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AAP protests crime against women in UP

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Ghaziabad: The AAP organized a protest here against rising crime against women in Uttar Pradesh under the Samajwadi party government. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) district...

Trinamool MP rape remark: Arrest demanded, wife apologises

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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul's rape remark row intensified with the Congress and a rights group demanding his arrest and his wife apologising...

Ayesha Noor, the Karate champion from slums of Kolkata conferred with Tejaswini award

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TCN News Ayesha Noor, four times gold winner, also known as 'golden girl' of Kolkata, has been conferred with ‘Tejaswini’ award at the ICCR, Kolkata organised...

Woman raped by childhood friend on pretext of job

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New Delhi: A 30-year-old fitness centre employee has been arrested for raping his childhood woman friend here after promising to provide her a job,...

‘Two Women’ and More: A diva’s remarkable story (Book Review)

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By Vikas Datta, Title: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life ; Author: Sophia Loren; Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK; Pages: 352; Special Indian price: Rs.699

TRS women activists protest raw deal

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By IANS, Hyderabad : Angry at the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) for not fielding a single woman candidate for next month's state assembly elections, the party's women activists Saturday staged protests here by covering the face of the statue of 'Telangana Talli' (Mother Telangana) statue and tying its hands and legs. Raising slogans, the women activists demanded that justice be done to them through proper representation in the list of candidates for both the Lok Sabha and assembly elections.

In delhi, nearly all rapes are by relatives, neighbours

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By IANS,

Pink autos launched for women in Ghaziabad

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Ghaziabad : The Ghaziabad police on Tuesday launched pink auto-rickshaws exclusively for women passengers to ensure their safety at night. Flagging off the service, Ghaziabad...

No women as officers of border forces, says government

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women cannot be appointed as officers in the three border guarding forces -- Border Security Force (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), according to the union home ministry's latest rules. This is despite the fact that the same recruitment rules provide for recruitment of women officers in the country's largest central paramilitary force under the home ministry - Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) - and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

Muslim women and change

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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.

Irani education controversy: Court seeks verificiation papers

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New Delhi : A court here on Friday sought documents of verification from the Election Commission of India and Delhi University in a case...

Death penalty can’t prevent crimes against women: Amnesty

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By IANS New Delhi, July 9: After the Supreme Court decided to reaffirm its verdict of upholding the death sentence to four convicts who gang-raped...

आस्था के नाम पर धोखा : ऑनलाइन मूर्ति मंगाई, खेत मे दबाई , अगले...

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के उन्नाव जिले में 3 लोगों की अपने ही गांव के मासूम ग्रामीणों को ठगने की विस्तृत योजना विफल रही। एक...

UN chief highlights rural women’s role in global progress

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United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that rural women are the key agents for sustainable development as the international community moves towards...

Delhi HC refuses to entertain plea against Uber

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday refused to entertain a plea that accused global cab company Uber of doing business in India without...

Ness Wadia booked over Preity Zinta’s charge

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Mumbai: An FIR on Bollywood actress Preity Zinta's alleged molestation charge against her ex-boyfriend and business partner, industrialist Ness Wadia was registered Saturday, police...

Patna University to have a new hostel for minority girls

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By TwoCircles.net, staff reporter, Patna: Bihar’s prestigious Patna University (PU) will soon have a new hostel for minority girl students. The hostel, constructed by the state government’s minority welfare department, will be ready for students in a month.

Jamia administration bows down to women hostellers; accepts all their demands

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Delhi: The administration of Jamia Millia Islamia accepted all six demands made by the women hostellers on March 19 after more...

Women stressed during pregnancy have unhappy kids

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By IANS, Sydney : Women stressed during pregnancy were more likely to have children with a higher risk of developing behavioural and emotional problems. Researchers analysed data from more than 1,700 children in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, jointly conducted by the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and the University of Western Australia (UWA). The findings are drawn from child behaviour checklists undertaken at two and five years of age.

Orissa to reserve half of Panchayati Raj seats for women

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government Friday announced 50 percent reservation for women in Pachayati Raj bodies. Speaking on the occasion of the 94th birth anniversary of legendary Biju Patnaik, Naveen Patnaik said that the state will soon take steps to reserve 50 percent seats in pachayati raj systems. He also added that, "it was the dream of Biju Patnaik to empower women". The state is observing the birth anniversary as Panchayati Raj Day.

