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Bengal Christian forum condemns gang rape of nun

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Kolkata: Condemning the alleged gang rape of a nun by dacoits in West Bengal's Nadia district, a state forum of Christians on Saturday accused...

Focus on girl child lost with ad faux pas: Women activists

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By IANS, New Delhi : It's the national girl child day, but thanks to the women and child development ministry's faux pas issuing an advertisement in newspapers that features a former Pakistani air chief, the focus on the day and important issue like female foeticide is lost, said women activists.

11 implants allow woman to walk after 36 years

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Gurgaon : For 48-year-old Sachi, life remained painful for more than three decades. But now she can walk after a gap of 36 years...

Hetalbari: The curious case of land acquisition which left residents confused

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In the fourth and final part of the Sunderbans series, we look at the curious case of Hetalbari, a small village in Sunderbans, where...

Women politicians get a raw deal in Madhya Pradesh

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By Sanjay Sharma, IANS, Bhopal : Notwithstanding their tall claims of empowering women, political parties in Madhya Pradesh have let them down in nominations for the Nov 27 state assembly polls. Despite 47 per cent voters out of total 35.9 million electors being women, both the main political parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, which have been advocating 33 percent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, have been miserly in fielding them.

‘Sonia Gandhi India’s most popular woman’

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‘India can learn from Bangladesh on women’s empowerment’

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By Ranjana Narayan, IANS,

आख़िर तीन तलाक़ पर क़ानून की बात इसी वक़्त क्यों उठी?

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नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए जी हां, क्यों तलाक़-ए-बिद्दत यानी एक म‍जलिस की तीन तलाक़ का मुद्दा सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फ़ैसले के लगभग तीन महीने बाद...

Women gain more health benefits out of exercise

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By IANS, Washington : A long-term study of over 8,700 middle-aged men and women has shown that women experience greater health benefits than men as a result of exercise. The analysis of this large Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study was carried out by Keri Monda and colleagues at North Carolina University (NCU).

75-year old man in Bihar marries woman half his age

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Patna : A 75-year-old man has married a woman half his age in Bihar's Samastipur district, ignoring the criticism of people and society. Ram Chander...

#BreakingCaste: Sujatha Gidla shines reading from Ants Among Elephants

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By Valli Karunakaran, TwoCircles.net New York City, March 10, 2018 — Sujatha Gidla was among the authors invited to speak at #Breaking Caste, a literary...

Why did Muslim Personal Law Board dissolve its women’s wing 7 years after formation?

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The women’s wing convenor was asked to delete all the social media accounts that the wing holds. Members have called the decision arbitrary and...

Parliament to discuss panel’s proposal on women’s quota

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By IANS, Agartala : The budget session, beginning Feb 22, would discuss the report of parliamentary standing committee on women reservation bill, Parliamentary Affairs Minister V. Narayanasamy said here Wednesday. The parliamentary panel headed by Jayanti Natarajan in its report to parliament in December last year held that reservation of 33 percent seats in parliament and state legislative assemblies was necessary to enhance the participation of women in decision-making process.

Women manage finance better: Chanda Kochhar

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By Anuradha Shukla, IANS, New Delhi : Chanda Deepak Kochhar, set to take over as managing director and chief executive of ICICI Bank, India's largest in the private sector, firmly believes women make better bankers, even if a lot also depends on how they use the opportunities that come their way. "So far as the financial sector is concerned, I feel women are always better with managing finance," says the 47-year-old banker who takes charge Friday at the landmark ICICI Bank Towers in Bandra-Kurla Complex in suburban Mumbai.

“यहां तो हमारा हर रोज़ बलात्कार होता है…”

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net “बचपन में शादी का बहुत अरमान था. लेकिन अपने बाप को मेरा सौदा करते देखकर रिश्तों से भरोसा उठ गया.” ये दर्द...

मुस्लिम महिलाओं के सम्मान में हर वर्ग से उठी आवाज़

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सिमरा अंसारी।Twocircles.net कर्नाटक के उडुपी ज़िले से शुरू हुई हिजाब प्रतिबंध की आग अब देश के दूसरे हिस्सों में भी फैलती जा रही है।बुधवार...

Libya’s First Lady owns airline company, 20 tonnes of gold: Report

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By IANS, Dubai: Libya's First Lady Safia Farkash al-Baraasi has amassed enormous wealth, including the airline company Buraq Air and 20 tonnes of gold, a media report said.

