Women’s groups seek action against Dev
New Delhi : Different women organisations Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission, seeking action against Bengali actor and Trinamool Congress candidate Dev...
Couple booked for torturing Dalit girl
By IANS,
Lucknow: A woman was arrested Wednesday and a search was on for her husband after they allegedly held a six-year-old Dalit girl hostage for the past six months and tortured her, police said.
The matter came to light Sunday when police raided their home on a complaint by the girl's mother and rescued her.
"We were shocked to see the condition of the girl who had injuries and bruises all over her body. She could hardly walk," Paresh Pandey, superintendent of police (Trans Gomti), told reporters.
How two sisters’ commitment scripting Moradabad’s brass industry’s future
Anushka Kogta and Namya Jain, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: “This work not only supports our family but also sustains the entire Uttar Pradesh,” claimed 52-year-old Rashida...
Exclusive: Story of the ‘objectionable’ material recovered from Afreen Fatima’s house
Soon after razing his house, police claimed that Afreen Fatima’s father, Javed Mohammad, was the mastermind of the protest in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh in...
Most Kashmir ‘half-widows’ are vulnerable: Report
New Delhi : Kashmir's 'half-widows" -- whose husbands have disappeared -- are exposed to various gender and economic vulnerabilities, a report launched here on...
Human Rights group concerned over falling Uttarakhand child-sex ratio; complains to NHRC
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...
Women’s bill is ‘historic step forward’, says PM
By IANS,
New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the women's reservation bill set to pass in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday was "a historic step forward" towards the emancipation of Indian women.
"This is a momentous development in the long journey of empowering our women," he said at the end of a lively debate on the bill that seeks to reserve a third of seats in parliament and state assemblies for women.
Canadian HIV man’s 20 sexual partners untraced
By IANS,
Toronto : Medical authorities in Canada have failed to trace 20 women who had unprotected sex with an HIV-infected man facing murder trial for causing death of two women by infection.
Ugandan-born Johnson Aziga, 52, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1996, was warned to inform his sexual partners about his HIV condition.
But he went on to have unprotected sex with numerous women, including the 13 who have been identified.
Seven of these women have tested positive for HIV. Two of them have since died. Four women, who had sex with him, have not tested positive.
Manjula Pradeep: Working tirelessly to ensure equal rights for Dalits
By Amit Kumar
For Manjula Pradeep, growing up in Baroda and attending an English-medium school meant her childhood was like any other child, at least...
NHRC notice to Telangana government over child labourers
New Delhi: The NHRC has sought a report from the Telangana government on the rehabilitation of around 220 children who were recently rescued from...
US Women Favor Obama
By Prensa Latina,
Washington : Most US women would vote for Democratic candidate Barack Obama in November general elections, according to surveys released Thursday.
A Gallup poll indicates that the Illinois senator was backed by 51 percent of women, while Republican presidential candidate John McCain barely got 38 percent.
Comparing these figures with a previous survey, the Afro-American politician expanded his lead from 5 percentage points to 13.
A Rasmussen Reports survey showed similar results (52 percent of women favoring Obama and 39 percent for McCain).
Nabard launches digitisation scheme for women’s groups
New Delhi : In an experiment to empower women through information technology (IT) and promote financial inclusion, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural...
Spell out norms for devolving Nirbhaya fund to states, SC tells centre
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the central government to spell out the manner in which Nirbhaya fund - for safety...
Muslim men come out in support to abolish Triple Talaq
By TCN News
New Delhi: A group of 225 Muslim men from across the country have come out in support of the...
Women riders, activists welcome ‘helmets mandatory’ move
New Delhi : The Election Commission (EC) has given the transport department its go-ahead to make changes in the rules to make helmets mandatory...
Muslim women of the world urged to unite
By NNN-Bernama,
Kuala Lumpur : Collective action among Muslim women around the world is necessary to bring out women's issues for serious, indepth discussion, says the executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), Daisy Khan.
Muslim women represented half of the world's Muslim population and therefore their issues were societal and serious, she said in an interview with Bernama here Tuesday.
Women’s body not to send team to Rajasthan
By IANS,
New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Sunday said it had not received any complaint from the Gujjar community of police atrocities on their protesting women, but added that it had given suo moto orders that the women be treated humanely and according to the law.
NCW chairperson Girija Vyas told IANS Sunday that they had first given the instructions to the Rajasthan police “ten days ago”, when 26 women from the Gujjar community were arrested for stopping railway traffic near Bandikui in Dausa district for nearly six days.
