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Can Shariah be changed?

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By Asghar Ali Engineer,

Women politicians get a raw deal in Madhya Pradesh

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By Sanjay Sharma, IANS, Bhopal : Notwithstanding their tall claims of empowering women, political parties in Madhya Pradesh have let them down in nominations for the Nov 27 state assembly polls. Despite 47 per cent voters out of total 35.9 million electors being women, both the main political parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, which have been advocating 33 percent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, have been miserly in fielding them.

Strict curfew in Kashmir: Women march to ‘Pather Masjid’ foiled; 5 injured

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By Bilal Furqani, AIP Srinagar: Despite a strict security in Kashmir, scores of people including women and children tried to take a protest march to Pather Masjid today afternoon on the call given by Hurriyat (G). Dozens of women demonstrators, led by the Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chief Asiya Andrabi, defied the strict security lockdown in the Srinagar and staged a noisy anti-India rally. The women later dispersed after police tried to block the rally.

No gender discrimination in Islam: Muslim intellectuals

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By TCN Special Correspondent,

Ramdev says ‘honeymoon’ remark misinterpreted, complaint filed

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New Delhi/Lucknow: A day after his comment on Rahul Gandhi visiting Dalit homes for his "honeymoon" sparked outrage, Baba Ramdev Saturday apologised and said...

Samajwadi women wing chief joins BSP

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By IANS, Lucknow : The Samajwadi Party suffered a jolt Saturday when its national women's wing chief Ranjana Bajpai quit to join her party's sworn foe -- the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Attributing her decision to the "neglect of Brahmins in the Samajwadi Party", she pointedly accused Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh of having "completely hijacked the party". Her exit came within days of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's abrupt move to axe her as the candidate for the Sitapur Lok Sabha seat.

Women protest in Manipur to demand release of student activists

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Imphal : Scores of women held protests here on Sunday to demand the unconditional release of five Kangleipak Students Association activists arrested on charge...

‘India ignoring UN’s recommendations to curb violence against women’

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New Delhi : India is ignoring the recommendations made by the United Nations on issues of discrimination and violence against women, experts said here...

Beautician course for female inmates in Bengal correctional homes

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Kolkata: The West Bengal government has started a beautician course for female convicts within four walls of correctional homes, a minister said here Monday. Participating...

Implement reservations else say goodbye to Muslims votes in 2014: Islamic summit in Hyderabad

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

68 percent Delhi women at risk of cardiovascular diseases

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New Delhi : Over 68 percent of women above the age of 35 years in Delhi are at the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD),...

Women’s commission to act against erring officials

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) will take action against two senior Haryana officials for not giving the correct sequence of events that led to the death of a woman in mysterious circumstances at a businessman's home. Suspecting the case to be of murder, instead of suicide as reported by the Haryana police, the commission said it was aghast that Rosila Kujur, who was a Christian, was cremated rather than buried.

‘बीफ़ के मुद्दे पर धार्मिक ध्रुवीकरण करके ब्राह्मणवादी सरकार मूलनिवासी बहुजनों को आपस में...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : बामसेफ की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष डॉ. मनीषा बांगर ने देश की मौजूदा स्थिति को लोकतंत्र के लिए ख़तरनाक बताया है....

आख़िर तीन तलाक़ पर क़ानून की बात इसी वक़्त क्यों उठी?

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नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए जी हां, क्यों तलाक़-ए-बिद्दत यानी एक म‍जलिस की तीन तलाक़ का मुद्दा सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फ़ैसले के लगभग तीन महीने बाद...

Dalit Mahila Swabhiman Yatra culminates after month long journey

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By Lalita, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: On March 12, 2014, hundreds of Dalit women from many states, including Bihar, Chattishgarh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, arrived at Jantar Mantar in Delhi for a large public meeting to share experiences and express collective declaration for their rights and dignity.

Patna Muslims react to the Women’s Reservation Bill

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Patna: After much hue and cry, at last Rajya Sabha has passed the Women's Reservation Bill, one of the most controversial bill, on 9th March 2010. Though its advocates named it a historical step towards women empowerment and necessary for active political participation of women but its opponent termed it as biggest blunder in democratic India and an attempt to deprive Minority and backward classes people.

Rajasthan’s Dalit women celebrate ‘liberty’ at temple

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By Asit Srivastava, IANS,

EU, UN pay tribute to Indian women

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New Delhi : In many rural families in India, there is still a preference for investing in education for boys as compared to girls,...

