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Rape of foreign nationals brings bad name to India: Court

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New Delhi: Incidents of raping foreign nationals has brought a very bad name to India , a court here has said while sentencing two...

Akhilesh announces Rs.20 lakh for murdered NIA official’s family

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Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday announced financial assistance of Rs.20 lakh for the family of NIA official Tanzeel Ahmad,...

Court asks Kumble’s wife to mutually settle daughter’s issue

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday asked India's former Test cricket player Anil Kumble's wife Chethana to try to reach an out-of-court settlement with her former husband Kumar V. Jahgirdar on the issue of their daughter's custody. A bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice R.M. Lodha gave this advice to Chethana Kumble and her former husband Jahgirdar while hearing her lawsuit. Chethana challenged a Bangalore family court's decision to entertain his plea for the custody of their daughter, now living with her and Kumble.

Woman raped for years, rescued; accused nabbed

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New Delhi: A woman who was raped by her landlord for three years and forced into sex trade, was rescued by her two friends...

Victim offered Rs.31,000 to forget rape

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Patna: A panchayat in Bihar has ordered one of its members accused of raping a woman to pay her Rs.31,000 and asked the victim...

पहले तो हमारी सोच का दायरा इतना छोटा नहीं था…

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तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी, TwoCircles.net के लिए भारत के तमाम नागरिकों को भारतीय संविधान के तहत यह अधिकार हासिल है कि वो जिस धर्म को चाहे, उसके...

2012 rape-murder case: Key points of the verdict

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By IANS, The following are the key points in the 2012 rape-murder case of a teenage girl delivered by Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat: * Perpetrators...

Raped Dalit woman struggles for justice in Orissa

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: A month after a Dalit woman in Orissa was allegedly gang raped by four men, including a former leader of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the police have arrested only one of the accused. Opposition parties claim that a minister is shielding them and are demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A 24-year-old woman has accused politician Mahesh Agarwal and three other men of having raped her at Paikmal in Bargarh district, about 350 km from here, May 10.

33 percent quota for women in Delhi, union territory polices

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New Delhi : The union cabinet on Friday gave its approval for 33 percent reservation to women in direct recruitment to posts ranging from...

Uber rape: SC sets aside order to re-examine witnesses

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Delhi High Court order permitting the recall and re-examination of 13 witnesses including...

Mystery shrouds death of woman in fall from moving train

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By IANS, Lucknow : Mystery shrouds the death of a 30-year-old woman who fell from a moving train on the outskirts of Kanpur Sunday. Government Railway Police (GRP) officials claimed that the woman, Amina Khatoon, was mentally unstable and fell from the train by accident.

Where women take charge of Durga Puja celebrations

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By IANS, Ranchi : An all-women Durga Puja celebration has entered the 15th year in Jharkhand's Dhanbad city. The Sarvajanik Durga Puja Committee, formed by 37 women in 1993, has been celebrating the festival without the support of men for the last 15 years. The women belong to Srinagar colony in Dhanbad, 240 km from Ranchi. The women raise funds and also perform prayers and other rituals. "We had decided that there will be no male member in the committee and each and everything will be organised by women," said Seema, president of the committee.

BJP women protest over reservation bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) women activists Tuesday demonstrated outside the Parliament House protesting against the delay in the passing of the women's reservation bill. Some 20 activists blocked traffic outside the parliament gate near Vijay Chowk shouting slogans against political leaders ranged against the bill that provides 33 percent reservation to women in all legislatures. All the women were detailed by the police after they stopped some MPs from entering the house.

Woman ‘thrown out’ of train in Bengal, railways rubbish claim

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Kolkata: Angry passengers ransacked a railway station and roughed up two officials Saturday claiming a woman passenger was thrown off a moving train in...

Girl killed in Kashmir cloudburst  

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Srinagar : A 15-year-old girl was killed in a cloudburst in Kashmir's Ganderbal district on Thursday, police officials said. Cloudbursts hit Gangangir and Sonamarg areas...

Many Sri Lankan women are harassed in public transport

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By IANS, Colombo : Many Sri Lankan women travelling in public transport face some form of "sexual harassment" mainly in the cosmopolitan areas, a media report quoting a research study said Sunday. According to the report, a study conducted by the Legal Aid Commission has "found that two out of every five women experienced some form of sexual harassment on buses and trains".

Woman strangled to death in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 25-year-old woman was found strangled to death in her east Delhi house Monday. Her parents alleged she was murdered by her husband for not fulfilling dowry demands. Police said the body of Sunita was found in her Kalyanpuri home Monday morning. Sunita was married to Bhaleshwar, an employee with a private firm in Noida, four years ago. Bhaleshwar is missing from the house since the incident.

State governments indifferent to Anganwadi workers: Maneka Gandhi

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New Delhi : Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday said the state governments are adopting a "careless" and "irresponsible"...