‘This is our home from generations:’ residents of Haldwani on eviction orders

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Haldwani residents, majority of whom are Muslim, have challenged the Uttarakhand High Court's eviction order in the Supreme Court, which will hear the plea...

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 2 – Sister,...

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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...

One cannot pursue political ambition at cost of one’s life, says Shweta Bhatt

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By Sayema Sahar for TwoCircles.net,

Threats and hate campaign force writer Sharmila Seyyid from Sri Lanka to go in...

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The writer-activist now lives in self-imposed exile in Chennai By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Sri Lankan woman rights activists Sharmila Seyyid and her family are being harassed for years. Facing attacks in Sri Lanka, where she and her sister used to run a school, she now lives in exile in Chennai, in hiding. It is noteworthy here that Muslims as a minority in Sri Lanka has been facing ethnic violence for years – there was upsurge in 2014 – under Sinhalese Buddhist majority. Seyyid has been very vocal in her works against several conservative practices vis a vis women. She has already published two anthologies of poems and a novel Ummath that critiques rising conservatism in Sri Lanka, besides highlighting the everyday injustices that Tamil-speaking Muslims face there.

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...

Mulayam softens stance on Women’s Reservation Bill

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By IANS, Lucknow : Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, known for his stiff opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill, Friday seemed to have softened his stand.

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.

NCW issues notice to Ramdev

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New Delhi : The National Commission for Women Wednesday issued a notice to yoga guru Ramdev for his remarks on Congress vice president Rahul...

Taslima diagnosed with breast tumours in US

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Dhaka: Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has been diagnosed with breast tumours at a hospital in New York. Doctors found the tumours "quite big" and...

Woman snatches loaded pistol from miscreant

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By IANS, Lucknow : In an incident straight out of a Bollywood film, a woman snatched away a loaded pistol from a miscreant as he attempted to rob her in the posh Gomtinagar area of Lucknow Sunday evening. The woman, Surajwanti, in her 30s, told the police: "I was returning from a hospital along with a friend, Pushpa, on a cycle rickshaw when two motorcyle-borne persons intercepted us." said Surajwanti. One of them tried to pull a gold chain from Pushpa, while the other pointed a pistol at Surajwanti and asked her to hand over her gold chain.

25-year-old woman raped in Delhi

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

Four incidents of sexual assault come to light in Andhra

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Delhi woman arrested in Punjab for tearing off clothes

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By IANS, Bathinda (Punjab) : A woman was arrested here Tuesday after she tore off her clothes in front of the district police chief's office to press her demand for action on her complaint. The police registered a case of obscenity against Pinky, a Delhi resident, and arrested her. Pinky had earlier created a flutter outside the office of the district police chief, alleging that the police were not taking action on her complaint that her minor daughter Jyoti was being forcibly kept by a Bathinda resident.

Is Capital punishment the justice we long for?

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Naila Alavi March 20, 2020 Friday, 5:00 AM – “Today, justice has been done after seven years.” These are the words of a mother longing for...

Petition filed before Bombay HC to arrest Marathi daily’s chief editor for article defaming...

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: An activist has approached the Bombay High Court urging it to order for arrest of Chief Editor of Maharashtra Times...

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...

Woman arrested for jewellery theft

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By IANS, Ghaziabad: A woman was arrested here Saturday for allegedly stealing jewellery from highend outlets along with her male accomplice, who is still at large, police said. The duo was identified as Babli Shahnaaz alias Bano, 42, and her brother-in-law Sajid Ali, 30. Senior Superintendent of Police Raghuvir Lal said: "Sajid and Shahnaaz struck at highend jewellery outlets and mostly operated as a couple." "In a planned manner, they would go to big jewellery outlets around lunchtime, when most of the sales staff was not around," Lal added.

Sonia Gandhi praises Andhra for women’s empowerment

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By IANS, Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) : Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday praised the Andhra Pradesh government for taking the lead in women's empowerment in the country. She said the performance of the state government - run by her party - to empower women was not only admired by the rest of the country but had also aroused curiosity abroad.

Protests continue in Punjab over girl’s death, molestation

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Chandigarh: The protests over the molestation and death of a teenaged Dalit girl continued on Saturday in Punjab's Moga town and other places, with...