Women to pilot AI’s March 8 Mumbai-New York flight

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By IANS, New Delhi: For the first time, women pilots will operate Air India's Mumbai-New York non-stop flight on March 8 to commemorate International Women's Day. Captain Rashmi Miranda and Captain Sunita Narula will be the flight commanders, and Captain Swati Rawal and Captain Neha Kulkarni will be the first officers on the 14-hour flight that will be operated with a Boeing 777-200 long-range aircraft, the airline said Saturday. The national carrier will also operate other flights with all-women crews on the occasion, the airline said in a statement.

Now, Jalpaiguri missionary school receives threat letter

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Kolkata: Even as police are yet to make any arrest into the gang rape of a nun in a convent in West Bengal's Ranaghat,...

Hamida Aapa ki yaaden

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By Shaheer Khan for TwoCircles.net Eminent Urdu writer Hamida Salim passed away on Sunday, August 16th at the age of 93 at her house in...

Women farmers fighting for their rights and identity

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By Amit Dwivedi, "I am the first woman farmer in my block who started cultivation 15 years back," said 45 years old Aisha Begum Khatoon of Hridaypur village in Ambedkarnagar district. When she picked up the hoe for the first time, all the villagers rebuked her for treading on a man's domain. However, she decided to move forward, despite all odds, in order to look after her three daughters and one son.

Scheme to raise awareness among minority women

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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy, IANS, New Delhi : India's Planning Commission is starting a scheme to create awareness among minority women about issues and rights that can empower them socially, educationally and economically, and also teach them the importance of hygiene and sanitation. To be implemented over the next five years with the help of the ministry women and child development, the scheme will cost Rs.200 million (Rs. 20 crores).

Hijab is no hurdle: Dream of bakery worker’s daughter takes wings

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By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, (IANS): "I want to become a pilot." When she instinctively answered a question at an event over a decade ago, the...

Kashmiri women contesting poll to usher in change

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By F. Ahmed,IANS, Srinagar : Five women among the 71 candidates in five assembly constituencies in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, which go to the polls on Nov 30, say they are contesting to usher in change. Shabnum Gani Lone, a senior lawyer and daughter of slain separatist leader Abdul Gani Lone, is challenging candidates of the regional National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), besides independents, in the Kupwara assembly constituency.The Nov 30 polling will be in the third of the seven-phase elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

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...

Girl shot dead in Kashmir home

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By IANS, Srinagar: Separatist guerrillas barged into a house in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district and shot dead a 20-year-old girl, police said Wednesday. The incident took place late Tuesday in Shopian district's Keller village, about 50 km from here. The gunmen fired at Shiraza Akhtar from point blank range. "Shiraza received a fatal bullet wound in her head and succumbed to injuries before she could be taken to hospital," a police official said. "Police rushed to the spot immediately and carried out searches in the village."

Indian woman ‘recruiter’ for ISIS extradited from Dubai, arrested

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Hyderabad : A Dubai-based Indian woman allegedly recruiting youth for terror outfit ISIS in Syria and Iraq was extradited here on Friday and arrested...

Bhagana Dalits get open death threats from Haryana Khap Panchayats for converting to Islam

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi : Death threats have started pouring in for protesting Bhagana Dalits by the Khap Panchayats...

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

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

Kerala village Nadapuram wins union award for empowerment accountability

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Nadapuram Panchayat in Kozhikode district is being governed by IUML for few decades now. By Shafeeq Hudavi, TwoCircles.net, Kozhikode: Nadapuram often comes to the...

Bangkok woman runs Rs.50 mn e-ticketing fraud in India, four held

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By IANS, New Delhi : Delhi Police Sunday said a 50-year-old woman of Indian origin based in Bangkok is suspected to have been running an e-ticket scam worth millions of rupees from India and four people have been arrested in this connection. Naeem Ahmed, 24, Shahid Iqbal, 25, and Feroz Alam, 23, all resident of West Bengal, were arrested from Kolkata Dec 20. Their woman accomplice Kanika Budhiraja, 27, was arrested from Rana Pratap Bagh in the capital Thursday.

TWC slams molestation of woman in public

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Agartala : The Tripura Women's Commission Friday severely condemned the assault on and molestation of a woman by a section of people in full...