Wait for some more days for women’s bill: BJP women’s wing
Panaji : The Narendra Modi-led government has been in power for only six months and should be given "some more days" to usher in...
164 chit fund companies under probe for cheating
New Delhi : As many as 164 ponzi, or chit fund, companies are currently being probed by central agencies for duping customers across the...
Awareness needed for Delhi’s women: Dikshit
By IANS,
New Delhi: Delhi's women need to be made aware about their rights and the importance of their empowerment, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said here Saturday.
Decision on women fighter pilots will be considered: President
By IANS,
Pune : A decision to induct women into the fighter stream will be taken after due consideration, President Pratibha Patil said after completing her sortie in the Indian Air Force (IAF) war jet Sukhoi Su-30 MKI Wednesday.
The president, who is also the first woman supreme commander of the Indian armed forces, said that while she had confidence in the capability of women, the decision to allow women in combat would be taken by the three services after deliberation.
84% Of 12 mn married children under 10 are Hindus
Devanik Saha
Nearly 12 million Indian children were married before the age of 10 years - 84 per cent of them Hindu and 11 percent...
Seven arrested for stripping woman in Madhya Pradesh
By IANS,
Bhopal : Seven of the nine people accused of beating a tribal woman and parading her naked in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua district Friday have been arrested, police said Sunday.
The incident took place in the district's Chapaner village, when Manju of the Bhil community, who had eloped with her paramour Khuman last year despite being married and having three children, returned to the village for the Raksha Bandhan festival.
Dhaka to amend laws discriminatory to women: PM
By IANS,
Dhaka : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday said her government will, if necessary, amend or repeal laws that are harmful and discriminatory to women.
She also pledged effective enforcement of the Women Development Policy formulated during her last tenure in 1997 to ensure socio-economic security and development of women, United News of Bangladesh reported.
Her remarks came at the opening of the International Women's Day celebrations as activists pledged to focus on acid attacks on women.
Assam girl rape: Protest held outside Gurgaon police station
Gurgaon : People belonging to the north-eastern states on Friday staged a protest outside a police station here over inaction in an Assam girl's...
BJP leader in TN alleges girls wearing purdah cheat in exams; MMK demands action...
By Ahamed Ansar MS for TwoCircles.net,
Ramanathapuram (Tamil Nadu): Condemning a fresh hate speech against Purdah by the BJP leader, the Manithaneya Makkal Katchi...
Institute withdraws punishment after senior girls apologize for ragging
By IANS,
Lucknow: The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT - A) administration Thursday said it will soon withdraw the fine and punishment on 19 senior girl students after they apologized for ragging junior girls.
On Tuesday, 19 B. Tech final year girl students were fined for ragging newly admitted girls at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Allahabad.
Besides a fine of Rs.50,000 each, the institute also withdrew the scholarship of the girls expelled from the hostel after the matter came to light.
Women’s self-help groups shore up farm communities
By V. Vijayalakshmi, IANS,
Pune : The woes of the agricultural community in rural Maharashtra may be far from over, but a Mumbai-based trust is helping out a sizeable number of farm families through women's self-help groups (SHGs).
The SHGs, being funded by the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, have instilled confidence in thousands of poor farm families by forging a tie-up with Big Bazar, one of India's biggest retail outlets for supply of homemade products.
‘Razia Sultan’ zooms in on women’s empowerment
New Delhi : "Razia Sultan", a new historical show on the first woman ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, aims to bring the message of...
Bihar liquor ban: Boon or bane debate back into focus
Even as some political bigwigs are demanding ease or an end to liquor ban, women in the state are firmly standing with chief...
Ramadan 1439: Shaista Yacoob
By Poornima Marh, TwoCircles.net
Shaista Yacoob, 43, is a writer, poet based in Bangalore. Born and brought up in Bangalore, she has been living in...
Fashion designer commits suicide in Noida
By IANS,
Noida : A 25-year-old fashion designer working with a garments export firm here committed suicide at his office premises Thursday, allegedly over a failed relationship, police said.
Jishan, originally a resident of Bihar, was working as a fashion designer in a garments export house in Sector-10 of Noida.
On Thursday around 9.30 a.m. he locked himself up in one of his company's rooms and hung himself from the ceiling fan, police said.
UN creates unified organisation for women
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.
Mauritius hiring only women from Indian subcontinent
By IANS,
Dhaka : Mauritius is phasing out male workers and hiring only women from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, a newspaper report here said Friday, quoting a local labour recruiting agent.