Nine-year-old raped in Delhi, dies in hospital

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New Delhi : A nine-year-old girl who was raped by a 42-year-old man two days ago in east Delhi's Khajoori Khas area, died in...

Over 50,000 women cleared to work as domestic maids

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New Delhi : A total of 53,616 women have been granted emigration clearance to work as domestic workers in the Middle East in the...

Amit Shah visits Dalit woman’s family in Kerala, BJP forms panel

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New Delhi : BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday set up a three-member committee to look into incidents of atrocities against Dalit women in...

Herbal pill can cut your appetite by a fifth: Study

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By IANS, London: Women can cut their daily calorie intake by almost a fifth if they simply take a herbal diet pill, a research reveals. The supplement has also been shown to help those with a sweet tooth, reducing the temptation to indulge in sugary snacks. Zotrim, which is based on three South American plants, was tested by scientists at the University of Liverpool. They found that women who took the pill with their breakfast had a much lower appetite at lunch time, cutting their calorie intake by 17.6 percent, reported dailymail.co.uk.

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

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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 woman gives birth to first child at 70

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By RIA Novosti, New Delhi : A woman from the northern Indian state of Haryana has given birth for the first time at the age of 70, the Times of India newspaper said on Monday. Rajo Devi and her 72-year-old husband, Bala Ram, had been married for 55 years, but she had been unable to conceive. The woman then underwent in-vitro fertilization treatment at a nearby fertility center and gave birth to a girl on November 28. "Both the mother and child are in good health," the doctor, Anurag Bishnoi, said.

Railway Protection Force to get women’s battalion

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Hyderabad woman sets afire two children, ends life

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Hyderabad : A woman set afire her two children and later committed suicide here on Saturday. According to police, the incident occurred in Gachibowli area...

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...

Sania-Hingis win Guangzhou Open title

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Guangzhou: Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis outclassed the Chinese pair of Shilin Xu-Xiaodi You to claim the Guangzhou Open title on Saturday. The Indo-Swiss combination...

Ramadan 1435: Half-fasts

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By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net Fasting in the month of Ramadan is obligatory for adult males and females (with certain exemptions). But young Muslims beg their...

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...

Women Congress leader hits out at Kerala unit chief

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Thiruvananthapuram : Senior woman Congress leader Shanimol Usman has in a letter to the party's Kerala unit president V.M. Sudheeran has said he was...

Pune gets first woman police chief

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By IANS, Mumbai: The Maharashtra government late Wednesday appointed Meera Borwankar as the Pune's first woman police commissioner, transferring the current police chief Satya Pal Singh to the state police headquarters. Singh will take over as the new additional director general of police (establishment) and will be based in Mumbai. Borwankar till now was the joint commissioner of police (criminal investigation department), Pune. She had hit the headlines when she was appointed joint commissioner of police (crime) in Mumbai a few years ago.

Hang bride burners: Supreme Court

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By IANS, New Delhi : Unless all those who burn their wives are hanged, the barbaric crime would not stop, the Supreme Court has said.

New Kerala policy to check atrocities against women

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By IANS, Thiruvananathapuram : Kerala is set to unveil a women's policy whose highlight will be to campaign against atrocities against women by setting up a few select model villages and vigilance committees. As the first step to implement the policy, the state government had earlier this week announced the formation of a gender board, which includes heads of 18 departments and a representative each from the state planning board, Women's Commission and five other nominated members. The draft women's policy was released in March this year.

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.

Sonia among top 10 powerful people in world

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

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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...

मेरठ में गोरक्षा समिति अध्यक्ष ने किया चलती कार में रेप,गिरफ्तार

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विशेष संवाददाता । Twocircles.net मेरठ में चलती कार में बलात्कार हुआ है। इस शर्मनाक घटना के बाद किशोरी की हालत खराब होने पर उसे अस्पताल...

Congress accuses Odisha woman minister of abduction

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Bhubaneswar : The opposition Congress in Odisha Monday accused a woman minister in the BJD government of abducting a person during the cooperative societies...

Women and wanderlust: Spending me-time away from families

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(March 8 International Women's Day) By Radhika Bhirani, New Delhi : You may not always have the company of your parents, friends or partner, but who's stopping you from travelling the world? A burgeoning number of social clubs offering secure women-only tours are turning out to be a treat for those looking out for a fun getaway.

