First woman IFS officer Muthamma dies
By IANS,
Bangalore : C.B. Muthamma, the first woman Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, died here Wednesday, her family members said. She was 85.
She passed away in a private hospital where she was undergoing treatment, the family members said.
Chonira Belliappa Muthamma was born Jan 24, 1924, in Kodagu, a beautiful hill station and land of coffee plantations, about 260 kms from here. She had served as ambassador and high commissioner to a number of countries during her career that started in 1949. She retired in 1982.
Extraordinary stories of ordinary women
TCN Special Series: Part 1 on Nazma Phumdreimeiyum
By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,
Muslim women go door-to-door to collect signatures against Uniform Civil Code
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
Mumbai: A signature campaign by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) against the Uniform Civil Code is finding good...
AIDWA fact finding team reiterates lose ends in Meerut rape case, says case is...
By TCN News,
New Delhi: All India Democratic Womens’ Association (AIDWA) has released a fact finding report on the alleged Meerut gang rape of a madrassa teacher. While demanding speedy enquiry and justice for the girl, AIDWA has also condemned “the blatant lies and half-truths being spread by the BJP and Sangh Parivar about the case.”
Tarannum Firdous, the first Muslim girl from Siliguri to crack WBCS in her maiden...
TCN News with inputs from Sadique Mumtaz
“Hard work never goes in vain. One who continues working hard despite enduring pain and adverse conditions is destined...
Karnataka unveils mobile app for women’s safety
Bengaluru, (IANS): Karnataka Chief Minster Siddaramaiah on Monday unveiled mobile app 'Suraksha' for the safety of women in the city.
Launched by the Bengaluru police,...
12 Muslim women among top 200 women nominees of #100Women achievers contest of Ministry...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), in collaboration with Facebook, have announced the...
मां के बाद अब प्रोफेसर नबीला सादिक भी दुनिया छोड़ गई !
स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net
दूसरों की मदद को सदैव तैयार रहने वाली जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया की असिस्टेंट प्रोफेसर नबीला सादिक की मृत्यु से उनके छात्रों...
Rahul Gandhi meets women artisans in Gujarat
By IANS,
Ahmedabad : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi interacted with women artisans in a Kutch village Sunday as part of his two-day tour of the Kutch, Saurashtra and northern regions of Gujarat.
The young Congress MP met women engaged in handicrafts in Bhujodi village of Kutch district, which was devastated by a major earthquake on Jan 26, 2001.
An eyewitness account of the Women’s March in Boston
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
“This is the biggest march I have seen,” said an old timer who seemed to be someone who have participated in lots...
Emotional support for Jayalalithaa in Bangalore
Bangalore : About 500 men and women from Tamil Nadu crossed into Karnataka Sunday to extend emotional support to jailed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister...
Women MPs number yet to touch 50 in Lok Sabha
By IANS,
New Delhi : So much for woman power. The number of women MPs in India's 545-member Lok Sabha has never touched 50, the Election Commission said Friday.
"The nearest when women members could reach this mark was in the 13th Lok Sabha in the 1999 elections when 49 women candidates were elected. It was barely 9.02 percent of the total Lok Sabha Seats," a communique said.
The number of women elected to the Lok Sabha came down to 45 in 2004. It was the second highest in the house since its inception. "It was only 8.29 percent of the total seats," the communique said.
JNU increases grace marks for women, transgenders
New Delhi : The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Friday brought in major changes in the deprivation points system which is used to help...
Sania loses Birmingham tennis semifinal
By IANS
Birmingham: India's Sania Mirza blew a set advantage against Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova to go down 6-3, 0-6, 3-6 in the Aegon Classic tennis semifinal here Saturday.
Sania, who had beaten Rybarikova in their only meeting before, was appearing in only her second semifinal of the year. She had reached the Pattaya Open final in February.
The 22-year-old Hyderabadi, who played two matches Friday, recovered from a break down in the fourth game of the first set and then reeled off four games in a row for a 5-2 lead. She then comfortably served out the set in the ninth game.
Khudai Khidmatgar opens vocational centre for women of Mewat
By TCN News
Khudai Khidmatgar made an important contribution towards women empowerment in the region of Mewat, Haryana by starting a vocational centre on March...
UN call to end violence against women in war
By Xinhua,
United Nations : The UN Security Council has said that systematic rape and other forms of sexual violence against women during armed conflicts can constitute war crimes and called on the international community for greater efforts to combat the "silent war".
