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Rajya Sabha calls for passing of women reservation bill

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By IANS,

Mother throws newborn in Kolkata canal

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By IANS, Kolkata : A 32-year-old woman allegedly threw her illegitimate newborn in a canal here Wednesday, the police said. The baby, though rescued in time, died later in the day. The incident took place at Chaulpatti area of Beliaghata in north-eastern Kolkata.

Madhya Pradesh woman minister kicks minor seeking one rupee

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Panna (Madhya Pradesh) : In a callous act, Madhya Pradesh minister Kusum Mehdele, who has already courted controversy for her insensitive remarks on...

National consultation on violence against women

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New Delhi : A national consultation process will be held in January to evaluate the current progress in combating violence against women and improvise...

Women’s group protests in Kashmir over Assam, Myanmar

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By IANS, Srinagar : Activists of women's separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of Faith) in Jammu and Kashmir Friday staged a protest against alleged massacre of Muslims in Myanmar.

President-elect Droupadi Murmu revives new hope in her nondescript village

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101 years after the first tribal leader was elected to the legislature in pre-independent India, Odisha-born Droupadi Murmu from the Santhal community has been...

Lavasa Women’s Drive to spread cancer awareness

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By IANS,

Human Rights group concerned over falling Uttarakhand child-sex ratio; complains to NHRC

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By TCN News, The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), in a recent report titled, ‘The State of Female Foeticide in Uttarakhand’ has found that...

Study finds evidence of centuries-old brawl over women

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By IANS, Washington : Brawling over women is as old as history, settled with fisticuffs or a verbal spat, but our ferocious ancestors brutally maimed or killed rivals for them. For instance, a mass grave unearthed by a Durham University team indicates that primitive men did their rivals to death to possess their women. The research focused on 34 skeletons found buried in Talheim, in Germany's south-west. Genetic evidence from their teeth suggested they were massacred in a tribal clash around 5000 BC.

Obey your wife and rule the world: Supreme Court

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court has a recipe for a successful marriage, more so for men: Obey your wife and rule the world! "Bibi joh boltee hai woh sunno (Listen to whatever your wife says). We all listen," a vacation bench of Justice Markandeya Katju and Justice Deepak Verma observed while hearing a lawsuit by Indian Air Force officer Deepak Kumar, who had complained that his estranged wife Manisha had ruined him and his family by implicating them in false criminal cases including sodomy.

NGO Majlis Manch allowed to assist SC in final hearing on Triple Talaq

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By TCN News Mumbai-based NGO Majlis Manch, which has been working for legal rights of women and provides support to victims of domestic violence, especially...

Woman cop freed by Maoists in Chhattisgarh

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By IANS, Raipur : A 23-year-old woman cop in Chhattisgarh, abducted by Maoists earlier this month, has been set free after a 'jan adalat' or people's court found her "innocent", police said Sunday. Constable Kiran Usendi was freed Saturday in the Pakhanjoor forest stretch of Kanker district in Bastar region after the Maoists public court ordered her release. "The lady police personnel was abducted when rebels attacked a police search team. The insurgents took her to their hideout and she was produced before the 'jan adalat' where she was found innocent," a police officer told IANS.

Budget 2016: Schedule castes, tribes protest after Jaitley offers a penny, snatches a dollar

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By TCN Staff Reporter Delhi: In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was at his eloquent best while allocating Rs 500 crore for scheduled...

Forced intercourse in marriage not rape: Delhi court

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New Delhi: A Delhi court has acquitted a man accused of raping his wife, stating that forced intercourse with a woman does not amount...

Ujanmaidan – where 14 tribal women were raped in 1988

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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Withdraw case slapped for protesting rape, demand women activists

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By IANS, Kolkata : Criticising the Mamata Banerjee government for "stifling the voice of protest", a section of women rights activists Wednesday demanded withdrawal of...

Indian women’s relay team to compete Friday

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By IANS, Beijing : It will be India's last chance to salvage prestige on the track event of athletics as the women's 4x400m relay team get into action at the Beijing Olympics Friday. The showpiece track and field have seen pathetic performances from the Indians so far, with none of the competitors progressing beyond the first stage and none managing to replicate the performance they had come up with to make the cut for the big event.