British MPs to hear about female foeticide in India

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By IANS, London : Claims about rising incidence of female foeticide in India are to be presented to British MPs. A report by the international charity ActionAid and the International Development Research Council (IDRC) of Canada claims female foeticide is so common that in Punjab only 300 girls survive for every 1,000 boys among high-caste families. The report, titled 'Disappearing Daughters', is to be presented to MPs belonging to Britain’s all-party group on population, development and reproductive health Monday.

Remarkable increase in the number of women parliamentarians in this elections

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TCN News The general elections of 2019 seems to have set a precedence of sorts with a lot of things happening for the first time. This...

Mirza-Hingis win 2015 Wimbledon women’s doubles title

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London: Sania Mirza combined with former world number one Martina Hingis late Saturday to win a thrilling women's doubles final in the 2015 edition...

Mother’s job tougher compared to dad’s

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By IANS, London: With modern-day fathers taking equal responsibility while raising their kids, a study says a mother's job is still tougher than the father's.

Women’s bill will impact caste struggle in India: Experts

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By IANS, New Delhi : By encouraging women's participation in politics, the historic bill to reserve 33 percent of seats for them in parliament and the legislatures will impact the country's political scenario, the patriarchal system and the caste struggle in rural India, experts say.

नही रही पार्क सर्कस कोलकाता में सीएए बिल विरोध प्रदर्शन का मुख्य चेहरा अस्मत...

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net कोलकाता के पार्क सर्कस मैदान में सीएए विरोधी आंदोलन की शुरुआत करने वाली सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता अस्मत जमील का सोमवार को 46 वर्ष की...

डेल्टा मेघवाल को मिला न्याय, गुनाहगारों को उम्र कैद की सज़ा

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net 2016 में राजस्थान के बीकानेर के नोखा में हुए बहुचर्चित डेल्टा मेघवाल हत्याकांड को लेकर बीकानेर की पोक्सो कोर्ट ने बड़ा...

10 women killed in Baghdad attacks

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Baghdad : At least 10 women were killed and 23 others wounded in attacks at a residential complex here Saturday, an interior ministry source...

Indian Muslim woman to be the US representative to the Muslim world

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By TwoCircles.net news desk,

New Delhi: A woman of Indian descent, Farah Pandith has been made special representatives of the United States to the Muslim world. A statement released by the US State Deparment said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made Ms. Pandith incharge of a special department created for outreach efforts in the Muslim world.

Courage under crisis: stories of Bangalore’s brave women

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By Maitreyee Boruah, IANS, Bangalore : The cruel blows of fate have not broken their will, their resolve to fight. Widowed very early in life, or divorced after facing cruelty in their husband's home, or raped and fighting a legal battle to get the rapists punished - these women from India's tech hub have shown courage under crisis. Meet these grand old ladies - Padma Srinivasan, 73, and her friend Jayalakshmi Sreenivasan, 75. Popularly known as Bangalore's "pizza grannies", Padma and business partner Jayalakshmi sell yummy pizzas in the country's IT hub to run an old age home.

Men outnumber women in media in India, Pakistan

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Bangkok : Although the presence of women in media has more than doubled in two decades, they constitute only 28.6 percent of the media...

‘My dignity is under attack’: Safoora Zargar after Jamia cancels her admission

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Student activist Safoora Zargar speaks to TwoCircles.net about her ordeal. Muhammed Nihad PV | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Jamia Millia Islamia on Monday, August 29 cancelled the...

Protests against delayed pensions in Jharkhand as COVID relief for marginalized backfires

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22% of the SC and ST households together reported having old-age pensioners in the households, with 22% widow pensioners, and 4% disability pension holders,...

Implement our suggestions: Women’s panel

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By IANS, New Delhi: Expressing its unhappiness over most of the recommendations made by women's commissions remaining unimplemented, the National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday said it will consult the government for tabling its reports and the action taken on them. Addressing the media at the beginning of a meeting with representatives from state women commissions, NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said the commission would write to the central and state governments to ensure that the reports submitted by the commissions are tabled in the respective assemblies and the parliament.

No woman writer as good as me: V.S. Naipaul

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By IANS, London : Indian-origin author V.S. Naipaul has dismissed female authors as "unequal" to him and said women writers demonstrate a lack of ability.

Women’s panel row: UP blames typo

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Lucknow : Faced with outrage over downsizing the budget for the state women's commission, the Uttar Pradesh government Wednesday clarified that information given in...

