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Neglect charge against British teenager’s mother dismissed

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By IANS, Panaji : Goa's Women and Child Development (WCD) department has dismissed a petition against slain British teenager Scarlett Keeling's mother Fiona Mackeown on a technicality, as the police was already investigating similar charges against her. A petition filed by a local NGO Utt Goenkara had argued that it was Fiona's criminal neglect of Scarlett which had resulted in the teenager's death and sought penal action against her.

Media and Gender

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

Of white buildings, Islamic architecture and progressive women

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By Kavita Bajeli-Datt, IANS, Muscat : As the flight descends in the Oman capital, the first impression is that of serenity and peace - perhaps because of the overwhelmingly white and off-white buildings. As this reporter, part of a four-member media exchange programme to Oman, went around the beautifully kept city, it was intriguing that the only spots of colour were to be found on top of mosques.

60-year-old woman becomes mother in Bihar relief camp

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By IANS, Patna : A 60-year-old Dalit woman has given birth to a baby girl at a relief camp in flood hit Bihar. Chandan Devi gave birth Tuesday at a relief camp for flood victims in Udaikishanganj in Madhepura district, about 300 km from here. Both mother and child are healthy and doing well, the doctor looking after Chandan Devi said. "Everything is normal after the delivery," Anand Kumar Milan of a government hospital in Udaikishanganj told IANS. He said that it was a blessing that despite her age, she has become a mother for the first time.

Bilkis Bano’s husband: ‘What can be worse than seeing your loved ones being killed?’

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In 2008, a special CBI court in Mumbai sentenced to life imprisonment 11 men for the crime. Earlier this month, the Gujarat government released...

Mother Teresa to be canonised on September 4: Pope

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Vatican city: The Pope during consistory of cardinals on Tuesday announced September 4 as the date for Mother Teresa's canonisation, the media reported. After months...

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

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

Conviction rate low, says DCW as Delhi sexual crimes hit 15-year high

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By Rajnish Singh New Delhi : Twentyone cases of sexual abuse of women, on an average, are reported in the capital every day, according...

‘Let’s tailor I-Day to celebrate women’s freedom’

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women are no longer the weaker sex and this Independence Day is one more occasion to celebrate the fact that they have come a long way from being just traditional homemakers, women designers in the capital said as India enters its 63rd year of freedom. "We (women) have come a long way. From being typical housewives to successful entrepreneurs - we are successful, confident and are able to strike a balance between our professional and personal life as well," fashion designer Ritu Kumar told IANS.

Saradha scam: Mamata demands arrest of union minister’s wife

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Kolkata: In an angry retaliation over the Saradha scam issue which has again grabbed the spotlight, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday wondered...

Over 60,000 cholera cases in Zimbabwe: WHO

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By Xinhua, Geneva : More than 60,000 people have been infected with cholera in Zimbabwe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday. Of the infected people, 3,161 have died, said WHO, which described the situation as a "worst case scenario" since the epidemic broke out in August. WHO reported over 1,000 deaths in just the past 15 days, and called on international non governmental organisations and the Zimbabwean government to help.

Centre lacks will to address women’s safety issue: AAP

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New Delhi : The AAP Tuesday said the BJP-led central government had no "political will" to address the women safety issues, citing a government...

This Kashmiri woman distributes sanitary napkins for free

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Asma Hafiz, Twocircles.net Irfana Zargar was settling in after a long day at work when she received a desperate call from a woman asking for...

Nirbhaya fund does not reach intended beneficiaries, SC told

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New Delhi, (IANS) : The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that the Nirbhaya fund created to support measures for women's safety and empowerment...

Assam polls a fight between two opposing ideologies: Rahul

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Guwahati (Assam) : Terming the Assam assembly polls a "fight between two opposing ideologies", Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged the people...

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

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

Muslim woman laborer tortured, ‘molested’ in West Bengal

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,

Jaipur gang-rape victim shifted to Delhi hospital

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By IANS, Jaipur: An 11-year old gang-rape victim was shifted to AIIMS in Delhi Friday from a government hospital in Jaipur where she underwent over a dozen surgeries in five months, police said.

In ‘Satyamev Jayate’ Aamir deals with female foeticide – and how!

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By IANS,

NHRC notice to Rajasthan over woman’s rape by policeman

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New Delhi: The NHRC has issued notice to the Rajasthan government over the alleged rape of a woman by a police constable and his...