The recruiting agent, who was not named, said the southern African island nation would not send back workers before their job contracts expire but it now has a policy of not hiring male workers from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.
Bangladesh has been concerned at reports from Mauritius that the latter will send back 6,000 workers, employed mainly in its garment industry.
तस्वीरों में साल 2022 का एएमयु में मनाया गया सर सैयद डे !
जिब्रानुदीन। Twocircles.net
कल, 17 अक्टूबर को दुनिया भर में अलीग बिरादरी द्वारा धूमधाम से सर सैयद डे का जश्न मनाया गया। अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय के...
Woman power pulls Orissa’s chariots of gods
By Byomakesh Biswal, IANS,
Baripada (Orissa) : It's a tug of equality. For women in the small town of Baripada that has come alive during the Jagannath rath yatra, pulling the chariot of goddess Subhadra is as much about empowerment as it is about tradition.
The Hindu chariot festival is observed in many parts of India, with mostly men doing the tugging, but in Baripada it is a unique affair because there women have the exclusive right of pulling the chariot of goddess Subhadra - the sister of Lord Jagannath - in an act considered sacred.
NCW upset with ‘obscene’ depiction of women
By IANS,
New Delhi : Alarmed over the rise in "obscene" depictions of women in the print and electronic media, including in television soaps, the National Commission for Women (NCW) wants a self-regulatory board to keep a check on this.
NCW Chairperson Girja Vyas Tuesday demanded a change in the existing legislation. She also suggested stiff penalty and punishment for violators.
"In today's world, the depiction of women is done in obscene ways through various mediums," she told reporters here.
She said soap operas either show woman as a vamp or a simple innocent girl.
Women’s commission demands strict punishment for rapists
By IANS,
New Delhi : Stringent punishment for rapists is essential to discourage such crimes, chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Girija Vyas said Monday.
Over 4,900 cases of missing Kerala women: minister
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : Over 4,900 cases of missing women were registered in the various police stations in Kerala in the past two years, state home minister Tuesday informed the Kerala Assembly.
State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, in a reply to a question by lawmaker K.K. Shailaja, said that of the 4,942 cases of missing women, 4,487 women were traced.
Shailaja said that of late there has been an increase in women being exploited and being forced into sex rackets.
"This is reaching dangerous levels," said Shailaja.
Telangana man arrested for rape, murder of daughter
Hyderabad:Police in Telangana have solved the mystery behind rape and murder of a minor girl with the arrest of her father, who committed the...
Congress again fails to send woman from Kerala to Lok Sabha
Thiruvananthapuram: In matriarchal Kerala, Congress' Savithiri Lakshman continues to be the only woman party leader to win a Lok Sabha election ever in the...
The iron lady of Tamil Nadu (Profile)
By Venkatachari Jagannathan,
Chennai : J. Jayalalithaa, often described as the 'Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu', returned to power on Saturday - after a seven...
A wakeup call for “Muslim leaders”
By Navaid Hamid for TwoCircles.net
For last several years, I have been cautioning "Muslim leaders" to be more realistic, visionary and attentive to the pulse of the Muslim youth which constitute around sixty percent of the total Muslim population in India, before it’s too late.
‘Nothing Can Fill This Gap’: Families of AIMIM Candidates Shifa, Tahir Share Heartfelt Pleas...
Mariyam Usmani, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: The entry of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections has brought the...
Kerala HC judge says Muslim Personal law discriminates against women
By TCN Staff Reporter
Kozhikode: Kerala High Court Justice B Kemal Pasha on Sunday lashed out against Muslim Personal Law, saying their laws were discriminatory....
60 model stations, 40 all-women booths in Bengal’s first phase
Kolkata : The first phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal on Thursday will see as many as 60 model polling stations (MPS)...
NHRC notice to Haryana on abandoned baby girls
By IANS,
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday issued notice to Haryana in the wake of a reported spurt in cases of baby girls being abandoned in the state.
8 महीने से जेल में है सपा विद्यायक नाहिद हसन, अखिलेश यादव से अब...
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तबियत खराब होने पर कैराना के विधायक नाहिद हसन को मुजफ्फरनगर अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया है...
Tamil Nadu minister’s resignation accepted
By IANS,
Chennai : Tamil Nadu minister A.A. Poongothai's resignation has been accepted by Governor Surjit Singh Barnala Tuesday.