Social isolation may increase suicide risk in women

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New York : Women who are married, have a large social network and participate in social or religious events are less likely to take...

From Nepali Dreams to Kashmir’s Nightmare: The Journey of Trafficked Women and Their Lost...

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Safoora Hilal and Kounsar Bashir, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: In the dimly lit room, barely illuminated by the single window, the space was cluttered with various items. The...

Banning Burqa is undemocratic. Muslim women groups protest in Mumbai

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By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

NHRC asks UP Police for report on woman’s gang rape

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New Delhi : The NHRC Tuesday sought a report from Uttar Pradesh Police following a media report that officials refused to file a complaint...

A Pakistani woman who runs slum school by selling scrap

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By IANS, Islamabad : A woman in Pakistan runs a school for 1,800 slum children with money collected from selling trash.

SC opens Sabarimala Temple gates to women aged 10-50

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New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday opened the gates of the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala dedicated to Lord Ayyappa to...

Male students disrupt Leadership Summit organised by women students in AMU

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TCN News The women’s leadership summit, 2019 scheduled for 3 days from 26th March to 28th March that began yesterday at the Aligarh Muslim University...

Ensure no civilian is harmed: Mehbooba directs Kashmir police

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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday directed the state police to ensure that no civilian is harmed during crowd control,...

Four months after self-immolation bid, unemployed woman dies

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Chandigarh: An unemployed woman who had set herself ablaze outside the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here in December last year...

जहांगीरपुरी के निवासियों का नफ़रत की राजनीति को करारा जवाब

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विशेष संवाददाता ।Twocircles.net दिल्ली के जहांगीरपुरी इलाके में एक हफ्ते पहले हनुमान जयंती की शोभा यात्रा के दौरान हुई हिंसा के बाद रविवार को हिंदू...

Support research on Indian Muslim Women: Struggle for Identity

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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...

Rahul Gandhi targets Modi’s personal life

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Jammu: Targeting BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi's personal life, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday said Modi not once mentioned his wife's name...

Meghalaya home minister quits

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Shillong : Meghalaya Home Minister Roshan Warjri has resigned from the ruling Congress-led government, a party official said Friday. Warjri, the first woman home minister,...

PIL seeks CCTVs in women’s lock-ups

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डेल्टा मेघवाल मरी नहीं, मारी गई है…

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : डेल्टा मेघवाल कौन थी? उसमें ऐसा क्या था? जो सभी को अपनी ओर खींचता था? वो क्या कर...

NIA inspector shot dead in UP, wife critically injured

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New Delhi : A National Investigation Agency inspector was shot dead while returning from a wedding in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district, sources said on...

Ticketless passenger alleges she was stripped, railways denies

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By IANS, Kolkata: A ticketless passenger accused a woman ticket checker of stripping her, leading to a mob fury at the bustling Sealdah station here. But an official inquiry found she had disrobed herself to draw sympathy from fellow commuters, a railway official said Tuesday. "Asima Biswas, 47, was Monday travelling without a ticket. She was asked by a woman ticket checker at the Sealdah railway station to show her ticket. But she failed to show any, and instead took off her sari," an Eastern Railway (ER) spokesman told IANS.

The sorry state of Delhi’s women labourers

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By Prashant K. Nanda, IANS, New Delhi : They live and work in the capital, but the city's 200,000 women labourers - most of whom work at construction sites - along with their children are some of the worst sufferers when it comes to health indices. Nearly 48 percent of them got married before the legal age of 18, and 46 percent of the ones among them who were mothers also had their first baby before that age, says a new study carried out by voluntary organisation Mobile Creche.

Indian women face sexual harassment in New Zealand

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Wellington:Indian women in Auckland, New Zealand's largest and most populous urban area, are facing a wave of sexual harassment from their own countrymen, a...

Workshop trains Delhi women in self-defence

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New Delhi : Hit your attackers at soft spots like eyes, the adam's apple or groin, keep pepper spray in your hands while moving...

Google lights candle ‘in memory of Delhi braveheart’

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By IANS, New Delhi: Google India has lit a white candle on its homepage as a tribute to the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim, who passed away following a 13-day fight for life.

Meghalaya to compensate rape victims

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By IANS, Shillong: The Meghalaya cabinet has approved a comprehensive policy to pay compensation to victims of rape and human trafficking, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said Wednesday.