‘खुदाई खिदमतगार’ वाले फैसल खान और संत राघवेंद्र दास की दोस्ती की बहुत प्यारी...

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अभी सात आठ महीने पहले की बात है। हमारी सोशल मीडिया टीम के एक साथी ने बताया कि एक साधू महाराज आपका फ़ोन नंबर...

Saudi Arabia allows women to participate in municipal polls

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Riyadh : A new law that allows women in Saudi Arabia to vote and contest in municipal elections has come into force, a media...

क्या महज़ राजनीति का मुद्दा है डेल्टा मेघवाल?

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

Ghaziabad teacher arrested for sexually assaulting student

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Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad Police arrested a teacher for sexually assaulting a class XI student of a prestigious public school in Modinagar town here. The police...

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.

Sexual harassment case against Pachauri heads to trial

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

International human trafficking ring busted, 26 women rescued

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New Delhi : Delhi Police have arrested a 52-year-old man and his woman accomplice for running an international human trafficking racket, and rescued 26...

Indo-Canadian woman gets human rights plaint go-ahead

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Ottawa : A provincial supreme court in Canada has okayed a human rights complaint by an Indo-Canadian varsity professor against a university alleging discrimination...

Don’t link triple Talaq with uniform civil code: Venkaiah

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New Delhi : Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said the issue of ending triple Talaq practice should not be linked with uniform...

Woman gang raped inside UP police station, SHO nabbed

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Lucknow: A woman was gang raped allegedly by four policemen inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh. The SHO was arrested Wednesday. The incident took...

NCW seeks probe in Punjab woman’s thrashing

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By IANS, New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) Tuesday asked the Punjab Police chief to probe the attack on a woman by policemen in the state's Tarn Taran district.

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...

Mice show women can handle stress better

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By IANS, Sydney : Female mice engineered without a neurotransmitter in the lab, known to lower anxiety levels, were less stressed than their similarly configured male counterparts. Tim Karl, behavioural neuroscientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, explained that "pharmacological tests show that when you introduce NPY (neurotransmitter) to an animal in a stressful situation, its stress levels decrease." "Studies have shown that male mice created without NPY are more anxious than

Call special sitting on violence against women: Rajya Sabha member

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New Delhi : Rajya Sabha member T.N. Seema on Tuesday said a special sitting should be called to discuss the issue of violence against...

Rs.4.75 lakh course for aspiring women politicians

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By IANS,

Workshop on role of Media during disasters with particular reference to women and...

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By, Md.Ali, TwoCircles.net A media workshop "Media Consultation for Strategies to strengthen Role of Media during Disasters with Particular Reference to the Issues Related to Children and Women" was organized on September 22, 2008, at Gandhi Sangrahalay by NGOs Save the Children and Charkha, which is a development communication Network.

Plea in SC seeks women members in seven state governments

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Friday a petition seeking direction to the chief ministers of seven states to consider...

नयी सदी, नयी सरकार: मैला ढोनेवाले मैला ही ढो रहे हैं

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फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net पटना: देश को आज़ाद हुए सालों हो चुके लेकिन दलित समुदाय के साथ भेदभाव लगातार जारी है. यह समुदाय अभी तक...

Man held for raping four-year-old girl in Rajasthan

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Jaipur : A 38-year-old man has been arrested for raping a four-year-old girl and dumping her in a serious condition behind some bushes in...

UP’s 1090 women’s helpline heading for closure?

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By Mohit Dubey, IANS,

16 million Chinese women married to gay men

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By IANS, Beijing : Sixteen million women in China are married to homosexual men, an expert claimed.

Single largest gathering of women at Kerala festival

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By IANS,

Ramadan 1435: Unframed

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By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net Members of the Muslim Youth Committee pose with the props when they got together for their community iftaar. This group organizes...

Moga’s shame: Young woman alleges gang-rape

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Moga (Punjab) : A young woman in Punjab's Moga district has alleged that she was gang-raped by her friend's husband and his friends, police...

12 pregnant women die in Jodhpur hospital

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By IANS,

Half of Delhi’s women voters turned out for polls

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

Family support vital for Muslim women to enter politics: Fathima Rosna

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TCN series on Muslim women empowerment On International Women's Day on 8th March, TCN is bringing great stories of Muslim women empowerment from different states of India -- Editor.

Saudi Arabia recruiting maids aged between 25 and 50

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Dubai : The age of Indian domestic workers looking for employment in Saudi Arabia has been set between 25 and 50 years under a...

