Asma Nama: P for Preaching; P for Practice?
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?)
Women, children hardest hit among Congo refugees: Unicef
By DPA,
Cologne (Germany) : Women and children caught up in the fighting in eastern Congo are in urgent need of help, the UN Children's Fund Unicef said Friday.
More than a quarter-of-a-million refugees fled the fighting in recent days between the Congolese Army and rebels under the leadership of General Laurent Nkunda.
Many children were separated from their parents, making them more vulnerable to abuse, Unicef said, adding that there was also a danger of young boys being forcibly recruited by armed groups when they are displaced.
Amend definition of rape in laws dealing sexual violence: women’s groups
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Women’s groups have demanded the Union Government to bring amendments in definitional and substantive aspects of the rape law and associated set of laws which deal with sexual harassment, molestation, unnatural offences, kidnapping and abduction of girls and women if it is sincere to curb violence against women. Otherwise the proposed Sexual Offences (Special Courts) Bill, 2010 to fast track sexual violence cases will remain historically a hollow gesture.
BJP failing on checking price rise, protecting women: Congress
New Delhi : The BJP has failed to check price rise or provide security to women despite tall promises made during elections, a Congres...
Women’s rights exhibition inaugurated in Coimbatore
By TCN News,
Coimbatore: An exhibition was inaugurated in Coimbatore on Saturday as part of the awareness campaign of the “Awakening” Conference on the theme “Women’s rights and issues” being organized by National Women’s Front.
A wakeup call for “Muslim leaders”
By Navaid Hamid for TwoCircles.net
For last several years, I have been cautioning "Muslim leaders" to be more realistic, visionary and attentive to the pulse of the Muslim youth which constitute around sixty percent of the total Muslim population in India, before it’s too late.
Meet Ariba Khan: A Young Municipal Councillor from Shaheen Bagh
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Ariba Khan from the Indian National Congress, and Municipal Councillor from Abul Fazal Enclave in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, speaks to...
Depressed over mother’s death, Gurgaon woman jumps from 15th floor
Gurgaon: Shocked at the death of her mother during treatment at a multi-specialty private hospital here, a 25-year-old woman Saturday committed suicide by jumping...
Triumphant Shireen steps into Aliah University without veil
By Adnan Alavi,
Shireen Madiha has finally stepped into the university on her conditions. She had refused to bow down to the union's diktat that every woman teacher will have to wear a burqa on campus.
Now she has succeeded and the union is forced to accept its defeat. Shireen [her name wrongly appeared as Sirin Middya in some newspapers] had invited the ire of the students' union in Kolkata's Aliah University, where she taught Bangla literature, for not wearing the veil.
Rape remarks: NCW to seek Trinamool MP’s expulsion
Kolkata: Taking suo motu cognisance of Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul's "atrocious" rape remarks, the NCW Tuesday said it is writing to the President...
Tribal women can inherit property, rules Himachal HC
Shimla : Setting aside almost a century old customary law that allows only men to inherit ancestral property if it is not bequeathed, the...
Men, women approach charity differently
By IANS,
Sydney : Would you prefer to give money to someone needy in your neighbourhood or a needy person in a foreign country?
If you're a man, you're more likely to give to the person closest to you, that is, the one in your neighbourhood, if you give at all.
If you're a woman, you're more likely to give, and to give equal amounts to both groups, according to research by Texas A&M University marketing professor Karen Winterich and colleagues.
JNV molestation case: Three absconding teachers nabbed
Akola (Maharashtra): The Akola Police nabbed three absconding teachers in connection with the molestation of 55 teenaged schoolgirls of the centrally-managed Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,...
This young educator is breaking taboos around menstrual hygiene
The objective of Farheen Naaz’s organisation is to break the taboo that has been built around menstrual hygiene since ages and normalise period...
Shabana Azmi invites crowd for Nirbhaya’s tribute
Mumbai : Veteran actress and social activist Shabana Azmi has urged the public to come in "large numbers" to pay tribute to the December...
‘Love Jihad’ is a Sangh Parivar hoax agenda to re-divide the country: Popular...
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Popular Front of India has termed ‘Love Jihad’ as a hoax program of Sangh Parivar mainly propagated in the country...