Women’s bill holds many unrealized promises: Meira Kumar

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By IANS, New Delhi: The women's reservation bill holds many unrealized promises for the political empowerment of women, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said here Saturday. "India was one of the first countries where women were given the right to vote. Parliament has, over the years, enacted several laws for their empowerment, welfare and protection," Meira Kumar, the first woman to be the Lok Sabha speaker, said at a summit on 'Inclusive Growth and Empowerment of Women of Rural India'.

PM apprised about Ruchika case

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath Friday apprised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about developments in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case that has grabbed national headlines. Tirath had gone to meet the prime minister to wish him on New Year day and also apprise him about the case. National Commission for Women chairperson Girija Vyas was present on the occasion, official sources said.

Differently-abled Odisha girl clears civil service exam in first attempt

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By Jatindra Dash, Bhubaneswar: It was sheer hard work and determination that paid off, says Odisha's differently-abled Sarika Jain who cracked in her first...

Haryana government launches schemes to empower women

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By IANS, Chandigarh : Haryana, which has one the worst sex ratio's in the country and where two teenage girls were recently lynched in a case of "honour killing", is planning to implement various projects to strengthen the status of women in the state. Dharam Vir, chief secretary of Haryana, admits that there have been many cases of "honour killings" and intolerance against women of the state in the past, the most recent being the two cases in Bhiwani district around 300 km from here.

Specially-abled Delhi woman tops civil services exams; women take top four

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New Delhi : A physically-challenged Delhi woman topped the civil services examination, as the first four ranks were scooped up by women in...

Women’s commission demands strict punishment for rapists

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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.

Courts sentences minor’s rapist, murderer to death

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: A court in Orissa's Ganjam district Monday sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering an eight year old girl three years ago, officials said. District and Sessions Judge Raghubir Das handed down capital punishment to A. Chandraya, 43, after convicting him, in Berhampur town, some 180 km from here, public prosecutor H.K Pradhan said. Chandraya, a resident of Dayapalli village in the district, accompanied the girl to a local community feast Dec 24, 2007 night, on her father's request.

Dalits should come forward and participate in the development of society: Devyani Khobragade

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By TCN News Nagpur: "Dalits should utilize all possible government schemes and should actively participate in the developing of society”, said IAF officer...

Dr. Rehana Sultana — The Iron Lady of Hyderabad

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

Indian Navy to commission its first women navigators

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By IANS, Kochi : Another male bastion in the Indian Navy will fall Friday when two women will be inducted as navigators in the flying branch, in a way also becoming the first women combatants in the armed forces. That honour goes to Sub Lieutenants Ambica Hooda of Haryana and Seema Rani Sharma of Uttar Pradesh who will henceforth fly as navigators on the Indian Navy's multi-role Dornier aircraft that are used for transportation and aerial surveillance.

Delhi Aanganwadi workers’ indefinite hunger strike enters 6th day as AAP govt evades holding...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: The indefinite hunger strike by Delhi State Aanganwadi Workers’ and Helpers’ Union entered its seventh day...

Shazia Khan: An entrepreneur trying to mentor Muslim women find their feet

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net For Shazia Khan, the path to success has never been a straight one: as a Muslim girl growing up in...

Bengal governor questions students’ silence over alleged molestation

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Kolkata: In the wake of the alleged molestation of a Jadavpur University student, West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Monday questioned the silence of...

Dhaka firms up law to curb acid attacks on women

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By IANS, Dhaka : A law to curb violence against women in the form of acid being thrown at them has been approved in Bangladesh, which has witnessed 132 incidents of this kind since January. The legislation, Acid Control (Amendment) Bill, 2009, aims to establish "strict government control on the use of acid materials and curb acid related crimes", it was announced Monday after approval was given by the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Mentally-unstable woman kills her children

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Lucknow: A mentally-unstable woman here beat her two children with bricks to death for playing against her wishes, police said Thursday. The incident took place...

Rally for road safety among women held in Delhi

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New Delhi : A rally to promote road safety awareness among women was organised here on Sunday by International two-wheeler maker Honda in collaboration...

Electronic bangles to keep Kerala women safe?

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by IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : On the eve of International Women's Day, Kerala is mulling over the use of electronic gadgets for the protection of women, a state minister revealed Wednesday.

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.