Women commission rejects member’s report on Mangalore attack

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Friday rejected its member Nirmala Venkatesh's report that blamed the Jan 24 attack on women in a Mangalore pub on the security of the establishment. NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said the report lacked on three counts - no social activists or local advocates were included in the committee, none of the persons attacked were contacted or interviewed, it focussed on the licence issued to the bar owners that was not part of the probe - and was thus not acceptable.

US admits holding teenage son of Pakistani scientist

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By DPA, Karachi : US authorities have admitted that the teenage son of a Pakistani woman scientist held in the United States on charges of trying to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan is in their custody, her family said Sunday. "We received a letter from the office of US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J Gracia late Friday in which he acknowledged of having in custody Aafia Siddiqui's eldest son, Ahmed, who will turn 12 years old in November," her sister Fauzia told DPA.

After getting ‘indecent proposal’ from her father in-law, Parveen decides to teach him a...

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net., It was completely against the spirit of his own name, when Mohammad Islamuddin (52), a Delhi police sub-inspector, reportedly asked Parveen (28), his own daughter-in-law to get into prostitution, when she asked for money for her children school fee and food. Talking to TwoCircles.net, Parveen said; “I wanted money for education and food for my children, so when I begged Nasir (32), (her husband) and his father, they told me to get into prostitution (Bachcho ke liye paise chahiye toh jakar dhanda kar le),"

Rural women of Uttar Pradesh assert themselves

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By IANS,

Woman stabbed to death in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 25-year-old married woman working in a multinational company in Noida was stabbed to death by two people here while...

Women take part in great numbers in training programme

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: As many as 30 women trainees passed out from the first 90-day ‘Placement linked skill training programme’ under the ‘Swarna Jayanti Swarojgar Yojana (SJSRY) – principally aimed at the urban unemployed women – here on Tuesday.

Mangalore incident triggers war of words in women’s commission

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Mangalore pub assault has triggered a war of words within the National Commission for Women, as its chairperson Tuesday "nullified" a probe by a commission member into the attack on some young women. However, Nirmala Venkatesh, who conducted the probe, said her findings were impartial. After completing the probe into the Mangalore assault by a self-styled moral brigade, Venkatesh said that the pub lacked security and that women needed to safeguard themselves.

Chameli Devi Jain Award for KK Shahina

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By TCN News,

Meira Kumar may battle two ex-IAS officers

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By IANS, Patna : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, a former IFS officer, may face two retired IAS officers in the Lok Sabha polls at...

Noida girl wins art award

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Gurgaon: A series of geometrics and line patterns, guided by the urban metroscape, fetched Noida-based-artist Chetnaa Verma a prestigious art award here Saturday. Verma won...

Woman to get Rs.10 lakh for seeking toilet

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Mumbai : A woman who demanded a toilet instead of jewellery from her father at her wedding will get Rs.10 lakh as reward, it...

SC stays death sentence of rape-murder convict

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed the death sentence of Kalu Khan, convicted for the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl in...

Women’s bill will be passed as it is, says Moily

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By IANS, New Delhi: Ruling out the demand for quota within quota in the women's reservation bill, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Sunday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was totally committed to the bill and it would be passed in the Lok Sabha in its present form. "The Congress party... the UPA government is totally committed to this bill in the form it was passed by the Rajya Sabha," Moily told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate programme on the CNN-IBN news channel. The programme will be telecast Sunday night.

UDF lawmakers outraged modesty of Left women MLAs: Achuthanandan

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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan on Monday led a delegation of five women legislators to Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam and complained that...

Muslim women are oppressed in India: says minority social activist

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By Alka Pande, CNS It is in India and neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, alone, where Muslim women are oppressed, rest of the Muslim dominated nations give equal status and rights to women. This is how the Muslim minorities feel in this Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. These Muslim minorities also feel that the government schemes do not reach them.

Depressed widow kills kids, self on Karva Chauth

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By IANS, Amritsar: Feeling depressed on the day of Karva Chauth, a festival in which Hindu women fast for their husbands' long life, a young widow in this Punjab city killed her two minor sons and committed suicide, police said Thursday. Baljit Kaur, 32, gave poison to her two sons, aged 10 and six, and consumed it herself at her home in Dashmesh Nagar Wednesday night. Her husband, Rajinder, a sub-inspector with the Punjab police, died two months back. Baljit Kaur and her sons were taken to a government hospital where doctors declared them dead.