Woman judge sacked in Tripura

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By IANS, Agartala: A judge in Tripura has been dismissed from service for making derogatory remarks against the judges of higher courts, an official said Sunday.

Women’s Photos and Videos Sold Online During Mahakumbh: A Reflection of Society’s Complicity, Legal...

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Sumaiyah Khan The shocking incident at Mahakumbh 2025, where photographs and videos of women taking a holy dip in the Triveni Sangam (the confluence rivers...

WPI urges MEA to intervene for repatriation of stranded Indian women workers in Saudi...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Welfare Party of India national president Mujtaba Farooque, in a letter to Mrs. Sushma Swaraj, the Minister for Foreign Affairs...

11 women inmates escape destitute home in Bengal

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By IANS,

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...

Woman dies after doctor removes both kidneys

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By IANS, Patna : A 22-year-old woman died after a doctor allegedly removed her kidneys during surgery, her family said Thursday. Sabila Khatoon, mother of a six-month-old baby, died at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) Wednesday night. A resident of Tangaul Patti in Bihar's Hajipur district, about 30 km from here, Sabila was admitted at the PMCH in early February after her condition deteriorated following a surgery for stone in a kidney. Doctors at the PMCH found that both her kidneys had been removed and immediately put her on dialysis.

Separated by a barbed wire, torn apart by politics: Families on the LOC

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Hunderman Brok (Kargil) : A barbed wire can often represent the idea of security, but...

Triple Talaq row : Jamaat’s women wing bashed Narendra Modi for ‘shedding crocodile tears’

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TCN News MALAPPURAM : The women’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) in Kerala has strongly criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP party and...

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Eradicating child marriage still doesn’t make the cut in...

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According to a report by Young Lives Research to Policy Centre based on the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, West Bengal tops the list...

About two million women trafficked every year: UN

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By DPA, New York : An estimated two million women are caught each year in the worldwide sex industry while countless children and other women are forced into low-waged jobs, the UN said Tuesday in a renewed effort to fight human trafficking. The UN said there are no accurate statistics, but the number of women trafficked across borders each year could be twice as high if the count includes those forced into domestic situations.

Where’s women power: Huma Qureshi on Kejriwal’s cabinet

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New Delhi : Actress Huma Qureshi has high hopes from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal but has one issue with his cabinet -- the...

Women’s bill torn, Rajya Sabha adjourned fifth time

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By IANS, New Delhi : A historic bill that promises to reserve 33 percent of legislative seats for women was moved in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament, amid unruly scenes as a dozen members opposing it tore up the document and hurled the pieces at Chairman Hamid Ansari before forcing a fifth adjournment in a day. This happened on a day when both houses assembled to the call to "celebrate and honour women" and include them in the decision making process to mark the International Women's Day being observed worldwide.

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

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

Delhi LS candidate booked for molestation

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New Delhi: A 55-year-old Lok Sabha candidate from Delhi has been booked for molesting and misbehaving with an on-duty woman traffic constable Thursday evening,...

UN chief seeks help against female genital mutilation

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Nairobi: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on the media Thursday to speak out and help put an end "within this generation" to Female...

Delhi girl Sukriti Gupta tops CBSE class 12 exam

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

Government confident of women’s bill passage: Moily

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By IANS, New Delhi: Despite several hiccups that the women's reservation bill is facing in parliament, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Sunday night said the central government is confident to pass the bill in the current budget session. "We want to pass the bill this session. We are very confident," Moily told the CNN-IBN news channel in an interview.

Woman suicide bomber kills 2 in hospital in W Iraq

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By Xinhua, Fallujah, Iraq : A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a hospital in a town near the city of Fallujah in Anbar province on Sunday, killing two people and wounding two others, a local police source said.

Two JD-U women legislators campaign for BJP, RJD

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Patna: Two women legislators from Bihar's ruling JD-U, one of them a former minister, are campaigning and seeking votes for the BJP and RJD...

Odisha to probe rape cases within 60 days

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By IANS,

‘वंडर मदर ‘ बुशरा बानो का एक और कमाल, शादी के 13 साल बाद...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net भारत की सबसे प्रेरणादायक बेटियों में से एक बुशरा अरशद बानो ने एक और कमाल कर दिया है। सोमवार को सिविल सर्विस...

Social disparity to blame for molestation, rape: Javed Akhtar

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By Saket Suman   Jaipur (IANS) : Celebrated Indian poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar on Sunday rebuffed claims that Westernisation leads to rapes and other crimes...

