BJP praising Ambedkar for petty political gain: Sonia
Nagpur : Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday said the BJP which earlier opposed and targeted Babasaheb Ambedkar was now praising him for "petty...
Domestic violence kills 10 women a day in Brazil
By IANS,
Washington: Every day, at least 10 women are killed in domestic violence in Brazil, a government report said.
The government-sponsored study, "Map of Violence 2010", found that 41,532 women were murdered in Brazil between 1997 and 2007.
But it takes a high-profile incident - the case against a Brazilian footballer who is the prime suspect in the disappearance and murder of his former girlfriend - to bring attention to the problem, Women's Affairs Minister Nilcea Freire was quoted as saying by CNN.
Punjab to recruit 500 women constables
By IANS,
Phillaur : Punjab Police will soon recruit 500 women constables, the state police chief said Friday.
Calcutta University teachers allege assault; minister seeks report
Kolkata : Calcutta University vice chancellor Suranjan Das and some teachers were on Wednesday manhandled by supporters of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress students'...
Electronic bangles to keep Kerala women safe?
by IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : On the eve of International Women's Day, Kerala is mulling over the use of electronic gadgets for the protection of women, a state minister revealed Wednesday.
Controversy in Bihar after student allegedly asked to remove Hijab during exam
The incident happened at Mahant Darshan Das Mahila (MDDM) College in Muzaffarpur, Bihar on October 16.
Sami Ahmad | TwoCircles.net
PATNA (BIHAR) — A controversy over...
Bengal governor asks Jadavpur VC to act in molestation case
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi, who is also the Jadavpur University chancellor, Saturday cautioned Vice Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti for delaying action in the...
AAP protests crime against women in UP
Ghaziabad: The AAP organized a protest here against rising crime against women in Uttar Pradesh under the Samajwadi party government.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) district...
One held for Nepal woman journalist’s murder
By IANS,
Kathmandu : A week after the brutal murder of a woman broadcaster in Nepal's violence-hit Terai plains, the Maoist government Sunday said the mastermind behind the killing has been arrested.
Mebilal Paswan, said to be associated with a little-known Terai organisation calling itself the Terai Ekta Parishad, has been arrested for the murder of radio journalist Uma Singh, government spokesman and Minister for Communications and Information Krishna Bahadur Mahara told the interim parliament Sunday.
Mahara said Paswan, arrested Saturday, had admitted involvement in the killing.
पत्रकार निदा अहमद, समाजसेवी सदफ ज़फर और एएमयू के छात्र नेता सलमान को चुनाव...
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उत्तर प्रदेश चुनाव के लिए कांग्रेस ने 125 प्रत्याशियों की पहली लिस्ट जारी कर दी है। कांग्रेस की इस लिस्ट में...
Men outperform women on spatial tasks
By IANS,
Washington : Men outperform women on spatial tasks, including the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space, claims a new study.
The University of Iowa (UI) study shows a connection between this sex-linked ability and the structure of the parietal lobe, the brain region that controls this type of skill.
When tremor hits, femininity shines
By Zhan Yan, Xinhua,
Beijing : When William Shakespeare wrote "frailty, thy name is woman," he may have no idea what women could do at times of extreme adversity.
As the 8.0-magnitude earthquake rocked southwest China's Sichuan province May 12, it let out not only the devastating power from the depth of the earth, but also the incredible strength within women.
A two-month-old girl baby was found on the day of the quake under the ruins in Longwan village in Beichuan county. She survived because she was shielded by her mother, who died protecting her.
‘Need campaign through short films, documentaries again terrorism’
Jaipur : Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that there was a need for a campaign through...
NHRC seeks report on six witchcraft killings in Odisha
Bhubaneswar : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued a notice to Odisha's Keonjhar district magistrate and superintendent of police to...
Trial begins in gang rape of six women in Bihar
Patna : A speedy trial started Monday in the case of the alleged gang rape of six women at gun-point in Bihar's Bhojpur district,...
Women can be safe with technology usage: Lekhi
New Delhi : Is there anything called work-life balance? Are women respected enough in the society? Women are vulnerable to physical and mental exploitations...
Women’s rights activists condemn assault on Mangalore girls
By IANS,
New Delhi : Women's rights activists Sunday condemned the attack on girls in a pub in Karnataka's coastal city of Mangalore by a self-styled moral brigade called Sri Rama Sene.
Several women's rights organisations expressed their anger at the assault, saying it was violation of freedom.
"Nobody has right to assault anyone and there can be no justification for this. Due action should be taken against them," Meenakshi Lekhi of the National Commission for Women (NCW) told IANS.
