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Woman detained in Lebanon not Baghdadi’s wife: Iraq

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Baghdad ; The Iraqi interior ministry said Wednesday that a woman recently detained in Lebanon is not the wife of the Islamic State (IS)...

उज़मा नाहिद वर्ल्ड ट्रेड सेंटर के इंटरनेशनल अवार्ड से सम्मानित

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter मुंबई : पिछले 25 सालों से मुस्लिम महिलाओं के बीच काम रहसामाजिक कार्यकर्ता उज़मा नाहिद को उनके महिला कल्याण और आर्थिक विकास...

Bleak outlook for women’s empowerment in Uttar Pradesh

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By Bhoomika Joshi and Sanober Umar, Gender equity and the status of women remain the hand-maiden of callous politics in India's largest state by population and 2014 has been deplorably stark. The 'Bahu lao, Beti Bachao' campaign in Uttar Pradesh is the latest feather in the BJP's cap of regressive and communal politics.

Can woman be given option to say no to triple talaq before nikaah: SC

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the All India Muslim Personal Law Board if it was possible to give the woman...

Amina loves her goats unconditionally

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By Abdul Basith MA, TwoCircles.net,

ट्रिपल तलाक : ‘शरीअत क़ानून में बदलाव की सख्त ज़रुरत’ – तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दिल्ली:'ट्रिपल तलाक़' यानी तीन तलाक का मुद्दा इन दिनों काफी चर्चा में है. जहां एक तरफ़ कुछ महिलाएं इस मुद्दे पर...

More girls studying, but 84% drop out after graduation

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By Prachi Salve While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before -- and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board...

Record holder Arunachal mountaineer Anshu to climb Everest for breast cancer awareness

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: After creating world record for being the only mother to scale Mount Everest twice within the span of 10 days, Arunachal Pradesh mountaineer Anshu Jamsenpa is once again gearing up to climb the world’s highest peak. This time around Anshu is in a different mission to spread awareness on Breast cancer among her fellow countrymen.

Meet on rising crime against women in Bengal Feb 23

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By IANS, Kolkata: Blaming West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government for the rise in rape cases in the state, a coordination body of Left-affiliated women's organisations...

19 years and counting: the tale of Naseema Begum’s wait for her missing husband

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In the second of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Naseema Dar. Tengpora...

TRS women activists protest raw deal

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By IANS, Hyderabad : Angry at the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) for not fielding a single woman candidate for next month's state assembly elections, the party's women activists Saturday staged protests here by covering the face of the statue of 'Telangana Talli' (Mother Telangana) statue and tying its hands and legs. Raising slogans, the women activists demanded that justice be done to them through proper representation in the list of candidates for both the Lok Sabha and assembly elections.

Only six women make it to Delhi assembly

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New Delhi : The 70-member strong Delhi assembly will have just six women legislators -- all from the Aam Aadmi Party, which has won...

Pregnant woman beaten to death in Rajasthan

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By IANS, Jaipur : Family members of a pregnant woman in Rajasthan have alleged that she was beaten to death by her in-laws when they...

Judiciary should not be a “Holy Cow”

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By Ravichandran Chakkiliyan, TwoCircles.net, On May 12TH, 2014 Dalit Stree Shakti, an organization based in Hyderabad fighting against violence on dalit women organized a seminar on "Judiciary and its Functioning" in the memory of Lakshmipeta dalits, a place in Srikakulam where 7 dalits were beaten to death by Thoorupu Kapu (men/women) (Backward Caste) in 2012. The Meeting was organized in Ravindra Bharati, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad.

Kejriwal orders magisterial probe into Kenyan woman’s gang-rape

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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape of a Kenyan woman here in a moving...

‘British men, women most promiscuous in world’

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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.

सदफ़ ज़फ़र, जिनका मुस्लिम होना और सच दिखाना पड़ा महंगा

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By मीना कोटवाल, TwoCircles.net गरिकता संशोधन एक्ट यानी CAA के पास होने के बाद से ही देशभर में इसके खिलाफ़ प्रदर्शन किया जा रहा है....