Poongothai's social welfare portfolio has been allotted to P. Geetha Jeevan, another woman ministerm, a Raj Bhavan release said.
Poongothai submitted her resignation to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi May 14 following an expose of an alleged telephone conversation between her and a senior police official during which she reportedly sought favour for a relative.
Mother drowns baby in Bangladesh
Dhaka: A housewife in Narail district of Bangladesh Friday drowned her one-and-half-year-old son following conjugal discord, media reports said.
The incident took place in the...
Muslim women and change
By Asghar Ali Engineer,
Mostly people think Muslim women are oppressed and forced to wear veil and confined to the four walls of their houses. This is mainly because we read every day in papers that Taliban force women into veil, burn down girls schools and always portray them wrapped completely in black cloth from head to foot. This image of Muslim women was further reinforced by the burqa controversy which erupted in France.
Neural tube defect more likely to affect teen pregnancies
By IANS,
Sydney : Younger women are more likely to have neural tube defect (NTD) affected pregnancies than older women, according to a new study.
The report showed that teenage women had the highest rate of NTD affected pregnancies and women aged 30-34 years the lowest. The neural tube becomes the brain and spinal cord.
"Multiple pregnancies were also more likely to have neural tube defects than singleton pregnancies," said Samanthi Abeywardana of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) National Perinatal Statistics Unit.
Bihar Police okays 35 percent quota for women
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.
Maneka Gandhi hits back at Priyanka on Varun’s path
New Delhi: BJP leader Maneka Gandhi Sunday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's comment on her son Varun...
Malala invites five global girl champions to attend Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
By Aslam Chandio for TwoCircles.net,
Islamabad: Rights activist and young campaigner for girls’ education Malala Yousafzai has invited five remarkable and inspiring girl champions to the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony scheduled to be held on December 10 at Oslo, Norway.
Bilkis Bano’s husband: ‘What can be worse than seeing your loved ones being killed?’
In 2008, a special CBI court in Mumbai sentenced to life imprisonment 11 men for the crime. Earlier this month, the Gujarat government released...
Arab-American family slams United Airlines over discrimination
New York : An Arab-American family slammed United Airlines after its staff removed them from a flight in an incident that they claimed was...
Now, women are new vote bank in Bihar
Patna: With women voters outnumbering male voters in the first two of the five-phase Bihar assembly polls, they have emerged as a prominent vote...
Jammu and Kashmir’s women’s commission gets new chairperson
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.
Afghan lawmakers reject woman’s nomination for Supreme Court
Kabul : Afghanistan's parliament on Wednesday rejected the first nomination of a woman for the country's Supreme Court after she failed to win the...
एक्सक्लुसिव : मुजफ्फरनगर से ही बिछड़े थे,मुजफ्फरनगर से ही जुड़ेंगे !
मस्जिद के दरवाजे किसानों के खोल देने से लेकर, मुस्लिम बहुल इलाकों में लंगर लगाने और राकेश टिकैत के अल्लाहू अकबर और हर -हर...
Grief, despair at Delhi’s hospitals, a day after
By Richa Sharma, IANS,
New Delhi : Wailing men and women as well as dazed family members of the seriously injured or missing after a string of bomb attacks besieged hospitals here Sunday, straining the already stretched medical services.
Doctors, nurses and attendants worked furiously to provide relief to the seriously and not-so-seriously wounded in Saturday evening's bombings, but there was no stopping the grief gripping families of the victims.
Kejriwal assures help to women entrepreneurs
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party government will "extend all possible assistance" to the city's emerging women entrepreneurs, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said...
Woman sets herself, infant ablaze
By IANS,
Bhopal : A woman set herself ablaze with her three-week-old daughter in her lap in Gunga village on the outskirts of the Madhya Pradesh capital, police said Monday. The child died. The mother survived.
With the child in her lap, Inder Bai, 27, poured kerosene on herself and set herself afire late Sunday evening while her husband, Jagdish Ahirwar, 30, a labourer, was away at work. She is suspected to be mentally deranged, the officer in charge of the Gunga police station said.
Heptulla oldest, Irani youngest cabinet minister
New Delhi : Najma Heptulla is the oldest member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers, while Smriti Irani is the youngest.
The 74-year-old...
परंपरागत मधुबनी पेंटिंग में हुनर आज़मा रही मुस्लिम बालिकाएं
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https://youtu.be/Q1-IttFHEdU
बिहार के मिथिला क्षेत्र में मुस्लिम लड़कियों का एक समूह मधुबनी पेंटिंग की कला को सीखकर नई कहानी लिख...