President for improving nurse-patient ratio in India

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By IANS, New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil Tuesday stressed the need to improve the nurse-patient ratio in India that is facing a shortage of over one million nurses. "Nurses can contribute to creating awareness about healthy practices, disease prevention, and provide vital maternal and child healthcare services to the community. I would like to point out the need to improve the nurse-patient ratio in the country," Patil said on the occasion of International Nurses Day in the capital.

Measure for Measure: Mourning for a Widow

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By Dr.Asma Anjum Khan, TwoCircles.net, #widow# mourning#waltwhitman Asma Nama: She teaches English, talks a lot , read her at your own risk. Jo hona tha so ho gaya, abb koi rona dhona naheen, chup raho. (Be quiet, be quiet now, I am telling you be quiet. Whatever has happened has happened. Now it’s over. Now be silent.)

Probe ordered into Tripura woman’s parading

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By IANS, Agartala : The Tripura government has ordered a police probe into a tribal woman being paraded naked earlier this month after a kangaroo court held her guilty of sexual misconduct, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said Wednesday. According to police, the 30-year-old woman was beaten up and paraded naked in her village in north Tripura by tribal headmen after a kangaroo court held her guilty of sexual misconduct. The tribal court said the woman, the wife of a farmer, was "characterless and was spoiling young boys with sexual favours".

Handwara girl’s mother says video recorded under police pressure

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Srinagar : The mother of the young girl whose alleged molestation by a army soldiersparked off violent protests in Handwara earlier this week alleged...

Women take part in great numbers in training programme

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

A dai steps toward ensuring safe motherhood in Rajasthan

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By IANS,

Congress MP urges government to check trafficking of women

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By IANS, New Delhi : Congress MP from Andhra Pradesh Madhu Gaud Yaskhi Thursday made an impassioned plea to the government to evolve an effective action plan to check trafficking of young women and girls in the country. During zero hour in the Lok Sabha, Yaskhi said that women from villages and towns were being lured by unscrupulous elements on the promise of providing them attractive jobs or roles in movies, but were later forced into prostitution. "Such hapless young women and girls are taken away to foreign countries by means of fraud and deception," Yaskhi said.

Activist groups demand passage of women reservation bill

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

Ramadan 1435: Aspirations

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By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net College-going Muslim girls at Marina beach in Chennai. They visit the beach quite often to chill out. One is training to...

Saina gets a bye in World Badminton Championships first round

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By IANS, New Delhi: India's world No.6 Saina Nehwal got a bye in the women's singles first round of the World Badminton Championships in Hyderabad August 10-16. For the sixth seed Saina it could be a smooth ride till the quarterfinals. In the third-round, she may face 10th seed Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva and if she overcomes her, she may run into second seeded Lin Wang of China in the quarterfinals.

Mass gathering of women MGNREGA workers demanding their rights

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By TCN News, Tohana-Fatehabad (Haryana): A huge gathering of poor and marginalized people, large number of them women, took place in Tohana (Fatehabad) in Haryana on December 30, 2014 against corruption and irregularity in providing job under MGNREGA, and proposed dilution in the act.

Telangana, Headley, women’s quota share space in parliament

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By IANS, New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Noisy protests for and against the creation of Telangana forced adjournment of the Lok Sabha Thursday while in the Rajya Sabha, the Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) found common cause on the Headley saga and asked the government to make clear its stand on the case that was getting "curiouser and curiouser".

Hadiya’s Love Jihad versus the propaganda of Love Jihad: Why she is my Hero

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By Arif Khan for TwoCircles.net The International Women’s Day 2018 brought the best present that Hadiya deserved: my heartiest congratulations to Hadiya and credit to...

Plea in SC seeks women members in seven state governments

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

Clean Chit to CJI Ranjan Gogoi in sexual harassment case is supreme injustice, say...

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TCN News About 350 feminists and  women’s rights groups have written an open letter to the retired judges of Supreme Court expressing their disappointment at...

Survey: Work, family remain difficult choice for Indian women

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By Xinhua, New Delhi : Work and family life remain a difficult choice to be reckoned with for the Indian women, according to a recent survey released here. The survey "Through the magnifying glass: women's work and labor force participation in urban Delhi" carried out by the Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), a non-profit non-governmental organization, took a representative sample of 700 households all over Delhi, Hindustan Times reported.

Mother throws newborn in Kolkata canal

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

Karva Chauth continues to captivate Indian women

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By IANS, New Delhi : A day when married Hindu women fast till sundown to pray for their husbands' long life and prosperity, Karva Chauth is a much awaited festival in North India. This year, too, there is palpable excitement in the air.