Popular Front joins the grief of the nation in the death of Delhi rape...

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By TCN News New Delhi: Popular Front of India Chairman K.M. Shareef expressed deep condolences over the tragic death of the girl who was gang raped in Delhi a few days ago.

Equality still a far cry for Indian women, say activists

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(International Women's Day is on March 8) By Sreeparna Chakrabarty, New Delhi : Despite several success stories, Indian women continue to be bogged down by...

“We are at peace now,” says wife of slain UP cop killed in Bulandhshar...

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Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was killed two years ago in Chirangavathi, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. His wife was responding to the news of the Supreme...

Fear of flying keeps Indian in Bahrain grounded for 13 years

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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.

Dulla Bhatti and communalization of history

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By Japal Singh for TwoCircles.net Today is Lohri, a festival that is celebrated in Punjab with great gusto. Few days before, young boys go around...

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...

Child star Rubina still in slum, but Marathi autobiography ready

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By Quaid Najm, IANS Mumbai: Rubina Ali Qureshi, the little girl from a Mumbai slum who shot to stardom with the Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire", is set to release the Marathi version of her autobiography even as she continues to live in the same squalid surroundings feeling "unsafe and insecure". The book, titled "Majha Taryankade Pravas", has been translated from an English version, "Slumgirl Dreaming", by Mumbai author Maitreyi Joshi and published by Mehta Publishing House, Pune.

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...

Will cover the same people again if required, says Kerala journalist attacked by BJP...

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net Shajila A came into limelight when the ‘Mathrubhumi daily’ carried a photo of her in tears yet continuing her duty covering...

Maneka Gandhi hits back at Priyanka on Varun’s path

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New Delhi: BJP leader Maneka Gandhi Sunday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's comment on her son Varun...

4 women allegedly slain by own family in possible `honour killing’

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By DPA, Montreal : Canadian authorities have charged an Afghan immigrant, his wife and their oldest son with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of three Montreal sisters and an older female relative. Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar Shafia, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13, all sisters, were found dead with Rona Amir Mohammed, 50, in a submerged car June 30 in the historic Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ontario. From the beginning, investigators were baffled how the car managed to negotiate several obstacles to end up in the canal tail first, without leaving any skid marks.

Sheena murder: Sleaze, betrayal, family feud come to fore

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Mumbai : The three-year-old murder of Sheena Bora unfolded on Wednesday stories of sleaze, betrayal and family feud as police arrested a former husband...

Triple Talaq: Turning a mole hill into a mountain

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By Moin Qazi for TwoCircles.net O People, it is true that you have certain rights over your women, but they also have rights over...

‘Jungle Raj’ in Rajasthan

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By IndScribe One after the other, shocking incidents of crimes and atrocities on the Dalits are being reported from Rajasthan. The latest incident has occurred in...

NCW for passing women’s quota bill this session

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Yemen to appoint four women as district managers

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By NNN-SABA, Sana'a : Yemeni Local Administration Minister Abdul-Qater Hilal said that four women would be appointed in the positions of district managers in four provinces. Hilal added that their appointment would be the first step to expand this policy in other provinces of the country, pointing that the appointments would be in the capital Sana'a and Aden, Taiz, Hodeidah and Ibb provinces. He affirmed this experiment aims at strengthening the effective participation of women in political and administrative life and decision-making positions.

Row over women’s football match cancellation in West Bengal

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Fatwa, HS exams and Urs of Pir reasons behind cancellation By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata/Malda: A women’s football match organised by a local club in Malda district was stopped after objections by the villagers allegedly after a local Imam passed strictures, prompting the Kolkata media to go overboard writing about the controversy. But an investigation by TwoCircles.net has revealed, apart from the Imam’s comments, higher secondary examination and an Urs of the Pir at Chandipur village were also equally the reasons, unlike the hype about it.

ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट खतौली उपचुनाव : भाईचारे की फसल बनाम नफरत की खेती के बीच...