South African women open guest house for 2010 World Cup
By IANS,
Phalaborwa (South Africa) : A group of 11 women in this town has opened a 4.5-million rand ($587,696) guest house, targeting visitors during the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup the country is hosting.
The Sasavona Guesthouse in Lulekani, a few kilometres from the Kruger National Park in Phalaborwa in the northern province of Limpopo has been opened to tourists and visitors this week, but the real target is the World Cup tourists, BuaNews reported Saturday.
Agra activists demand more public toilets
Agra: The Taj Mahal city of Agra needs modern public toilets every kilometre so that defecation in the open comes to an end in...
Kerala no better than Delhi with regards to sexual violence against women
By Abdul Basith, TwoCircles.net,
Woman burnt to death by in-laws for dowry, alleges family
By IANS,
New Delhi: A 28-year-old woman, married for seven years, was allegedly burnt to death Sunday by her in-laws in Delhi, police and her family said.
Deepika Bajaj, who has a six-year-old daughter, called police before dying and told them that she had been set on fire by her husband and in-laws, an official said.
"We received a call at around 8.30 in the morning when the deceased woman, Deepika Bajaj, called us before dying and told that she has been set on fire inside her home by her husband and in-laws," the police officer said.
सदफ़ ज़ाफ़र- चीख और गालियों के बीच डरावनी थी थाने में बिताई गई वो...
मीना कोटवाल, Twocircles.net
''जेल से बाहर जरूर आ गई हूं लेकिन फिर भी मैं अभी ना संतुष्ट हूं और ना खुश. जब मुझे ले कर...
Women lawmakers may be directly elected in Bangladesh
By IANS,
Dhaka : Women lawmakers in Bangladesh would be directly elected following an amendment to its Constitution, the Sheikh Hasina Government has announced.
The change would facilitate holding of direct elections to seats reserved for women in the Jatiya Sangsad (national assembly) in the next parliamentary polls, Local Government and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam said Saturday.
"We shall amend the constitution to allow women to come to the house through direct elections from the next parliamentary polls," The Daily Star quoted the minister as saying.
Woman freed after 33-year jail for assassination plot
By DPA,
Washington: Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, convicted of trying to assassinate former US president Gerald Ford, was released Friday after spending 33 years in prison, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed.
Fromme, 60, pointed a loaded gun at Ford during a California event in 1975. A secret service agent managed to wrestle Fromme to the floor before she was able to pull the trigger.
Himachal woman accident victim’s compensation raised four times
Shimla: The housewife is the backbone of a home and her disability makes her a burden on others, observed the Himachal Pradesh High Court...
Woman raped by three men in Delhi
By IANS,
New Delhi : A 40-year-old woman was allegedly raped by three men including a 65-year-old in Trilokpuri area of east Delhi, police said Saturday.
"The senior citizen who is accused of rape is related to the victim's son-in-law. The victim's daughter had got married a year ago and at present is going through a marital discord with her husband. The victim had gone to the house of a relative of her daughter's in-laws," a police officer said.
Meet Saba Haider: An Indian-Muslim woman running for DuPage county board election in US
Saba is the only candidate of Indian origin among 19 elected members from the state of Illinois. She came to the United States in...
Indian women finish seventh in Hawke’s Bay Cup hockey
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Hastings (New Zealand): The Indian women's hockey team defeated Japan 3-2 in the seventh-eighth position classification match to secure the seventh spot in the...
Maulvi Mumtaz Ali- A Nineteenth century advocate of women’s rights
By Asghar Ali Engineer,
It is generally thought that movement for women’s rights began with western educated people and in 19th century. But very few people know about Maulavi Mumtaz Ali Khan, a traditional ‘alim, product of Darul ‘Uloom Deoband who was very enthusiastic supporters of gender equality. There are two things to be noted here: one, he was a traditional ‘alim and was not under the influence of western thought and two, he was advocating gender equality purely on the basis of Islamic traditional sources i.e. Qur’an and hadith.
Proposal to legalise prostitution to be placed before SC panel: NCW
New Delhi : The proposal for legalising prostitution in India will be placed before the Supreme Court constituted panel Nov 8, National Commission for...
Erasing tolerance? HAF’s changes can only be described as ahistorical edits to history books
The HAF and its allies may have PR machinery and hundreds of thousands of dollars in their war chest to selectively change textbooks, but...
Attack on women in Karnataka unfortunate: Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
By IANS,
Bangalore : Actor-turned-author Suchitra Krishnamoorthi has slammed the "moral brigade" for attacking women in Mangalore and Bangalore in recent times.
"The attack on women in Karnataka is unfortunate. The entire episode seems to be politically motivated," Suchitra told reporters at the launch of her debut novel "The Summer of Cool" in the city Saturday.