Muslim law board enhances its own women quota

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By IANS, Lucknow : The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) may been silent on the women's reservation bill. But when it came to reconstituting its executive body, it unanimously increasef the representation of women from one to five. Announcing this on the last day of the board's three-day annual convention at the Nadwa Darul-Uloom Islamic university here, AIMPLB spokesman-cum-legal adviser Zafaryab Jilani told reporters Sunday: "We have nominated five women this time on the board's executive committee."

Magnificent Mary clinches record 6th World Championship gold

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New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Indian boxing legend M.C. Mary Kom scripted history by clinching a record sixth World Championship Gold medal in the...

Muslim Women’s Aid Society established in Kancheepuram

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net,

Women’s commission seeks nationwide debate on legalising gay sex

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Saturday called for a nationwide debate on the Delhi High Court's landmark ruling that decriminalised gay sex in the country. "It is a very complex issue and needs to be studied in detail," NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas told reporters here. "Before taking any decision, we need to have a nationwide debate on this. Even the government is in favour of a debate on this issue before taking any decision," Vyas said.

83.73 percent turnout in Bengal polling Monday: EC

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Kolkata : Altogether 83.73 percent voters exercised their franchise on Monday in 31 constituencies for the second part of first phase of the West...

Bihar to initiate moves to ban liquor

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Patna : The Bihar government will soon take steps to impose a ban on liquor in the state, Excise and Prohibition Minister Abdul Jalil...

Women better than men in clinching business deals

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By IANS, London : Although few women occupy top slots in corporate hierarchies, a new study shows that they may be more accomplished in negotiations than their masculine counterparts. Yael Itzhaki of Tel Aviv University carried out simulations of business negotiations among 554 Israeli and American management students at Ohio State University and in Israel, reported EurekAlert.

Crime against women, rapes up in Delhi

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New Delhi : Delhi has witnessed an 18.3 percent rise in crime against women in 2014 as compared to 2013, with a whooping 31.6...

Indian feminists, women’s rights activists inspire US educator

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By Sahana Ghosh , Kolkata:Globe-trotting in his efforts to engage men and boys in efforts to prevent gender-based violence, an American public speaker and educator...

Woman behind Risat-1 feels on top of the world

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By Venkatachari Jagannathan, IANS,

Women avoid politics fearing violence: Study

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New Delhi : More than 60 percent of women in India, Pakistan and Nepal do not participate in politics due to fear of violence,...

More and more working women shun the ‘married girl’ look

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By NNN-PTI, New Delhi : 'Solah singhar', the traditional decked up appearance for the new bride is now out of fashion with more and more working women shunning their gold and glitter for a more westernised look. Today's hard pressed working women find it a headachet o wear to traditional symbols of wedded bliss preferring to flaunt the single and smart look. The job scenario also seems to encourage such trend with Kiran, who has been married for six months, and is on a job hunt preferring to dress in formal shirt-pant, sans any bangles or bindi.

Safina tops women’s rankings

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By DPA, Hamburg: Dinara Safina retained first place in the latest women's tennis rankings issued Monday by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as she makes another attempt to claim her first title at the majors. The Russian Safina takes 9,801 points into the French Open which started Sunday, with the Williams sisters Serena and Venus following on 7,838 and 7,237 points, respectively. The defending French Open champion Ana Ivanova of Serbia is eighth on 4,892 points. WTA top 10 as of May 25 (previous ranking in parenthesis): 1. (1) Dinara Safina, Russia, 9,801 points

Rajnath asks Delhi Police to ensure security for women

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New Delhi : Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday expressed concern over the safety of women in Delhi and asked the city police to ensure...

“Your silence is killing us,” transgender persons rue govt apathy, demand horizontal reservations

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During a press conference, the community activists demanded that the Union Government establish a system for giving horizontal reservations for transgender people within the...

Delhi councillor arrested over racist comment

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 50-year-old woman councillor was arrested here Thursday for making a racist comment a year ago, police said Thursday. Kalpana Jha,...

अर्शिया अंजुम : इसरो में वैज्ञानिक बन क़ायम की एक मिसाल

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TwoCircles.net News Desk बांसवाड़ा (राजस्थान) : हौसला हो तो मंज़िलें क़दम चूमने के लिए बेताब होती हैं. अर्शिया अंजुम की कहानी ने एक बार फिर...