In Kinnaur, she fights for women’s property rights

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By Vishal Gulati, IANS, Shimla : It's uphill task for social activist Rattan Manjari. The 57-year-old is leading a movement against patriarchal laws that bar women from inheriting property in Kinnaur as well as Lahaul and Spiti districts in Himachal Pradesh. In these tribal dominated areas, traditionally women don't inherit the property of their parents or husbands.

Activist groups demand passage of women reservation bill

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New Delhi, (IANS) : Several members of women's rights groups assembled here on Tuesday to demand from the government passage of long-pending Women's Reservation...

Bihar school board ex-chairman’s wife’s degrees too fake?

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Patna : Usha Sinha, a former ruling Janata Dal-United legislator and the wife of Bihar School Examination Board's former chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh, who...

India’s eight women wrestlers for Worlds announced

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Lucknow : The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) on Monday selected eight women grapplers for the World Championships to be held in Las Vegas...

More women reporting cases of sexual harassment: Maneka Gandhi

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New Delhi : Women are coming forward in larger numbers to report cases of sexual harassment at the workplace, Minister of Women and Child...

Wait for some more days for women’s bill: BJP women’s wing

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Panaji : The Narendra Modi-led government has been in power for only six months and should be given "some more days" to usher in...

Mentally ill woman kept chained for 15 years

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By Jatindra Dash, IANS, Jagatsinghpur (Orissa) : Kamala Sethi, 26, has spent 15 years chained to a pole by her family that cannot afford medical treatment for her mental illness. Both her legs have been tied with a rope and a chain connecting it is tied to a wooden pole in a straw-thatched room that the family earlier used as a cowshed in Nacchipur village of Jagatsinghpur district, some 120 km from Orissa capital Bhubaneswar in eastern India.

In Haryana, older women beat men voters in numbers

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By Jaideep Sarin, Chandigarh : As they grow older, women voters in Haryana get the better of men - numerically speaking. In the 70-years plus age...

‘Bajrang Dal to play major role in checking religious conversion, love-jihad,’ says leader

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The Hindutva right-wing organization Bajrang Dal has reiterated its commitment to checking religious conversion and love-jihad at the grassroots level. Sana Ejaz | TwoCircles.net PRAYAGRAJ (UTTAR...

‘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...

Issue of gender violence discussed at MIT

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By TCN News,

Haryana sisters thrash molesters as passengers look on

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Rohtak (Haryana) : The Haryana Police is drawing flak for not being able to take any action after an incident of two sisters courageously...

Women suffer bad eyesight for not wearing glasses

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By IANS, London: Millions of British women are suffering from poor vision because they are too vain to wear spectacles, a study has revealed. The research revealed a quarter of females who need glasses refuse to get their eyes tested and would rather squint or suffer blurred vision than 'ruin their appearance' with spectacles, reports dailymail.co.uk. Approximately 7.5 million women are struggling with eyesight which they know is well below 100 percent.

Ulema and Islamic values

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By Asghar Ali Engineer

Jharkhand woman kills a man, then hangs herself

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By IANS, Ranchi: A woman allegedly slit the throat of a man in a temple and then committed suicide following a financial dispute in a Jharkhand village, police said Wednesday. According to police, Pramila Devi, in her late thirties, murdered Kamlesh Ram who was praying in a temple in Sijua village of Dhanbad district. She then went home and hanged herself from a ceiling fan.

The world’s most powerful women: Three US secretaries of state and their accounts

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By Vikas Datta, If the US president is the world's most powerful leader, his secretary of state (or foreign minister) is a close second though maybe not as well-known. Of the 68 secretaries since 1790, few are recognised names - even in America - though six, right from the very first (Thomas Jefferson), went on to become presidents themselves. Only three have been women, but they happened to be in office at critical and challenging times, held their own in high-level diplomacy and have penned absorbing accounts of their experiences.

Kudumbashree, exclusive ‘for women, by women’ new channel

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By TCN News, Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala’s poverty eradication mission ‘Kudumbashree’ is planning to enter visual media by launching an all-woman television channel to bring forth issues of grassroot-level women.