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उत्तर प्रदेश में मैनपुरी और रामपुर के साथ खतौली में भी उपचुनाव हो रहा है। खतौली के विद्यायक विक्रम सैनी को मुजफ्फरनगर दंगो में...

Hyderabad police mobile app for women’s safety

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Hyderabad : Hyderabad police will launch a new mobile application from new year, which will ensure women's safety during travel, and enable people to...

Soon, mandatory for pregnant women to undergo HIV test

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By Prashant K. Nanda, IANS, New Delhi : Passing AIDS from mother to child is a human rights violation and soon all pregnant women in India will have to undergo a mandatory HIV test, the parliamentary forum on HIV and AIDS said Friday. "We want a HIV free generation. We are for testing all pregnant women for HIV so that no children can be born with the disease," Oscar Fernandes, head of the Parliamentary Forum on HIV and AIDS, told IANS.

AAP government reconstitutes STF for women safety in Delhi

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New Delhi (IANS) : The Aam Aadmi Party government has reconstituted a Special Task Force (STF) for women's safety in the national capital, a...

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...

French woman found dead in Goa

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By IANS, Panaji : A French woman was found dead in a trailer parked near Vagator beach in Goa, while a man believed to be her companion was lying unconscious next to her, police said Monday. The trailer, equipped with modern amenities including a mini kitchen, was found parked near Vagator beach, 25 km from state capital Panaji, Sunday. Police suspect it could be a case of drug overdose.

Delhi’s women’s helpline breaks down

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Delhi government's 181 helpline for women in distress broke down for a few hours Wednesday, a Delhi government official said.

Colonial hangover ails workers of Assam’s tea industry

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By Azera Parveen Rahman, Tezpur (Assam) : Colonial-style bungalows of Assam's expansive tea gardens and the British-era lifestyles of their executives paint a picture postcard of yore. Sadly, this hangover also extends to the poor living conditions of labourers - an issue now in the limelight after the World Bank said that it was probing the violation of workers' rights inthese plantations it jointly finances with Tata Global Beverages.

Watch your diet, you multi-tasking women!

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(March 8 is International Women's Day) By Nivedita Sharma, IANS,

Men harassed by women want separate ministry for themselves

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Agra: A two-day national conference of men's rights activists representing more than 100 groups across India has demanded a separate ministry for men's welfare,...

J&K Technical Education Board in a mess, students allege college lecturer of deliberately failing...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: In June, Mohammad Adnan Hilal, a student of a Srinagar-based polytechnic college, committed suicide after he found...

I want to improve bureaucracy: IAS woman topper

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By IANS, New Delhi : This year's woman topper of the prestigious civil services examination has a simple aim - she wants to help people who haplessly run with files from one office to another. "I must be able to improve bureaucracy so that I can help people who are running from one office to another with files," said Iva Sahay, who ranked third in the All India civil services examination and has the highest ranking among women. The results of the exam were announced Thursday.

India’s first three women fighter pilots commissioned

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Hyderabad : Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh on Saturday were commissioned as India's first three women fighter pilots. On completion of successful training...

Need for a national study on Muslim women: Muslim Mahila Andolan

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: While demanding the implementation of Sachar Committee recommendations, the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) has urged the government to conduct a national study on the status of the Muslim women in India on the scale of Sachar Committee study. During its daylong annual convention held on November 27 in New Delhi, BMMA has demanded immediate implementation of the 33% reservation for women in Assembly and Parliament.

Haryana government launches schemes to empower women

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By IANS, Chandigarh : Haryana, which has one the worst sex ratio's in the country and where two teenage girls were recently lynched in a case of "honour killing", is planning to implement various projects to strengthen the status of women in the state. Dharam Vir, chief secretary of Haryana, admits that there have been many cases of "honour killings" and intolerance against women of the state in the past, the most recent being the two cases in Bhiwani district around 300 km from here.

Women march for Change – Pictures from Hyderabad

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Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Women and transgender people from all walks of life gathered at Sundariah Vignana Kendram, Hyderabad in the hot afternoon on 4th April...

