 medals

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By TCN News Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) plays a special role in India’s development and AMU students have made their mark not only in India...

NGO Majlis Manch allowed to assist SC in final hearing on Triple Talaq

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By TCN News Mumbai-based NGO Majlis Manch, which has been working for legal rights of women and provides support to victims of domestic violence, especially...

Safety of women is highest priority: PM

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By IANS,

Are Delhiites insensitive towards crime against women?

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By IANS,

NIA gives clean chit to Sadhvi and others without conducting custodial interrogation

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: In a controversial development, India's elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) today gave clean chit to 6 accused, including Sadhvi Pragya...

मुजफ्फरनगर दंगा: भाजपा के विद्यायक को 2 साल की सज़ा, बाकी का क्या होगा...

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हिजाब हटाने से अगर किया इंकार मतलब परीक्षा में ‘NOT Allowed’

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फ़हमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net  यूनिवर्सिटी ग्रांट्स कमीशन के नेशनल एलिजिबिलिटी टेस्ट में जामिया मिलिया इस्लामिया की एक मुस्लिम छात्रा को हिजाब पहने होने के कारण प्रवेश...

Stories of women on ground zero of gender battle

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

Handwara Case: Girl says police abused her, forced her to deny assault by Jawan

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: A month after the alleged molestation of a local school girl in Handwara which sparked state-wide protests that...

Women can’t be treated as chattel: SC strikes down adultery law

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New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) In another landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Thursday decriminalised adultery after striking down a British era law, Section...

JIH women wing demands impartial probe into ‘rape’ and murder of civil defence worker

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The 21-year-old-victim, who was associated with the Lajpat Nagar District Magistrate office, was found murdered on August 26 at Surajkund, Faridabad. As per her...

Yatra organised in Gujarat to save girl child

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By IANS, Surat : At a time when girl child sex ratio in the country is getting skewed, non-government organisation Akhil Bhartiya Jeenmata Seva Sangh here recently organised a novel yatra "Save the Girl Child". Also, a 5,000 metre long garland, prepared by 5,000 women from 73 kg cardamoms, was used in the yatra. Each woman contributed 51 cardamoms to the mala. "At each metre, a small card opposing the killing of girl child has been placed. This is done to make people aware about the danger of female foeticide," president of Akhil Bhartiya Jeenmata Seva Sangh Sharad Khandelwal said.

‘Enforcement of laws on women hit by lack of funds’

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By IANS, New Delhi: Enforcement of women-friendly laws suffers from lack of funds and training among the implementation agency personnel, activists said here Thursday.

क्यों क़ुबूल नहीं है मुस्लिम समाज को महिला क़ाज़ी…?

Women
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net हम आज बदलते समाज के साथ अपनी अलग पहचान बनाने में मुसलसल लगे हैं. जिसमें अपने अधिकार और समानता को लेकर आए...

Feng shui master loses battle for fortune of Asia’s richest woman

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By DPA, Hong Kong : A Hong Kong judge Tuesday dismissed a claim on the $13 billion estate of Asia's richest woman by a feng shui master who claimed to have been her secret lover. The judge, Johnson Lam Man-hon, threw out the claim by feng shui master Tony Chan, 50, for the entire fortune of Nina Wang, head of the Chinachem property empire who died in April 2007 aged 69. Instead, he awarded the estate to a charitable foundation run by Wang's family, saying that a will produced by Chan to claim Wang's fortune was not genuine.

Tripura to increase number of women police personnel

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Agartala : The Tripura government will increase the number of women police personnel to one-third of the total strength, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said...

Less than 8 percent women representatives in state assemblies

Women
By IANS, New Delhi : Less than eight percent of the 4,030 lawmakers in state assemblies across India are women -- a telling commentary on the present assymetry in women's empowerment. The 28 state assemblies have only 311 women legislators, according to the data from state assembly websites. Nagaland figures at the bottom of the list with no women representative in a house of 60.

Controversy in Bihar after student allegedly asked to remove Hijab during exam

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The incident happened at Mahant Darshan Das Mahila (MDDM) College in Muzaffarpur, Bihar on October 16. Sami Ahmad | TwoCircles.net  PATNA (BIHAR) — A controversy over...