Marginalised students of JNU can now speak for themselves: Bhupali Magare, President, BAPSA

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By Atul Anand and Dhrubo Jyoti for Twocircles.net Bhupali Magare, one of the students suspended from JNU for speaking out against the authoritarian decisions...

Indian Muslims face imminent threat of genocide, mass persecution: Experts

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During an ongoing three-day global summit,experts and scholars underscored the surge in attacks on Muslims in India.  TCN News Washington, DC — India’s 200 million Muslims...

‘Molested’ Stephen’s student demands principal’s resignation

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New Delhi: A 27-year-old research scholar who has accused a St. Stephen's lecturer of molesting her said on Friday that college principal, Valson Thampu,...

Happy Birthday to Catholic State of France!

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By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net

Teacher held for trying to molest student in Kashmir

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Srinagar : A school teacher was arrested on Wednesday for attempting to molest a Class 6 girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police...

Tamil Nadu’s blind community left in the dark without assistance for writing exams

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For scores of visually impaired students from Tamil Nadu, writing exams amid the ongoing pandemic has been a tough ask, with no or minimal...

NHRC to hear rights violation cases in North East India

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By TCN News

BJP team to probe woman’s burning in Barabanki

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New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party announced on Saturday that it will send a four-member fact finding team to Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki...

Woman stabs husband in eye over refusal to peel potatoes

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By RIA Novosti, Moscow : A woman in Russia's Penza region has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars after stabbing her husband in the eye when he refused to peel potatoes, the pnz.ru news website said Wednesday. The woman, from the outskirts of the city of Penza, stabbed her husband in the left eye with a kitchen knife. She had earlier served time for murder, and had met her future partner immediately after her release from jail, according to assistant to the regional prosecutor Irina Alekseyenko.

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.

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Smruti Divas in Sholapur

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By Asma Khan for TwoCircles.net

Yasmeen Abrar is the new acting Chairperson of National Commission for Women

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By TCN News New Delhi: a member of NCW since 2005, Yasmeen Abrar was made acting chairperson on the completion of tenure of Dr. Girija Vyas.

Haryana Police to probe woman’s molestation complaint

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By IANS, Panchkula (Haryana) : After staging a sit-in for nearly 24 hours, a woman who complained of being molested by a senior police officer was Tuesday assured by the Haryana Police chief that her allegation would be looked into and the necessary corrective steps would be taken. Haryana Police chief Ranjeev Dalal finally met the woman Tuesday evening and listened to her grievance for over half-an-hour, an official said.

Unable to pay bribe, Dalit woman in Kerala denied treatment in government hospital

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Kasargod: A Dalit woman in Kasargod district of Kerala has alleged that she was denied treatment by government hospital...

Government rapped for refusing handicapped girl a job

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

Muslim Personal Law should be reformed: Women group

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Woman stabbed to death in Maharashtra train

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Mumbai: A woman commuter was stabbed to death inside the luggage coach of a moving train in Maharashtra early Saturday, officials said. The woman, identified...

शादी में दहेज़ के खिलाफ उलेमाओं ने उठाई आवाज़

Women
आकिल हुसैन। Two circles.net मुस्लिम समाज में उलेमाओं की पहल धीरे धीरे रंग लाने लगी है। उलेमाओं और मुस्लिम समाज के जिम्मेदारों द्वारा चलाई गई...

Legal literacy an effective tool to control violence against women in India

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India has slipped to the 112th spot from its 108th position in 2018 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2020, which...

US-based organization distributes ‘Ramadan ration’ among widows, Rohingya refugees in Jammu

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By TCN News Jammu: US-based organisation Indian Muslim Relief & Charities (IMRC) conducted a two-day ‘Ramadan Ration Program’ among 300 poor and...

Delhi Government not serious about addressing female foeticide, claims Asian Center of Human Rights

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.netAsian Center for Human Rights (ACHR) in its report, 'Delhi: Disabling the Girl Child?' has stated that there is little seriousness...

Asma Nama: P for Preaching; P for Practice?

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Are Today’s Muslims Only Talking Toms? By Dr Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net, Whenever I read George Bernard Shaw saying, ‘Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst people’, it makes me angry. Be it the international scene or our closed communities, does Shaw metaphor stick to us (and stinks too?)

Woman hangs self in front of five-year-old son

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New Delhi: After an altercation with her husband, a 23-year-old woman hanged herself from a ceiling fan and asked her five-year-old son, the witness...