Conference on minority girls’ aspirations held in Delhi

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Najma Heptulla signals speedy implementation of govt schemes in eastern India. By TCN News, New Delhi: The two-day National Conference on ‘an understanding...

SC to hear contempt plea against Sabarimala tantri for closing temple for purification

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New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on January 22 a contempt plea against the Sabarimala temple tantri for shutting the...

‘Swachh Bharat’ mission to give women priority: Government

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New Delhi : The government Thursday said women will be accorded priority under the 'Swachh Bharat' mission while constructing community and public toilets. Replying to...

Meet Naziya & Shabrun, two Muslim nurses from Bihar awarded by President Murmu for...

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The young nurses believe that more Muslim girls across the country should opt for the nursing profession to serve society.  Sami Ahmad | TwoCircles.net PATNA...

“School Chalo” program spreads the message of education

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By TCN News Bangalore: Popular Front of India organized “School Chalo” program on May 30th to spread the message of education. This program was held in Tank Garden area of Bangalore.
More than 250 students who participated in this program. Majority of students were from the Govt School and from an economically challenged background. The students walked around the area with the slogans on the cards to spread the message of education.

Special police in Uttarakhand districts to check crime against women

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Dehradun, (IANS): The Uttarakhand government will raise special police units in the state's 13 districts to deal exclusively with crime against women. A decision to this...

Uniform code won’t help, says women’s Jamaat founder

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New Delhi, (IANS) : The uniform civil code won't help Muslim women as majority of them won't approach a court if it's violated, the founder...

Women will man India-Pakistan border, come Friday

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By Alkesh Sharma, IANS, Amritsar : Indian women troopers are just a few hours away from creating history at the India-Pakistan border. Newly inducted into the Border Security Force (BSF), they will be the first lot of women to guard the international border in Punjab from Friday. "All the 178 girls will be posted at the international border," BSF Punjab frontier deputy inspector general (DIG) Jagir Singh told IANS here Thursday.

ट्रिपल तलाक़ : सुप्रीम कोर्ट में कल से सुनवाई, बोर्ड व जमीयत की ओर...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : सुप्रीम कोर्ट में गुरूवार के दिन ‘तीन तलाक़’, ‘हलाला’ और ‘बहु-विवाह’ प्रथा की संवैधानिक वैधता को चुनौती देने...

Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan condemn arrest of rape survivor, youth activists

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TCN News Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) of Rajasthan has strongly condemned the arrest of a young survivor of gang-rape and two Jan Jagran Shakti...

Women Reservation Bill is anti minority bill – AIUDF

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By TCN News New Delhi: All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) came out against the proposed Women Reservation bill saying it "is completely against" it in its present form.

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...

Before seeking pistol licence, ensure toilet at home in MP

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Neemach (Madhya Pradesh) : In a novel initiative, police in Madhya Pradesh's Neemach district have asked people to ensure they have toilets at home...

Protests over Odisha women panel’s report on gang rape

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By IANS,

80 percent women fear for safety in Delhi: Survey

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By IANS, New Delhi: Nearly 80 percent of Delhi women fear for their safety in the city, a new survey says. The Delhi government's women and child development department, NGO Jagori and international organisation Unifem conducted the survey. The survey, released Thursday, is based on interviews of 5,010 people, including 3,816 women and 944 men. The rest are common witnesses like bus conductors, shopkeepers and auto drivers, who have a probability of witnessing acts of sexual harassment against women.

Thanks for sparing us more headache, housewives thank FM

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By IANS,

UN campaign to protect Delhi women from violence

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By IANS,

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...

40% Muslims in Telangana have no savings, only 19.2% have salaried jobs; Sudheer Commission...

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter The Sudheer Commission on `Socio-economic and educational conditions of Muslims in Telangana,' India’s newest state, has shown that the condition of...

First women’s cricket T-20 tournament in UP

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Mathura : The first all-India women's Twenty-20 cricket tournament will begin Tuesday at Amarnath Vidya Ashram ground in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura city. "This is the...

Census 2011: India’s Muslims are no better today than a few decades earlier

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BY Sourjya Bhowmick, Via Catch News Recently released Census 2011 data based on religious faiths has revealed that Muslims have the lowest share...