UN chief mourns Indian gang-rape victim’s death

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Ex-ACP’s son arrested for trying to abduct Afghan woman

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New Delhi: A 28-year-old man, the son of a former senior Delhi police official, was arrested here for trying to abduct a married Afghan...

Obese women more impulsive than others

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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.

Mother’s poor health gets transferred to child, study shows

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By IANS, Boston : Poor health of a little girl leads to poor health of the children she has many years later, Indian-American researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found, using data from India. The study revealed an association between the height of mothers and several indicators of her children's health, including risk of death, risk of being underweight, and anaemia.

Saudi Arabia to recruit 500 nurses from Kerala

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram: The Saudi Arabian administration is set to recruit 500 Muslim women nurses from Kerala to work in hospitals in and around Mecca and Madina.

Honour for AMU teacher

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By TCN News, Aligarh: Dr. Ghazala Yasmin, guest teacher, Department of Applied Mathematics, ZH College of Engineering and Technology at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been awarded the “A K Agarwal Prize for Best Publication of the Year 2014”.

Women joining hands to protect secularism in the country

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, With the high intention for mobilizing women of the country to propagate harmony, inclusion, justice and peace all over the country, a group of women moved to launch a forum “Women For Secularism” recently in Mumbai. The forum believes that though people are divided on the lines of class, caste, race and religion, there is an urge among them to see a peaceful environment and women can play very important role in promoting secularism and secular values in our country which is increasingly coming under the influence of communal forces.

Minor girl set on fire in Ghaziabad, dies in hospital

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By IANS Ghaziabad: A girl was beaten up and set on fire by four men, who accused her of having an affair, in Ghaziabad, police said Tuesday. She later succumbed to her injuries in hospital. The girl, Imrana Hakim (15) was at her house in the Tauri Tereh locality under Bhojpur police station of Ghaziabad, with her younger sister Monday. Her mother was working in the local fields while her father was out of town for some work, district police chief Akhil Kumar said.

From Kairwan’s meadows to poetic pages, how Kashmiri woman attempting to revive native language

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Tauseef Ahmad and Nuzhat Masoodi, TwoCircles.net Kupwara: Each sunrise in Lolab, also called Wadi-e-Lolab (the land of love and beauty), gives the valley a golden...

Delhi woman kidnapped, molested in moving car

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New Delhi : A 30-year-old woman, working with a NGO, has alleged that she was kidnapped and molested by three people in a moving...

Missing Voices: Rahul Gandhi’s Rally at Nuh Reveals Gender Gap in Political Engagement in...

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Musheera Ashraf, TwoCircles.net Nuh, Haryana: Amidst the sweltering 36-degree heat and towering buildings, the Nuh highway resonated with the pulsating beats of DJs and booming music....

ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट। यूपी के इस गांव में कॉलेज के लिए ग्रामीणों ने मुफ्त में...

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Women’s empowerment by education has positive impact on future: President

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Panaji, (IANS): Women's empowerment through education will have a positive impact on our future generations, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday. He also called for...

UN chief calls for end to violence against women

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By Xinhua, United Nations : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated his call to bring an end to violence against women, a scourge whose impact is devastating and immeasurable, as the United Nations began a series of events to mark International Women's Day. "It is sometimes said that women are weavers and men are too often warriors," Ban said in an address to the commemoration of the day, observed annually March 8, in New York.

Dhaka can take lessons from Beijing, says Rasheda

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By NNN-BSS, Dhaka, Bangladesh : Adviser for Women and Children Affairs Rasheda K Chowdhury described Dhaka-Beijing friendship as an excellent one since time immemorial in terms of trade and commerce, culture and history and said, Bangladesh could take lessons from China. Bangladesh should follow the strategies of China to move towards economic prosperity as Beijng had shown amazing economic achievement in agriculture, industry and human resources development, she said at a discussion at a city hotel on Saturday afternoon.

Taking justice to women’s doorstep in Kerala

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By Jeevan Mathew Kurian, IANS, Kozhikode (Kerala) : Justice at the doorstep is a much espoused cause but remains a dream. For women in Kerala justice may not be at their doorstep, but they can at least seek it in their neighbourhood. The Jagrata Samithis (Vigilance Committees) in local administrative bodies is slowly turning into sanctuaries of justice for them. The committees have come up in 832 local administrative bodies out of around 1,200 in the state.