41 women, children killed in Kuwait fire: report

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By DPA, Kuwait City: At least 41 women and children were killed and dozens more injured in a fire that broke out Saturday night in a tent at a wedding in Kuwait, local media reports said. Many more were believed to have been killed in a stampede that followed the fire at the wedding in the Ayoun area of Jahra, west of Kuwait City, the Kuwait Times reported. The al-Jazeera news channel reported that at least 70 people were injured. The cause of the fire was yet to be determined and an investigation had begun, officials said.

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.

85 million women missing in India, China: UNDP

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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) At least 100 million (10 crore) women are missing in seven Asian countries, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said Monday. It said 85 million of them are from India and China. "While Asia and the Pacific can take pride in the regions' vibrant economic transformation in recent decades, this has not translated into progress on gender equality," a fresh UNDP report released on the occasion of International Women's Day said here.

BSP leader joins Delhi Congress

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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.

Girl of 9 years raped, murdered in Mumbai police colony

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By IANS, Mumbai: A nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered by some unidentified persons and her body was discovered from the terrace of a building in the police colony in northeast Mumbai Sunday, officials said. The rape was confirmed in the autopsy report of the victim received by the police late Sunday evening. Though no policemen were willing to go on record, unofficially they confirmed that the victim was raped and then strangled to death.

बिखरते कश्मीर से निकलती दीबा फरहत की कामयाबी की दास्तां

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शरीक़ अंसर, संघ लोकसेवा आयोग (यूपीएससी) द्वारा आयोजित सिविल सेवा परीक्षा में इस बार भी लड़कियों ने अपनी प्रतिभा का लोहा मनवाया है. इस बार...

10,000 Saudi women get mobile phone repairing training

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Riyadh, (IANS) : More than 10,000 Saudi women have received mobile phone repairing training to improve the employment chances of females, the media reported...

Four Bodo women killed for ‘witch practice’ in Assam

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Bharti is ‘violent’, says HC, dismisses bail plea

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, accused of domestic violence...

The shallowness of the discourse on Muslim Personal Law

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By Umair Azmi The liberal silence has, thankfully, been broken. If equality between the genders is impossible within the realm of Muslim law, irrespective of...

अपनी योग्यता को देश की सेवा में समर्पित करना चाहती है सदफ़ चौधरी

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net कैमिकल इंजीनियरिंग की पढ़ाई और फिर एक अमेरिकी बैंक मेंं काम कर चुकी सदफ़ चौधरी के घर का माहौल पूरी तरह...

Saarc, UN to work for women’s empowerment in South Asia

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Kathmandu : Saarc and UN Women will work towards promotion of gender equality, gender justice and empowerment of women among the countries in the...

Mappilas folk singer Ramla Beegum honoured

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By Abdul Basith MA, TwoCircles.net,

India takes up rape incident with Maldives

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By IANS, New Delhi: India has taken up "quite strongly" with Maldives the rape of an Indian woman and has been assured of action by its government, an official said Tuesday.

Four held in Delhi for gang-raping Assam woman

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New Delhi: Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested on charges of gang rape and sexual assault of a 30-year-old woman from Assam,...

Odisha to probe rape cases within 60 days

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The Veiled West

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By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi The Muslim women veil issue in France is gradually taking an ugly shape across the world. The ‘extra’ liberal people possessed with Western life style even in the East count banning ‘burqa’ as women ‘liberation’ from ‘the dark age’ in tune with French president Nicolas Sarkozy, yet majority of Muslims across the globe consider it as direct attack on one’s freedom of living and religious practicing. It is nothing less than forceful conversion of Muslim women to the Western civilization, some argue.

UP woman police officer conquers Antarctica’s highest peak

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Lucknow: An IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre has successfully climbed the Mount Vinson Massif, the highest peak in the Antarctic sub-continent, an...

मजबूत गवाही और तकनीकी साक्ष्य बने आज़म खान को सज़ा की वजह

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। twocircles.net समाजवादी पार्टी के नेता आज़म ख़ान की मुश्किलें एक बार फिर बढ़ गई है। 2019 के एक हेट स्पीच के मामले में...