We must protest brutalisation of women: Mahasweta Devi

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By IANS,

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

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

Hijab controversy resurfaces in Mangalore

Women
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Mangalore: Time and again, the Hijab row continues to haunt Muslim girls in educational institutions across Karnataka, but especially so in Mangalore. This time, a college management on the outskirts of the city at Valachil in Dakshina Kannada district has asked girls not to attend the classes wearing Hijab.

‘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"...

Advocate Shahid Azmi: Son for two mothers

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By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net

I am Bibi Khatoon from Godhra

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Testimony of a mother of three sons who were acquitted in the Godhra train carnage case By TCN News,

Women’s participation in electoral process lauded

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New Delhi : The State Election Commission here has lauded young women for their participation as campus ambassadors for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. At...

National Commission for Minorities: A year of inaction

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Minorities Commission as a non-statutory body was set up in 1978. In the days following Babri Masjid demolition it was made a statutory body and in 1993 it came to be called National Commission for Minorities (NCM). Its main object is to safeguard the interest of minorities but its power is even less than the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, and National Human Rights Commission. Lacking any effective tool it is merely a spectator that can make some noise but not be part of the game.

Husband’s retirement no ground for reducing alimony, rules SC

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled the retirement of a husband was no ground for reduction in the maintenance granted to a...

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...

Strict action against those who misbehave with women: Kerala CM

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Thrissur (Kerala), (IANS): Strict action will be taken against those who misbehave with women, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Monday. "The recent stand of...

Pregnant woman among seven massacred in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS, Bulandshahr : Seven members of a family, including a nine-month pregnant woman, were massacred in an Uttar Pradesh village Tuesday, the police said suspecting it to be related to a property dispute. The brutal killings took place at around 2 a.m. in Bararai village in Bulandshahr district, when the family members were sleeping. Bararai comes under Aurangabad police station. Bulandshahr is some 190 km from state capital Lucknow.

Bhopal – Three decades of Struggle: Gas survivors begin indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar

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The struggle for justice and adequate compensation continues even after three decades after the country’s first major industrial disaster By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi/Bhopal: Five women survivors of the ill-famous 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today began an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar here along with a thousand survivors and their children sitting in a dharna, demanding adequate compensation to the victims of the country’s worst industrial disaster.

Gender Representation Declines: India Elects 74 Women MPs in 2024, Down from 78 in...

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Sakshi Srivastava, TwoCircles.net In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, India elected 74 women MPs, down from 78 in 2019, indicating a decrease in women's representation....

Peace Conference- result of a team effort

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By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net

Women lawmakers demand 50% share of Nepali CA chairs

Women
By Xinhua, Kathmandu : Women members of Nepali Constituent Assembly (CA) have demanded that women CA members be allowed to chair 50 percent of all the CA-related committees and parliamentary committees to ensure gender balance in constitutional making process. According to Saturday's The Himalayan Times daily, there are 14CA-related committees and 10 parliamentary committees in the CA cum legislature-parliament. Elections of all the committees are scheduled for January 9.

Love Jihad and targeting of religious minorities

Women
By John Dayal, The recent outpouring of support for the “development” agenda of the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, by several leaders of the Catholic and Protestant churches may possibly stave off the immediate attention of the Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Home affairs, but it is not likely to reduce the deep and seemingly abiding distrust the Indian political and social system has of what is popularly called the “Missionaries”. Nor will it mitigate the hate that is now erupting in India against religious minorities.

Madhya Pradesh woman minister kicks minor seeking one rupee

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

11 women inmates escape destitute home in Bengal

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By IANS,

​Majlis Legal opposes PIL seeking guidelines for registering rape

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Files an intervenor application opposing the PIL claiming it would be in violation of SC directions By TCN News, Pune: Majlis Legal Centre, a...

Amid reports of violence, 20 percent polling in Bengal

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Kolkata : Amid allegations of violence and voter intimidation, nearly 20 percent of polling was recorded in the first two hours in 31 constituencies...

Over half of Assam’s candidates haaven’t cleared class 12

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New Delhi : More than half of the candidates contesting first phase of Assam assembly elections have studied only up to class 12th, a...