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...

सवाल : आखिर कौन दे रहा है जुनैद और नासिर के हत्यारों को संरक्षण...

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आकिल हुसैन । Twocircles.net हरियाणा में गाय की तस्करी के आरोप में नासिर और जुनैद को गाड़ी समेत जलानें की घटना को 48 घंटे हो...

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.

Women and witches

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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Assam girl still waits for justice

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By TwoCircles.net news desk New Delhi: Justice still hesitates to come near certain people. Ruksana Begum of Hailakandi district in Assam is one such unlucky girl, who has been waiting for justice to come her way for more than two years.

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),"

Two Orissa women injured in acid attack

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: Two women in this Orissa capital were critically injured when a youth allegedly threw acid on them, police said. "Two girls, Rashmirekha Behera, 23, and Kainath Ali, 21, suffered serious burn injuries following the attack. We have detained the person. We are trying to establish the motive behind attack," Deputy Commissioner of Police Amitendranath Sinha said. The women were attacked while they were waiting for public transport near Imartidevi College here.

Woman found dead in Delhi, police suspect dowry killing

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 26-year-old woman was found dead here Sunday, the police said, with her family accusing her husband and in-laws of killing her for not meeting their dowry demands. Renu, a mother of two, was found dead with blood and froth oozing out of her mouth in her Dwarka residence, the police said. The police said an anonymous caller informed them Sunday noon that a woman was murdered by her husband and in-laws in Dwarka. The body bore several injury marks and has been sent for post-mortem examinaion, the police said.

After UN speech, Lucknow girl to go green

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By IANS, Lucknow: While most children of her age look forward to playing with friends in summer vacation, 13-year-old Yugratna Srivastava, who made history by delivering a speech at a United Nations summit last year, has plans to green the city. Srivastava, who appeared for Class 9 exam this year, will plant saplings in different neighbourhoods of Uttar Pradesh's capital. "I always wanted to do something constructive during summer vacation therefore I decided to launch a plantation drive," Srivastava, a student of Saint Fidelis College here, told IANS over phone Saturday.

ANC Women’s League demands justice in Pistorius’ murder case

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By IANS,

Zahida Khatun Sherwani: The walled poetess of Urdu literature

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Zahida Khatun Sherwani (1894-1922) is one of the early female poets of Urdu literature who took the giant leap of challenging the normative structure....

Women protest Meghalaya minister’s derogatory remarks

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By IANS, Shillong: All women's organisations Monday boycotted the official International Women's Day celebration in Meghalaya, one of India's matriarchal states, in protest over the deputy chief minister's alleged derogatory remarks against them. The organisations instead held protest rallies and a signature campaign against Deputy Chief Minister B.M. Lanong's remarks.

Pakistan: President signs women protection bill, making it a law

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By NNN-APP, Karachi : President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed the bill, providing for increased punishment over harassment of women at workplaces. The Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Bill 2009” Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2009 amends both the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, “increasing the punishment for the crime up to three years in prison and a fine of up to Rs 500,000. The President signed the bill in the presence of a large number of women hailing from different sections of the society.

Woman uses RTI to get salary details of cheating husband

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By IANS, New Delhi : The pay particulars of a government employee cannot be considered personal information, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled, while upholding the right of a "betrayed" woman to get details of her husband's salary.

AIDWA condemns Dalit youth’s murder in Maharashtra

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New Delhi: The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) Thursday condemned the murder of a Dalit youth in Maharashtra in the name of honour...

Pakistan offers to share with India lessons on women’s quota

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By IANS, New Delhi : Amid continued uncertainty here over the fate of a bill to reserve seats for women in parliament and legislative bodies, Pakistan has offered to share its experience in successfully implementing a law in this regard. "We have enacted a law where 20 percent of parliamentarians have to be women. The law was based on recommendations based on a study by NGO Aurat Foundation. India can replicate the model and if it wants we can share the study," Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik said here late Thursday.

UPA believed in work rather than empty talk: Manmohan Singh

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Guwahati : Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said his UPA government had always believed in work rather than empty talk and the...