She said sending pink chaddis (pink underwear by women groups to Sri Ram Sene, the group that attacked women in Mangalore) was not enough.
Push for women’s reservation bill, activists tell MPs
By IANS,
New Delhi : Civil society groups working for women's rights Thursday urged the MPs to keep the issue of the women's reservation bill alive in parliament and push for its speedy passage.
Ranjana Kumari, director of Women Power Connect, while welcoming the increase in women's numbers at 'panchayat' (village council) level, said the bill for 33 percent reservation for women in parliament must be passed and should be a priority for all parliamentarians.
Tayabun Nisha, first woman from Assam to win medals
Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net
Guwahati: It was the love for chocolates which dragged her to the field of athletics and she went on to become...
India not a happy place for mothers: report
By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : At a time when the world celebrates Mother's Day, it turns out that India scores poorly among the middle-income countries when it comes to health care and well-being of mothers.
The country is ranked 73 in the list of 77 nations rated for the "best place to be a mother", according to a report by child rights organisation 'Save the Children'.
What is more shocking in the 'State of the World's Mothers 2010' report is that India is rated much lower than a host of conflict-ridden African countries like Kenya and Congo.
Woman set on fire over enmity
Tikamgarh (Madhya Pradesh): Three men tried to kill a 50-year-old woman by burning her alive over old enmity in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh district. The...
‘Rani Jhansi would be proud today of her nation’
By IANS,
New Delhi: As India took a decisive step towards giving its women one-third representation in legislatures, many women keenly watched history being made on their TV sets, celebrated the moment in their own small ways and said their country has made them proud.
Clearing the first hurdle, the Women's Reservation Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. It seeks to set aside for women 181 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha and 1,370 of the total 4,109 seats in the 28 state assemblies.
SC starts hearing on validity of triple talaq
New Delhi, (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday began hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of triple talaq practised by Muslims.
"We...
Over 3,000 tribal women demonstrate in Madhya Pradesh
By IANS,
Bhopal : In an unprecedented expression of anger, about 3,000 tribal women Wednesday demonstrated in Barwani before the district collector and the superintendent of police.
Women’s rights being violated in India’s surrogacy capital
By IANS,
New Delhi : A study by the New Delhi-based Centre for Social Research (CSR) has pointed to a grave violation of the women's rights at India's surrogacy hub, Anand in Gujarat.
Woman rescued 195 hours after China’s earthquake
By Xinhua,
Chengdu : A 60-year-old woman was rescued at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday from rubble in Pengzhou, southwest China's Sichuan Province, more than 196 hours after the May 12 earthquake.
Wang Liqun, a retiree from the provincial capital of Chengdu, had lived on rainwater in the past days. She, still conscious when rescuers found her, was rushed to hospital.
Wang was inside a temple when the quake struck. She was hit by a falling girder in the head and had been in coma until last Tuesday, according to the rescue team from an air force regiment based in Chengdu.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind women presses for women’s rights in Gujarat
By TwoCircles.net special correspondent,
Ahmedabad: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind(Women’s wing), Gujarat, organized a statewide women’s campaign ``Aapnu Abhiyan,Nari Sanman”(The March Towards Dignity) last week.
During the week-long campaign, public meetings, symposiums and rallies were organized at different places in the state including Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Vijapur, Junagadh, Modasa, Bhuj, Patan, Dhori, Himmatnagar, Lamadia, Idar Dasaj, Panvad, Chhotaudepur and Vapi.
NCW issues notice to Ramdev
New Delhi : The National Commission for Women Wednesday issued a notice to yoga guru Ramdev for his remarks on Congress vice president Rahul...
बिन ईंधन का सिलेंडर, फ्लॉप साबित हो रही है मोदी की उज्ज्वला योजना
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मध्य प्रदेश के शाजापुर ज़िले के कांजा गांव की निवासी मंजूबाई का प्रधानमंत्री उज्ज्वला योजना के तहत मिला गैस...
Men who want women to stay home earn more
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.
Iqrar and Habeeb: two different paths to jail
Unheard & Unspoken: Terror stories from Madhya Pradesh: Part 5
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
Triple Talaq row : Jamaat’s women wing bashed Narendra Modi for ‘shedding crocodile tears’
TCN News
MALAPPURAM : The women’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) in Kerala has strongly criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP party and...
Triple talaq should be covered under Domestic Violence Act: Muslim body
New Delhi, (IANS): In a letter written to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday, a Muslim body has demanded that the triple talaq or...
Women turnout highest-ever in LS polls in Karnataka
Bangalore: The turnout of women voters at 65.81 percent in all the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka was the highest in a parliamentary...
Do ‘liberal icons’ encourage identity politics among Muslims?