BJP condones beating of women: Rahul Gandhi
By IANS,
Bangalore : Targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the infamous attack on young women at a Mangalore pub, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said Friday evening that the BJP speaks about Indian culture "but condones beating of women".
"Our opposition talks about Indian culture but condones the beating of women. Their activists go out and beat women," Rahul Gandhi said at a rally here, attacking the BJP which is in power in Karnataka.
Akhilesh gets luxury cars, but cuts budget for women’s panel
By Mohit Dubey,
Lucknow : As women's safety continues to be a cause for concern in Uttar Pradesh, here's a shocker: An activist has found...
Seats to be reserved for girls in ITIs
By IANS,
Chandigarh: Following the footsteps of Haryana, the central government has decided to reserve seats for women in all the Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the country, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said here Monday.
"We have received a written communication from the central government appreciating our decision to reserve 25 per cent of the seats for women in ITIs to ensure their empowerment," said Hooda.
This scheme was introduced in Haryana in 2006, observed as the year of the girl child.
AAP promises 2 lakh toilets for women
New Delhi : Two lakh public toilets for women, 100 courts to fast-track rape cases, Wi-Fi connected CCTV cameras are some of the poll...
Northeast people protest over woman lawyer’s assault in Delhi
New Delhi : Around 200 students and people from the northeast Tuesday held a protest march here demanding action against lawyers who attacked a...
Unveiling the myths of Uniform Civil Code
By Moin Qazi for Twocircles.net
The best of you are those who are the kindest to their wives.
Prophet Muhammad
A mother is a school. Empower...
Women’s panchayat in Varanasi
By TCN News,
Varanasi, UP: A Mahila Panchayat (women’s assembly) was organised by U.P Khudai Khidmatgar team Nargis bahan and Faisal Khan from central team .
उत्तरप्रदेश में महिलाओं के लिए पहला जिम मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर के पूरकाजी में शुरू हुआ जिसे...
मुजफ्फरनगर-
आस मोहम्मद कैफ,TwoCircles.net
मुजफ्फरनगर से देहरादून जाने के रास्ते में आधे घंटे के सफर के बाद चाट की मशहूर दुकानों का बाज़ार जहाँ दिखाई दे...
Goa serial killers committed murder in Mumbai too: Police
By IANS,
Panaji: Four persons, including a woman and a 16-year-old girl who were arrested by the Goa police earlier this week for multiple murders in the state, had left a trail of blood in Mumbai too, police said.
Speaking to reporters here Wednesday, Superintendent of Police (CID) Atmaram Deshpande said that the gang, which includes a woman and a 16-year-old girl, had also confessed to murdering a woman in Virar, a suburb on the outskirts of Mumbai.
Two women thrown off train in Bihar, one dead
Patna : In a shocking incident, a woman was killed and another seriously injured when some unidentified people threw them off a running train...
Danish school bans Muslim students from wearing niqab
Copenhagen : An adult education centre in a Copenhagen suburb has told Muslim students that they can no longer attend classes unless they remove...
Railway minister’s son seeks anticipatory bail in rape case
Bangalore: Karthik Gowda, son of Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Saturday moved a court for anticipatory bail in a rape and cheating case filed...
Improper implementation of RTE Act a cause of concern: Former Member of Planning Commission
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Caritas India in a joint collaboration of Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) organized a National level interface on...
More working women among Malaysian Indians seeking divorce
By IANS,
Kuala Lumpur : A growing number of working women of Indian origin have begun to divorce their husbands, particularly those who do not work, says a report in a Tamil daily here.
The trend has been noticed in Johor state, which has a concentration of ethnic Indians who are estimated at nearly two million in Malaysia.
Malaysia Nanban daily called it "a disturbing trend".
The paper also said that while previously husbands approached law firms to divorce their wives, now it was the other way round.
Rahbar Free Coaching Centre’s award ceremony held
By TCN News,
Patna: The 69th and 70th award ceremony of city-based Rahbar Free Coaching Centre (run by Bihar Anjuman) was held at Phulwari Sharif,...
Recurring debate over Bharat Mata Ki Jai, Maadar E Vatan & Vande Mataram
Repeated debate has always meant more TRPs but never really a step forward
By Nita Khan for TwoCircles.net,
It was August 22, 2011. A week...
Women writers spice up thriller scene
(March 8 is International Women's Day)
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
Two sent to custody for raping two Tanzanian women
New Delhi: Two men arrested for raping two Tanzanian women here were sent to 14 days' judicial custody Saturday, police said.