"Violence against women has reached unspeakable and pandemic proportions in some societies attempting to recover from conflict," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday while addressing a Security Council debate on sexual violence in armed conflict.
Intermediate topper Talat Nazneen wants to become IAS officer
By Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net,
Patna: Talat Nazneen Zakia has secured first position in Intermediate examination 2009 in Bihar, and thus has become pride of not only for her family but her educationally backward community also – the community where more males are literate than females.
JIH’s stand on co-education makes its Kerala unit uncomfortable
By Abdul Basith, TwoCircles.net
Eight of 10 Malala attack suspects were acquitted, confirms police
Islamabad : Eight of the 10 militants reportedly jailed for their role in the 2012 attack on Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai have been freed,...
Afsana Muhammad — the youngest Sarpanch of Gujarat
TCN series on Muslim women empowerment
On International Women's Day on 8th March, TCN is bringing great stories of Muslim women empowerment from different states of India -- Editor
Neglect charge against British teenager’s mother dismissed
By IANS,
Panaji : Goa's Women and Child Development (WCD) department has dismissed a petition against slain British teenager Scarlett Keeling's mother Fiona Mackeown on a technicality, as the police was already investigating similar charges against her.
A petition filed by a local NGO Utt Goenkara had argued that it was Fiona's criminal neglect of Scarlett which had resulted in the teenager's death and sought penal action against her.
BSP MP moves bail application in rape case
New Delhi: BSP MP Dhananjay Singh Saturday moved bail application after the woman who accused him of raping her, denied the charge in a...
Shiela Dikshit urges women to gain social status
By IANS,
New Delhi: On the eve of International Women's Day, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday called upon women to come forward and gain economic and social status through empowerment.
Uber rape case: Fingerprints of accused match
New Delhi: A forensic expert Friday told a court here that the fingerprints of the Uber cab driver, accused of raping a woman executive,...
Awareness needed for Delhi’s women: Dikshit
By IANS,
New Delhi: Delhi's women need to be made aware about their rights and the importance of their empowerment, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said here Saturday.
Himachal court says no to Ramdev holding yoga camps
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court Monday rejected a plea of yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Swabhiman Trust to permit it to hold "yog shivirs"...
95% verdicts of Shara’yee Panchayats go against women: Research Scholar
By RINA,
New Delhi : An analytic survey conducted by Ms. Qutub Jehan Kidwai of Mumbai-based institution ‘Islamic Studies’ reveals that in ninety-five per cent of cases decided at Shara’yee Panchayats go against Muslim women.
Her survey on ‘Islamic Rights of Women’ mainly targets religious institutions and intellectuals in Uttar Pradesh.
Saudi Arabia vows to create more jobs for women
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia will announce in the coming days more female-only jobs for more than one million unemployed women in the country, media reported...
Meet Dr. Mubeena Ramzan, the first Kashmiri woman to feature among world’s 500 most...
By Auqib Javeed, TwoCircles.net
Dr Mubeena Ramzan of Kashmir created history earlier this month when she became the first Kashmiri woman to be enlisted among...
Women’s Manifesto and Human Welfare Foundation to organise “ Women Leadership Program” in February
TCN News
Women’s Manifesto and Human Welfare Foundation have jointly designed a leadership program for women to identify, train and activate emerging women leaders for...
Missing Voices: Rahul Gandhi’s Rally at Nuh Reveals Gender Gap in Political Engagement in...
Musheera Ashraf, TwoCircles.net
Nuh, Haryana: Amidst the sweltering 36-degree heat and towering buildings, the Nuh highway resonated with the pulsating beats of DJs and booming music....
Rajya Sabha passes women’s quota bill
By IANS,
New Delhi : After two days of bitter wrangling, the Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed the historic women's reservation bill giving 33 percent representation to women in parliament and state assemblies 186-1.
Junior NTR marrying a minor?
By IANS,
Hyderabad: The proposed marriage of popular Telugu film actor Junior NTR with a relative of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu has created a row with claims that the girl is minor.
Shanti Prasad, a lawyer, Friday approached Machilipatnam Legal Services Authority claiming that Narne Lakshmi Pranati was a minor and thus her marriage would be illegal.
The authority issued notices to Junior NTR, Naidu and the girl's father Narne Srinivas Rao, who owns Telugu news channel Studio N. The hearing was adjourned to Feb 24.