Danish woman fails to identify minor accused in rape case

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New Delhi : A Danish woman, who was allegedly gang raped by nine vagabonds including three minors, failed to identify the juveniles on...

Anti-AFSPA rally demands repealing the draconian law

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By TCN News, New Delhi: On 30th march, an anti-AFSPA rally was jointly organized by Sharmila Solidarity Campaign, AISA, AIPWA, RYA, DSF, JNUSU, NEFIS, Voices against 377, NAPM and Right to water campaign, from Mandi House metro station to Jantar Mantar. It was organized as a part of an effort to create a political pressure for repeal of AFSPA in this election season. After the rally, a public meeting was held at Jantar Mantar.

Women’s Reservation Bill: What it means for Muslim representation?

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By Md. Mudassir Alam for TwoCircles.net,

Stone cold after Kosi kills her newborn

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By Priyanka Khanna, IANS, Araria/Supaul (Bihar) : For a woman whose eight-hour-old baby died a little while ago, Zafeda Khatum looks surprisingly unflustered. The 18-year-old maintains a stoic silence even as her family members clamour around to explain how she lost her first born to the ice cold waters of the Kosi river that unexpectedly entered her shanty in Araria district of Bihar.

वाह रे मोदी बजट! दलित-आदिवासियों का हक़ भी मार लिया!

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Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी भले ही अरूण जेटली द्वारा पेश किए गए बजट को गांव, गरीब और किसान समर्थक बजट बता रहे...

ओवैसी ने यूपी में बहराइच से फूंका चुनावी बिगुल , ‘एमवाई’ समीकरण नही बनने...

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Pakistani women have miles to go in politics

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By IANS, Islamabad : Pakistan's parliament has a woman speaker, a woman is a federal minister and 74 women have been elected to the National Assembly. But thanks to the widely prevalent feudal system, women in three of the country's four provinces are not allowed to vote during elections. Of the 74 women in the National Assembly, 14 were elected to the general seats and 60 to the reserved seats.

Bihar priest beaten for pushing Dalit woman out of temple

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Patna: A priest was beaten up by a group of men after he pushed a Dalit woman and forcibly stopped her from offering prayers...

Sameena Shah wins Google India Engineering Award

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By TwoCircles.net news desk, New Delhi: Sameena Shah has won the 2009 Google India Women in Engineering Award. Google India selected 9 top students for the 22 finalists this year. Full time student in a recognized institution and pursuing Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related majors were eligible for this award.

Woman’s hand cut off in MP for resisting advances

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Satna (Madhya Pradesh): A woman in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district was left critically injured when a man enraged at her resisting his advances attacked...

Triple Talaq un-Islamic, inhuman and unconstitutional: Armed Forces Tribunal bench

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Lucknow (UP): In a significant decision, the Lucknow Bench of Armed Forces Tribunal has ruled that the declaration of oral...

Meet Falak Naaz, who braved poverty to make it to India’s U19 Women’s T-20...

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18-year-old Falak Naaz comes from a poor family in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. This did not stop her from dreaming to play for national...

‘Rani Jhansi would be proud today of her nation’

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By IANS, New Delhi: As India took a decisive step towards giving its women one-third representation in legislatures, many women keenly watched history being made on their TV sets, celebrated the moment in their own small ways and said their country has made them proud. Clearing the first hurdle, the Women's Reservation Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. It seeks to set aside for women 181 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha and 1,370 of the total 4,109 seats in the 28 state assemblies.

Vrindavan widows to meet PM over protection bill

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(June 23 is World Widow Day) Vrindavan : Widows living in various shelter homes here Sunday said they wanted to meet Prime Minister Narendra...

Women in Delhi form human chain against injustices

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By IANS, New Delhi: Nearly 400 women from all walks of life came together to form a human chain here Monday - the 100th International Women's Day - to pledge their support against injustices and disrespect to women. Sufi singer Zila Khan, entrepreneur Feroze Gujral, fashion designer Madhu Jain, educationist Shyama Chona, Delhi former mayor Arti Mehra and golfer and activist Neelam Pratap Rudy joined hands for the "I support Pratigya" campaign, organised by Star Plus TV channel for their show "Pratigya".