Kunal Singh, 27, and...
Relative arrested for murder of MGR kin
By IANS,
Chennai : A woman was remanded to judicial custody Monday for allegedly masterminding the murder of her relative, Vijay Kumar, a kin of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M.G. Ramachandran, the police said.
"Sustained investigation revealed that Bhanumati, Vijay Kumar's sister-in-law, enlisted the services of a police constable, Karuna, 39, who in turn hired other mercenaries who killed the deceased on June 4. The motive was a dispute over control on property left behind by the late chief minister," Archana Ramasundaram, additional director general of police, told reporters.
Triple Talaq: Muslim Personal Law Board’s stand is un-Islamic
By Syed Ubaidur Rahman
The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has told the Supreme Court that Triple Talaq in a single sitting is not...
Kiran Bedi advocates tougher laws to fight terrorism
By IANS,
Ahmedabad : Kiran Bedi, the first woman IPS officer, Wednesday said strong anti-terror laws were needed to tackle the growing menace of terrorism in India.
Bedi, who was here to interact with students and parents of Ahmedabad Managament Association (AMA), said the prevailing laws were too weak to fight terrorism.
"Strong laws are needed to keep pace with the new challenges posed by terrorists," Bedi said, adding that toning of the legal system too was needed.
She said policing and the quality of policemen needed to be spruced up with better service conditions.
Mrs. Badar Sayeed: A fearless leader
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
Politics is not a dirty word for her. In fact she enjoys being a politician. Mrs. Badar Sayeed, who represents Triplicane constituency in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assemby, always wanted to be part of the decision making process of the country and politics gives her that opportunity.
Record holder Arunachal mountaineer Anshu to climb Everest for breast cancer awareness
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: After creating world record for being the only mother to scale Mount Everest twice within the span of 10 days, Arunachal Pradesh mountaineer Anshu Jamsenpa is once again gearing up to climb the world’s highest peak. This time around Anshu is in a different mission to spread awareness on Breast cancer among her fellow countrymen.
Three held for human trafficking, two girls rescued
New Delhi: Three people, including a woman, have been arrested for their involvement in human trafficking, while two girls from West Bengal were rescued,...
We are satisfied with CBI probe in Ruchika case: Anand Prakash
By IANS,
Chandigarh: Anand Prakash, the complainant in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation and suicide case, Friday said he was satisfied with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials who met him about the case.
"I am quite satisfied with the CBI officials. They listened to us very patiently and we told them about everything related to the case since Aug 12, 1990," Prakash told reporters, after coming out of CBI camp office here Friday evening.
शर्मनाक : हॉकी की खिलाड़ी वंदना कटारिया को जाति सूचक गाली देने का आरोप
जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net
टोक्यो ओलंपिक में भारत का अर्जेंटीना से महिला हॉकी का सेमीफाइनल मुकाबला हारने के पश्चात, भारतीय खिलाड़ी वंदना कटारिया के परिवार को जातिवादी गालियों...
Through the people’s lens: Modi’s development model so far
Dr Rahul Pandey, Bobby Ramakant and Dr Sandeep Pandey, Citizen News Service - CNS
Story of Modi’s development model so far: Cutting health and education...
Women journalists in India yet to break the glass ceiling: Leela Menon
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : Veteran journalist Leela Menon, who was the first woman in the state to join the profession, Sunday opined that women in Indian media are yet to break the glass ceiling.
"One or two Barkha Dutts are not enough and those women who are at the top are only so by virtue of their family owning the organisation. This clearly shows that the others are being discriminated against," she said.
Menon, 85, who was with the Express group for a long time, now edits the Bharatiya Janata Party mouthpiece "Janmabhoomi" here.
Uber driver arrested for raping, robbing passenger in Mexico
Mexico City : A driver for the ride-hailing service Uber was arrested for raping and robbing a female passenger in Mexico City.
The driver was...
Sex assault on infant, girl in India, Pakistan ‘heart-breaking’: UN spokesperson
United Nations (IANS): Sex assaults on an infant in India and on a girl in Pakistan are "heart-breaking" but the "scourge" of violence against...
Judicial probe into Assam girl’s killing
Guwahati: The Assam government will launch a judicial probe into the gruesome killing of a 16-year-old school girl by suspected Bodo militants, Chief Minister...