Union Budget is a massive step backwards for Dalits, Adivasis: NCDHR

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter The Union Budget presented yesterday by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has split opinions; the industrialists, of course, found it cheerful; ratings...

SC bans Tamil Nadu bull fights

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday banned Tamil Nadu's centuries-old Jallikattu bull fights. A bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose also...

CPI-M accused of jailing Dalit women on false charges

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Kannur (Kerala) : The Congress party in Kerala on Saturday accused the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in the state of misusing power...

Locals keep Delhi’s oldest orphanage running

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By Mohammed Anas, New Delhi: Little Zoobi was dropped by her mother a year back at ‘Bacchon Ka Ghar’, Delhi’s oldest orphanage, in Matia Mahal locality in the walled city. She has now accustomed to her new home, bajis (wardens), sahelis (friends) and aapis (elder sisters). Only occasionally, she craves for her home and her late father. But solace comes in the company of Shaila, Ashiya, Ruby and others who have also lost their fathers and share the shelter with Zooby.

Protests as two women pray at Sabarimala, Kerala shutdown called

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Thiruvananthapuram/Sabarimala, Jan 2 (IANS) Protests erupted across Kerala on Wednesday after two women in the hitherto banned age group entered the Sabarimala temple before...

Calcium supplements cause heart problems in women?

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By IANS, Sydney: There is growing evidence that calcium supplements increase the risk of heart attacks among older women, say researchers.

Five women held for cheating

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By IANS, New Delhi : Five women and a man have been arrested here for allegedly cheating a number of men by taking money from them on the pretext of giving them membership in an exclusive 'friendship club', police said Wednesday. Police said Sushil Kumar Bhamri, 42, was the kingpin of the racket, which he run from a rented accommodation in Karol Bagh. He had hired five women - all in their mid-20s - to run the 'friendship club'. Seven mobile phones, four notebooks and seven debit cards were recovered from them.

National Archives to observe 125th Foundation Year of NAI in Bhopal

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net, Bhopal: The National Archives of India (NAI), Regional Office, Bhopal is organizing a 3-day outreach programme from September...

दंगे की ज़मीन में मुहब्बत की फसल,जाट -मुस्लिम साथ आए तो बदल गए मुजफ्फरनगर...

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हिना आस। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव के दौरान कुछ सुखद परिणाम भी आए हैं। 2013 में दंगे की तल्खी को राजनीति के गणित ने...

Indian woman jailed for financial fraud in Leicester

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By IANS, Leicester : Indian origin woman Daksha Saujani, a tax official here, has been jailed for two years for siphoning off more than 116,000 pounds of the public's money into her family's bank accounts. The mother-of-three exploited her position of trust while managing a team at the Inland Revenue's family tax credit department. The crimes financed "a lifestyle she wasn't entitled to" and enabled her to send her youngest son to private school.

Instant reactions on Instant Triple Talaq Judgement: Lot argued and Least understood

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By Dr. Babli Parveen The recent verdict on Triple Talaq by the Honourable Supreme Court has created ripples in the society. It is discussed, debated,...

Maharashtra launches crime tracking system

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

74% of class 6 students in government schools cannot read Hindi textbook: Sisodia

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New Delhi : Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia, who also holds education portfolio, revealed on Tuesday that 74 per cent students of class...

Khap panchayats check social evils, says Haryana CM

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New Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has come out in defence of khap panchayats, saying they keep a check on social evils...

Will ensure technical education for women: Irani

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New Delhi : Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Monday said she would do her best to ensure that women in the country...

Dear Rahul Gandhi, it is time you learnt how to be truly inclusive

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By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net I felt like writing to you after your being hailed as the new messiah of Indian secularism. Today you charm...

All Delhi police stations to have 9 women officers

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Starving sisters rescued in Delhi to get financial help

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Pomp, women’s power on display at Republic Day parade

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New Delhi : More than the pomp, this year's Republic Day parade Monday will be remembered for women's power showcased during the two-hour event...