Rajasthan woman beaten with chain to ‘free’ her of evil spirit

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Jaipur : A 32-year-old woman resident of a small village in Rajasamand district of Rajasthan was beaten up severely with an iron chain by...

Muslim women must press for their rights

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(March 8 is International Women's Day) By Firoz Bakht Ahmed, When her parents asked her to wear a "burqa" (veil) while attending classes at the Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi, Rubina refused to comply with the demand. She was barred from going to the university and sat at home washing dishes.

A petition ‘Justice for Jashodaben’ floats in response to PM Modi’s triple talaq statement

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By Siddhant Mohan and A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Expressing Union government’s opposition to the practice of triple talaq in Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday...

Urdu Girls High School Gaya celebrates golden jubilee

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By Tameemuddin Humble, TwoCircles.net, Gaya: Magadh University Vice Chancellor Dr Md. Ishtiaque made the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of “Urdu Girls High School Gaya”, a Bihar Government aided minority secondary school, an introspective not only for the school but for the community in the area.

Himachal tribal women don’t come under inheritance law

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By IANS, Shimla: Tribal women in Himachal Pradesh do not come under inheritance law if there is a male member in the family, Revenue Minister Kaul Singh said Tuesday.

Need for a national study on Muslim women: Muslim Mahila Andolan

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: While demanding the implementation of Sachar Committee recommendations, the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) has urged the government to conduct a national study on the status of the Muslim women in India on the scale of Sachar Committee study. During its daylong annual convention held on November 27 in New Delhi, BMMA has demanded immediate implementation of the 33% reservation for women in Assembly and Parliament.

बिन ईंधन का सिलेंडर, फ्लॉप साबित हो रही है मोदी की उज्ज्वला योजना

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जावेद अनीस, TwoCircles.net के लिए मध्य प्रदेश के शाजापुर ज़िले के कांजा गांव की निवासी मंजूबाई का प्रधानमंत्री उज्ज्वला योजना के तहत मिला गैस...

Woman accuses Jharkhand BJP lawmaker of sexual assault

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Ranchi : A woman has lodged a compliant against Jharkhand's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Janki Yadav for trying to develop physical relation with...

17 Muslims (6 women) win in six municipalities in West Bengal

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By Zaidul Haque, Twocircles.net

A week after protests, AMU keeps peaceful dissent alive

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Text and photos by Meher Ali, TwoCircles.net Aligarh: On the night of 15 December, Ayesha (20) and Tuba (21), two students of AMU sat in...

Women more vulnerable to rheumatoid arthritis

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By IANS, London : Women appear to be more vulnerable to rheumatoid arthritis than men, according to the latest research. Tuulikki Sokka from the Jyvaskyla Central Hospital, Finland, along with members of the QUEST rheumatoid arthritis (RA) programme, explored links between gender and disease activity measures, in more than 6,000 RA patients from 70 sites in 25 countries. "Generally, women report more severe symptoms, greater disability, and often have higher work disability rates than men," she said.

Life term for killing husband upheld

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday upheld the life sentence for a woman who had killed her husband in 1996 for marrying another girl. Asra Bano had strangled her husband to death in July 1996 after she came to know that he had secretly married another girl. According to the prosecution, Asra Bano had chopped off her husband Raju's private parts after killing him. She had then gone to the chamber of a public prosecutor in the Delhi High Court and confessed her crime.

RTI activist in trouble for asking too many questions

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By IANS, Agra : You could be asking for trouble by asking too many questions under the Right to Information Act. This was learnt the hard way by an activist here, who was told by the police that he was interfering in government work as he persisted with queries in the case of a woman kept in a protection home for seven years without being charged.

Call special sitting on violence against women: Rajya Sabha member

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

बुर्क़ा : कई जगह लड़कियां अब इसे पहनने से डर रही हैं

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली : भारत दुनिया भर में अपनी विविधताओं के लिए जाना जाता है. यहां का संविधान सबको अपनी धार्मिक पहचान रखने...