इस बार यूपी में बढ़ गई विधायकों में मुस्लिमों की तादाद, पढ़े किसने -किसे...

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उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा में मुस्लिम विधायकों का आंकड़ा 2017 के मुकाबले में मामूली अंको में बढ़ा है। इस बार 36 मुस्लिम चुनाव जीतकर विधानसभा...

Women aren’t weak, says Indian Navy contingent leader

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New Delhi : For Lieutenant Commander Priya Jayakumar, leading the Indian Navy contingent at the 66th Republic Day parade Monday was about proving that...

Muslim couple in Bokaro, Jharkhand allege “custodial torture,” police refute allegations

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A Muslim couple in Bokaro, Jharkhand has alleged that they were tortured by police while in custody over allegations of theft against them....

Media and Gender

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By Faheem Muhammed M.P  Mass media is one of the most potent institutions which determines how an individual perceives gender and gender discourse. Through its...

BJP condones beating of women: Rahul Gandhi

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By IANS, Bangalore : Targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the infamous attack on young women at a Mangalore pub, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said Friday evening that the BJP speaks about Indian culture "but condones beating of women". "Our opposition talks about Indian culture but condones the beating of women. Their activists go out and beat women," Rahul Gandhi said at a rally here, attacking the BJP which is in power in Karnataka.

60 model stations, 40 all-women booths in Bengal’s first phase

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Kolkata : The first phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal on Thursday will see as many as 60 model polling stations (MPS)...

Olympic shooter depending on unborn baby to win

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By IANS, London: A heavily-pregnant Olympic shooter is depending on her unborn baby to help her to victory in London, she said Friday.

Majiziya Bhanu wins gold in World Powerlifting Championship

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net Majiziya Bhanu has done it again. The Kerala girl has won a gold medal in the 56 kg senior women's open...

Woman jumps from Metro station, dies

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By IANS, Gurgaon: A 25-year-old woman who had accused her husband and in-laws of harassing her for dowry died after jumping from the terrace of a Metro station here Thursday, police said.

Wife, separated for years, cannot sue husband for torture: Apex court

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that a woman, living separately from her husband for years without taking divorce, cannot accuse him of torturing her after years of separation. A bench of Justice Mukundakam Sharma and Justice B.S. Chauhan gave the ruling while upholding the conviction and sentence of an Assam government official on charges of bigamy. But the bench set aside the conviction for physical and mental torture allegations levelled by the estranged wife, who had been living separately for years.

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...

First Muslim girl from NE who qualified for UPSC honoured

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By TCN News,

Delhi government acts against female foeticide

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New Delhi : Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Thursday issued notice to 89 hospitals and nursing homes in the national capital suspected of...

50 percent girls acquire STD in two years of becoming sexually active

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By IANS, Washington: Nearly 50 percent of urban teenage girls may acquire a sexually transmitted disease within two years of becoming sexually active, a new study said. In the study, researchers found that half of the 381 girls enrolled were infected with one sexually transmitted disease (STD) - chlamydia (pain during sex or bleeding after sex) or trichomoniasis (itching, burning, and inflammation of the vagina). The girls were aged 14 to 17 years.

Program organized to review the Scheme for Minority Women empowerment

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By TCN News, New Delhi: To review the process and to draw a map for effective implementation of Scheme for Leadership Development of Minority Women, Ministry of Minority Affairs today organized an interaction with women organizations in New Delhi which was attended by representatives of a large number of women organizations from different part of the country.

Ramadan 1433: Quran

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By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net Ramadan is also the month of Quran, Muslims' holy book. Two ladies seen reading Quran in Jama Masjid of Delhi. Link: TCN Ramadan...

Villagers planning another ‘sati’ temple in Raipur

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By IANS, Raipur : Villagers in Chhattisgarh's Raipur district are reportedly planning to construct a temple at the site where an elderly woman committed 'sati' by jumping onto her husband's funeral pyre, even as seven people have been held for the crime, police said Tuesday. Police deployment has been increased to foil their plans, an official said. Dozens of people had Monday offered prayers at the site in Chechar village, 125 km from here, despite a a ban imposed by the police on the worship of the woman.

Woman board member: Over 300 NSE-listed companies yet to comply

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By Venkatachari Jagannathan and Rohit Vaid, Chennai/New Delhi : As many as 313 companies listed on the National Stock Exchange have not inducted a woman...

Jilted lover stabs woman in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi: A man stabbed his 20-year-old former girlfriend to death Monday near a bustling market here, police said. The jilted lover has been arrested.

Muslim, tribal and dalit women demand a sub-quota within women’s reservation

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Coimbatore: Putting an end to saffronization of education and history; justice and rehabilitation of riot victims; enactment of laws to punish acid attack culprits; stopping forceful sterilization of women and immediate stopping of false propaganda of ‘Love Jihad’ are among the eight resolutions passed at the ‘Awakening’, the first national conference of the National Women’s Front.