By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net
The ‘liberal icons’ are again preaching Muslims, especially women, about what is an acceptable form of dressing. This has...
Growing intolerance in India is worrying: Shabana Azmi
New Delhi : Veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Friday expressed support to those raising issues of intolerance in the country. She said "the growing...
Eight killed in factory blast near Nagpur
By IANS,
Nagpur : Eight people, including a woman, were killed and 15 others injured in an accidental detonator explosion in a stone crusher at Umred near here Monday, the police said.
The blast occurred at noon when the workers of SMS Thresher Co were off-loading and checking detonators from a supply truck that just arrived with the goods, the police said.
Varanasi widows to send rakhis to Narendra Modi
By Mohit Dubey ,
Varanasi: The widows of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh will send 1,000 hand-made, colourful rakhis and sweets to Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Shahnaz to attend White House summit of entrepreneurs
By IANS,
New Delhi: Herbal beauty care queen Shahnaz Husain has been invited for a summit to the White House and will also be undergoing a short course at Harvard University.
The 63-year-old has been invited to attend the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, April 26 and 27.
"I am very happy to receive this invitation and to represent brand India there," Husain told IANS.
Four held for illegally selling Rs.700 mn property of actress
By IANS,
Chennai : Four people, including two women, have been jailed for allegedly selling a property worth over Rs.700 million and partly owned by actress-turned-politician Vijayashanti. They used forged papers to sell the property in the northwest suburbs of this city, the police said.
The four were arrested Friday following a complaint from one of the owners of the property.
All of them were sent to Puzhal prison after a court remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days, a police official said.
Make Delhi safe for women, minister tells police
By IANS,
New Delhi : Delhi Police need to work towards making the national capital crime free and should ensure women's safety, Minister of State...
500 women fatwa victims in Bangladesh in past 10 years
By IANS,
Dhaka : A demand to prohibit the Muslim clergy from issuing fatwa is gathering momentum in Bangladesh as 503 women have been subjected to public flogging since the year 2000.
Fatwas: the big picture
An analysis of randomly selected Deoband fatwas
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
First woman IFS officer Muthamma dies
By IANS,
Bangalore : C.B. Muthamma, the first woman Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, died here Wednesday, her family members said. She was 85.
She passed away in a private hospital where she was undergoing treatment, the family members said.
Chonira Belliappa Muthamma was born Jan 24, 1924, in Kodagu, a beautiful hill station and land of coffee plantations, about 260 kms from here. She had served as ambassador and high commissioner to a number of countries during her career that started in 1949. She retired in 1982.
Bengal gang-rape: 13 sentenced to 20 years in jail
Kolkata: A West Bengal court Saturday sentenced 13 people convicted of raping a tribal woman in Birbhum district of the state to 20 years...
Karnataka unveils mobile app for women’s safety
Bengaluru, (IANS): Karnataka Chief Minster Siddaramaiah on Monday unveiled mobile app 'Suraksha' for the safety of women in the city.
Launched by the Bengaluru police,...
Communalizing Census misses India’s real crisis: female feticide
By Masihuddin Sanjari for TwoCircles.net
Religion based census data has recently been released by the central government of India sparking a debate along communal lines1...
Mahajan to attend women presiding officers’ meet in Switzerland
New Delhi : Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will attend the ninth annual meeting of women speakers of parliament in Switzerland Sep 4-5.
The theme...
Haryana to have women police stations from Raksha Bandhan
Chandigarh : The Haryana government on Friday announced it will set up women police stations in all the 21 districts of the state...
Woman alleges rape, tattooing of insults on forehead for not bringing dowry
Jaipur : In a shocking incident, a woman in Rajasthan has alleged that she was harassed, beaten-up, raped and was tattooed with abuses including...
Woman with son jumps before train, killed
By IANS,
Kolkata : A woman, along with her one-and-half-year-old son, committed suicide Tuesday by jumping before a train in West Bengal's Hoogly district allegedly following dowry demands from her in-laws, the police said.
"Punam Sahu jumped in front of a passenger train along with her one-and-half-year-old son at Hoogly's Gobra Station Tuesday. She was being allegedly pressurised by her in-laws for dowry," a police official said.
Sahu went to live at her parental house after her husband was detected with cancer a few months ago.
Government will pass women’s bill before March 16: minister
By IANS,
New Delhi : The government intends to pass the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha before the house adjourns March 16 for a three-week break, said Parliamentary Affairs Minister P.K. Bansal here Wednesday.
"The government intends to pass the bill in the Lok Sabha before March 16. That's our intention," Bansal told IANS.
The Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed the historic bill giving one-third representation to women in parliament and state legislatures.