Women candidates still stuck in ‘winability’ factor?
By Sreeparna Chakravarty,
New Delhi : Political parties have made a plethora of promises during the campaign for the 2014 general elections for the betterment...
33 percent quota for women in Delhi, union territory polices
New Delhi : The union cabinet on Friday gave its approval for 33 percent reservation to women in direct recruitment to posts ranging from...
Gurgaon security guard’s daughter excels in Class 10 exams
Gurgaon : Beating all odds, a 14-year-old daughter of a security guard in Gurgaon has excelled in Class 10 CBSE exams by scoring a...
NWF to organize rallies in support of Muslim prisoners
By TCN News
Madurai: Muslims are over-represented in the prison system but when states issue list of prisoners to be released for good conduct they are always under-represented.
DCW writes to Maneka Gandhi on trafficking of women
New Delhi : Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Thursday urged Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi to convene a meeting...
Modi government tried to kill me in a plane crash: Mamata
Kolkata: Virtually comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Ravana, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused his government of running a terror...
Haryana woman booked for killing teenaged daughter
By IANS,
Jind (Haryana): A woman has been booked on charges of killing her 19-year-old daughter in a village in Haryana's Jind district, police said Wednesday.
The father of the girl had lodged a complaint against his wife that she had hammered the girl to death in a fit of rage Monday night in Bibipur village.
Manisha was studying in BA first year and her mother suspected that she had an affair with some boy. In a fit of anger, she hit Manisha with a wooden hammer, leading to a serious head injury, police said.
No handicap to success for Jahanara Khatun
By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net
Kolkata/Berhampur: 41 year old Jahanara Khatun was ranked 31st in the examination for the West Bengal Junior Social Welfare Examination for...
How Three Muslim Women of Northeast Delhi Were Caught In A Legal And Financial...
By Arbab Ali, TwoCircles.net
On her wedding day, Tabassum was issued an arrest warrant for missing a court hearing. The previous day, November 10, 2022,...
Saina, Sindhu, Jwala-Ashwini in line for Worlds medal
Jakarta : As many as three medals will be on the line for Indian shuttlers on Friday as Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu and...
Defence ministry to decide on women’s entry in forces: Parrikar
Chandigarh : Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday said his ministry would take a final decision within two months on easing norms for...
Burqa-clad Sumaiya makes history by securing 12 MBBS medals at AMU
By Rahat Abrar,
Two sparking eyes popping out of traditional Muslim attire burqa (veil) got the attention of the former first citizen of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wipro Chief Azim Premji and the audience as Sumaiya, a girl student with hijab, got as many as 12 medals in the prestigious MBBS course at the 58th annual convocation at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Her magnificent feat indicates that Muslim girls are also advancing in the field of education. A female can pursue the studies of MBBS by wearing traditional Hijab (Burqa).
BSP leader joins Delhi Congress
By IANS,
New Delhi : Terming the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) "turncoat", a prominent woman leader of the party Tuesday joined the Delhi unit of the Congress.
"I feel the BSP is a turncoat party and people in Delhi should not vote for such parties," president of the BSP's women's wing Vinod Kumari declared at a function at the Delhi Congress office.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) farmers wing vice-president also joined the Congress and vowed to make the party win the Nov 29 Delhi elections.
Women’s reservation: Views for and against
By IANS,
New Delhi: Proponents of the policy of reservation for women state that although equality of the sexes is enshrined in the Indian constitution, it is not the social reality. Hence a radical piece of legislation in the shape of the Women's Reservation Bill was required to give a new direction to Indian politics just like reservation for backward castes over 20 years ago changed political and social equations in the country.
Law and order situation broadly under control: Bengal governor
By IANS,
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan Monday termed the overall law and order situation in the state as "broadly under control" and said...
ख़ामोशी से घरों में घुसता क्रूर रंगभेद
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
देश में गर्मी बढ़ने के साथ-साथ टेलीविज़न पर गोरापन बढ़ाने की क्रीमों के विज्ञापन भी बढ़ गए हैं. देश में रंग एक...
Fear of flying keeps Indian in Bahrain grounded for 13 years
By IANS,
Dubai : An Indian woman in Bahrain has not been home for 13 years because of her fear of flying.
The aerophobic 43-year-old woman, who has not been named, told the Gulf Daily News that the last time she flew was 13 years ago when she and her husband took a flight from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain.