Hopes run high with women’s reservation bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : Homemakers, students, professionals, social activists -- many women are keeping their fingers crossed and hoping that the Women's Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33 percent of seats in legislatures for women, will get passed in the Rajya Sabha Monday. "I am quite sure the women's reservation bill will be passed this time. The kind of support the bill has garnered is good and for a change political parties have left behind their differences to stand united on this subject," said Arusha Verma, a school teacher.

5000 people from 40 villages in Maharashtra gather to demand justice for Dr. Payal...

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By Imran Inamdar, Twocircles.net Jalgao (Maharashtra) With the intention to send a strong message to the government authorities, as many as five thousand Adivasi activists including...

Sharmila, Vani set for another face-off

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By IANS,

The invisible makers of the city

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Homeless, vulnerable in equal measure to the vagaries of nature and human whims, and deprived of any form of social security, street dwellers often...

Asia’s richest woman was feng shui master’s lover, court told

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By DPA, Hong Kong : Asia's richest woman, according to court testimony, was the lover of a feng shui master for 14 years before leaving him her entire multibillion-US-dollar fortune, a news report said Saturday. Lawyers for feng shui master Tony Chan said he and Nina Wang shared a "long-lasting, close and affectionate love" from 1993 to her death last year, the South China Morning Post reported. The pair allegedly had "midnight meetings" disguised as feng shui consultations during their secret affair, which began three years after Wang's husband was kidnapped, never to reappear.

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Women to be inducted as fighter pilots: IAF chief

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New Delhi : Women would soon be inducted as fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said here...

Women bodies, activists condemn ‘witch’ killings in Assam

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By TCN Staff Reporter,

Women and child ministry gets Rs.21,000 crore in budget

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By IANS, New Delhi : The women and child development ministry got an allocation of Rs.21,000 crore in the interim budget presented by Finance Minister...

Mexican woman killed in Mumbai terror attack

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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.

India women’s hockey captain Saba Anjum to be honoured

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By IANS, Raipur : Indian women?s hockey team captain Saba Anjum will get Chhattisgarh's top Gundadhur sports award, official sources said Wednesday.

Education not diminishing India’s preference for boys

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By Tanay Sukumar Young graduate mothers gave birth to 899 girls per 1,000 boys, lower than the national average of 943, according to an IndiaSpend...

Girl denied permission to board Delhi Metro while wearing a Hijab

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

Fire in Ghaziabad women’s hospital

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Ghaziabad : A fire broke out on Tuesday at the Government Women's Hospital in Ghaziabad, but was brought under control soon, officials said. Fire...

Women changing India: Iconic divas on Magnum camera

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By Madhusree Chatterjee,IANS,

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.

Chinese women now initiate majority of divorces

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By IANS, Beijing: Women in China are now taking the lead in filing for divorce, with 70 percent of cases initiated by wives in 2010.

National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) demands action against “unprecedented police brutality on unarmed...

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TCN News National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) President Aruna Roy has launched a fact-finding report on the February violence inside New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamic...

Government rapped for refusing handicapped girl a job

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court has pulled up the central government for denying a job to physically handicapped girl Pritilata Nanda of Orissa on the grounds that she did not get her name routed through an employment exchange. Nanda was also awarded damages of Rs.300,000. Besides the central government, four officials of South Eastern Railways were also slammed for showing "lack of sensitivity". Nanda suffers from paralysis of the lower limbs.

What women want – from Mamata

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By Anurag Dey, IANS,

Hundreds celebrate Chhath in Bihar jails

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By IANS, Patna : Hundreds of prisoners, including women undertrials, have been performing Chhath puja inside the jail premises across Bihar, observing fasts and offering prayers to the sun god, officials said Tuesday. Nearly 30 prisoners, including 22 women, in Patna's Beur jail participated in the festivities and prison authorities said they had given new clothes to the inmates. The prisoners have also been provided the materials needed for the rituals associated with the festival - like fruits, rice, sugar and coconuts.

Rajya Sabha defers voting on women’s bill

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Rayja Sabha Monday deferred voting on the Women's Reservation Bill after supporting opposition parties insisted on a debate before it is put to vote. After repeated disruptions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called a meeting of political parties supporting the bill where the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said the proposed legislation should be discussed and then put to vote. The bill seeks to reserve a third of all seats for women in parliament and state assemblies.