Anxious and alienated: How communalism fuels mental health crisis among marginalized communities
Samiya Chopra, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: “I sometimes feel that my identity is the root cause of my lack of mental peace. Wearing a hijab, I often find...
Now, row over Maharashtra SP chief’s comments
Mumbai: A day after Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments on rape created a furore, his party's Maharashtra unit chief Abu Asim Azmi's...
Ramadan 1435: Fashion
By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net
Girls at the MWA School, Chennai that is known for its quality of its education and grooming and also allows a...
Theatre fest from South Asia on Women’s Day
By IANS,
New Delhi : Be it strife-torn Afghanistan, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, women in South Asia are playing an increasingly important and powerful role fostering peace.
Come March 8, the International Women's Day, some 13 plays will be staged in the capital to celebrate this recognition.
The festival "Leela" March 8-15 will showcase women-oriented plays directed and staged by women from nine South Asian countries. These will be presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in association with the National School of Drama and the Jamia Millia Islamia University.
Kerala government gives three job options to returnee nurses
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government Tuesday offered three options to the 534 nurses who had to return from Iraq and Libya due to the conflict...
Over 1000 activists, concerned citizens call for immediate release of Hidme Markam, ending state...
Human rights defender and environmental activist Hidme Markam has been in jail for over 40 days now. She was arrested on March 9 by...
AMU sets operating procedure to deal COVID and pregnancy
TCN News
Aligarh: What COVID 19 could do to the pregnancy? The pregnant women grope in the dark and to address their misery, the department of...
Jaipur gang-rape victim shifted to Delhi hospital
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.
Doctor booked for sex determination test in Haryana
Chandigarh : A private doctor in Haryana's Sonipat district was booked by police on Saturday after a team of health officials caught him...
Nine women in fray for first phase West Bengal polls
By IANS,
Kolkata : A total of 134 candidates, including nine women, remained in the fray Monday after withdrawal of nominations for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in 14 of the 42 seats in West Bengal.
Of the 146 candidates who filed their papers, seven withdrew from the race Monday. The papers of five had been rejected during scrutiny Saturday. The first of the three-phase polling in West Bengal will be held April 30.
Purulia constituency has the maximum number of candidates, 14. Ghatal and Bishnupur have the lowest number of seven contestants each.
Ten-year-old donates birthday money to Islamia Hospital
By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net
Kolkata: Ashna Khan, a ten-year-old girl from Kolkata, set a fine example of kindness by donating the entire amount received...
Polygamy a blessing, not curse, says AIMPLB; defends triple talaq
New Delhi : The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday defended the practice of triple talaq and polygamy, professing that polygamy...
Triple talaq law will affect social cohesion, says Owaisi
Hyderabad, (IANS): MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has opposed the bill seeking to criminalise instant triple talaq, saying this would have severe consequences on rule of...
Suicides by pregnant women, new mothers under-reported
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.
Pregnant woman beaten to death in Rajasthan
By IANS,
Jaipur : Family members of a pregnant woman in Rajasthan have alleged that she was beaten to death by her in-laws when they...
Domestic violence against women rising: Minister
New Delhi : Incidents of domestic violence involving the physical assault of a women by her husband or other relatives are rising in the...
Recovery from alcoholism painful for midlife women
By IANS,
Sydney : Women recovering from alcoholism are more likely to relapse as they reach midlife thanks to the pressures they face.
"Alcohol inflicts more damage, more quickly on women than on men. For those who have already had a problem with the misuse of alcohol, relapsing can have dire consequences," said PhD researcher Janice Withnall of the University of Western Sydney (UWS) School of Education.
Women banned from taking part in polls in Pakistan region
Islamabad : In a bizarre diktat out of sync with modern-day ethos, the Jirga (religious assembly) in Gilgit Baltistan -- an eight-hour drive from...
Crime against women rise in northeast
By IANS,
Guwahati : The northeastern states have recorded a sharp rise in incidents of crime against women, the Women Power Connect (WPC) said Tuesday.
Akhilesh announces Rs.20 lakh for murdered NIA official’s family
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday announced financial assistance of Rs.20 lakh for the family of NIA official Tanzeel Ahmad,...
Book review: Sufism: The Heart of Islam
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
Sufism is much misunderstood by both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. While Muslims think that Sufis are innovators in the religion and qabr-parast (grave worshipper) and therefore unacceptable, non-Muslims think that Sufism offers a peaceful alternative to violent face of Islam and therefore acceptable to them. The truth is somewhere between these two extremes and as Sadia Dehlvi aptly states in her book “Sufism: The Heart of Islam” it is “the spiritual undercurrent that flows through Islam.”