कोई नहीं है भजनपुरा का फुरसा हाल लेने वाला…

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Anzar Bhajanpuri for TwoCircles.net बिहार के कोसी क्षेत्र की पहचान दुनिया भर में है. 2008 की कोसी त्रासदी ने यहां की कठिन ज़िन्दगी और संघर्ष...

Indian women finish seventh in Hawke’s Bay Cup hockey

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Array Hastings (New Zealand): The Indian women's hockey team defeated Japan 3-2 in the seventh-eighth position classification match to secure the seventh spot in the...

Sania and Saina symbols of woman power

Women
By Veturi Srivatsa, Saina Nehwal has officially been anointed the No.1 woman player in world badminton. Sania Mirza is on the cusp of becoming the top-most in tennis doubles - she is No.3 right now. The two Hyderabadis are the best role models for young Indian women trying to make a mark in today's highly competitive world of sport.

World Tribal Day: 2-day tribal fair in Jharkhand showcases tribal artworks, culture

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The two-day tribal fair held at Morhabadi ground in Ranchi saw boisterous music, mouth-watering cuisines, tribal artworks and discussions on tribal history and affairs.  Sami...

Haryana institutes awards for women

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The mystery of missing Muslim female rulers

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By Raihanaa Hasan

Divided India braces for women’s bill, Nitish now backs it

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By IANS, New Delhi: India's political class remained divided Saturday over moves to reserve 33 percent of all seats in legislatures for women even as Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar came out unexpectedly in its support, exposing fissures within the Janata Dal-United (JD-U). Prime Minister Manmohan Singh voiced confidence over the passing of the Women's Reservation Bill when it is introduced in the Rajya Sabha Monday, the International Women's Day.

Measure for Measure: Mourning for a Widow

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By Dr.Asma Anjum Khan, TwoCircles.net, #widow# mourning#waltwhitman Asma Nama: She teaches English, talks a lot , read her at your own risk. Jo hona tha so ho gaya, abb koi rona dhona naheen, chup raho. (Be quiet, be quiet now, I am telling you be quiet. Whatever has happened has happened. Now it’s over. Now be silent.)

Haryana to spread hygiene among rural women

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By IANS, Chandigarh : In order to spread health and hygiene among the rural women of the state, the Haryana government has decided to provide them with sanitary napkins at a price of Re.1 each. Manufactured under the brand name Mukti by the Haryana Women Development Corporation, each sanitary napkin would cost Rs.2 but the state's health department will subsidize half the cost. Haryana's Women and Child Development and Health Minister Kartar Devi said Wednesday that the focus of the campaign was to make sanitary napkins available easily to rural women throughout the state.

Young woman with male sex organs operated upon at AMU’s medical college

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By TwoCircles.net News Desk, New Delhi: The doctors at J N Medical College were left baffled when they found a 20-year-old woman possessing a male sex organ and testes instead of a uterus and ovaries. She was operated upon, testes were removed and a functional vaginal canal was created by a team of doctors led by Dr. Arshad Hafeez Khan, Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery at the college.

Ramadan 1433: Itikaf

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By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net "Itikāf (Arabic: اعتكاف‎) is an Islamic practice consisting of a period of retreat in a mosque for a certain number of...

Dec 16 gang-rape: Delhi HC verdict Thursday

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court will pronounce its verdict later Thursday on confirming the death sentence and appeals of four convicts in...

Women power at Delhi civic polls

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Women just 7.53 percent of central government work force: Official

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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Women constitute just 7.52 percent of the central government work force, revealed T.K.A. Nair, the principal secretary to the prime minister, Sunday. "The percentage of women working in the central government is 7.53 percent, of which 24 percent are in All India Civil Services, 18.5 percent in the Indian Police Service and 18 percent in the Indian Foreign Service, Nair said. Nair was speaking on the launch of the special International Women's Day issue of Bureacracy Today magazine here.

The heartening story of Irfan and Anjum Bagban, the first Muslim couple to clear...