"I flew for the very first time just after I got married 24 years ago," the woman, who teaches dance at a school in Bahrain, was quoted as saying.
Women with hormonal problems prone to diabetes: AIIMS
New Delhi: Women suffering from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), a problem in which a woman's hormones are out of balance, are highly prone to...
India a tolerant country: Tasleema Nasreen
New Delhi : India is a tolerant country with a few intolerant people and it is time to focus not just on Hindu fundamentalists...
Islamic theological “expertise” in the liberal press
By Umair Azmi for TwoCircles.net
The article points out the internal inconsistencies in the theological arguments made by A. Faizur Rahman in articles which...
Indian women’s team beat Iran for successive Asiad gold
Incheon: Indian women's team beat Iran 31-21 for its second successive kabaddi gold medal at the Asian Games here Friday.
India had won the top...
Parliament approves anti-hijacking bill providing for death penalty
New Delhi : The parliament on Monday gave nod to the Anti-Hijacking Bill that provides for death penalty to the offenders in case of...
IAF approves women in combat roles
By Gulshan Luthra,
New Delhi : Induction of women officers in combat roles in the Indian Air Force (IAF) now seems possible.
The IAF chief, Air...
Farah Pandith play leading role engaging Muslims: Clinton
By Arun Kumar, IANS,
Washington : Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that as US special representative to Muslim communities Farah Pandith, a Kashmiri-origin woman, will "play a leading role" in US efforts to engage Muslims around the world.
"I am pleased to announce the appointment of Farah Pandith to serve as Special Representative to Muslim Communities," she said making a formal announcement about the creation of a new office responsible for US "efforts to engage with Muslims around the world on a people-to-people and organizational level".
From now, women commandos to be deployed on trains
By IANS,
New Delhi : Indian Railways will deploy women security personnel and increase their number in the proposed commando battalions, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said in the railways budget presented in parliament Friday.
The women Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel will be deployed to ensure security of women passengers, particularly on routes where a large number of them travel alone regularly, Banerjee said while presenting the budget.
Delhi rape fallout: Women now wonder about a safe cab ride
New Delhi:The recent rape of a 25-year-old working woman in a taxi has raised questions on women's safety in cabs - considered, until now,...
Ten-year-old donates birthday money to Islamia Hospital
By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net
Kolkata: Ashna Khan, a ten-year-old girl from Kolkata, set a fine example of kindness by donating the entire amount received...
Woman ‘kills’ infant daughter
Gurgaon: An infant girl's body was found Monday near the Gurgaon Expressway, police said. The mother is the primary suspect.
The body of the baby...
Extraordinary stories of ordinary women
TCN Special Series: Part IV on Jayanti Keishing
By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,
Muslim women beaten up in MP for allegedly carrying beef; uproar in Rajya Sabha
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: In yet another violence caused due to suspicion of possessing beef, two Muslim women were thrashed and abused by...
Modi picked women’s pockets: AIDWA
Bhopal : Slamming Narendra Modi over demonetisation, former MP and All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) Vice President Subhashini Ali said the Prime Minister...
13 years on, no political consensus on women’s quota bill
By Prashant Sood, IANS,
New Delhi : Opposition from three political parties may still derail the bill seeking to reserve 33 percent seats in parliament and state legislatures for women.
Though the union cabinet decided last Thursday it would introduce the bill, it does not have the numbers in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, to get it passed.
The three parties -- the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) -- are demanding a quota for weaker sections within this one-third quota.
Explosion of woman power
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.
‘Girls are insecure becuase of love jihad:’ BJP MP Pragya Thakur
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Madhya Pradesh also threatened legal action against those misrepresenting her 'Keep Knives' speech.
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लोकसभा स्पीकर के घर के सामने सड़क पर ही बन गया ‘शाहीन बाग़’
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कोटा। राजस्थान के कोटा शहर में महिलाओं को जब सीएए, एनआरसी व एनपीआर के खिलाफ़ आंदोलन करने के लिए कोई ‘पार्क’ या ‘बाग़’ नहीं...
Ensure safety of women, NHRC asks states
New Delhi : Concerned over recent crimes against women, the NHRC Friday asked all state governments to adopt measures ranging from constructing toilets to...
Women politicians welcome no GST on sanitary pads
By IANS:
New Delhi, July 22: Women politicians, cutting across party lines, have welcomed the government's decision on scrapping GST on sanitary napkins.