Bengal police torture woman, BJP moves governor

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Kolkata : The BJP Monday sought the intervention of West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi seeking the suspension of police personnel who allegedly tortured a...

Women’s safety everyone’s responsibility: Farhan Akhtar

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By IANS,

दलित छात्र की पिटाई से मौत के मामले ने तूल पकड़ा, बवाल

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के औरैया जिले में परीक्षा में ग़लत जवाब देने पर टीचर ने एक दलित छात्र की पिटाई कर दी थी जिसके...

Two young Swedish women marry in Agra

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By IANS, Agra : Two young Swedish women, who were living together in New Delhi for the past one year, married in traditional Hindu style at a temple here, a priest said. According to Baba Dharam Das, who conducted the marriage Saturday at a temple in Agra Cantonment, an autorickshaw driver brought the two women to the temple and persuaded him to get them married according to Vedic rites. The autorickshaw driver made arrangements for the marriage in which Sandra, who played the husband, put vermillion on the forehead of Sara, who played the wife's role.

Triple talaq bill will put Muslim women in trouble: Mamata

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Kolkata, (IANS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday termed the triple talaq bill as "defective" and claimed that the impending legislation will put...

Woman dies after her clothes catch fire

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman died after her clothes caught fire while she was performing puja in her house in northwest Delhi, police said Tuesday. Her husband sustained critical burn injuries when he rushed to her aid. "Matti was performing Navratra Puja at her Maurya Enclave residence when her clothes caught fire late Monday. Her husband Sumit Aswal tried to save her but also suffered 30 percent burn injuries," a police official said.

In #MeToo wake, Producers Guild of India to set up committee

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Mumbai, Oct 9 (IANS) The Producers Guild of India on Tuesday extended its support to the movement to call out and report sexual harassment...

यशवर्धन ने ‘सुरैय्या’ को फंसाकर पहले हिन्दू बनाया और अब ठोकरें खाने के लिए...

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यशवर्धन की मुहब्बत में गिरफ्तार होकर सुरैय्या(बदला हुआ नाम) ने धर्म तक बदल लिया मगर इसके बाद भी यशवर्धन वफ़ादारी न कर सका सुरैय्या...

11 arrested for beating up police, woman

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Kolkata : Eleven persons were arrested on Saturday for allegedly beating up a policeman after a fight broke out between neighbours over playing...

जिसने काम चलाया था उसके लिए क़लम चला दिया…

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मोहम्मद अनीसुर रहमान खान कितना अच्छा विचार है कि हम अपने देश की बागडोर जिसके हाथ में दें उसका रिपोर्ट कार्ड भी हम ही बनाएं...

ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट : “पुलिस ने मेरे बेगुनाह शौहर की हत्या की” हिरासत में...

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    तेलंगाना में मेदक पुलिस ने खदीर को चोरी के इल्जाम में गिरफ्तार किया था, गिरफ्तारी के बाद बेतहाशा पिटाई से खदीर की तबीयत बिगड़...

Telangana man arrested for rape, murder of daughter

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Hyderabad:Police in Telangana have solved the mystery behind rape and murder of a minor girl with the arrest of her father, who committed the...

Kerala Govt women cell to facilitate poor girls for engineering courses

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By Aaliya N.P, TwoCircles.net, Kannur: The Women Empowerment Cell of Kerala Government is aiming to give engineering education for selected candidates. The girls who have passed science stream in +2 examinations will be given admission to three months engineering course of Indira Gandhi National Open University. “The girls are taught engineering to give technical help to the cell which will give those girls jobs in field of women empowerment and enlarge the reach of the cell to every section of the society,” said the director of the cell.

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 Detained For Spreading Rumor Online About New Quake

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By Bernama, Hefei : Police detained a woman on Tuesday in east China's Anhui Province for spreading a rumor online that a series of powerful earthquakes will jolt the province. The Provincial Department of Security monitored a posting on Monday from Baidu.com, a popular search portal, declaring Anhui was likely to be hit by a series of earthquakes at or above 7 on Richter scale, citing a forecast from the official website of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Jammu and Kashmir’s women’s commission gets new chairperson

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By IANS, Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir government has nominated National Conference (NC) legislator Shamima Firdous as chairperson of the state women's commission, a post that was lying vacant for over seven years. The announcement was made by the government Wednesday. Despite persistent demands by various womens' groups, the post was not filled by successive governments since 2003, when the first chairperson of the commission Girja Dhar resigned. Firdous will have the status of a minister of state, an official release announcing her appointment said.

International tobacco control award for Dr Mira Aghi

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By Bobby Ramakant, CNS, Noted tobacco control advocate and a United Nations consultant Dr Mira Aghi was conferred upon the International award in recognition of her lifetime contribution to advancing tobacco control initiatives for women. The International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) presented its Tribute for Outstanding Service to Women award to Dr Mira Aghi (65 years) at the recently concluded 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) in Mumbai, India.