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net It is no secret that even today, many Muslim girls do not get an opportunity to pursue their dreams due to...

Mass gathering of women MGNREGA workers demanding their rights

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By TCN News, Tohana-Fatehabad (Haryana): A huge gathering of poor and marginalized people, large number of them women, took place in Tohana (Fatehabad) in Haryana on December 30, 2014 against corruption and irregularity in providing job under MGNREGA, and proposed dilution in the act.

“Women thy place is the same!”

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By Saba Rizvi

Bengal woman jumps off building to escape rape bid

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Kolkata : A woman in West Bengal's Howrah district jumped off a three-storey building to escape a rape bid and three people have been...

Crimes against women on the rise in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS, Mohit Dubey,

Woman missing from Delhi Metro station

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 24-year-old newly married woman went missing from the highly congested Chandni Chowk Metro Station here, police said.

Committed to women’s reservation in parliament: Naidu

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New Delhi : Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkiah Naidu Thursday said the National Democratic Alliance government is committed to raise the representation of women...

German rape victim’s mother asked to give income details

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By IANS, Panaji : The Goa police have been harassing the mother of a raped minor German girl, asking her to provide details not relevant to the case, her lawyer said here Monday. "She has been asked to give details of her daily activities, her business details, source of income and vehicles purchased in Goa. These things are not relevant to the case," lawyer Aires Rodrigues told reporters. The Calangute police, probing the offence, have given the mother a two-day notice to come forward with details, he said.

The bizarre case of Aamil Parvez

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Booked for Ahmedabad bomb blasts while he was languishing in Indore Central Jail

After getting ‘indecent proposal’ from her father in-law, Parveen decides to teach him a...

Women
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net., It was completely against the spirit of his own name, when Mohammad Islamuddin (52), a Delhi police sub-inspector, reportedly asked Parveen (28), his own daughter-in-law to get into prostitution, when she asked for money for her children school fee and food. Talking to TwoCircles.net, Parveen said; “I wanted money for education and food for my children, so when I begged Nasir (32), (her husband) and his father, they told me to get into prostitution (Bachcho ke liye paise chahiye toh jakar dhanda kar le),"

क्या महज़ राजनीति का मुद्दा है डेल्टा मेघवाल?

Women
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net राजस्थान के नोखा शहर में एक प्रतिभाशाली लड़की को तंत्र की अमानवीयता के चलते अपनी जान से हाथ धोना पड़ा. डेल्टा...

Syrian rebels kill 10 women: Report

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By IANS, Damascus : Syrian rebels killed 10 women in the central province of Hama Sunday, state media said. Armed "terrorist" groups carried out killing in...

Woman power pulls Orissa’s chariots of gods

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By Byomakesh Biswal, IANS, Baripada (Orissa) : It's a tug of equality. For women in the small town of Baripada that has come alive during the Jagannath rath yatra, pulling the chariot of goddess Subhadra is as much about empowerment as it is about tradition. The Hindu chariot festival is observed in many parts of India, with mostly men doing the tugging, but in Baripada it is a unique affair because there women have the exclusive right of pulling the chariot of goddess Subhadra - the sister of Lord Jagannath - in an act considered sacred.

CBI probe ordered against Teesta Setalvad’s company

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New Delhi : A CBI probe has been ordered against social activist Teesta Setalvad - owned Sabrang Communications and Publishing Pvt Ltd (SCPPL) for...

President to visit women’s first education institute

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By IANS, Pune : President Pratibha Patil will arrive here Friday on a three-day visit, her first to the city after she assumed the country's highest office, to attend a function at India's first, over a century-old education institution for women. On the day of her arrival, India's first woman president will grace the commemoration ceremony of Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Sansthan, marking the 150th birth anniversary of Maharshi Dhondopant Karve, the founder of this institute which was the country's first to impart women's education.

After arrests, Kerala Police take to threatening students for protesting

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By Shafeeq Alingal Kozhikode: Wafa, a first year Sociology student here at Farook College, hardly expected that she would be under constant threats from police...

Zain Masud named international director of art fair 2016

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New Delhi: Zain Masud, a former assistant fair director to Art Dubai, was appointed the international director of India Art Fair 2016 here on...