More Indian women marrying before turning 25: Survey

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By IANS,

BSP leader joins Delhi Congress

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By IANS, New Delhi : Terming the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) "turncoat", a prominent woman leader of the party Tuesday joined the Delhi unit of the Congress. "I feel the BSP is a turncoat party and people in Delhi should not vote for such parties," president of the BSP's women's wing Vinod Kumari declared at a function at the Delhi Congress office. The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) farmers wing vice-president also joined the Congress and vowed to make the party win the Nov 29 Delhi elections.

Five years after Ayesha Meera was gang raped and murdered family still waiting for...

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Urdukidzcartoon.com connecting Urdu language with a new generation of kids

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

Remarkable increase in the number of women parliamentarians in this elections

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

Women as Panchayats leaders: The real picture

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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

To the rescue of women in Thailand

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By Shen Min, Ling Shuo, Xinhua, Bangkok : Sitting at her house in Bangkok, Pavena Hongsakul, at her fifties, still keeps the feminine grace and soft-spoken manner that distance herself from the image of a well-known women's rights advocate in normal conception. For the last decade, Ms. Pavena has been witnessing and dealing with the darkest side of the Thai modern country facing women -- rape, abuse, domestic violence, forced prostitution, sexual harassment and human trafficking.

Campaign for women’s reservation bill gains momentum

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By IANS, New Delhi : Barely five days after it was launched, the civil society movement to support the passage of the women's reservation bill has started gaining momentum. Nearly a hundred people have signed up the online petition to the president and scores of others have taken up the cause on the social networking site, Facebook.

Remembering Qurratulain Hyder : The fierce, unapologetic and bold Urdu writer

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By Sharjeel Usmani for TwoCircles.net The Union Hall building of Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union (AMUSU) is buzzing with supporters of the newly elected...

Irom Sharmila tells court she wants to settle in life

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New Delhi : Human rights activist Irom Sharmila Wednesday told a court hearing a case of attempted suicide during her fast-unto-death at Jantar Mantar...

Khobragade reinstated as director in MEA

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New Delhi : Devyani Khobragade, the 1999-batch IFS officer whose arrest and handcuffing in New York in 2013 over alleged visa fraud led to...

महाश्वेता देवी : श्रद्धांजलि के साथ राजनीति की चुप्पी

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अनिल मिश्र शोक के वक़्त कोई खटराग शोभा नहीं देता. ख़ामोशी ही सबसे उचित लहज़ा होती है. लेकिन जब जीवन के उत्सव और उसके मूल्यों...

टेलर नाज़िर से कपड़े सिलवाने आई थी सपना,भीड़ ने पीट डाला

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के बरेली में मुस्लिम युवक और युवती पर भीड़ द्वारा हमला करने का मामला सामने आया हैं। बरेली के एक...

Sexual harassment of serious concern: Himachal acting CJ

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Shimla: Violence against women and sexual harassment at the workplace are serious concerns and the judiciary can play a major role in delivering gender...

After Mulayam questions lack of recruitment, UP govt says it gave jobs to 4.58...

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By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net Three days after Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav raised questions over Akhilesh Yadav-led government for not giving jobs to...

Over half of electorate vote in Bihar

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Patna : Women and young voters made up the majority of the electorate who Thursday cast their ballot for seven Lok Sabha seats and...

Woman official in Punjab attempts suicide

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By IANS, Patiala : A woman revenue official in Punjab has been admitted to a hospital here after she attempted suicide in this town, 80 km from Chandigarh, police officials said Thursday. The woman, Jaspal Kaur, a 'Naib Tehsildar' in the revenue department, consumed some poisonous substance after paying obeisance at a gurudwara (Sikh shrine) here Wednesday. She was rushed to the Rajindra Medical college and hospital here where doctors said that her condition was now stable.

One killed in fight over balloon in West Bengal town

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By IANS, Kolkata : An altercation among children over a balloon led to a scuffle between their grandmothers in a West Bengal town. The same evening, one of the women, a Trinamool Congress activist, was attacked by a group of teenagers following which she succumbed to her injuries at a hospital here, the police said Wednesday. The incident took place in Naihati town of North 24 Parganas district, about 40 km from here.