Seven women pickpockets nabbed from Delhi Metro

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New Delhi: Seven women pickpockets were arrested from a Delhi Metro station here Friday, police said Friday. Sharda, Parwati, Roshni, Rita, Renu, Nisha and Poonam...

Margaret Thatcher named world’s most influential woman

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By IANS, London: Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has been named as the most influential woman in the world, according to a new survey.

Probe into abuse by Haryana cops in women’s shelter

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By IANS,

PM gives assurance on food bill, but not on women’s quota

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By IANS, New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said his government was committed to enactment of the National Food Security Act, but gave no similar assurance on the women's reservation bill. Releasing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-II's report card on completing its first year, the prime minister said: "Consultations have been held with states and union territories and other stakeholders. A draft National Food Security bill is under preparation and it is proposed to be placed in the public domain for scrutiny and comments."

The mystery of missing Muslim female rulers

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By Raihanaa Hasan

Women farmers could slash number of hungry by up to 17 percent

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By DPA,

Helmets made necessary for Delhi women, Sikhs exempted

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New Delhi : Women riding pillion on two-wheelers in the capital will now have to wear helmets as the new rules came into force...

Uber to create 50,000 jobs for Indian women by 2020

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New Delhi : US-based mobile cab-booking company Uber announced on Thursday its commitment to create 50,000 jobs for women in India by 2020 in...

Meet Ariba Khan: A Young Municipal Councillor from Shaheen Bagh

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Aatika S. | TwoCircles.net Ariba Khan from the Indian National Congress, and Municipal Councillor from Abul Fazal Enclave in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, speaks to...

तबाही : मुम्बई में झुग्गियों पर गिरी दीवार ,17 की दर्दनाक मौत

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net मुंबई में बारिश का कहर देखने को मिला हैं। भारी बारिश ने मुंबई को बेहाल कर दिया है। मुंबई के दो इलाकों...

Women key to US presidential elections: poll

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By DPA, Washington : Women hold an important key to winning the US presidential elections in November because neither Democrat Barack Obama nor Republican John McCain has yet won a majority of women voters into their corner, according to a poll. Obama has won the support of 49 percent of women, while 38 percent are for McCain, according to the poll released Tuesday, commissioned by a coalition of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a female-oriented TV broadcaster, and hundreds of women's organisations.

Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi among top ten world’s most powerful women

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By Arun Kumar, IANS,

Zahida Khatun Sherwani: The walled poetess of Urdu literature

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Zahida Khatun Sherwani (1894-1922) is one of the early female poets of Urdu literature who took the giant leap of challenging the normative structure....

British woman sues NHS, says her IVF child doesn’t have her genes

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By Venkata Vemuri, IANS, London : In a case without equal in Britain, a woman who bore a child, conceived through artificial insemination, is suing the NHS for not being able to use her own eggs to prepare the embryo. Greta Mason of East Sussex gave birth to a male child, Jaden, conceived via IVF using an anonymous donor's egg from Spain and the sperm of her husband, Chris. The IVF wait-list of the NHS is quite long. The couple waited for six years for their turn, and by the time it finally came, Greta had turned 40. Her eggs were too old for conception, the NHS doctors told her.

Western woman aid worker shot dead in Afghanistan

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By DPA, Kabul : Unknown gunmen killed a foreign woman when she was going to her office in the western part of the capital city Monday, police said. The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area following the shooting, said Zemarai Bashary, interior ministry spokesman. Bashary declined to provide more information or identify the victim. But a police official, who did not want to be named because he was not authorized to talk to news media, said the victim was from South Africa and worked with an aid organization.

Women activists stage silent protest in Srinagar

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By IANS, Srinagar : Women's rights activists staged a silent protest in Srinagar Thursday against the alleged deteriorating women's rights scenario in Kashmir.

Marginally more women in council of ministers

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By IANS, New Delhi : There are marginally more women in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's team now, with four new women members joining the council of ministers Sunday.

Two arrested for tormenting Dalit woman

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Two men were arrested on charges of tonsuring a Dalit woman and parading her in an Orissa village for allegedly having an extra marital affair with her nephew, police said Saturday. The incident took place in Kashimpur village in Bhadrak district, 150 km from here, July 5 but came to light after her husband lodged a police complaint Thursday when the woman attempted suicide.

Fast track courts for crimes against women in UP

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Lucknow: All 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh will soon have fast track courts for crimes against women, an officials said Saturday. A decision to this...

Modi is dynamic, says Sania

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Hyderabad: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza Tuesday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "an extremely dynamic personality". Asked how she felt when Modi congratulated her...

Woman commits suicide in Rashtrapati Bhavan premises

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New Delhi: A woman committed suicide Friday within Rashtrapati Bhavan precincts by hanging herself from a ceiling fan, police said. The official said that Sazia,...