Men who want women to stay home earn more

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By IANS, Washington : Men holding the view that women should stay at home earn more than men who don't. But women with more egalitarian views don't take home much more than their traditional counterparts. Timothy Judge and Beth Livingston of University of Florida analysed data from a nationally representative study of men and women who were interviewed four times between 1979 and 2005. Some 12,686 people, aged between 14 and 22 at the beginning of the study, participated, even as 60 percent remained with the study.

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.

‘Godman’ kidnaps woman disciple

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By IANS, Ghaziabad: A 40-year-old self-styled godman allegedly kidnapped a 27-year-old disciple from her house here last month, police said Saturday. Police registered a case Saturday and initiated a hunt for the self-styled godman Anup Kumar Sahai, alias Swami Ji, for kidnapping Priyanka Srivastava alias Dolly, an MBA graduate, who was pursuing her doctoral studies. "Priyanka had gone missing from her house in Sector-7, Raj Nagar, since Feb 15. The family claimed she was kidnapped by Anup," Rajesh Chaudhary, inspector in-charge of the Kavi Nagar police station, said.

Tamil Nadu woman set to create yoga world record

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Chennai : On the second International Yoga Day on Tuesday, a woman advocate in Tamil Nadu is progressing to set a world record for...

Boycotted Dalit woman commits suicide in Orissa

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By IANS,

Woman prisoner commits suicide in Jharkhand

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Ranchi: A woman prisoner committed suicide in Jharkhand's Gumla district Saturday, police said. According to police, Jagini Oraon committed suicide in a toilet of Gumla...

15-years-old too must get death for rape: Kejriwal

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New Delhi: Juveniles who are 15 years old too must get death penalty if they commit rape, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on...

Pregnant woman burnt by husband

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By IANS, Pune : A pregnant woman was allegedly burnt to death by her husband after she quarrelled with his mother in Maharashtra's Sangli district, police said Saturday. Twenty-year-old Sangita Shivaji Patil, who was six months pregnant, had a bitter argument Tuesday with her mother-in-law Hansa Naiku Patil, 55, at their home in Lingnur village, about 150 km from here. The miffed mother-in-law then stormed out of her home, ignoring appeals to stay on from her husband Naiku Patil and son Shivaji, sub-inspector P.R. Sawant of Meraj police station told IANS.

Islamabad beauty is new Miss Pakistan World

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By Gurmukh Singh, IANS, Toronto : Natasha Paracha from Islamabad has been crowned the new Miss Pakistan World in an annual beauty pageant which, according to its founder, would enable Pakistani women "to stand up for change and progression" in a society that frowns on such events on its soil. The 23-year-old graduate from the University of California at Berkeley replaces Mahleej Sarkari who created quite a stir last month when she called Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf a hunk and expressed a desire to date him.

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...

Rajya Sabha panel to examine rules to protect women

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By IANS, New Delhi : In view of rising cases of domestic violence against women, a parliamentary committee is examining the rules framed to implement a law to protect women from such violence and has invited suggestions from experts. The Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the Rajya Sabha, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Najma A. Heptulla, is examining the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Rules, 2006. The rules were framed to implement the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, and provide legal remedies to women.

Woman saves Indian from Bangladeshis’ captivity in Baharin

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Manama: An Indian, allegedly tortured and held hostage in Bahrain by five Bangladeshis for a paltry BHD800 ransom (about $2,000), was rescued with the...

STF asked to trace missing woman official in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS, Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has entrusted the Special Task Force (STF) with finding a 53-year-old woman government official, who has been missing along with her driver since Friday, an official said Monday. Rakesh Jain, district manager of state Food and Essential Commodities Corporation, posted in Sitapur, has been missing since last Friday. "A team of STF would now probe the case. We would make every effort to trace the woman official," Additional Director General (law and order) Brij Lal told reporters here.

In Rural Telangana, How a Dalit Women-Run Radio Station Is Changing Lives

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Mohini Kapoor, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad: Not long ago, in a corner of southern India where caste and gender boundaries still hold strong, the idea of Dalit women...

IAF women exorcise 2005 Everest ghost

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS,

Bhopal gas tragedy: Many women couldn’t become mothers again

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By Sandeep Pauranik Bhopal, (IANS): The tragedy that struck this city 33 years ago following methyl isocyanate leak from an industrial unit has not allowed...

Himachal by-elections: Wives hope to succeed husbands

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By IANS, Shimla : Two women are hoping to make it a family affair by contesting for two Himachal Pradesh assembly seats that were vacated by their husbands who are now Lok Sabha MPs. Pratibha Singh, wife of former Congress Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, is eyeing the ticket for the Rohru seat whereas Sudha Sushant, wife of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Rajan Sushant, is hoping to contest from Jawali. Byelections to both the seats will take place Nov 7.