WRB is against the essence of social justice: Dr. Ejaz Ali

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By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net, Lucknow: The Rajya Sabha MP of Janta Dal-United (JD-U) Dr M Ejaz Ali on Tuesday stated that the Women's Reservation Bill in present format will turn the parliament into a 'kitty club' of high society ladies. Ali was in the city to attend a workshop on the issue organised by All India Dalit Muslim Morcha (AIDMM) at UP Press Club in Lucknow on Tuesday.

Study finds only 66% of Muslim women using medical care for child delivery

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By TCN News New Delhi: A study published in the online journal PLos One has found poor migrant Muslim women to be one of the groups least likely to use safe medical care for child delivery.

Pellet victim Insha clears Class 10 exams, aims to become a doctor

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Srinagar: On Tuesday, January 9, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) declared the result of students appeared in 10th...

Congress nixes Pawar’s idea to reduce women’s quota

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Congress Monday rejected Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar's suggestion to reduce the women's reservation quota from 33 percent to about 20-21 percent to help arrive at a consensus, and said there is no question of diluting the legislation. "Absolutely no proposal...no such idea," Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said.

Preventing crimes against women: are stringent laws the only solution?

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By Ram Puniyani,

Fast track courts for crimes against women in UP

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Lucknow: All 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh will soon have fast track courts for crimes against women, an officials said Saturday. A decision to this...

MP minister bats for UP government on Badaun, draws Congress’ ire

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New Delhi: Babulal Gaur, home minister in the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, Thursday came to the defence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh...

‘Women have a major role in global economy’

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By IANS,

Woman forced to eat human excreta on witchcraft charge

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By IANS, Patna: A woman in a village in Bihar's Sitamarhi district was forced by some people to eat human excreta and drink urine after being branded a witch, police said Saturday.

Women fight shame in flood-hit Bihar

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By Imran Khan, Supaul (Bihar) : Malti and Bhagwati Devi are just two of the thousands of people who have had to abandon their homes...

Women offer prayers and pongala to Attukal Devi in Thiruvananthapuram

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : Close to four and a half million women devotees cooked sweet pongala - a concoction of rice and jaggery - on...

‘Honour killers’ death sentence commuted to life imprisonment

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday commuted, to life imprisonment, the death sentence to three men for killing a teenage couple for "honour"...

Rape is fault of the victims, say half of women: survey

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By IANS, London : Half of women think that rape victims are to blame for the attack, a media report said Monday quoting a British study. The poll of 1,000 adults found that 54 percent of women believe rape victims should be held accountable for their attack and women were more likely than men to blame victims, with those aged between 18 and 24 the most likely to judge, Daily Mail reported.

Women fume at entry restrictions at Haji Ali shrine

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By IANS, Mumbai : The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), a women's group, Tuesday expressed anger over entry restrictions for women at the iconic Haji Ali shrine in the city.

Woman held in hoax email threat case in Kolkata

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By IANS, Kolkata : A woman was held by the Kolkata Police Wednesday in connection with the hoax e-mail threat about serial bombings in the city. "We have detained Sabitri Dandapath, 40, for interrogation. She used to maintain the register of the cyber café and worked as a domestic help at the owner's residence. We are interrogating her to get more information about the case," Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner (Detective Department) Dilip Adak said.

I am in race to become governor: Indian American woman

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By Gurmukh Singh, IANS, Toronto : Yet another Indian American, this time a woman born to Sikh parents from Amritsar, is in the race to become governor of a US state. Nikki Randhawa Haley, 37, who is in the fray for the post of governor of South Carolina in the US, says she is in the race to win. If she gets elected, Nikki will be the first Indian American woman to become governor in the US, and the second Indian after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana state.

New campaign to spread awareness against dowry

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By IANS, New Delhi : Concerned over continuing cases of harassment of women, the women and child development ministry Wednesday launched a new campaign to rope in school girls and sensitise them against the custom of dowry. Under the campaign 'Daughters against Dowry', the ministry plans to organise workshops in schools across the country to sensitise girls against the custom of dowry.

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...

15 women organizations in Telangana demand release of all persons arrested for anti CAA-NRC-NPR...

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TCN News Telangana: More than 15 women’s organizations from Telangana on Friday strongly condemned the arrests of anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protestors by the Delhi Police and the...