Madonna voted hardest working mother in new poll

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By IANS, London : Pop diva Madonna has been named the hardest working mother in showbiz topping a new poll ahead of Hollywood actresses Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow. The pop superstar took home $110 million (75 million pounds) in 2008, putting herself at the forefront of high-earning women with children, reports contactmusic.com. Madonna, who is mother to adopted toddler David Banda, 3, Rocco, 8 and 12-year-old Lourdes, took most of her money from her world tour as well as record sales and a string of endorsement deals.

यह है सहारनपुर जिले का रिकार्ड,इस बार फंसे है कई पेंच

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उत्तर प्रदेश चुनाव के मद्देनजर हम पाठकों के लिए जिलेवार विधानसभा के आंकड़े आपके समक्ष रख रहे हैं। इस बार आप सहारनपुर जनपद...

Indian woman found dead in Oman

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Muscat: An Indian woman has been found dead in her apartment in Oman's Sohar city, hours after having lost her daughter and husband in...

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 5 – Janvi’s...

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(Editor’s note: This was first published on Yahoo.com as a single piece. We are reproducing the long form report in parts for TwoCircles.net readers.) You...

Rajya Sabha passes Triple Talaq Bill

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TCN News Despite tough resistance from the opposition parties, the Triple Talaq Bill has been passed in the Rajya Sabha today, Tuesday with 99 members...

Parliament approves anti-hijacking bill providing for death penalty

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New Delhi : The parliament on Monday gave nod to the Anti-Hijacking Bill that provides for death penalty to the offenders in case of...

Ramadan 1437: Honey Khan

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By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net “It's been 13 years since I started fasting during Ramadan”, said Honey, “from the time I entered Islam.” Sitting in 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.

Women’s commission condemns serial on Colors channel

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By IANS, New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) Thursday strongly criticised the serial "Na Aana Is Desh Lado" aired on Colors TV for the way it portrays women. In a statement Girija Vyas, chairperson of NCW, said the commission has asked for clarifications from the channel because the serial presents women in a poor light and appears to be derogatory, and outrages the modesty of women.

Bengal nun gang-rape: Women’s panel blames police of inaction

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Kolkata: The West Bengal Commission for Women on Sunday said the police did not act even though the convent where a 70-year-old nun was...

BSP leader, 2 aides booked for raping woman

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By IANS, Lucknow : A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and his two aides have been booked for allegedly raping a 25-year-old married woman in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, police said Saturday. "BSP leader Sumer Singh, who is in charge of the party's affairs in the Nawabganj assembly constituency of Bareilly, along with two of his friends raped the woman after abducting her," police Inspector Veer Singh Nayak told IANS on phone. A case was registered against them Friday on the complaint of the victim's husband.

115 mn widows live in poverty: Loomba Foundation study

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By Venkata Vemuri, IANS, London: At least 245 million women around the world have been widowed with India alone accounting for 42.4 million. And more than 115 million widows live in devastating poverty, according to a new study released by Britain's Loomba Foundation, which is campaigning to put the plight of widows on the United Nations agenda. The Loomba Foundation presented the first edition of the study, 'Invisible, Forgotten Sufferers: The Plight of Widows Around the World' to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in New York as part of its campaign.

December 16 documentary: Bar Council notice to lawyers

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New Delhi: The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Saturday issued notice to two defence advocates for their controversial remarks in the BBC documentary...

Kerala village launches dowry-free marriage websites

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By IANS, Nilambur (Kerala): A year back, residents of a Kerala village in Malappuram district took a pledge that they would neither ask for dowry in marriage nor give any. The villagers are now launching two websites on dowry-free marriages. These websites have been created by Nilambur village which has a population of 50,000, of which 40 percent are Muslims. The rest are Hindus and Christians.

Fearing further attacks & arrests, Muslim families flee Uttarakhand village

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Following communal violence in a village in Uttarakhand on April 16, several Muslim families have fled the area fearing arrests and further attacks.  Muhammad Raafi |...

Announcements by finance minister for lawmakers, women…

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By IANS, New Delhi : The following announcements were made by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha Friday during a discussion on the budget for the fiscal 2011-12:

People defy ban to offer prayers at sati site

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By IANS, Raipur : Dozens of people in Chhattisgarh's Raipur district Monday offered prayers at the site where a woman committed 'sati' by jumping onto her husband's funeral pyre despite a ban imposed by the police on the worship of the woman. On Saturday, Lalmati Verma, 71, jumped onto her husband's funeral pyre after all the villagers had left the site on the bank at the confluence of two rivers - Mahanadi and Shivnath - in Chechar village, about 125 km from here.

A woman with a mission: She safeguards maternal health in Himachal villages

Women
By Vishal Gulati Chamba (Himachal Pradesh) : In spite of advancing years, health worker Kaushalya, whose name roughly translates into "ability to do something well",...