Women’s safety now Delhi Police’s top priority

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(One month after Dec 16 gang-rape) By Rajnish Singh, IANS,

Voting begins in 89 constituencies in Karnataka

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By IANS, Bangalore : Voting began Saturday in 89 constituencies in 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first of the three-phase elections to the 224-member state assembly whose outcome has assumed national importance as it could be a pointer to the timing of parliamentary polls. Around 17.3 million voters, including 8.4 million women, are eligible to pick their representatives from over 950 candidates. There are 17 women contestants.

युवती की संदिग्ध मौत के बाद आगरा में बवाल, तनाव

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विशेष संवाददाता।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के आगरा में एक युवती की संदिग्ध मृत्यु के बाद दो समुदायों के बीच हिंसक झड़प हो उठीं। दोनों समुदाय...

Meet Bushra Arshad from UP, who cracked civil services thrice to land her dream...

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A mother of two, Bushra Arshad Bano's story is one of grit and determination. Cracking the civil services exams for the third time last...

Abduction of women rising in India; UP at the top

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New Delhi : Cases of kidnapping of women and girls are on the rise in India, with Uttar Pradesh registering the maximum number of...

Stories of women on ground zero of gender battle

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

Naqvi faces wrath of ASHA, Anganwadi workers in Rajasthan

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Alwar, Oct 1 (IANS) Dozens of Accredited Social Health Activists (Asha) and Anganwadi workers dissatisfied with central governments 60 per cent pay hike, heckled...

Domestic violence – most destructive war within us

Women
By Shahnoor Rahman, I remember, on 26th June 2011 when I was in second year MBBS in Gauhati Medical College, while passing through the postmortem ward, I had fainted when I saw the corpse of a woman slaughtered by her husband as he suspected her of adultery.

Apex court backs women tour operators on Haj quota

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By IANS

ज़बान काटी थी, गैंगरेप किया था, 10 दिन बाद नही रही हाथरस की ‘गुड़िया’

Women
स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर । Twocircles.net  14 सितंबर को उत्तर प्रदेश के हाथरस में जिस दलित लड़की की गैंगरेप के बाद ज़बान काट दी गई थी। आज उस लड़की की...

Bihar village girl refuses to marry drunk groom

Women
By IANS, Patna : An uneducated woman in a Bihar village stunned members of her family and community when she refused to marry the groom because she found him in an inebriated state just ahead of the wedding ceremony, police said Tuesday. Punam Kumari, daughter of Manoj Choudhary of a village under Phulwarisharief near Patna, called off her marriage to Sanjay Choudhary after she found him drunk minutes before the wedding was to be solemnised as per Hindu rituals Monday night.

संडे स्पेशल : तो क्या भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर का सूरज अब डूब रहा...

Women
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net पिछले कुछ सालों में राजनीतिक सरगर्मियों में तेजी से उभर कर सामने आए और दुनियाभर का ध्यान आर्कषित करने वाले भीम आर्मी के...

Mamata to attend meeting on women’s quota bill

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By IANS, New Delhi: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee will attend a meeting of all political parties in the Lok Sabha on the women's reservation bill here Monday, a Trinamool Congress leader said Saturday. The Trinamool Congress, the second largest party in the Congress-led ruling coalition, had abstained from voting on the women's quota bill in the Rajya Sabha March 9. "Mamataji will attend the meeting," Trinamool chief whip in the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay told IANS. However, the party did not reveal the strategy to be adopted in the meeting.

60 model stations, 40 all-women booths in Bengal’s first phase

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Kolkata : The first phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal on Thursday will see as many as 60 model polling stations (MPS)...

National mission for women’s empowerment to be launched

Women
By IANS, New Delhi : A national mission for empowerment of women will be launched to achieve convergence among women-centric programmes run at various levels, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said Monday. Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, she said a token sum of Rs.10 million has been earmarked for the scheme for the current financial year. "It is proposed that the mission will primarily oversee implementation of women centric programmes of the participating ministries, state government and panchayati raj institutions," the minister said.

Court takes cognizance of cop’s assault on woman

Women
New Delhi : Taking note of the way a Delhi traffic policeman, since sacked, attacked a young woman when she refused to pay a...

Woman alleges gang rape, police file molestation complaint

Women
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.

From Designing Clothes To Designing Cakes: The Journey of a Hijabi Cake Artist From...

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Sobiya Inamdar/ TwoCircles.net Nadia Aslam, a resident of Panjim, Goa has always had a love for baking cakes. She used to bake delicious cakes for...

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

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