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

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

Young women pressurised for sex even when not feeling like it

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By IANS, Sydney : Young women were pressurised into having sex with partners even when they didn't feel like it, according to a study. "Thirty-seven percent of young women who took part in the study had experienced pressure from partners to have sex when they didn't want to," said Moira Carmody, assistant professor at the University of Western Sydney. "This involved manipulation such as 'if you love me you will have sex', through to ignoring non-verbal and verbal indications of uncertainty or refusal, and even using physical force," said Carmody.

Best time in history to be a woman: Clinton

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By IANS, New Delhi : Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday said that the modern age is the best time to be a woman. "It is exciting and if there is any better time in human history to be woman it is right now in the modern world. For me, this is a tremendous opportunity and responsibility that I willingly accept," Hillary told an audience of over 1,000 at the Delhi University Convention Hall in the Old Viceregal Lodge. The event was hosted by Delhi University Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental.

No consensus on women’s quota bill: Bansal

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By IANS,

Women manage finance better: Chanda Kochhar

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

ASEAN to create commission on women and children next year

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By NNN-PNA, Cha-Am, Hua Hin, Thailand : The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will create next year a special body that will be tasked to protect the rights of women and children in the region. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva bared this Friday shortly after the inauguration of the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), which marked the first day of the three-day 15th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits being held here in southern Thailand.

Meira Kumar highlights women’s role in Indian polity

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Nitish recommends CBI probe into shelter home rapes

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BY IANS: Patna, July 26: Under pressure from opposition, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday recommended a CBI probe into the alleged rape of over...

‘Prostitutes better than women who raised anti-national slogans’

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Gurgaon : Stirring up the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) issue, Jawahar Yadav, officer on special duty (OSD) to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar,...

Handymen husbands for rent in Argentina

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By Maricel Seeger, IANS, Buenos Aires : Any woman can get a husband at an hourly rate in Buenos Aires, thanks to a company offering to do the repairs and installations that every home needs, and all "without problems in the bedroom". Husband for Rent is a successful Argentine company that for 50 pesos ($15.50) an hour will undertake domestic chores for women who don't have a "handyman" around the house, the Spanish news agency EFE reported.

Protests as two women pray at Sabarimala, Kerala shutdown called

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Thiruvananthapuram/Sabarimala, Jan 2 (IANS) Protests erupted across Kerala on Wednesday after two women in the hitherto banned age group entered the Sabarimala temple before...

Workshops to raise voting awareness among women

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

Why Triple Talaq Bill aims at ‘Criminalising’ the Muslim community, not ensuring gender justice

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By Badre Alam Khan for TwoCircles.net Since the BJP government came into power in 2014, it has initiated and purposed to make legislation on Muslim...

India-born woman gets 20-year jail for killing husband

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New York : An India-born woman in the US state of Texas, convicted of setting her husband afire, has been sentenced to 20 years...

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

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

Booked for ‘resisting ABVP’, Muslim student from Karnataka vows to fight for right to...

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After a video of her confronting male students went viral, 18-year-old Hiba Sheik has emerged as a face of the fight against the Hijab...

Ramadan 1433: Quran

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By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net Ramadan is also the month of Quran, Muslims' holy book. Two ladies seen reading Quran in Jama Masjid of Delhi. Link: TCN Ramadan...

Anti-trafficking bill ignores consenting sex workers

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By Somrita Ghosh for IANS: New Delhi/Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) Geeta (name changed), a resident of Sangli village in Maharashtra, was 19 when she became...

Woman injured in crude bomb blast in Nandigram

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By IANS, Kolkata : A woman member of Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) was injured Sunday in a crude bomb blast at Nandigram in West Bengal's East Midnapore district, the police said. Crude bombing and firing started early Sunday between activists of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Trinamool Congress over land acquisition at five villages of Nandigram - Osmanchowk, Jalpai No. 7, Jadubarichowk, Sonachura and Bhutarmor.

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

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

Over 3,000 Delhi women two-wheeler riders ticketed

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New Delhi : At least 3,236 women two-wheeler and pillion riders were issued challans or traffic tickets for not wearing helmets in the national...

Single largest gathering of women at Kerala festival

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India’s much neglected periodic Haats or weekly markets: An equitable model for small farmers?

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Amid the farmers' protests in India, a TCN Ground report from the weekly markets or haats of West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand demonstrates a...