West Bengal’s Left Front woos Muslims, women

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By IANS,

Bill on Triple Talaq cleared by Cabinet

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New Delhi, (IANS): A bill on Triple Talaq was cleared by the Union Cabinet on Friday, ahead of it being taken up in the Winter...

Leaders, celebrities slam deadly Lahore blast

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Lahore/New Delhi : India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and a host of leaders and celebrities across the subcontinent took to...

Women can be safe with technology usage: Lekhi

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New Delhi : Is there anything called work-life balance? Are women respected enough in the society? Women are vulnerable to physical and mental exploitations...

Triple talaq law will affect social cohesion, says Owaisi

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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...

Indian women entering Bahrain on forged visas

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By IANS, Dubai : Hundreds of Indian women, mainly from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, are entering Bahrain on forged visit visas to work as domestic helps, a media report said Saturday.

Olympic shooter depending on unborn baby to win

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

Open letter to political parties to take up the issue of repealing AFSPA

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Civil Society groups and individuals, led by Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign (SSSC), and endorsed by several others have written an open letter to all the political parties to take up the issue of repealing The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA).

Half of Gaza dead ‘children, women and elderly’

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By RIA Novosti, Damascus : Just under half of the fatalities in Israel's ongoing attack on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are children, women or elderly people, a Palestinian health ministry official has said. A representative for Gaza's health ministry told journalists that 854 Palestinians had so far died in Israel's two-week long attack on the enclave of 1.5 million people. A total of 270 of the dead are children, 68 women, and 90 elderly people, he added. He also said that around 4,000 people had been wounded, including some 400 children in a serious condition.

11 arrested for beating up police, woman

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

CAA Movement: Recent reports on Delhi violence indicate ‘criminal role of Delhi Police’

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By Nidha Parveen, TwoCircles.net A recent report by the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) states that as many as 45 people were sexually assaulted...

From cooking tips to charity: Meet the ‘vlogger family’ from Malappuram

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.Net Vlogging or video-blogging is nothing new in this modern age of technology. But there is an interesting vlogger family worth knowing...

Record 13 women get elected to Haryana assembly

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Chandigarh: Haryana's legislative history has a new entry - 13 women candidates have been declared elected to the new state assembly Sunday out of...

Tribals to Form Political Party in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net, Thiruvananthapuram: Tribals in Kerala have remained on the periphery of the state's politics, since they have never been paid...

SC upholds punishment to judicial officer for sexual harassment

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Aug 6 reversed a 2007 order of the Madras High Court and upheld the decision of a disciplinary authority...

Whither women’s security in Akhilesh’s Uttar Pradesh?

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Being a woman and moving around in Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh seems to be a mortally scaring thought. While union home ministry records show that rape cases in India's most populous state of over 200 million people, which sends the largest number of 80 lawmakers to the national parliament, have seen a quantum jump of 55 percent over the previous year, the state government and the police force, possiblyl the largest in the country and pathetic by all standards, continues to drag its feet in one-line statements and knee-jerk reactions of setting up teams and taking the PR route of "CM blasted officials, probe is in the right direction".

Sushma calls attack on Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru ‘shameful’

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New Delhi : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday described as "shameful" an alleged attack and stripping of a Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru...

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Watch: Haldwani residents welcome Supreme Court oder on staying evictions

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After Supreme Court stayed the Uttarakhand HC's order for evictions, people in Haldwani celebrated and congratulated each other. Shrutti Sharma | TwoCircles.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSGDJD9oSg

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net देश की पहली महिला शिक्षक फातिमा शेख की 191वीं जयंती देशभर में मनाईं गई। कोविड के चलते फातिमा शेख़ की जयंती पर कार्यक्रम...

Spat with minister: Haryana transfers woman police officer

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Chandigarh : The Haryana government transferred IPS officer Sangeeta Kalia on Saturday, a day after she refused to leave a meeting when Health and...

Bordhup camp inmates starving, authorities unconcerned

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TCN Special Series on riot relief camps in Assam – Part 1

10 years’ jail to six for Meghalaya gang rape

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Shillong: A fast-track court in Meghalaya Monday convicted and sentenced six people to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for the December 2012 gang rape of...

Dec 16 gang-rape: Delhi HC verdict Thursday

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court will pronounce its verdict later Thursday on confirming the death sentence and appeals of four convicts in...