Ruchika’s friend, father join CBI investigation

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By IANS, Chandigarh: Teenaged molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra's friend and lone-eyewitness to the incident, Aradhana and her mother Madhu Prakash, the complainant in the case against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, Saturday joined the fresh investigations launched by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the nearly two-decade old case. A CBI team from New Delhi quizzed Aradhana and her mother for several hours at their camp office here Saturday.

Four get life sentence in Shakti Mills gang-rape case

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Mumbai: A Mumbai court Friday awarded life sentences to four men convicted for gang-raping a 19-year-old call centre employee in the Shakti Mills Complex...

Extraordinary stories of ordinary women

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TCN Special Series: Part V on Jyotsna Bewa By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Girl gang-raped in MP, woman among 5 held

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By IANS Sagar (Madhya Pradesh), July 4 : A teenaged girl was gang-raped here by four youths with the help of a woman, police said on...

Court rejects bail plea of AAP MLA held after worker’s suicide

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New Delhi : A court here on Monday dismissed the bail plea of AAP legislator Sharad Chauhan, who was arrested along with five others...

Government moots women’s helpline in 12th Plan

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By IANS, New Delhi : The central government is planning to launch a women's helpline number under the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), the Rajya Sabha was informed Thursday.

Karnataka women seek 50 percent quota in local bodies

Women
By IANS, Bangalore : Women members of local government bodies in Karnataka have sought 50 percent representation for them in the three-tier 'panchayat' (local council) institutions across the state. In a memorandum to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Sunday, a joint organisation of the members said the state government should reserve 50 percent of the total seats for women in the local bodies' elections due March 2010.

हिन्दू कोड बिल पर चुप्पी साधकर भाजपा कर रही ट्रिपल तलाक की राजनीति

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अभय कुमार पिछले महीने पूर्वी उत्तर प्रदेश के सोनभद्र में भाजपा की एक बड़ी रैली से ख़िताब करते हुए पार्टी अध्यक्ष अमित शाह ने सपा,...

Woman who mothered 25 kids Nepal’s new ‘heroine’

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By IANS, Kathmandu: Unable to read or write and extremely poor, Santkumari Pariyar seems an unlike heroine. But the story of the village woman of uncertain age is making ripples in Nepal after a chance encounter led a filmmaker to train his camera on Santkumari and her family. It is a large family. Besides her husband Jitman, the couple have eight children. The size of the family would have been larger still had all the children survived. In her 27 years of marriage, a stoical Santkumari bore her husband 25 children, only eight of whom have survived.

Woman summoned for cheating husband

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New Delhi: A court here has issued summons against a woman for allegedly cheating her husband and causing a miscarriage before marrying the man. Additional...

Indian Canadian held for drugging, raping woman in Toronto club

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By IANS, Toronto : An Indian Canadian man surrendered before police Saturday after he was charged with drugging and raping a woman at a city nightclub two weeks ago. Thirty-two-year-old Jagdeep Chahal, a resident of Brampton on the outskirts of Toronto, had sexually assaulted the woman in the bathroom of the nightclub Jan 22. According a report lodged by the victim with police, she was sexually assaulted by Chahal after putting a date rape drug in her drink at a downtown nightclub.

Railway Protection Force to get women’s battalion

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By IANS,

Ex-diplomat, champion of Dalit cause, is first woman speaker

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By IANS, New Delhi : Meira Kumar, who is set to become the first woman speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's parliament, is a former diplomat who left the foreign service to fight the cause of Dalits.

Telangana CM congratulates Sania on becoming world No.1

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Hyderabad : Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday congratulated tennis star Sania Mirza on becoming first Indian woman to claim the world...

Saudi Women: agents of change shattering common stereotypes

Women
By Lulua Asaad, Vienna - When I made the decision to move to Vienna, I was unprepared for the repercussions my attitude, behaviour and opinions would have in forming and influencing European perceptions of women from Saudi Arabia, a country that is at a crossroads between modernity, globalisation, liberation, empowerment, heritage and cherished traditions.
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