Instead of lowering prices, BJP lawmaker Meenakshi Lekhi asks to pay taxes on Sanitary...

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New Delhi (IANS): BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, who was part of a panel discussion on "Loss Fertility in Females" at the inaugural Menstrual Awareness...

हज 2022 : ‘हज मोबाइल एप’ से होगा आवेदन,तैयारी में जुटी सरकार

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net हज 2022 के ऑनलाइन आवेदन प्रक्रिया को 1 नवंबर से शुरू हो गई है। केंद्रीय अल्पसंख्यक मंत्री मुख्तार अब्बास नकवी ने मुंबई के हज...

Empowering women can tackle gender disparity: President

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By IANS, New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherkjee Monday said here that gender disparity can be tackled only through economic empowerment of women and improving their role in governance.

Women’s commission to take up death of Indian woman

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Khudai Khidmatgar organised workshop on socio-economic and health rights of domestic workers

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TCN News Delhi unit of Khudai Khidmatgar organised a workshop with domestic workers of Okhla area, to create awareness regarding socio-economic and health rights issues...

Seven women in Modi’s council of ministers

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New Delhi : Seven women Monday took oath as ministers in the Narendra Modi government, and one of them is set to be a...

A woman, a Muslim, and an artist: How a 23-year-old in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar...

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23-year-old Anjum, who lives in Jamia Nagar, a middle-income Muslim-majority enclave near the Yamuna River in Delhi, has been actively involved in art-based...

Tax officer’s wife booked for running sex racket

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Gurgaon: The wife of a tax officer has been booked here for running a sex racket, police said Wednesday. The racket operating out of a...

Rahul Gandhi flays Centre for ‘indifference’ to Dalits

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Jaipur : Demanding a CBI inquiry into the rape of a now-dead minor Dalit girl in Rajasthan, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday...

Two Delhi women raped after promise of marriage

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By IANS, New Delhi: Two women alleged that they were raped by two men who promised they would marry them but later backed out, police said Tuesday. Both the accused have been arrested.

DCW summons BJP legislator in AAP leader case

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New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday issued summons to BJP legislator O.P. Sharma in connection with the alleged attack on...

Men outnumber women in media in India, Pakistan

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

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.

BJP divided on women’s bill, Advani calls MPs for tea

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday denied reports that it was divided over the women's quota bill but the rift was evident with a section of MPs led by Yogi Adityanath saying that quotas for women were "needless" and would be opposed in the Lok Sabha. As the signs of disquiet grew, veteran leader and chairperson of the BJP parliamentary party L.K. Advani called for a meeting of the party's Lok Sabha MPs at his residence over tea Thursday evening.

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.

In Bajrang Muni’s prouncements, anti-Muslim hatred is rife

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Mahant Bajrang Muni Udasin was arrested earlier in April 2022 for 'threatening to kidnap and rape Muslim women,' but was soon released on bail....

Women activists hold press conference condemning love jihad ‘myth’, say individuals have right...

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Women and civil rights activists and lawyers held a joint press conference in Delhi and Mumbai on “Right to Choose and Politics of Love Jihad.” Speakers condemned the propaganda over so called ‘Love-Jihad,’ dismissing it as myth and stressed on the fact that individual women or men not only have the right to choose their partners but are also free to choose their faith in a secular democratic country.

Woman commits suicide, blames husband, sister

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New Delhi : A 22-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan. She left a note blaming her husband and her...

Society must be proactive in checking violence against women: Sonia

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

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By Sayema Sahar for TwoCircles.net,

Savita Ali: Raising her voice to highlight atrocities against Dalit and Muslim women

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Patna: Savita Ali remembers the time when she was in school, in a village called Naraina, district Panipat. She had just...

Asma Nama- Sensitivity Quotient: A Simple Note on Simplicity and Sensitivity

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By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net, A Face book post said. An Afghani child falls asleep after hard work at a brick kiln. Children as young as three year olds do hard labour, as seen here.