‘BJP working to boost presence in southern, eastern states’
New Delhi: The BJP Mahila Morcha is working to strengthen the party's presence at the booth level in the southern and eastern states where...
Even Islam prescribes capital punishment for rapists: Maulana Balyavi on Meerut rape
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Patna: Janta Dal United Rajya Sabha MP Maulana Ghulam Rasool Balyavi has condemned the rape of a Hindu teacher of a Madrassa in Meerut allegedly by a local cleric. He said that even Islam prescribes capital punishment for rapists.
Woman conceives after tubectomy at Uttar Pradesh hospital
By IANS,
Lucknow : The wife of a poor farmer of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh gave birth to twins earlier this week -- even after opting for a tubectomy operation in a government hospital following the birth of their third child last year.
Although the farmer, not willing to be named, says he will make all possible efforts to bring up his five children, the state health department terms this to be a minor issue.
Crime against women highest in Uttar Pradesh: NCW
Ghaziabad : The National Commission for Women (NCW) has claimed that Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of criminal cases against women.
Rekha Sharma, a...
48 arrested for harassing women on Kolkata Metro
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.
Five killed in Jammu gunbattle, four hostages rescued
By IANS,
Jammu : Security forces rescued three children and a woman, who were held hostage during a gunbattle in which three civilians, an army officer and a guerrilla were killed Wednesday in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
The militants, holed up in a house in Chinore on the outskirts of this city, took six civilians hostage Wednesday morning. The police said they were trying to rescue the two remaining hostages before launching an assault on the guerrillas.
Indian-Americans Demand Minister M J Akbar’s Resignation
TCN News:
A week ago about 10 women journalists made public allegations of sexual harassment against current BJP central government minister MJ Akbar. These women...
Ramadan 1435: Elderly
By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net
Two eldery women sit on the stools to eat their iftaar at the Thousand Lights Mosque, Chennai. Respect for parents and...
More to Saudi women than the niqab
By Maha Akeel
Perhaps one of the most misunderstood and stereotyped countries in the world is Saudi Arabia, particularly when it comes to its women.
Rathore deposits passport in court
By IANS,
Chandigarh: Former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore Thursday deposited his passport in a local court as part of the conditions it imposed while extending his post-conviction bail in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case till Feb 8.
Additional district and sessions judge Raj Shekhar Attri extending the bail Wednesday, asked Rathore not to leave the country and deposit his passport in the court within seven days.
Rathore's wife and counsel Abha Rathore submitted the passport in the court on her husband's behalf.
Three family members of bin Laden killed in UK plane crash
London : Three family members of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were killed when a private jet crashed in Britain's Hampshire county,...
In MIT, a celebration of Faiz’s life and works
By TCN News
Cambridge, Massachusetts: A program to celebrate the life and works of one of Urdu’s greatest poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz attracted a room full of Faiz fans to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 27, 2010.
NIA officials record Hadiya’s statement
Kottayam, (IANS): A team of investigators attached to the Kochi unit of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday recorded statements of 24-year-old Hadiya, a...
Kashmir conflict affects all dimensions of women’s life, ‘Women’s Voices in Jammu and Kashmir’...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCirlces.net,
Srinagar: All dimensions of life such as education, overall development, social life and health have been impacted the most due to continued conflict in the Kashmir valley, more than 50% women responded during a survey ‘Women’s voices in Jammu and Kashmir (2014)’.
IWPC protests harassment of woman journalist in Chhattisgarh
New Delhi : The Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC) on Monday protested against the intimidation and harassment of a woman journalist by people said...
Woman alleges gang rape, police file molestation complaint
By IANS,
Noida : A 22-year-old woman was gang raped by a 'godman' practising occult and his associates but the Uttar Pradesh Police registered a complaint of molestation, the victim's family alleged here Saturday.
Om Prakash, the victim's husband, said his wife had gone to Jhulla, a neighbour in village Sirsa Khanpur of Greater Noida district, to get medicines for him Thursday night.
"The 'tantric' (occult practioner) asked me to accompany him to a forested area to collect herbs for the medicines to cure my husband," the 22-year-old victim told IANS.
India’s first all-women post office comes up in Delhi
By IANS,
New Delhi : After announcing India's all women public bank, the central government Friday started an all women post office here on the occasion of the International Women`s Day.
Raje, Gehlot mourn singer Mubarak Begum Shaikh’s death
New Delhi : Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Ashok Gehlot, former Chief Minister, on Tuesday mourned the death of legendary Bollywood playback singer...