Maharashtra launches crime tracking system

Women
Mumbai : On the occasion of the 70th Independence Day, Maharashtra launched the country's first comprehensive 'Crime Criminal Tracking Network System' through 42 cyber...

59 women MPs in new parliament

Women
By IANS, New Delhi: A record 59 women were elected to the 15th Lok Sabha, with a majority - 23 - belonging to the Congress party alone, the Election Commission said Monday. In all, 556 women had contested the 2009 general elections. While the Congress topped the list, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came second with 13 women being elected. The All India Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) follow with four women each getting elected to the Lok Sabha.

“हरियाणा में महादलित महिला होने के बजाय गाय होना ज़्यादा अच्छा है”: महादलित महिला...

Women
मनीषा मशाल   भारत में यह एक कठिन समय चल रहा है, जिसमें देश में रह रहे हाशिए के समुदाय से जुड़े लोग ब्राह्मणवाद और प्रताड़ना...

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...

Air India to run all-women crew flights on Women’s Day

Women
By IANS, New Delhi : National-carrier Air India will operate eight flights with an all-women's crew on the International Women's Day Tuesday, the civil aviation ministry said.

Rape Raj: Shrouded in Shadow

Women
By Shahnaz Islam, TwoCircles.net A frenzied attack or bouts of insanity; “rape is rape”! Every 30 minutes one rape is committed in India. A woman...

Delhi girl Sukriti Gupta tops CBSE class 12 exam

Women
New Delhi : Sukriti Gupta of Montfort School here on Saturday topped the class 12 examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE),...

Muslim Women Study Circle: Reclaiming Agency of Muslim Women in India

Women
A Kolkata-based collective Muslim Women Study Circle is working towards reclaiming the agency of Muslim women at a time when Islamophobia has been reared...

Three women found dead in Delhi house

Women
New Delhi : The bodies of a two women and a 12-year-old girl were found dead on Sunday in a building here, police said. The...

Book review: Sufism: The Heart of Islam

Women
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Sufism is much misunderstood by both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. While Muslims think that Sufis are innovators in the religion and qabr-parast (grave worshipper) and therefore unacceptable, non-Muslims think that Sufism offers a peaceful alternative to violent face of Islam and therefore acceptable to them. The truth is somewhere between these two extremes and as Sadia Dehlvi aptly states in her book “Sufism: The Heart of Islam” it is “the spiritual undercurrent that flows through Islam.”

India’s scavenger women find new jobs – and dignity

Women
By Shweta Srinivasan, IANS, New Delhi : Rani Bai, a Dalit woman in her late 20s in Madhya Pradesh, has thrown away the shoddy cane basket and hand shovel with which she would clean a dozen dry toilets everyday. Armed with scissors and a needle, she now churns out beautiful bags from waste leather - that's her new job. "From scavenging I would earn a pitiful Rs.30 a month, now I can earn up to Rs.1,000 - and the job is respectable," said Rani, who hails from Dewas district.

Women rights’ organizations appeal to President to not sign anti-rape ordinance

Women
By Citizen News Service

Indian women’s compound archery team claims Asiad bronze

Women
Incheon:The Indian women's team won the bronze medal in the compound archery event of the 17th Asian Games at the Gyeyang Asiad Archery Field...

Robbing their peace and declaring them dacoits

Women
Unheard & Unspoken: Terror stories from Madhya Pradesh: Part 4 By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

China’s Zhang Yin is world’s richest woman

Women
By IANS, Beijing: Zhang Yin, the head of a Chinese recycled paper company, is the world's richest woman in 2010, a media report said Wednesday.

Report of the national programme on “Hunar Se Rozgaar Tak”

Women
By TCN News, New Delhi: The All India Confederation for Women’s Empowerment Through Education (AICWETE), New Delhi in collaboration with Committee on Girls’ Education, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, Govt. of India, conducted a National Programme on the Topic “Hunar Se Rozgaar Tak” (From Skill to Employment) at India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi on 26th February, 2014.

उत्तराखंड में जज बन गई गांव की जहांआरा ,गुलसिताँ’ और आयशा

Women
आसमोहम्मद कैफ । Twocircles.net 22 दिसम्बर को उत्तराखंड न्यायिक सेवा के आएं परिणाम में तीन मुस्लिम लड़कियां जज बन गई है। खास बात यह है...

Obese women more impulsive than others

Women
By IANS, Washington : Obese women tend to be more impulsive than their normal weight counterparts, according to a study. University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) researchers tested how obese and normal-weight men, women are driven by immediate versus delayed gratification. They gave 95 participants (men and women) the choice of receiving hypothetical amounts of money immediately or fixed amounts to be received after delays of two weeks, one month, six months or after years.