Court asks police to probe Renuka’s ‘Talibanisation’ comment
By IANS,
Bangalore : A Mangalore court has directed the police to register a first information report (FIR) against Union Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Choudhury for her comment that last month's attack on women in a pub there was "Talibanisation" of the city.
The Mangalore police have been asked to submit a report by March 20 on a complaint filed by Mangalore city corporation mayor Ganesh Hosabettu that Choudhury's comment had damaged the image of the city and was meant to incite communal disharmony.
Kerala government gives three job options to returnee nurses
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government Tuesday offered three options to the 534 nurses who had to return from Iraq and Libya due to the conflict...
Mulayam talking rubbish: Lalu
Patna: Mulayam Singh Yadav is talking "rubbish", RJD chief Lalu Prasad said Friday, reacting to the Samajwadi Party chief terming as unfair the death...
No girl child? Then Himachal panchayats won’t get funds
By Vishal Gulati,
Shimla : Determined to check its skewed sex ratio, the Himachal Pradesh government won't fund panchayats if no girl is born in...
अस्मानामा : मैं तो चार से निक़ाह करूंगा, लेकिन तुम्हारा क्या?
By अस्मा अंजुम खान, TwoCircles.net,
(अंग्रेज़ी पढ़ाती हैं और ढेर सारी बातें करती हैं.)
शनिवार का दिन मेरे लिए एक मशक्क़त से भरे हफ़्ते के अंत का सूचक होता है. पिछले छः दिनों के भीतर किए गए कामों के बाद मिलने वाला आराम मुझे अपने आगोश में लेने लगता है. इसी बीच एक शनिवार को एक बहन आती है और मुझे गले से लगाकर फूट-फूटकर रोने लगती है. उसने बताया कि आयशा और अन्य उम्माहतुल मोमिनीन के बारे में मेरी बातों ने उसके दिल को छू लिया. लेकिन अपनी उस रुलाई के बारे में पूछे जाने पर उसने जो बताया, उससे मैं न सिर्फ़ चकित हुई बल्कि अगले कुछ हफ़्तों तक मेरे भीतर डर बैठ गया था.
“We need employment, not help,” Nagpur’s sex workers decry ban, barricading of area
Ganga Jamuna area of Nagpur in Maharashtra is the oldest Red Light area of the city and has always been bustling with people. In...
Cynicism, casteism haunt women’s reservation bill
By Amulya Ganguli, IANS,
Since electoral considerations rather than a genuine desire for women's empowerment were behind the latest move to revive the 12-year-old legislation for reserving parliamentary and assembly seats for women, its fate may be no different from what happened earlier.
The very manner in which the measure was introduced in the Rajya Sabha, with several women MPs shielding the law minister from unruly critics when he tabled the bill, showed that its passage would not be easy.
School enrolment for Muslim children improves, Girls beat National Average
Many states still lagging behind in enrolling Muslim children
By TCN News,
A total of 14.83 million Muslim children were studying in Primary classes in academic session in 2008-09 or 11.03% of the total enrolment. In Upper Primary classes Muslims are 4.87 million which is 9.13% of the total. A slight improvement from the previous year, according to the data released under DISE Flash Statistics-2008-09.
Not only woman, children too unsafe in Delhi
New Delhi : Delhi is most unsafe not only for women but also for children, with a whopping 166.9 cases registered for every...
Fadnavis’s 50,000 Mumbai ‘sisters’ demand toilets
Mumbai : Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's office has been aflush with a whopping 50,000 post-cards from 'sisters' demanding toilet facilities for women in...
Over half of electorate vote in Bihar
Patna : Women and young voters made up the majority of the electorate who Thursday cast their ballot for seven Lok Sabha seats and...
Fetish of Hindu supremacists to see Muslim houses crumbling, and Muslims going to jail:...
Transcript of the interview given by student activist Afreen Fatima to Maktoob Media on June 16. Fatima’s house was demolished by Prayagraj (Allahabad) authorities...
Rukhsana fears for family’s safety refuses police job
By Sadat Khan, Agence India Press
Jammu: Rukhsana Kausar, the brave girl who killed a Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist at her home in J&K’s Rajouri district, on Tuesday declined the job of Special Police Officer (SPO) in J&K police.