UN chief mourns Indian gang-rape victim’s death

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Poster exhibition on Muslim women’s rights organized in Patna

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,

Court observation on Muslim women’s photos valid, says community

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court's observation that Muslim women will have to lift their veils to be photographed for the electoral rolls is valid, members of the community say. A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma had made the observation while deliberating on a plea to prohibit display of photographs of burqa-clad Muslim women in the voters' list.

First woman co-pilot to fly largest aircraft of Indian Air Force

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By Ritu Sharma, IANS, Nagpur : One more gender barrier fell to the determination of women as Squadron Leader Veena Saharan became the first woman co-pilot to fly one of the mightiest and heaviest aircraft of the Indian Air Force - the Russian-built Illyushin-76 (IL-76). She will first co-pilot IL-76, renamed by the IAF as Gajraj (Elephant), and after 40 hours of flying she will become the pilot.

33 percent reservation for women in paramilitary forces: Rajnath

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Hyderabad: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday announced 33 percent reservations would be provided for women in all paramilitary forces, including Central Industrial...

Women joining hands to protect secularism in the country

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

TN Board topper Jasmin Banu felicitated by TMMK

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: Jasmin Banu, the Tamil Nadu topper of Class X exam 2010, was today felicitated by Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) here. Banu of Tirunalveli Town MPL High School topped the entire state in board exam by scoring 495 marks out of 500. At felicitation program held at TMMK office, Banu who was accompanied by her parents was presented a laptop on her achievement. “My hard work paid me,” said she who comes from a below average family. She studied at a government school.

Muslims, though most neglected, little interested in using RTI: Perveen Amanullah

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, It was a good step by UPA government in 2005 when it introduced Right to Information (RTI) Act as it gave a ray of hope to millions of citizens seeking transparency and accountability in government. Four years down the line, have citizens got real fruits of the Act? Yes, but not fully, says Mrs Perveen Amanullah, president, Bihar Suchna Adhikar Munch, in an interview with Manzar Bilal of TwoCircles.net on the 4th anniversary of RTI. RTI Act completed its four years. How do you think people benefited from this act during these years?

वानिया शेख़ के घर पहुंचे चंद्रशेखर, आयोग ने भी स्वतः लिया संज्ञान

Women
जिब्रानउद्दीन। Twocircles.net सुभारती विश्वविद्यालय की छात्रा वानिया शेख़ आत्महत्या मामले में भीम आर्मी चीफ चंद्रशेखर ने मेरठ में वानिया शेख़ के घर जाकर वानिया के...

Gang-rape case: Notice to police, government on media’s plea

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the city government and police on the plea of journalists seeking access to the proceedings of the Dec 16 gang-rape trial.

Children play pivotal role in making Chhattisgarh villages open-defecation free

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By Ashish Mishra Raipur : Arti Rawte, an 11-year-old tribal girl from Dhobni village of Maoist-hit Rajanandgaon district in Chhattisgarh, used to wake up at...

Bodies of missing woman, minor daughters found in Kolkata

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Kolkata: The bodies of a 37-year-old woman and her two minor daughters who had gone missing nearly a fortnight ago were recovered from inside...

BSP leader’s son held in sexual assault case

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Bangalore:Hyder Nasir, 24, son of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Sheik Bahadur, was arrested here in a sexual assault case, registered against him and...

Lost in Terror: Voices of many women, penned by one

Women
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi : Kashmir is on the boil; the "Azadi" chant reverberates from every corner; normal life is at a halt....

Sikh woman at 60 becomes Canada’s oldest mother

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By IANS, Toronto : A 60-year-old Sikh woman has become the oldest mother in Canada by giving birth to twin boys in Calgary city this week. Ranjit Hayer and her husband Jagir Hayer, who have been trying to have a baby for the past 40 years, finally became proud parents of the twins delivered Tuesday in a city hospital. After being rejected by Canadian doctors for in-vitro fertilization because of her old age, the woman had reportedly traveled to her native India get fertilized with a donated egg.

जोधपुर में सैकड़ो की गिरफ्तारी के बाद कर्फ्यू में ढील,सामान्य हो रहे हालात

Women
सोमू आनंद।Twocircles.net जोधपुर में साम्प्रदायिक तनाव के मामले में पुलिस ने 200 से अधिक लोगों को गिरफ्तार किया है। कर्फ्यू और इंटरनेट पर रोक 8...
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