Reactions flowed in...
Meet Falak Naaz, who braved poverty to make it to India’s U19 Women’s T-20...
18-year-old Falak Naaz comes from a poor family in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. This did not stop her from dreaming to play for national...
यूपीपीसीएस के परिणाम में इस बार 26 मुसलमान, पहले से बेहतर है परफॉर्मेंस
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हाल ही में उत्तर प्रदेश लोक सेवा आयोग ने पीसीएस 2021 का रिजल्ट घोषित कर दिया है, इस बार उत्तर प्रदेश को...
67 girls found in raid on Rajasthan ashram are hypnotised
By IANS
Jaipur, July 5 : Counselling of 67 girls, found in a police raid on an ashram being run in a hotel in Rajasthan's Rajsamand,...
After liquor ban, Bihar to focus on de-addiction of alcoholics
By Imran Khan
Patna : For the Bihar government, enforcing a liquor ban that came into effect on Friday is not the only challenge. De-addiction...
Woman in live-in relationship killed by brother
By IANS,
Ghaziabad : A woman who was in a live-in relationship was shot dead by her brother in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district, a police official said Thursday.
Priyanka, 27, was shot thrice by her brother Sonu in Hapur town of Ghaziabad district late Wednesday.
"We are making efforts to arrest Sonu who is involved in several criminal cases of heinous nature at various places in Western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi," said Jagdish Sharma, superintendent of police (rural), Ghaziabad.
Shopian deaths due to drowning; no rape, murder: CBI
By IANS,
New Delhi/Srinagar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday said the deaths of two women in Kashmir's Shopian district in May were due to drowning and neither of them was raped or murdered.
It also chargesheeted 13 people, including six doctors and five advocates, for preparing false reports and fabricating evidence in the case that triggered a massive furore in the Kashmir Valley.
The probe agency has absolved security and police officials of any wrongdoing.
Women to be inducted as fighter pilots: IAF chief
New Delhi : Women would soon be inducted as fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said here...
कुपोषण से जूझ रहा है प्रधानमंत्री मोदी का संसदीय क्षेत्र
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
वाराणसी: पिछली सदी के अंतिम दशक से शुरू होकर भारत सरकार द्वारा कई ऐसी योजनाएं चलायी जा रही हैं, जिनका उद्देश्य प्रमुख...
Goa women’s panel to probe ‘blouse-ripping’ cop
By IANS,
Panaji : The Goa women's commission will probe a senior police inspector who has been repeatedly caught ripping off women's blouses during public agitations and protests, an official said Tuesday.
Speaking to IANS, chairperson of the Goa state commission for women (GSCW) Ezilda Sapeco said the commission had called for footage from local TV news channels of Monday's protest outside the State Secretariat and would convene a meeting of its members on the issue soon.
Dalits should come forward and participate in the development of society: Devyani Khobragade
By TCN News
Nagpur: "Dalits should utilize all possible government schemes and should actively participate in the developing of society”, said IAF officer...
Heavy security for Pakistani women’s cricket team
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : Heavy security has been deployed at Barabati stadium in Cuttack after protests against holding World Cup matches with Pakistan's women's cricket team in the city.
Gujarat CM faces women’s protest in home district
Mehsana (Gujarat) : A day after Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel asserted there was no question of providing quota in jobs and education to...
AMU nursing students light lamps for the spirit of nursing
By TCN News,
Aligarh: The environment filled with an enlightening breeze when the nurses of the School of Nursing, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) took oath at the Lamp Lighting & Oath taking Ceremony of the School.
Mulayam talking rubbish: Lalu
Patna: Mulayam Singh Yadav is talking "rubbish", RJD chief Lalu Prasad said Friday, reacting to the Samajwadi Party chief terming as unfair the death...
US landscape architects designing change for women in India
By Arun Kumar,
Washington : Their mantra is to strike a balance between the built and natural environments, but an American landscape architect is using...
Triple Talaq row : Jamaat’s women wing bashed Narendra Modi for ‘shedding crocodile tears’
TCN News
MALAPPURAM : The women’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) in Kerala has strongly criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP party and...
रांची में शांतिपूर्ण चल रहा था मुसलमानों का प्रदर्शन,पुलिस के लाठीचार्ज के बाद बिगड़ा...
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पूर्व भाजपा प्रवक्ता द्वारा पैगंबर मोहम्मद के ऊपर की गई विवादित टिप्पणी के खिलाफ शुक्रवार को रांची में चल रहा विरोध प्रदर्शन शांतिपूर्ण...