Rukhsana, along with her brother and uncle, was offered the job of SPO more than a month after she killed a top Pakistani militant of the LeT and injured another on September 27.
Woman found murdered in Delhi home
By IANS,
New Delhi : A 30-year-old wife of a railway employee was Thursday found murdered at her south Delhi home with a dupatta around her neck and her hands and legs tied, the police said.
Manju's body was found by her neighbours at her first-floor flat in Naoroji Nagar area around 2.20 p.m. They informed her husband Mahender Joshi, who is posted in the railway ministry, and the police.
“The victim's daughter came running to us and was crying. She said her mother is not opening the doors. When we went to check, the door was bolted from outside,” said one of the neighbours.
Nazima Sayyed topped Maharashtra State Board HSC Examination
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Mumbai: Almas Nazima Sayyed, a student of Shivaji Science College of Nagpur, has topped the examination with 98.5 percent marks.The Maharashtra State Board for secondary and higher secondary education declared Higher Secondary Certificate Class XII (HSC Class XII) examination results on Thursday.
Over 11.84 lakh students from the state appeared for the examination. The exam was conducted between February 26 and March 21.
Television hosts assault woman during live show
By IANS/EFE,
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), April 10 (IANS/EFE) Three television hosts assaulted a woman presenter and pulled out her hair after she called them homosexuals during a live show broadcast on the national network.
Enrique Crespo, Ali David and Tommy "La Berny" Castillo attacked Venya Carolina on live television as she called them homosexuals, the Commission on Public Entertainment and Radiophony said in a statement Friday.
Robbing their peace and declaring them dacoits
Unheard & Unspoken: Terror stories from Madhya Pradesh: Part 4
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
Tripura to give allowance to domestic workers, transgenders
Agartala : The Left Front government in Tripura on Tuesday announced monthly allowances for female domestic workers, transgenders, leprosy and AIDS patients and...
Woman legislator defends biting Congress legislator
Thiruvananthapuram : Left legislator Jameela Prakasham on Tuesday said she bit Congress member K. Sivadasan Nair because he grabbed her from behind during the...
US Citizens Protest War in Iraq
By Prensa Latina,
Washington : The Code Pink anti-war organization protested on Friday against occupation of Iraq in front of a Marine Corps recruitment center in California.
Activists held pink banners with the mottoes: "Bring Back the Troops Now" and "The war is Eating Our Children."
We will do anything in our power to stop that war, asserted Zanne Joi, a member of Code Pink, created in 2002 by one hundred women.
The meeting is part of the peaceful actions promoted by the group to celebrate Mothers' Day.
Chinese urban women contribute one-third to family income
By IANS,
Beijing: Chinese women in urban areas on an average contribute about one-third to their family income, a survey has found.
Allowing women to be guardians: Panel examines bill
By Rana Ajit, IANS,
New Delhi : A parliamentary panel is scrutinising a bill aimed at giving Indian women equal rights as men in adopting children and becoming guardians of minors, including their own kids - something they are barred from under existing law.
Indian origin woman in Thailand’s richest list
New York, July 11 (IANS) A 28-year-old Indian origin businesswoman has made it to the list of the 40 richest people in Thailand compiled by the Forbes magazine.
Nishita Shah, managing director of diversified GP Group, and her family are ranked 19th with a net worth of $375 million. At 28, she is the youngest among the richest in the Southeast Asian country.
Argentina’s women hockey captain celebrates Olympic bronze in her bra
By DPA,
Beijing : Argentine women's field hockey captain Magdalena Aicega was thrilled as she celebrated the team's bronze medal in her bra, wrapped only in an Argentine flag.
Where was her shirt?
"I gave my shirt to Diego, because he asked me for it. I could not say no to him, it hardly took me a second to take it off," Aicega said Friday.
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona - who encouraged his compatriots in the changing rooms after their painful semifinal loss to the Netherlands - was in the stands Friday.
Woman seer seeking right to Shahi Snan arrested in Ujjain
Ujjain : Trikal Bhavanta, the woman seer who entered a pit to take 'Samadhi' (embrace death) here on Tuesday to press her demand for...