IMRC का ‘ग्रेन्स फॉर ग्रैनीज़’ कार्यक्रम : ताकि कोई भी ग़रीब व बुजुर्ग महिला...

Women
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter हैदराबाद: सत्तर की उम्र पार कर चुकी खासिम बी अब बिस्तर से उठ नहीं सकती हैं, वे अपने हाथ पैर भी...

Railway minister’s son seeks anticipatory bail in rape case

Women
Bangalore: Karthik Gowda, son of Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Saturday moved a court for anticipatory bail in a rape and cheating case filed...

Rana Ayyub’s “Gujarat Files’ wins Citation of Excellence at Global Investigative Journalism Conference

Women
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Johannesburg (SA): Journalist-turned-author Rana Ayyub received a Citation of Excellence in the 2017 edition of the Global Shining Light Award for...

Trinamool student wing to ‘look into’ Kolkata college girl’s beating

Women
Kolkata : The student wing of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday said it would look into allegations of its members beating up...

Activists, academics come out in support of activists Teesta & Javed

Women
BY TCN News, New Delhi: Activists and academics have come out in support of anti-communalism activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand, who...

एएमयू की पुरानी छात्राओं ने बनाया ‘ब्यूटीज़ ऑफ़ दी एएमयू’ नामक संगठन

Women
TwoCircles.net News Desk नई दिेल्ली : अभी तक देश के विभिन्न हिस्सों में अलीगढ़ मु्स्लिम यूनिवर्सिटी (एएमयू) का ओल्ड ब्वायज़ एसोसिएशन सरगरम रहा है,...

No consensus on women’s bill, discussions to continue

Women
By IANS, New Delhi : The central government Monday said it would continue discussions on the women's reservation bill, after its meeting with leaders of parties in the Lok Sabha failed to reach a consensus as most opponents stuck to their stated positions. "Further discussion will continue," the government said in a statement after the nearly two-and-half hour meeting on the contentious bill that provides for 33 percent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.

‘British men, women most promiscuous in world’

Women
By IANS, London : British men and women are the world's most promiscuous people, leaving their American cousins far behind, according to a study. Germans come next with the Dutch, Czechs, Australians, Americans and French ranking third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively, in the list of the most promiscuous people, according to a study by Bradley University (BU) in Illinois, US.

Muslim Personal Law should be reformed: Women group

Women
By TCN News,

SC seeks response on women’s entry in mosques

Women
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre, the Central Waqf Council and the All India Muslim...

Father, brother, uncle arrested for raping minor for two years

Women
Kolkata: A 16-year-old girl in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district has alleged that her father, uncle and brother have been raping her for the past...

600 contestants at Agra’s National Women’s Sports Meet

Women
By IANS, Agra: Eighteen teams and more than 600 contestants from different states will take part in the three-day 36th National Women's Sports Meet beginning at the Eklavya Stadium here Monday.

Indian Social Forum helps stranded women in Saudi Arabia return to India

Women
By TCN News A woman from Karnataka’s coastal district of Udupi, who was forced to work as a housemaid in a remote town in...

Shazia Khan: An entrepreneur trying to mentor Muslim women find their feet

Women
By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net For Shazia Khan, the path to success has never been a straight one: as a Muslim girl growing up in...

Tripura youths given death sentence for raping, killing minor girl

Women
Agartala : A Tripura court on Wednesday sentenced to death two tribal youths for raping and murdering a 12-year-old tribal girl last year, police...

Goa assembly congratulates state’s first woman HC judge

Women
Panaji : The Goa legislative assembly Tuesday congratulated former district and sessions judge Anuja Prabhudessai for her elevation as Goa's first woman high court...

Kiran Bedi pays rich tributes to Nepal’s women

Women
By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS, Kathmandu : As Nepal celebrated 100th International Women's Day Monday by declaring a public holiday, rich tributes were paid to Nepali women, who comprise over 51 percent of the population, by first woman Indian Police Service officer Kiran Bedi. Bedi, winner of the Magsaysay Award for her work to reform India's prisons, arrived in the country on a three-day visit at the invitation of the Federation of Women Entrepreneurs' Associations of Nepal (FWEANS) and to assist their fund-raising programme.

Swine flu alert in northeast India, two women test positive

Women
Agartala/Aizawl/Imphal : The northeastern states have sounded a high alert to prevent the spread of swine flu in the bordering region even as two...

‘Northeast-The Women’s campaign’ launched in Guwahati

Women
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: ‘Northeast – The Women’s Campaign’, an initiative by Assam Youth For Change (AYFC) and supported by University of Science and Technology Meghalaya was launched in Guwahati in a bid to bridge the gap of gender inequality on Sunday. The year-long campaign was launched by Meghalaya Social Welfare Minister Deborah C. Marak in presence of Vice Chancellor of University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya Dr. PG Rao.