U.S. military: Gunmen kill 5 Iraqis, wound pregnant woman
By Xinhua,
Baghdad : A group of unidentified gunmen killed five Iraqis on Saturday in a shooting attack, the U.S. military said.
The incident took place near the U.S. Balad base north of Baghdad.
The U.S. military said masked gunmen attacked the house belonging to the leader of the local Sunni Awakening Council group, an organization which stood up against al-Qaida terrorists with the back of the American and Iraqi troops.
A pregnant woman escaped with an injury in the shooting, the military added.
Starving sisters locked for months, rescued in Delhi
By IANS,
New Delhi: Locked up inside their home and unfed for months together, two sisters were rescued from their north Delhi apartment Saturday, police officials said.
Islamabad beauty is new Miss Pakistan World
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.
Yadav chieftains stifle women’s aspirations
By IANS,
New Delhi: Two Yadav chieftains, with a combined strength of 15 in the Rajya Sabha, succeeded Monday to prevent voting on a historic legislation that seeks to reserve one-third seats in parliament and state assemblies for women.
Western woman aid worker shot dead in Afghanistan
By DPA,
Kabul : Unknown gunmen killed a foreign woman when she was going to her office in the western part of the capital city Monday,
police said.
The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area following the shooting, said Zemarai Bashary, interior ministry spokesman.
Bashary declined to provide more information or identify the victim.
But a police official, who did not want to be named because he was not authorized to talk to news media, said the victim was from South
Africa and worked with an aid organization.
‘बीफ़ के मुद्दे पर धार्मिक ध्रुवीकरण करके ब्राह्मणवादी सरकार मूलनिवासी बहुजनों को आपस में...
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नई दिल्ली : बामसेफ की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष डॉ. मनीषा बांगर ने देश की मौजूदा स्थिति को लोकतंत्र के लिए ख़तरनाक बताया है....
Woman stabs husband in eye over refusal to peel potatoes
By RIA Novosti,
Moscow : A woman in Russia's Penza region has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars after stabbing her husband in the eye when he refused to peel potatoes, the pnz.ru news website said Wednesday.
The woman, from the outskirts of the city of Penza, stabbed her husband in the left eye with a kitchen knife.
She had earlier served time for murder, and had met her future partner immediately after her release from jail, according to assistant to the regional prosecutor Irina Alekseyenko.
Pregnant woman among seven massacred in Uttar Pradesh
By IANS,
Bulandshahr : Seven members of a family, including a nine-month pregnant woman, were massacred in an Uttar Pradesh village Tuesday, the police said suspecting it to be related to a property dispute.
The brutal killings took place at around 2 a.m. in Bararai village in Bulandshahr district, when the family members were sleeping. Bararai comes under Aurangabad police station. Bulandshahr is some 190 km from state capital Lucknow.
Indian activist Ruchira Gupta wins Clinton Global Citizen Award
By IANS,
New York : An Indian journalist and activist Ruchira Gupta has been awarded the Third Annual Clinton Global Citizen Award for her work against human trafficking in four Indian states.
Former president Bill Clinton presented the award to Gupta, president of the organisation Apne Aap Women Worldwide, during the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) here Thursday.
The award recognises remarkable individuals for their leadership in improving the lives of people around the globe.
Muslims in/of India: surrogate oppressors or colonizers?
A Muslim woman deconstructs how dominant majoritarian narratives reconstruct Indian Muslim women as the perpetual Other.
Misria Shaik Ali | TwoCircles.net
This is an article, an...
तस्वीरों में रमज़ान : जामिया में इफ्तार में जुटे छात्र
सिमरा अंसारी।Twocircles.net
रहमतों का महीना ‘रमज़ान’ की आमद के बाद हर कोई अल्लाह की इबादत में जुट जाता है। इस महीने को बहुत ही पाक...
Delhi woman now tells court policemen did not rape her
By IANS,
New Delhi : A woman who had accused five police officials of raping her in a police station here Monday, admitted before a court Thursday that her allegation was false.
A 35-year-old woman had alleged a station-house officer (SHO) and four constables gangraped her inside the Inderpuri police station three days ago. On Thursday in a statement before a city magistrate she said that she leveled false allegations against the policemen as the SHO had tightened the screws against illegal activities in the area.
India reduces baby deaths but still hasn’t met 2012 targets
By Rhea Colaco
First, the good news: 37 babies died for every 1,000 that were born in 2015, two better than the government's...
BSF women step closer to creating history at the border
By Alkesh Sharma, IANS,
Hoshiarpur (Punjab) : As they thumped their feet into the ground for the final parade as trainees, they all knew that they are just a step away from their destination - of being the first women to be guarding India's international borders.