Woman files case against parents, husband for forced marriage

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By IANS, Patna : A newly married Dalit woman in Bihar has filed a case against her parents and husband for forcing her into marriage, an official said here Wednesday. Shabnam Kumari, in her 20s, filed the case early this week in the court of chief judicial magistrate in Begusarai district, about 125 km from here. Shabnam, a resident of Bashi village in Begusarai, said in her complaint that she was married to Sagar Ram of Suro village this July against her wish. She alleged that her parents married her off after taking money from her husband.

Opposition rejects charge sheet on ‘Odisha gang rape’

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By IANS,

UK elects first female Sikh MP

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London, (IANS): Preet Gill has become the first female Sikh MP to be elected to the UK's Houses of Parliament as Thursday's general election results...

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

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

Two bright kids of Azamgarh

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By Salman Sultan, TwoCircles.net special correspondent Azamgarh: Musaid Helal Khan son of Motasim Billah Khan passed his X Class through ICSE board examination securing over 94% marks. He stood first not only in his school Jyoti Niketan but perhaps the whole district of Azamgarh.

Women Panchayat leaders fight for rights, set example

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New Delhi, Amita Devi of Bihar is determined to secure compensation for those whose lands were acquired for the construction of a four-lane highway. During the women Panchayat leaders' meet in the capital Wednesday, she carried with her a letter on the issue and plans to give it to United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

Human rights activist Hasina Kharbhih attacked in Shillong

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By TwoCircles.net News Desk New Delhi: Human rights activist Hasina Kharbhih was attacked on Thursday in Shillong when she was going to the District Council Court to attend hearing in her case. She was allegedly attacked by the very persons against whom she is fighting the court case. She said she was attacked to force her withdraw the case.

बिखरते कश्मीर से निकलती दीबा फरहत की कामयाबी की दास्तां

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

Girl of 9 years raped, murdered in Mumbai police colony

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

Bihar Police okays 35 percent quota for women

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By IANS, Patna : Bihar Police Friday formally decided to reserve 35 percent posts for women and to set up women's desk at all police sations.

Remembering children of riot affected families on Children’s Day

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Study reveals the terrified children in relief camps badly need social, emotional and administrative support By Nikhat for TwoCircles.net

Amina Hossain: Why she is fondly called the ‘Mother Teresa of Malda’

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net Mother Teresa’s love for humanity is both well-known and well-documented. Even today, the Missionaries of Charities continue her work, and it...

Women empowerment necessary, says ex-South Africa deputy president

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women should be given due recognition for their work in politics, education and social services, former deputy president of South Africa Baleka Mbete said here Monday.

एआईएमआईएम के नेता ज़ुबैर अहमद की हत्या में नही मिल रहा इंसाफ, साथ नही...

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ज़ाकिर अली त्यागी twocircles.net के लिए 28 अगस्त को मेरठ में हुए एक प्रॉपर्टी डीलर और एआईएमआईएम के नेता ज़ुबैर अहमद की हत्या का...

Bengal may be ahead of Delhi in crimes against women: WBHRC chief

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CRPF troopers gun down child, woman in Chhattisgarh camp

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By IANS, Raipur : A child and a woman were allegedly killed on the spot when dozens of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers lined up men and women and opened fire on them in a village deep in Chhattisgarh's forested Bijapur district, which is a Maoist hot-bed, official sources said Friday. Raju, 2, and Ram Bai, 25, died on the spot in the CRPF troopers' gunfire. A six-year-old boy and a woman were critically injured when the CRPF men posted at Cherpal village assaulted the tribals. The injured have been rushed to district hospital at Bijapur.

Cheryl Cole voted most inspirational woman of decade

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By IANS, London: Cheryl Cole, who recently separated from her soccer player husband Ashley Cole following the exposure of his string of affairs, has been voted as the most inspirational woman of the decade in a new poll. The 26-year-old pop star was given the honour for both her "beauty" and "success" - with 29 percent of her fans praising her looks and 51 percent in awe of her career, reports contactmusic.com. The survey conducted by the cosmetic treatment review website, www.goodsurgeonguide.co.uk involved 1,100 British women.