Karnataka court notice over Khel Ratna for Sania
Bengaluru : The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the sports ministry for naming ace tennis star Sania Mirza for the...
Andhra-born woman minister Dipika Damerla blazes a trail in Canada
Toronto : Andhra-born Dipika Damerla, who is the first Indian-origin woman minister in Canada's biggest province of Ontario, is blazing a trail in...
‘Women judged as women, men as individuals’
New Delhi : Women in any profession are are judged as women whereas men are judged as individuals, rued National Commission for Women chairperson...
Half-widowed at 23, Rafiqa Mushtaq fights government, in-laws to ensure property rights for her...
In the third of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Rafiqa Mushtaq.
...
‘This is our home from generations:’ residents of Haldwani on eviction orders
Haldwani residents, majority of whom are Muslim, have challenged the Uttarakhand High Court's eviction order in the Supreme Court, which will hear the plea...
Three-year-old raped in Bihar, one arrested
Patna: A man was arrested in Bihar's Madhubani district Saturday for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl and then hanging her naked from a tree,...
Abduction of women rising in India; UP at the top
New Delhi : Cases of kidnapping of women and girls are on the rise in India, with Uttar Pradesh registering the maximum number of...
On International Women’s Day, let us remember the legacy of first lady of Islam
By Moin Qazi for Twocircles.net
Motherhood is a mercy, being linked
By close affinity to prophethood,
And her compassion is the prophet’s own.
For mothers shape the way...
Centre to promote places linked with Rani Laxmibai
New Delhi : The central government will extend all help to Madhya Pradesh to develop tourism around places associated with Rani Laxmibai, the woman...
Manipur molestation: NSCN-IM leader’s photo released
By IANS,
Imphal: Three weeks after a leader of the Naga insurgent outfit NSCN-IM allegedly molested a Manipuri actress, the Manipur government Friday made his photo public.
Girls education mandatory: Farangi Mahal fatwa
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Lucknow: In a fatwa issued on Monday the Darul Uloom Firangi Mahal of Lucknow has made it mandatory on all muslims to make efforts for providing education to girls. The fatwa came as a silver lining after a series of fatwas issued by Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband attracted much media attention reportedly painted as anti-women.
French burqa ban is an infringement on women’s right: Bazm-e-Khwateen
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Woman Maoist killed in gunbattle in Orissa’s Kandhamal
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : A woman Maoist rebel was Tuesday killed by security forces in a gunbattle in Orissa's Kandhamal district, an official said.
Getting information that a group of Maoists had gathered in the forest near Daringbadi area of the district for a meeting, police and special operations group personnel raided the area.
There was an exchange of fire after the rebels attacked the security forces and a woman Maoist was killed, district collector Krishan Kumar told IANS.
Indian girls return with best performance card from AFC festival
By IANS,
New Delhi: Unnoticed and unsung, 22 Indian girls, forming two 11-player teams, returned from Colombo after putting up a creditable show in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) south central under-14 festival there.
India's girls topped the five-team festival with 21 green cards followed by Jordan, Iran, Sri Lanka and Bhutan in that order. India won all but one of their matches, which was a 30-minute draw with Iran.
Women’s issues will be dealt with speedily in Rajasthan
By IANS,
Jaipur: Rajasthan has framed an action plan to handle with sensitivity incidents of atrocities on women and speedily dispose of these cases, thanks to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Northeast has more women than men, yet few female candidates
By Sujit Chakraborty,
Agartala: There are more women than men in the northeast, but just a handful of them were in the poll fray. In...
‘Rani Jhansi would be proud today of her nation’
By IANS,
New Delhi: As India took a decisive step towards giving its women one-third representation in legislatures, many women keenly watched history being made on their TV sets, celebrated the moment in their own small ways and said their country has made them proud.
Clearing the first hurdle, the Women's Reservation Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. It seeks to set aside for women 181 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha and 1,370 of the total 4,109 seats in the 28 state assemblies.
…और मैंने नोखा को ‘डेल्टा’ के लिए लड़ते हुए देखा
दलित छात्रा डेल्टा मेघवाल की उनके कॉलेज परिसर में हुई विवादित मौत पर देश भर में चर्चा और चिंता है. कॉलेज-प्रशासन जहां इसे आत्महत्या...