Shopian case: Donate-shroud-to-CBI campaign launched by women groups
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,
रमज़ान मुबारक : फिर से लौट आई रमज़ान की रौनक, तस्वीरों में देखिए दिल्ली...
रमज़ान के पाक महीने की आमद के साथ इस बार मुसलमानों में काफा उत्साह दिखाई देता है। इबादत,रहमत और बरक़त का महीना रमज़ान दुनियाभर...
Probe ordered after woman committed ‘Sati’ in Bihar
Patna : A probe has been ordered into a 70-year-old woman allegedly committing "Sati" by jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband Saturday...
BJP has highest MPs/MLAs with declared crime against women cases, says report
New Delhi (IANS): The BJP leads recognized political parties with the highest number of 12 lawmakers at the central and state levels who have...
Mentally ill woman kept chained for 15 years
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.
बिखरते कश्मीर से निकलती दीबा फरहत की कामयाबी की दास्तां
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...
You have strengthened our resolve to continue fighting: Press Release from Students of University...
By TCN News
Hyderabad: The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice condemns in the strongest terms the brutal physical and sexual assaults unleashed...
‘मौत को क़रीब से देखा तो ज़िन्दगी की असली क़ीमत का अंदाज़ लगा’
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
रोहतास (बिहार) : रोटी, कपड़ा व मकान के साथ-साथ बेहतर स्वास्थ्य और शिक्षा… ये पांच ऐसी बुनियादी मानवीय आवश्यकताएं हैं, जिसे...
One killed in landslide in Jammu region
Jammu: One woman was killed and three others seriously injured in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district Monday,...
Woman killed in US operation in Afghanistan
By DPA,
Kabul : US-led troops killed a civilian woman and two militants in a clash in southern Afghanistan, while nine rebels including a senior commander and two policemen were killed in separate attacks, officials said Sunday.
The woman was killed when coalition forces clashed with militants in Zabul province Thursday, US military said in a statement.
One man and two women - all civilians - were wounded in the clash and taken to a military hospital for treatment, it said.
Specially-abled Delhi woman tops civil services exams; women take top four
New Delhi : A physically-challenged Delhi woman topped the civil services examination, as the first four ranks were scooped up by women in...
Five women held for cheating
By IANS,
New Delhi : Five women and a man have been arrested here for allegedly cheating a number of men by taking money from them on the pretext of giving them membership in an exclusive 'friendship club', police said Wednesday.
Police said Sushil Kumar Bhamri, 42, was the kingpin of the racket, which he run from a rented accommodation in Karol Bagh. He had hired five women - all in their mid-20s - to run the 'friendship club'.
Seven mobile phones, four notebooks and seven debit cards were recovered from them.
Woman alleges gang rape in moving car in Ludhiana
Ludhiana : Police here in Punjab on Sunday registered a case after a 21-year-old woman alleged that she was gang-raped by three youths in...
Why I participated in the Yuva Hunkar rally
Text and photos by Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
The Yuva Hunkar rally, which took place in Delhi today, saw a sizeable participation from people from all...
For Assamese media, every Muslim is a potential terrorist
By Aban Abrar Biplob for TwoCircles.net
The recent terrorist attack in Dhaka, allegedly by the Islamic State (ISIS), has seen the Assam Government...
Night shifts affect women more than men: Study
London : Sleep is an important part of our biological cycle and disruption to a good night's sleep, especially after working in night shifts,...
India steps into history with women’s quota bill
By Minu Jain, IANS,
New Delhi: India's politics took a decisive step towards change Tuesday with its upper house passing a historic bill giving one-third representation to women in parliament and state legislatures, crossing the biggest hurdle in the road towards political empowerment for women in the world's largest democracy.
Women, religious minorities should be protected: Rajnath
New Delhi : Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday underlined the need for women, religious minorities and people belonging to the north-eastern region of India...
The right to life must be guaranteed and culture of impunity must end: Anjuman...
Anjuman Ara Begum is Ph.D scholar of Department of Law, Gauhati University, Assam, India and the Regional Research Associate for the North Eastern states for South Asia Forum for Human Rights for the Project Understanding Impunity. She has researched the armed conflict in North Eastern states and its impact on civilians since 2004. Kashif-ul-Huda of TwoCircles.net interviewed her about her research. Opinions given are her personal. Read some of the cases after the interview.
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Girl stabbed to death in Delhi
New Delhi : A 19-year-old girl died after being stabbed for objecting to a man who allegedly abused her on Thursday in central...