Death toll in botched up Chhattisgarh tubectomy rises to 13

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Raipur/Bilaspur/Jagdalpur : The death toll due to botched up tubectomies in Bilaspur district reached 13 Wednesday while 32 women were still in critical condition,...

Iraqi women face ‘silent emergency’

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By DPA, Baghdad : Poverty, lack of security, and a lack of basic services have created a "silent emergency" for Iraqi women, a study released Sunday found. A survey of 1,700 Iraqi women conducted by the Iraqi non-governmental organisation al-Amal and released by the international charity Oxfam in honour of International Women's Day Sunday found that a majority of women had been victims of violence, and that their personal safety was still their primary concern.

अंधविश्वास ख़त्म करने की सरकारी नाकामी में बढ़ते मनोरोगी

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net सासाराम (बिहार) : आज जहां एक ओर देश में मेडिकल साईंस आसमान की बुलंदियों को छू रहा है. जहां अत्याधुनिक मशीनों से...

Zero tolerance for crimes against women: President

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New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee Monday said the government will have a policy of "zero tolerance" for violence against women, and was committed...

Make Delhi safer for northeast women: NGOs

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Women activists protest detention of Asiya Andrabi

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Srinagar, (IANS): Activists of women's separatist group 'Dukhtaran-e-Milat' (Daughters of Faith) on Tuesday protested against the detention of the group's chief, Asiya Andrabi, under...

Air hostesses among eight held for prostitution

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By IANS, New Delhi : A self-styled godman who preached spirituality while running a prostitution racket and two air hostesses were among eight people arrested for flesh trade here, police said Friday. The eight, including two men and six women in the age group of 19 to 30 years, were taken into custody near the PVR cinema at Saket in south Delhi Thursday while travelling in two cars. They included an air hostess who worked for an Indian carrier and another who was employed by an European airline.

Girl attacked with acid in Jharkhand school hostel

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Ranchi : A Class 10 girl student was attacked with acid when she was sleeping in her school hostel in Jharkhand's Giridih district, police...

Kanyashree scheme to be part of school syllabus: Mamata

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Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the Kanyashree Prakalpa - a scheme for girls - would be included...

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

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

Women to rule over one-third of Indian population

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By IANS,

एक बार फिर जंतर मंतर पर जुटे किसान, लगाया वादाखिलाफी का इल्ज़ाम

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net दिल्ली के जंतर-मंतर में आज संयुक्त किसान मोर्चा अराजनैतिक ने लखीमपुर हिंसा में मारे गए किसानों को इंसाफ और केंद्रीय मंत्री अजय...

NCW records statement of Bengal woman tortured by police

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Kolkata : A National Commission for Women (NCW) team led by Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam Saturday recorded the statement of the woman who was allegedly...

Civil society groups express solidarity with Irom Sharmila, demand repeal of AFSPA

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net. Guwahati: Several civil rights organizations and civilians have condemned the re-arrest of ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ Irom Sharmila by the Manipur police on Friday, January 23. Amnesty International India has also condemned the re-arrest of 23 January.

Danish school bans Muslim students from wearing niqab

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Copenhagen : An adult education centre in a Copenhagen suburb has told Muslim students that they can no longer attend classes unless they remove...

Challenges in Implementation of National Food Security Act discussed

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By TCN News New Delhi: The Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) in association with FIAN India and The Child Trust organised a consultation on “National...

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असद शेख़ Twocircles.net के लिए देश की राजधानी दिल्ली के उत्तर प्रदेश बॉर्डर पर एक बड़ा मुस्लिम बहुल इलाक़ा मुस्तफाबाद है। ये इलाक़ा ज़्यादातर...

UN chief calls for end to violence against women

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

Congress walkout over Chhattisgarh girls’ trafficking

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By IANS, Raipur: The opposition Congress staged a walkout Tuesday in the Chhattisgarh assembly, accusing the state's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of doing little to prevent trafficking of thousands of youth, mainly girls, from poor families to metros. The house witnessed a heated debate when the government replied in the assembly it was doing its best to trace out an estimated 7,000 people missing in the state for many years.

UN creates unified organisation for women

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By DPA, New York: The UN General Assembly Friday took a major step by pulling together fragmented groups to establish a new entity aimed at intensifying efforts to meet the needs of women and girls worldwide. The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known simply as UN Women, will merge four existing groups that have been working to improve the lives of women and girls.