The campaign against Triple Talaq: Women’s rights or political game?
PM Modi's concern for Muslim women appeared in a BJP rally for UP election
By Mohammed Anwar Siddiqui for TwoCircles.net
There is dire need to understand...
“We are at peace now,” says wife of slain UP cop killed in Bulandhshar...
Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was killed two years ago in Chirangavathi, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. His wife was responding to the news of the Supreme...
Yadav trinity asks PM for all-party meeting on women’s bill
By IANS,
New Delhi : Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav, Janata Dal-United's Sharad Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal's Lalu Prasad Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the women's reservation bill and asked for an all-party meeting to evolve consensus on the contentious legislation.
"We asked him to call for an all party meeting," Lalu Prasad told reporters after the meeting at the prime minister's residence.
Thinking about justice
By Zohra Javed for TwoCircles.net,
It is our duty to fight every injustice. Or so we rightly feel. But how far can we go?
Among other valid points the Ruchika case has once again brought into focus the issue of delayed justice, which may be as good as justice denied. And when people are continuously living in conditions where justice and equality are denied, their frustration may turn violent as they seem convinced that the most they could loose is their meaningless life.
Assamese woman gang-raped in Delhi
By IANS,
New Delhi : A 21-year-old Assamese woman was raped here by two men who have been arrested, police said Sunday.
One of the men...
Girls outperform boys in Bihar’s madrassa exams
By IANS,
Patna: Girls have outperformed boys in the examinations held by Bihar's Madrassa Education Board for the second consecutive year.
"Girls have outperformed boys in the madrassa results. Maulvi, Fauquania and Vastania topped in the Class 12, Class 10 and middle school examinations," Maulana Ajaj Ahmad, chairman of the Madrassa Education Board of Bihar, said Thursday.
US more in alignment with Islamic values than many Muslim states: Sheikh Aaidh Al-Qarni
By Siraj Wahab
A popular Saudi author and religious scholar has raised some questions about governmental and societal practices across the Arab world and asserts that the United States is more in alignment with many Islamic values than many countries represented as Muslim states.
Sheikh Aaidh ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni, whose self-help book “Don’t Be Sad” sells briskly both in English and Arabic, made the remarks in two recent columns published in the pan-Arab mass-circulation Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
JNV molestation case: Three absconding teachers nabbed
Akola (Maharashtra): The Akola Police nabbed three absconding teachers in connection with the molestation of 55 teenaged schoolgirls of the centrally-managed Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,...
As election approaches in Kerala, parties go all out to woo Adivasi voters in...
By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net
Kozhikode: With battle lines drawn for the upcoming assembly polls, campaigns of both the United Democratic Front and...
BJP to seek NCW intervention in Jadavpur varsity case
Kolkata : The BJP's Lok Sabha member Meenakshi Lekhi Sunday condemned the alleged sexual harassment of a Jadavpur University student and the subsequent police...
Haryana’s women legislators – motorcylist nurse to industrialist mom
By Jaideep Sarin, IANS,
Chandigarh : One was a nurse who ran her campaign riding a motorcycle. Another is known for her flamboyance in politics and social life. A third has been listed by Forbes magazine as one of India's richest women. They are among the nine women elected Thursday to the 90-member Haryana assembly.
In a state that has one of the worst sex ratios in the country with just around 800 females per 1,000 males, 67 women were in the poll fray among 1,222 contenders this time.
Indian challenge ends in ITF women’s tournament
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Indian challenge in the $10,000 women's International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament got over Friday with the defeat of Isha Lakhani and Sanaa Bhambri in the semi-finals.
On a hot and humid day at DLTA complex here, third-seeded Isha went down 3-6, 4-6 to top-seed Emily Webley-Smith of Britain while Sanaa, seeded fifth, lost to seventh-seeded Uzbek Alexandra Kolesnichenko, 3-6, 2-6.
Webley-Smith will meet her doubles partner Kolesnichenko for the title clash Saturday.
Woman lawyer stabbed to death in court
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.
Sonia, Rahul condole death of Sister Nirmala
New Delhi : Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday condoled the death of Mother Teresa's successor Sister Nirmala.
Sister...
Women’s access to Haji Ali shrine: HC verdict on Tuesday
Mumbai : The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce on Tuesday its much-awaited verdict on a petition challenging the ban on women to...