Ramadan 1438: Shaheena

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By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net "The word Ramzan itself gives me a sense of peace and relief. The feeling of Ramzan in the close-knit family...

Myanmar president calls for unity to overcome challenges

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Nay Pyi Taw : Myanmar President U Thein Sein on Monday called on the country's political forces to work together in unity to overcome...

Kids, women severely burnt as high-tension wire falls on them

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By IANS, Ghaziabad : Three children and three women were severely burnt when a high-tension wire fell on them in the Khoda area of Ghaziabad Monday night, police said Tuesday. According to officials, the children and the women were sitting on the rooftop of their house when the overhead high tension 11,000 volt transmission wire fell on them, severely burning them.

Man in UP fined, asked to return ‘meher’ for giving Triple Talaq to his...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter A Panchayat in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district fined a man of Rs 2 lakh and asked him to return the ‘meher’...

Ramadan 1435: Patience

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By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net Students wait patiently for the time to break fast at a school-organized iftar event at MWA School, Chennai. Link: Ramadan 1435: TCN serieswindow.onload...

Sarah Rizvi: Born and brought up in Mumbai, became IPS in Gujarat

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TCN series on Muslim women empowerment On International Women's Day on 8th March, TCN is bringing great stories of Muslim women empowerment from different states of India -- Editor

Women panel seeks report on Delhi scribe’s death

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday sought a report from the Jharkhand Police over the alleged killing of Delhi journalist Nirupama Pathak. "We have sought a detailed report from the Koderma district police about the death of the girl," said NCW chairperson Girija Vyas. Vyas said that a case should be sent to a fast track court so that the culprits are punished. The 23-year-old journalist, who worked with a business daily in New Delhi, was found hanging April 29 at her home in Koderma, about 200 km from Ranchi.

Girls thrashed at Karnataka’s Mangalore for partying

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By IANS,

मौलाना आज़ाद फैलोशिप बंद होने से मुस्लिम बुद्धिजीवियों में निराशा का माहौल

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मोहम्मद ज़मीर हसन|twocircles.net “मैं हैदराबाद यूनिवर्सिटी में पढ़ रहा हूं। यह संभव हो पाया है मौलाना आज़ाद नेशनल फैलोशिप की वजह से। मेरी आर्थिक स्थिति...

Two released Japanese tourists depart Yemen

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By NNN-SABA, Sana'a : Well-informed sources said that the two Japanese women tourists Keiko Mishima, 41, of Suginami Ward, Tokyo, and Shizuko Endo, 44, of Fukuoka, left Yemen on Friday morning a day after they were freed from their kidnappers in Marib province, 170 kilometers east of the capital, Sana'a. The sources said to Saba, that Keiko Mishima and Shizuko Endo enjoy good health after they were kidnapped last Wednesday by gunmen in Marib.

Delhi women’s helpline restarts after disruption

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By IANS, New Delhi : After a 12 hour disruption, the Delhi government's 181 helpline for women in distress resumed functioning early Thursday, an official said.

“डोंट वांट ए मुस्लिम डिलीवरी पर्सन” !

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net बीते दिनों स्विगी ऐप पर हैदराबाद के एक ग्राहक द्वारा किया गया असामान्य सांप्रदायिक अनुरोध सोशल मीडिया पर खासा बवाल मचाए हुआ है।...

Jilted lover stabs woman in Delhi

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

Welfare Party of India: Can it make a mark in Karnataka?

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By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

HIV-positive woman spreads hope in Uttar Pradesh

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By Asit Srivastava, IANS, Gorakhpur : After she tested positive for HIV three years ago, Bhanumati (name changed) was shattered. Living under the shadow of death, the 36-year-old feared she too would die of the infection like her husband. But today Bhanumati spearheads AIDS/HIV awareness programmes in villages of Uttar Pradesh. Bhanumati, a resident of Tilauli village in Gorakhpur district, some 300 km from Lucknow, has constituted an all-women group that undertakes counselling of AIDS/HIV patients and also organises sensitisation programmes in India's most populous state.

Grief, despair at Delhi’s hospitals, a day after

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By Richa Sharma, IANS, New Delhi : Wailing men and women as well as dazed family members of the seriously injured or missing after a string of bomb attacks besieged hospitals here Sunday, straining the already stretched medical services. Doctors, nurses and attendants worked furiously to provide relief to the seriously and not-so-seriously wounded in Saturday evening's bombings, but there was no stopping the grief gripping families of the victims.