There’s much sex in politics here

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram: Two cases, the Kozhikode ice cream sex case and the Suryanelli sex case have been frequently in the headlines in the state over the past decade and a half.

No gender discrimination in Islam: Muslim intellectuals

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By TCN Special Correspondent,

Women Deliver 2010: Lot more needs to be done to save women’s lives

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By Bobby Ramakant, CNS

Girl denied permission to board Delhi Metro while wearing a Hijab

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Delhi: In what looks like a case of religious discrimination, a Muslim girl was denied entry into the...

Women should occupy leadership positions: Sitharaman

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Vijayawada : Women can improve their status in society only when they occupy leadership positions in all walks of life, Union Minister of State...

High BP in women may cause dementia in later life

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By IANS, Washington: Women with high blood pressure (BP) may be at a greater risk of dementia later in life, says a new finding in the US. "Hypertension is very common in the US and many other countries and can lead to serious health problems," said Lewis Kuller, professor of epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. "Proper control of blood pressure, which remains generally poor, may be very important to prevent dementia as women age," added Kuller.

Mamata leads Trinamool rally to mark International Women’s Day

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Kolkata: Kickstarting her party's campaign for the coming Lok sabha polls, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Saturday led women leaders and candidates of her...

Pregnant woman alleges triple talaq over girl child fears

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Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), (IANS): A pregnant woman in Uttar Pradesh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath alleging her...

यूपी में भाजपा की जीत के बीच कहाँ खड़े है मुसलमान !

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net देश के सबसे बड़े राज्य उत्तर प्रदेश में भारतीय जनता पार्टी चुनाव जीत गई है। संभवतः योगी आदित्यनाथ एक बार फिर...

No “Achhe Din” for IIT students with three-fold increase in fees

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By Sumaiya Arafaat for TwoCircles.net, After NIT’s it’s bad news for IIT students. The panel, headed by IIT Roorkee Chairman Ashok Misra has approved a...

Arshi Hasmat tops WB Judicial Service Exams; 19 Muslims among 117 selected in...

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: Arshi Hasmat, from Kolkata, has topped the 2014 Judicial Service Examinations of West Bengal, making her only the second Muslim to top the coveted test in recent years. In 2008, Bushra Adil had topped the same examination. Incidentally, on both occasions laurels to the community were brought by women.

Government adopts policy for women’s empowerment

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government has adopted a national policy for empowerment of women with the objective of bringing about their advancement, development...

Most MPs against women’s bill: Sharad Yadav

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By George Joseph, IANS, New Delhi : Continuing his opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav says that 90 percent of MPs are against the bill that seeks to set aside a third of all seats in India's legislatures for women. "If there is no party whip, 90 percent of the MPs will oppose the bill, whether they are from the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) or the NDA (National Democratic Alliance), whether they are from backward classes or upper castes, whether they are male or women MPs," Yadav claimed in an interview.

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.

Vigil in Harvard Square to mark Delhi rape and protest sexual violence

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By TCN News

Global Women Summit in Vietnam

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By Prensa Latina, Hanoi : Almost 1,000 representatives from 70 countries are meeting in Vietnam starting today to discuss the role of women in global economy, and particularly in Asia, as part of the 2008 Global Women's Summit. The three-day forum will be focused on the exchange of experiences and contacts with practical goals, said Irene Natividad, president of Global Women's Summit, a non-profit making organization to promote female development.

‘मोदी ने रूकवा दी मेरे शौहर की रिहाई’

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दिल्ली: ओखला से आम आदमी पार्टी के विधायक अमानतुल्लाह खान की बीवी साफ़िया खान ने TwoCircles.net के साथ बातचीत में अपने...

The Indian Ulema and Muslim Women’s Education

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By Maulvi Waris Mazhari, (Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand)

Women’s groups seek security, safety

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By IANS,

Ace Media & Marketing to launch exclusive website for women

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By TCN News,

Self-help groups help women overcome childhood sexual trauma

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By IANS, London : Women who have lived through the nightmare of sexual trauma in childhood can help one another overcome these memories by sharing their experiences. One reason why such women don't talk about their trauma is the fear of being disbelieved. Some of them said that they tried to tell their story but nobody would listen to them. Others recalled that although their counsellor or doctor gave them a patient hearing, there was still a vital something missing, namely the opportunity to talk to someone in a similar predicament.

Yatra organised in Gujarat to save girl child

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