Girls fare better in maths in countries where women are more equal
By DPA,
Florence (Italy) : Girls are better than boys in reading, but they also can keep up with boys in mathematics when the genders are on a more equal footing in their native countries, according to research published in the Science journal.
The data came to light on closer examination by Luigi Guiso of European University Institute in Florence of data of a Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study published in 2003. At the time, the maths and reading skills of more than 276,000 boys and girls aged 15 from 40 countries were compared.
Women as a vote bank: Not a win-win for politicos
By Amulya Ganguli
Women are now being courted by some politicians who sense that their appeal to Dalits, backward castes and Muslims is dwindling in...
Triple talaq should be covered under Domestic Violence Act: Muslim body
New Delhi, (IANS): In a letter written to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday, a Muslim body has demanded that the triple talaq or...
वाह रे मोदी बजट! दलित-आदिवासियों का हक़ भी मार लिया!
Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net
प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी भले ही अरूण जेटली द्वारा पेश किए गए बजट को गांव, गरीब और किसान समर्थक बजट बता रहे...
Whither women’s security in Akhilesh’s Uttar Pradesh?
Being a woman and moving around in Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh seems to be a mortally scaring thought.
While union home ministry records show that rape cases in India's most populous state of over 200 million people, which sends the largest number of 80 lawmakers to the national parliament, have seen a quantum jump of 55 percent over the previous year, the state government and the police force, possiblyl the largest in the country and pathetic by all standards, continues to drag its feet in one-line statements and knee-jerk reactions of setting up teams and taking the PR route of "CM blasted officials, probe is in the right direction".
Woman complains to rights panel against Andhra legislator
By IANS,
Hyderabad : A woman in Andhra Pradesh Monday approached the State Human Rights Commission complaining that a legislator of the ruling Congress party was harassing her husband.
According to the complaint lodged by A. Dhanalakshmi, Congress party legislator from Chirala assembly constituency in Prakasam district A. Krishnamohan is threatening to get a criminal case booked against her husband.
Pregnant women should be given vitamin D supplements
By IANS,
London: All pregnant women should be given vitamin D supplements to safegaurd their babies' life, as lack of it could be life-threatening for a newborn.
Researchers say women who do not have enough vitamin D can experience complications in pregnancy which could be life-threatening for a newborn. It could also lead to the development of diseases such as rickets and other deficiency linked conditions.
Akhilesh announces Rs.20 lakh for murdered NIA official’s family
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday announced financial assistance of Rs.20 lakh for the family of NIA official Tanzeel Ahmad,...
Farm house looted, Dalit woman gang raped in Greater Noida
By IANS,
Greater Noida: About a dozen armed men barged into a farm house here, gang raped a Dalit woman employee and looted cash and jewelry available in the servant quarters Monday night, police said Tuesday.
The men armed with pistols, knives and iron rods raided the farm house owned by Atar Singh Bhati in Kathera area under Dadri police station of Greater Noida, overpowered and tied up all the male members and took all the available cash and jewelry from their quarters.
Gaining education, 35 women plan to uplift their communities
By Prantick Majumder,
Jhadol (Rajasthan) : How do you help your backward community living in remote, virtually inaccessible villages to progress if most of them...
Delhi government to employ six acid attack victims
New Delhi : Delhi government will provide jobs to six acid attack victims, an official said on Wednesday.
"The Delhi Government's health ministry today (Wednesday)...
Afghan women parliamentarians visit NATO
By EuAsiaNews,
Brussels : A high-level delegation of women representatives of the Upper and Lower Houses of the Parliament of Afghanistan paid a 3-day visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels from Monday till Wednesday.
This is the second visit of women-only delegation of Afghan Parliamentarians to NATO since 2007 as a continuation of NATO’s efforts to engage women in a constructive dialogue on issues related to the stability, reconstruction and development of Afghanistan, noted a statement by the 26-member alliance.
Indian parliament elects its first woman speaker, Meira Kumar
By IANS,
New Delhi : History was made in India Wednesday when diplomat-turned-politician Meira Kumar, 64, became the first woman speaker of the Lok Sabha - the lower house of parliament - with MPs cutting across party lines supporting the election of the Dalit leader.
The newly elected members of the 15th Lok Sabha watched in rapt attention as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani, who were engaged in a bitter war of words until a month ago, together led Meira Kumar to the podium.
DCW to work with Delhi Police’s crimes against women cell
New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday decided to work closely with Delhi Police's special unit dealing with crimes against women...