Justice Eqbal initiative: TN family courts to work on weekend also

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: For fast disposal of pending cases in Family Courts in Tamil Nadu, Chief Justice of Madras High Court Y.M. Eqbal has asked all six family courts in the state to work on Saturdays also besides weekdays. If necessary, the courts will function on Sundays as well. The courts will work accordingly from coming Saturday (10th July).

Dead woman elected as panchayat samiti member in Bihar!

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Patna : A woman in Bihar, who died nine years ago, has been elected as panchayat samiti member in the recently concluded 10-phase panchayat...

Harassed husbands outnumber their counterparts: NGO

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By IANS, Chandigarh: The Domestic Violence Act, which aims to shield the rights of women, is being misused by some to harass their in-laws and extort money from their husbands, an NGO alleged here Saturday. Representatives of Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), an organisation that is fighting for the rights of Indian husbands, said cases of men being harassed by their wives clearly outnumber the cases of harassed women.

No plans for new women’s battalions in paramilitary forces

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By IANS, New Delhi : There are no plans for raising new women's battalions or reserve battalions in the central armed police forces (CAPFs), parlaiment was informed Tuesday.

Big B lauds woman for winning Rs.1 crore

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By IANS, New Delhi: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is all praise for Rahat Taslim from Jharkhand who became the first woman to win Rs.1 crore on his gameshow "Kaun Banega Crorepati".

Haryana Police to probe woman’s molestation complaint

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By IANS, Panchkula (Haryana) : After staging a sit-in for nearly 24 hours, a woman who complained of being molested by a senior police officer was Tuesday assured by the Haryana Police chief that her allegation would be looked into and the necessary corrective steps would be taken. Haryana Police chief Ranjeev Dalal finally met the woman Tuesday evening and listened to her grievance for over half-an-hour, an official said.

53-year-old woman becomes second swine flu fatality

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By IANS, Mumbai: A 53-year-old woman died here Saturday evening of swine flu, becoming the second fatality in India of the fast-spreading virus, officials said. Additional Chief Secretary Health Sharvari Gokhale told IANS that the woman had been treated at the Lilavati Hospital for the past four days for "pneumonia and hypertension". "Today she was admitted to Kasturba Hospital and her blood test was taken. It tested positive for swine flu and she passed away this evening," she said. She has been identified as Fahima Panwala and belonged to Mumbai.

Website lists 100 unsafe zones for women in Delhi

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Indian women win hockey Champions Challenge II

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By IANS, Kazan (Russia) : Rani Rampal scored four goals as Indian women crushed Belgium 6-3 to win the inaugural Champions Challenge II hockey tournament here Saturday. Rani, who emerged as the tournament's top scorer with eight goals, struck in the 17th, 38th, 44th and 54th minutes. Besides, Saba Anjum (20th min) and Thokchom Chanchan (49th min) scored a goal each. Skipper Valerie Vermeersch (40th, 52nd) and Boon Jill (55th) scored for Belgium.

Women constables in all train coaches not possible: Minister

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Merajur Rahman Baruah wins National Award for documentary ‘Shifting Prophecy’

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By TwoCircles.net news desk New Delhi: Delhi based independent documentary filmmaker Merajur Rahman Baruah won the 55th National Award for his documentary film ‘Shifting Prophecy.” The film was awarded Rajat Kamal for the 55th National Award in the Best Film on Social Issue category. Mr. Baruah is an accomplished documentary filmmaker with several documentaries and awards to his credit. He won the Best Director Award at Hyderabad International Film Festival in 2008 for the same film.

विधानसभा चुनाव का ऐलान, यूपी में इस दिन यहां पड़ेगी वोट

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स्पेशल डेस्क।Twocircles.net देश के पांच राज्यों मे होने वाले विधानसभा चुनाव के लिए चुनाव आयोग ने तारीखों का ऐलान कर दिया है। जिन राज्यों...

79% Women’s report harassment and abuse, trend more prevalent in Northern India, reveals a...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: A recent research by UK-based advocacy group ActionAid has once again highlighted the grim situation of women's...

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...

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.