It is women’s power that rules Kochi

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By IANS, Kochi : It is women's power that rules this port city of Kerala. With B. Sandhya Monday taking over as the new inspector general of police of the central range, women are ruling this commercial capital - from district collector to the mayor. The Kochi Mayor is Mercy Williams, the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) chairperson is M.C. Josephine, and the Ernakulam district panchayat president is P.S. Shaila - all women. Sandhya, asked for her reaction, said: "As a critical mass, if women are there, things can be pushed much faster."

AIMMM reiterates demand for Muslim reservation, sub-quota in WRB

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By TCN News, New Delhi: All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) has reiterated demand of 10% reservation for Muslims in job and education and sub-quota for OBCs and Muslims in Women Reservation Bill. It also demanded government not to play games to sow discord between Muslims & non-Muslims OBCs and suggested the government to conduct Caste Census.

Woman among five hanged to death in Iran

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By DPA, Tehran : Five prisoners, including a woman, convicted in a case of murder, were hanged here, the official newspaper Iran reported Thursday. The five were hanged Wednesday in the Evin prison in northern Tehran after their death sentence had been confirmed by the Supreme Court. The woman had reportedly killed her husband who wanted to marry a younger woman. Murder, rape, sabotage and drug-trafficking of quantities in excess of five kilograms are crimes punishable by death in Iran.

News channels in India are in adolescent phase: Arfa Khanum

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Television journalism is one of the most glamorous jobs of new India. Arfa Khanum Sherwani as principal correspondent and news anchor for NDTV India holds one of those glamorous jobs. Her home in New Delhi is an example of simplicity. She used to be in front of her camera, but this time she was the subject of the interview. I asked her about television journalism in India which is barely a decade old.

SAAYA holds program to create awareness among Muslim women about govt. welfare schemes

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By TwoCircles.net news desk, Patna: With an aim to empower Muslim women and create awareness among them about the schemes launched by state as well as central government to improve socio-economic condition of Muslims particularly Muslim women, SAAYA Network organized a state level consultation meeting on November 21, 2009 in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu.

Sri Lanka to increase women’s involvement in local politics

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Colombo : Sri Lanka's new cabinet on Thursday vowed to amend laws to increase the number of women in local politics and state institutions. Addressing...

12-year-old tells Punjab, Haryana why girls are important

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By IANS, Chandigarh: She moves with a doll in her hands and looks like any other girl of her age. But 12-year-old Ishita Uppal's similarity with girls of her age ends there. The doll in Ishita's hands is symbolic of why girls are important in our society, especially in states like Punjab and Haryana -- which have the worst sex ratio in the country. Ishita has embarked on a 10,000 km journey by car to address various events against female foeticide, the killing of the unborn female child, in Punjab, Haryana and other states.

Mother, three children killed in UP fire

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Lucknow : A mother and her three children were burnt to death in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district on Friday when a fire broke out...

Workshops to raise voting awareness among women

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New Delhi: In a bid to raise the voting awareness among women, the Election Commission Saturday organised various camps, cultural programmes and workshops...

Training women to become future leaders

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By Richa Sharma, IANS, New Delhi : Even as the fate of the Women's Reservation Bill hangs in the balance, an activist group has already started training and motivating women to join mainstream politics. The Centre for Social Research (CSR), through a UN project called 'Enhancing the Role of Women in Strengthening Democracy', has selected 1,000 women from across India and is grooming them to contest elections.

First Japan Woman as PM Hopeful

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By Prensa Latina, Tokyo : Japan's former Defense Minister Yuriko Koike officially presented her candidature for the prime minister's post on Monday, thus becoming the first woman disputing that position in the country's history. Koike, 56, will run for the leadership of the governmental Democrat Liberal Party, with the elections set for September 22. The former TV anchorwoman told press she has received the enthusiastic support of her colleagues, and added the country could perfectly have a woman as head of the government to overcome the standstill in the Japanese society.

Social work through “Sangini”

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By Salman Sultan, TwoCircles.net special correspondent Azamgarh: Dr. Madhuri Singh is the daughter-in-law of a doctor couple. Both her in-laws, Dr. Rajdeo Singh and Mrs. (Dr.) K.R. Singh were doctors practicing in Azamgarh. Her husband, Dr. Kishore Singh, is a Pathologist and runs Singh Diagnostic Centre in Azamgarh city. Mrs. Madhuri is blessed by two children: elder son, has done M.Tech from USA and is working in Pittsburgh, USA; daughter is pursuing M.Sc in Counselling Psychology from Christ Church College, Bangalore.