बोतल की सख्ती : एक क़ानून या एक दिशा?

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अरफ़ीना खानम बिहार में खुलेआम नशोखोरी और शराब पर पूर्ण रूप से पाबन्दी सरकार की अच्छी सोच व सही क़दम का नतीजा है. जब राज्य...

Shabnum Wani: A Half widow who feels betrayed by both the Government and the...

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In the last of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Shabnum Wani. Bemina (Srinagar): On ...

Bill for women’s quota in urban bodies in Lok Sabha

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By IANS, New Delhi : A bill seeking 50 percent reservation for women in urban local bodies was introduced Tuesday in Parliament. Introducing the constitutional (112th Amendment) bill in the Lok Sabha, Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy said: "Enhancement of reservation for women in urban local bodies will not only ensure their increased representation and participation... but also mainstream gender concerns in governance and decision making process, particularly, those related to women's issues such as water supply, sanitation, solid waste management, health and education."

Over 100 held in Gurgaon for disturbing public peace

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Gurgaon: Over 100 people, including 21 women, have been arrested here for disturbing public peace, police said on Sunday, adding that most of them...

India’s first all-women’s party launched, to contest LS polls

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Mumbai, Jan 21 (IANS) India's first-ever all-women political party -- the National Women's Party (NWP) -- was launched on Monday in Mumbai and it...

On the Meanings of the Hijab

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By Sana Khan, More than three years ago I wrote an article titled ‘burqa-to wear or not to wear’. A friend said that she supported the view of the French government banning the burqa as it truly was doing it to respect the principle of secularity in school and well of course it would liberate women, and in this light I wrote this article. That time I was arguing that the wearing or not wearing of a burqa/hijab is an individual choice about attire. Just as the other women exercise their opinion to dress in the manner they want, without any hue and cry, a woman in burqa/hijab should have the right to dress in the way she wants to. I am sharing here some excerpts from that article which I think are significant only to place the discussion around hijab in a more lucid way as it explains my position on hijab.

Government ready to extend session to pass women’s bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government Wednesday said it was ready to extend the ongoing parliament session, if necessary, to pass the long-pending women's...

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...

Poor Muslim women connect to global fashion with crafts

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

Vast improvement needed for women’s safety: Manmohan Singh

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By IANS, New Delhi: As protests against the brutal rape of a five-year-old continue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said "vast improvement" was needed in the security accorded to women.

Kunan Poshpora: The Silent Night That Still Echoes Cries for Justice

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Raqif Makhdoomi, TwoCircles.net Kunan Poshpora, a village in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district, carries a story that continues to haunt its people even after 35 years....

First US woman vice presidential candidate dead

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By IANS/EFE, Washington : Geraldine Ferraro, the first American woman vice presidential candidate, has died. She was 75.

Swedish woman informed of her own death

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Stockholm: A Swedish woman was informed by her insurance company that she had been dead for over a week following a mistake committed by...

10 women drown, 20 missing in Maharashtra boat capsize

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By IANS, Nagpur : At least 10 women drowned and 20 were missing after two boats in which they were travelling overturned in the Waingangan River in eastern Maharashtra's Bhandara district, a police official said Saturday evening. The incident occurred around 12 km from the Bhandara district headquarters, 840 km east of Mumbai. According to Superintendent of Police Suresh Sagar, who is supervising the rescue operations, there were between 30-35 women in two boats which were tied together and were crossing the river Saturday evening.

48 arrested for harassing women on Kolkata Metro

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By IANS, Kolkata : A special task force, constituted by the Kolkata Metro Railway for nabbing those found harassing women commuters in Metro premises, has caught 48 offenders in its first week.

Assam UPSC topper Fardina Adil says religion is often misused to obstruct women’s advancement

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net,

Kamla Beniwal takes oath as Tripura governor

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By IANS, Agartala : Kamla Beniwal, a former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, took oath as the new governor of Tripura here Thursday. The oath was administered by senior judge of Guwahati High Court Amitava Roy at Raj Bhawan. "Dr. Beniwal is the first woman governor of any northeastern state," a senior Tripura government official said. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, his cabinet colleagues, leaders of different political parties, and top civil, army and police officials were present in the brief oath taking ceremony.