People not helping make Delhi safe for women: Dikshit

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By IANS, New Delhi: Like other metros in the country, the national capital lacks people's participation in improvement of security for women, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Tuesday.

This super teacher is on a mission to transform the lives of children in...

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Kanchan Sharma, a retired lecturer, has been running a school for the slum children for over a decade now. Mubashir Naik and Irshad Hussain |...

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.

Kerala’s new trend setters: Muslim women members of Mahallu committee

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Female members of the Mahallu committee are the illustrative of an emerging scenario, which they perceive as a mile stone in Muslim women empowerment. But the transformation has evoked a mixed response from the Muslim outfits in the state, with especially Sunnis protesting the move. By Shafeeq Hudavi, TwoCircles.net, Kozhikode: K K Fathima Suhra, a middle aged post graduate Muslim lady, hailing from a village named Santhapuram in Malappuram district, was busy in shopping for her school going child. Like most of the educated Muslim women in the state, Fathima also tends to give primary priority to discharge her duty as a house wife, taking care of her family and ardently supporting it to accomplish its needs.

Millions of women devotees expected at Kerala temple on Sunday

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram: Upwards of four million women devotees are expected to cook an offering as part of the famed Attukal Pongala festival to be...

Shehla Masood laid to rest; hunt on to nab assailant

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

Events, functions, launches mark International Women’s Day

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By IANS,

Turkmenistan to gift women $14 on Women’s Day

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By IANS/RIA Novosti,

They only come for the poor: Tughlakabad residents who received demolition notices

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The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) posted notices in over 1000 homes in Tughlakabad area of New Delhi earlier this month, causing consternation...

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.

NCW summons Ashutosh for ‘demeaning’ women

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New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday summoned Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh for "demeaning" women through one of the articles...

Study finds only 66% of Muslim women using medical care for child delivery

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By TCN News New Delhi: A study published in the online journal PLos One has found poor migrant Muslim women to be one of the groups least likely to use safe medical care for child delivery.

Scalpel Over Choice? How Hospitals in India Are Turning Childbirths Into Business

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Aditya Sharma, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: When 33-year-old Khushboo Jaiswal walked into a private hospital in Delhi, she was expecting a calm and natural childbirth filled...

West Bengal tribal women allege police excesses, demand action

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By IANS, Kolkata : A group of tribal women in West Bengal has filed a complaint against police officers who, they alleged, tortured villagers during the probe into a landmine ambush of the chief minister's convoy Nov 2 in West Midnapore district. The women demanded stern punishment to the police officers. "We've received a written complaint from the tribal women who claimed they were tortured by police officers during the course of investigation. We're now looking into the matter," West Midnapore District Magistrate N.S Nigam told IANS Thursday.

Introduction of anti-human trafficking bill a ‘resounding victory’: Satyarthi

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By IANS: New Delhi, July 18: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi termed the tabling of anti-human trafficking Bill on Wednesday a "resounding victory", saying that if...

NHRC issues notice over Chhattisgarh deaths

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New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday asked the Chhattisgarh government to explain the deaths of 13 women in a state...

Shinde urges introspection on low conviction rate

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Empower People: Rescuing girls from bride trafficking

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

Karnataka woman minister says ready to quit to save government

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By IANS, Bangalore : Shobha Karandlaje, the lone woman minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka, the party's first ever in the south, Thursday said she was ready to quit if it saves the Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa-led ministry. The BJP central leadership is understood to have proposed dropping Karandlaje, considered close to the chief minister, from the ministry as part of a compromise to the dissidents who are pressing for removal of Yeddyurappa himself.

UN chief mourns Indian gang-rape victim’s death

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Orissa to reserve half of Panchayati Raj seats for women

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government Friday announced 50 percent reservation for women in Pachayati Raj bodies. Speaking on the occasion of the 94th birth anniversary of legendary Biju Patnaik, Naveen Patnaik said that the state will soon take steps to reserve 50 percent seats in pachayati raj systems. He also added that, "it was the dream of Biju Patnaik to empower women". The state is observing the birth anniversary as Panchayati Raj Day.

तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ की रिहाई की मांग को लेकर जंतर -मंतर पर प्रदर्शन

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net दिल्ली के जंतर-मंतर में सोमवार को सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ और पूर्व आईपीएस अधिकारी आर बी श्रीकुमार की गिरफ्तारी के विरोध में विभिन्न...

Women playing major role, says UAE minister

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By IANS/WAM, Dubai : Women are playing a major role in the UAE's development and there is a need to enhance their role in business as well, a minister said. Emirati women occupy 18 percent of the cabinet and 22.5 percent of the Federal National Council, the UAE parliament. There are 10 percent women in the diplomatic corps and 30 percent in top decision making positions in the government, Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, minister for foreign trade said Thursday.

Winds of change: A step forward

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A Year-long Series on Education, Sponsored by The Aligarh Forum : - A Mirror on our Efforts, our Successes & our Shortcomings ; Stories...

Raising legal age for marriage for women in India: Here’s why it’s bad news...

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While worry over early marriage is a start in the right direction, legislative action on the subject is equivalent to addressing symptoms rather...

British government seeks more ethnic minority women in public life

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By IANS, London : Minister for women and equalities Harriet Harman says Britain needs more Black, Asian and other minority ethnic women councillors after new data showed their numbers have fallen. Only 149 out of 19,617 elected councillors across England are minority ethnic women this year, compared with 164 in 2006. This represents less than one per cent of all councillors, although minority ethnic women make up more than five percent of the population. To fully reflect society the number of female minority ethnic councillors would have to rise nearer to 1,000.

“Your silence is killing us,” transgender persons rue govt apathy, demand horizontal reservations

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During a press conference, the community activists demanded that the Union Government establish a system for giving horizontal reservations for transgender people within the...

Bihar’s silent revolution: 30,000 women now own land

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By Imran Khan, IANS,

Sixty percent of burn patients in Jammu are women

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Jammu : Women constitute sixty percent of those with burn injuries here, a study said here on Wednesday. The study -- Burns in Jammu: Retrospective...

Haryana to honour woman who shot bus assault video

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Chandigarh : The Haryana government Monday announced that it will honour the woman passenger who shot the daring incident of two girls taking on...

Rahbar Free Coaching Centre’s award ceremony held

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By TCN News, Patna: The 69th and 70th award ceremony of city-based Rahbar Free Coaching Centre (run by Bihar Anjuman) was held at Phulwari Sharif,...

If triple talaq struck down, then new divorce law will come, Centre tells SC

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that if the latter invalidates the men-centric triple talaq that is discriminatory...

Muslim Personal Law should be reformed: Women group

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Rajasthan tribal women learn candle making under project ‘Sakhi’

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Udaipur : Hindustan Zinc's project "Sakhi" has been empowering dozens of rural and tribal women in Rajasthan's Zawar region, near here, by teaching...

Dalit couple lynched in Punjab ‘honour killing’

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By Parminder Singh Bariana , Hoshiarpur (Punjab):The failure of Punjab Police to provide security to a newly-married Dalit couple despite directions from the high court...

Navy to grant permanent commission to women

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New Delhi : The Indian Navy on Wednesday announced that women completing seven years in the service will get permanent commission. Navy is the last...

Rapes and Crimes against Women in India

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Outraged South Asians protestoutside Indian High Commission By M Ghazali Khan, London: In a display of unity against unbridled series of rapes and other crimes against women in India, particularlyin Uttar Pradesh more than 400 people of various denominations have protested outside the Indian High Commission, 4 June. Protesters includedBritish Dalit organisations, women rights organisations, writers, poets and filmmakers.

Women’s role key in empowering the community: National Women’s Front

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By TCN News, Madurai (Tamil Nadu): “Women constitute around 50% of the population and hence their part in empowering the community is very essential. Our Prophet (PBUH) included women in all areas of community empowerment. Hence we also should follow this,” Ms. S. Fathima Gani, Tamil Nadu state president of National Women’s Front, the women’s wing of Popular Front of India.