The Kharkan camp of the Border Security Force (BSF), 15 km from this Punjab town, saw history being made Saturday as 178 women recruits were inducted into the BSF fold after their impressive passing out parade here.
The connection between self-immolation & domestic violence
By Tanay Sukumar
Indian men are twice as likely as women to kill themselves, but of all the methods of suicide, self-immolation is the only...
Explosion of woman power
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
New Delhi : It was an explosion of art for women and mostly by women at the Art Mall, one of the country's biggest display spaces in the capital.
Art Mall unveiled an exhibition "Liberation", showcasing nearly 500 works by over 300 senior artists from across the country on International Women's Day last Sunday.
The exhibition will end March 17. The mall is also organising a 10-day workshop of art, graphic, sculpture and drawing.
The exhibition, one of the biggest in the capital, was inaugurated by senior artist Anjolie Ela Menon.
No afterthought on women’s reservation bill: Khurshid
By IANS,
New Delhi : The government will go ahead with the women's reservation bill with no plans to dilute any of its clauses even though it is open to discussions with any political party, said Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
"The cabinet has taken a well-informed decision. If we did not believe in the decision we have taken then why would we have taken such a step in the first place?" Khurshid queried, speaking to reporters on the margins of a microfinance conference here.
Four held in Delhi for gang-raping Assam woman
New Delhi: Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested on charges of gang rape and sexual assault of a 30-year-old woman from Assam,...
Are religious beliefs, customs above constitutional norms, asks SC
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked if religious beliefs and customs were above constitutional norms as it questioned how a women...
Will, grit are key to achievement, say power women
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
New Delhi : They balanced homes and careers, often with great success. But breaking bastions and new grounds was not easy, say a cross-section of women who look back on their lives this International Women's Day.
And what keeps them going? Determination, they chorus.
"My message to the women is that if you have a goal then you have to let all the rest eddy around you - but you need not totally reject all that the Indian society forces on you," Anjolie Ela Menon, the 70-year-old artist, told IANS.
SC notice to Rajasthan on plea by tribal women
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Rajasthan's Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police on a petition by...
National Commission for Women unveils its NRI cell
By IANS,
New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Thursday inaugurated its NRI cell to tackle the rising number of cases of abandonment and divorce of women married to Indian men abroad, and received eight complaints on its first day.
NCW chairperson Girija Vyas and project partner UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) South Asia head Anne H. Stenhammer along with Planning Commission member Syeda Hamid opened the office that operates from the second floor of the NCW office at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.
LDs: licensed to track you
By Rajat Rai, IANS,
Lucknow : Be it a mall, an office, a seminar venue or a social networking website, men are advised to be cautious in dealing with unknown women. The newfound weapon of private detective agencies is the lady detective, codenamed LD.
"It is a combination of technology and beauty. Collecting information about anyone, be it a man or a woman, is more economical and easy using LD than male detectives," Shyam of Fox Detective Agency reveals.
BSP MP’s daughter-in-law found dead
Ghaziabad : BSP Rajya Sabha MP Narendra Kashyap's daughter-in-law was found dead here on Wednesday with a gunshot injury on her head, police said.
Himani...
Probe lodged into woman’s death in hospital during outage
By IANS,
New Delhi: A three-member team will probe a 74-year-old woman's death in a government hospital here last week when her life support device stopped working during a power cut, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said Wednesday.
Sharda Gaur, who was admitted to the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, died Oct 11 after her life support system failed during power cut.
"The committee will look into matter and will submit its report within seven days," said Kiran Walia.
Tired of government neglect, Mumbra residents take to training their own youth for employment
By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net
Mumbra, a largely Muslim settlement on the outskirts of Mumbai, has a peculiar history; it largely came up after the 1992...
Calcutta University VC, teachers allege assault
Kolkata : Calcutta University vice chancellor Suranjan Das was on Wednesday manhandled and many teachers assaulted by supporters of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool...
European, Asian stars vie for top honours at Women’s Indian Open
By IANS,
Gurgaon : Leading women golfers from Asia and Europe will tee along with India's best in the DLF Women's Indian Open starting at the DLF Golf and Country Club here Wednesday.
The third edition of India' only Ladies Asian Golf Tour (LAGT) event will tee-off with the pro-am Tuesday while the three day main event will be played from Wednesday. The tournament offers $120,000 in prize purse. The format of the event will witness the cut being applied after two days with the top 50 golfers plus ties making it to the final round.
27-year-old woman becomes Delhi’s 15th swine flu victim
By IANS,
New Delhi : A 27-year-old woman succumbed to influenza A (H1N1) Monday taking the toll in Delhi to 15, the state Health Minister Kiran Walia said.