Mentally unstable woman jumps to death from AIIMS building

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By IANS, New Delhi : A mentally unstable woman jumped to her death Thursday from the fifth floor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), hospital authorities said. According to the AIIMS administration, 32-year-old Babita Goutam, a resident of Loni in Ghaziabad district on the outskirts of Delhi, jumped from the fifth floor of the main hospital building at around 12.30 p.m. The hospital and police have informed the family.

Muslim girl selected for 1st Asian Martial Arts Games

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Gul-e-Surkhab, Tarseem Sharma to leave for Bangkok’ Jammu : Gul-e-Surkhab like many other girls of Jammu and Kashmir had a dream to excel in martial arts and after being the first Woman IInd Dan Black Belt of the state, she has been now selected to participate in Ist Asian Martial Arts Games-2009 going to be held from April 25, 2009 in Bangkok. Tarseem Shrama presently working as martial arts coach in a private School, has also been slected to represent India from the state along with Gul-e-Surkhab is inspiring to do the excellent in the martial arts.

Four commit suicide in Odisha

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Bhubaneswar: At least four members of a family committed suicide Tuesday in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, police said. The incident occurred at Dhenkanal town, the district...

Northeast to get Territorial Army’s first women’s battalion

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Territorial Army, a reserve force of trained civilians for the Indian Army, proposes to raise an all-women's unit in the insurgency-hit northeast region, an official said Tuesday. Presently, women can only join as doctors and nurses in the Territorial Army, which has a strength of 40,000. "There is a proposal for raising an all women's battalion for the northeast," Maj. Gen. K.V.S. Lalotra, the additional director general of the Territorial Army, told members of parliament during a presentation on the force.

Yemen: government discuss seats allocation for women in councils

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By NNN-SABA, Sana'a : The Yemeni government discussed on Tuesday's meeting, headed by Prime Minister Ali Mujawar, the report on reviewing the study of COTA system to allocate seats for women in the elected councils. The report, presented by Minister of Social and Labor Affairs, was referred to a ministerial committee for revision. The cabinet affirmed its support to woman and the importance of expending the political participation of women in the elected councils with an average of 15 percent.

Thinking about justice

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By Zohra Javed for TwoCircles.net, It is our duty to fight every injustice. Or so we rightly feel. But how far can we go? Among other valid points the Ruchika case has once again brought into focus the issue of delayed justice, which may be as good as justice denied. And when people are continuously living in conditions where justice and equality are denied, their frustration may turn violent as they seem convinced that the most they could loose is their meaningless life.

You have strengthened our resolve to continue fighting: Press Release from Students of University...

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By TCN News Hyderabad: The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice condemns in the strongest terms the brutal physical and sexual assaults unleashed...

Rape heinous crime but against blanket death penalty, Mulayam tells NCW

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New Delhi : Amid a controversy over his remarks opposing death penalty for rape, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has told the NCW...

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

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

Why Masahun Khatun and 50,000 pregnant women died

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By Prachi Salve Last year, in eastern Bihar’s Phulwari Sharif, 24-year-old Masahun Khatun was five months pregnant when she fell in the courtyard of her...

‘India’s tech revolution led by men and women under 27’

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By Arun Kumar, IANS, Washington : Saying that the US needs to wake up to the reality of India's technological revolution being led by IIT-educated "young men and women under the age of 27", President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy commerce secretary said countries like India, China, Brazil and Russia were going to pose a major challenge to American dominance in the coming years.

Suicides by pregnant women, new mothers under-reported

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By IANS, Sydney : Nearly twice as many women commit suicide during pregnancy or the time around childbirth than previously thought, according to University of New South Wales researchers. The results highlighted the significance of perinatal (period shortly before and after birth) mental health, with suicide being the leading cause of indirect death, followed by cardiac disorders. Deaths from accidents and violence are also significant.

Migrants linked to Cologne violence, assault on women

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Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been forced to modify her liberal stance towards refugees, after a spate of assaults on women during New...

BJP women will get equal opportunity in 2014 polls: Smriti Irani

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By IANS, Panaji : Women will get "equal opportunity" to contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, BJP vice president and TV acterss Smriti Irani said Wednesday.
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