VIPs visit murdered Dalit woman’s mother, probe continues

Women
Perumbavoor (Kerala) : A stream of high-profile people are visiting a hospital here in Ernakulam district to meet the mother of a poor Dalit...

You won’t find a husband, world’s tallest girl told

Women
By IANS, London: Marvadene Anderson, a US resident who is said to be the world's tallest teenage girl at 6 feet 11 inches, says the rudest thing that she has ever been told is that she won't "be able to find a husband". "People are friendly with me because of my height and my personality. If I was tall and mean, I think I'd have a problem," The Telegraph quoted Anderson as saying Tuesday. "The rudest thing anybody ever said about my height is that I'm not going to be able to find a husband."

Our society behaves horrendously with women: Author Amish Tripathi

Women
By Shilpa Raina, Jaipur : Controversies in India are given greater prominence than pressing issues like the oppression of women that need to be brought...

Women have the highest status in Islam: Former CEC

Women
New Delhi: Women have the highest status in Islam and the Muslim community must see things with a liberal interpretation now, former Chief Election...

No consensus on women’s bill, discussions to continue

Women
By IANS, New Delhi: The government Monday said it would continue discussions on the women's reservation bill to arrive at a consensus after its all-party meeting on the issue saw many of the bill's opponents sticking to their demand for a quota within quota. "Further discussion will continue," the government said in a statement after the nearly two-and-half hours' meeting on the bill that provides for 33 percent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.

BMMA demands codification of Muslim personal law

Women
By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net,

केरल हाईकोर्ट ने एंट्रेंस टेस्ट में मुस्लिम महिलाओं को हिजाब पहनने की अनुमति दी

Women
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter एर्नाकुलम(केरल): हिजाब को लेकर समाज में हमेशा कोई न कोई मुद्दा उठता रहा है. मौजूदा वक़्त में भी सोशल मीडिया पर कई...

Campaign for women’s reservation bill gains momentum

Women
By IANS, New Delhi : Barely five days after it was launched, the civil society movement to support the passage of the women's reservation bill has started gaining momentum. Nearly a hundred people have signed up the online petition to the president and scores of others have taken up the cause on the social networking site, Facebook.

Rajya Sabha calls for passing of women reservation bill

Women
By IANS,

Two Czech women abducted in Pakistan

Women
By IANS/RIA Novosti, Moscow: Two women from the Czech republic have been abducted by unidentified assailants in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, a media report said.

Ramdev insulted Dalits, women: Congress

Women
New Delhi: Congress Saturday accused Ramdev of insulting Dalits and women, a day after the yoga guru said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited...

Malaysian Indian woman to sue for false detention

Women
By IANS, Kuala Lumpur : A Malaysian Indian woman is seeking compensation and an unqualified apology from the Malaysian immigration department for her wrongful detention for 11 months after she was mistaken for an illegal alien from Sri Lanka. Perak state's Health, Environment and Human Resources Committee chairman A. Sivanesan relayed Rajeshvari's demand during a media conference in Ipoh Tuesday. Urging the department to check all detention depots in the country, Sivanesan said he feared that Rajeshvari's case could be "just the tip of the iceberg".

AMU library row: Students protest against ‘negative portrayal’ in media

Women
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union and Women’s College Students’ Union today organised a protest today at the campus expressing their ‘shock and anger’ against what they termed as “negative portrayal” of AMU in certain sections of the media.

Government plans women’s health campaign

Women
By IANS, New Delhi: The Indian government's premier agency for science communication, Vigyan Prasar, is planning to launch a nation-wide programme to educate women on health related issues.

Muslim Women’s Personal Law Board supports Anna

Women
By TCN News,

Sri Lankan electoral reforms to boost women’s representation

Women
Colombo : Sri Lanka's new electoral reforms should make space for more women representation in parliament, Deputy Foreign Minister Ajith Perera told reporters on...

दिल्ली पुलिस ने ‘शाहीन बाग़’ की महिलाओं को नहीं जाने दिया अमित शाह के...

Women
यूसुफ़ अंसारी, twocircles.net नई दिल्ली। दिल्ली पुलिस ने ‘शाहीन बाग़’ की हज़ारों महिला प्रदर्शनकारियों गृह मंत्री अमित शाह से मिलने उनके घर नहीं जाने दिया।...

Over 16,000 women in Haryana to get a fighting chance

Women
By Jaideep Sarin, IANS, Chandigarh : Haryana is infamous for its skewed sex ratio. But thanks to quotas for women in grassroots bodies, over 16,000 women are set to be elected in the panchayat elections next month, getting a chance to show their might. "The panchayat elections in the state are being held June 6 and 12. The reservation of seats for women candidates will give them a fair representation in these bodies," state election commissioner Dharam Vir told IANS.

Even two pegs can endanger life of women with breast cancer

Women
By IANS, London: Women taking a couple of alcoholic pegs a day may be reducing their chances of survival in case they develop breast cancer, a new study has found.
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