The patient died at the Safdarjung Hospital. She was suffering from rheumatic heart diseases and had undergone treatment at the Escort Heart Institute before being shifted to the Safdarjung Hospital.
Besides, the capital city reported 27 fresh cases taking the total number of infections so far to 2,920. However, around 90 percent of them have been cured completely. Of the fresh cases, 15 are children.
Archies, Barbies and glamourous morons
By Zohra Javed for TwoCircles.net,
Sometime back in a fashion show Bollywood star Katrina Kaif dressed up like Barbie and walked the ramp. That hit the front pages all over the country. And as if this was not enough, comparisons between Katrina and Aishwarya also started doing rounds and the reader was "informed" how the younger looking Katrina was more Barbie-like.
In solidarity with Shehla Rashid
By Sana Khan for TwoCircles.net
So much has already been written, in support of her and against her, so much so that a few AMU...
Mexican woman killed in Mumbai terror attack
By IANS,
Mexico City : A Mexican woman was killed in Wednesday's terror attacks in India's Mumbai metropolis, EFE reported Monday quoting Mexico's foreign ministry.
The Mexican embassy in India "learned that one of the victims of the terrorist attack on the Jewish Cultural Center in Mumbai is a Mexican national who was inside that institution," a ministry release said without identifying the woman.
Ludhiana girl not allowed to unfurl Tricolour in Srinagar
Chandigarh : A 15-year-old girl from Ludhiana, who had vowed to hoist the Tricolour at Srinagar's historic Lal Chowk, was turned back by security...
Violence against women and religion
By Asghar Ali Engineer,
Religion is believed to be divine. It is divine in more than one sense. Firstly it is divine in the sense that its teachings are motivated by purest of intentions; secondly it is divine as its teachings are transcendent as religion exhort us to transcend what is to, what it should be in society as well as in our personal conduct. But soon after birth of religion it gets mixed up with customs and traditions already existing in society on one hand, and, on the other, powerful interests, often very negation of its teachings, begin to control it.
More grooms saying no to glasses for D-day
By Radhika Bhirani, IANS,
New Delhi : Women are not the only ones to fret about looks on their wedding day. Men too have joined the bandwagon - so much so that a majority of them prefer to discard their spectacles and wear contact lenses instead.
A survey by American eye care brand Bausch & Lomb reveals that 82 percent of men say they would opt for contact lenses on their wedding day.
The survey, carried out in association with market research company ACNielsen, was a quantitative study conducted across six metros on men aged 15-35 years.
Cuddalore decks up for DMK women’s meet
By IANS,
Cuddalore : Preparations are on in this coastal town for a key meeting of the women's wing of Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK that is headed by its influential leader and Rajya Sabha MP M.K. Kanimozhi.
The daughter of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will preside over the June 14-15 conference that is expected to draw some 500,000 women, Health Minister M.R.K. Paneerselvam said here.
Among those expected to address the gathering are the chief minister and senior members of the Karunanidhi cabinet besides Kanimozhi.
I faced no specific challenges because of my community or my gender: AAP Hyderabad...
By SM Fasiullah, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad: Women’s under representation in political sphere is inextricably linked with their low and inferior status in the Indian society....
Indra Nooyi heads list of top 50 women in world business
By IANS,
London : PepsiCo Chairman and Chief Executive Indra Nooyi of India has topped the inaugural Financial Times (FT) list of top 50 women in world business.
Nooyi, 53, is among four Indians making it to a list that FT said prompts the question whether the struggling male-dominated world of business would have been better off with more women in charge.
Sharad Yadav’s comments about women are deplorable
By Shah Alam,
Shahrad Yadav, a Rajya Sabha MP and Janata Dal (United) chief has been in news for some days for his sexist remarks against south Indian women. During a debate in Parliament, Yadav made derogatory remarks against south Indian women and their bodies calling them as ‘saanvli’ (dusky).
He said: “The women of south are beautiful, their bodies...their skin ...They aren’t made like this here. They know dance.”
Country’s richest woman loses in Haryana polls
Chandigarh: Savitri Jindal, the richest woman in the country, lost from the Hisar assembly seat, officials said Sunday.
Jindal, who was elected from Hisar in...
Despite lie allegation, Modi says mother washed utensils
Mhow (Madhya Pradesh) : Notwithstanding strong criticism by the Congress which termed it a "lie", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday stuck to his...
Telangana government to give wings to Muslim woman’s dream
Hyderabad : The Telangana government has come forward to extend financial assistance to Syeda Salva Fatima, one of the few Muslim women to hold...
On Women’s Day, housewife-led dance troupe wins IGT 5
Mumbai: It couldn't have been a better day for their victory - Raagini Makkar and her troupe Naadyog picked the "India's Got Talent 5"...