61 women in this Lok Sabha, highest ever
New Delhi: The 16th Lok Sabha will have the highest number of women members at 61.
"This is the highest number of women members elected...
Why did Muslim Personal Law Board dissolve its women’s wing 7 years after formation?
The women’s wing convenor was asked to delete all the social media accounts that the wing holds. Members have called the decision arbitrary and...
Ex-NCP minister booked for sexual assault
Mumbai:A former Nationalist Congress Party minister Laxmanrao Dhoble has been accused of sexual assault by a woman college employee, officials said.
"We have registered a...
Maneka Gandhi hits back at Priyanka on Varun’s path
New Delhi: BJP leader Maneka Gandhi Sunday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's comment on her son Varun...
Longform: Sonal Shah’s journey from American Sangh to US Department of Homeland Security
Has the newly appointed Chief Commissioner of President Joe Biden’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Sonal Shah put the...
भोजपुरी फिल्मों की मशहूर अभिनेत्री सहर अफशा ने इस्लाम के लिए छोड़ी फ़िल्म इंडस्ट्री
स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net
उत्तर प्रदेश में बेहद लोकप्रिय भोजपुरी फिल्मों की अभिनेत्री सहर अफशा ने अभिनय की दुनिया को खुद से जुदा कर करते हुए...
हैदराबाद में 600 लोगों के इलाज के साथ शुरू हुआ IMRC का स्वास्थ्य जागरूकता...
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
हैदराबाद: भारत के कोनों-कोनों तक पहुंचकर राहत कार्य करने वाली अमरीका संस्था इन्डियन मुस्लिम रिलीफ एंड चैरीटीज़ यानी IMRC के सातवें सालाना...
Who said what on women’s quota
By IANS,
New Delhi: The women's reservation bill saw some good speeches from leading lights in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday outlining the positions and ideologies of the different parties over the long-debated legislation:
Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister): "It (the bill) is a momentous occasion in the long journey of empowering women that began at the dawn of freedom."
Veerapa Moily (Law Minister): "It is an opportunity to demonstrate to the world that when it comes to progressive measures, our country will not look back."
भारत में फ़्लू जैसी मामूली बीमारी से मर रही हैं गर्भवती महिलाएं
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
श्रीनगर/दिल्ली: भारत में संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ और यूनीसेफ के दिशानिर्देशों को आधार बनाकर मां और बच्चों की देखभाल करने के प्रयास हो...
India’s first ‘women-IIT’ being set up in Maharashtra
By IANS,
Nagpur : Even as there is talk about starting new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and increasing the number of seats in the existing ones, a move is afoot to open the country's first all-women engineering and technology-oriented institute in Amravati, President Pratibha Patil's hometown in Maharashtra.
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Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhgam mark Babri demolition anniversary with protests
By Newsdesk, TwoCircles.net
Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam organised protests and demonstrations throughout the state on Friday, December 6, marking the Babri Masjid demolition. The...
Video report: March Against Bride Trafficking
Experts estimate nearly 20,000 women and children were trafficked in India in 2016 (Reuters, 2016). Child marriage, which is regarded as a form of...
50-year-old woman jumps to death from ninth floor
By IANS,
Ghaziabad : A 50-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide Monday by jumping from the ninth floor of her apartment building in Ghaziabad, the police said.
According to the police, Kumud Prasad, the wife of Nand Kishore Prasad, a deputy chief labour commissioner, jumped from her flat in Amrapali Royal apartments in the Vasundhara area.
According to her family, Kumud went out on the balcony of the flat in the morning. And about 10 minutes later, the apartment guards informed her husband that she was lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
A family of 47 voters wooed by all in Bihar
By Imran Khan,
Patna : It's a joint family of 85 people, with 47 being voters and in this poll season, they find themselves much...
Sexual Harassment of female students in Jamia Milia opens a can of worms
TCN News
Female students of Jamia Milia Islamia University have been protesting from February against the HoD of fine arts Professor Hafeez Ahamed for allegedly...
15 percent voting in first phase of Karnataka polls
By IANS,
Bangalore : About 15 percent voting was reported in the first three hours of polling Saturday in 89 constituencies across 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first phase of assembly elections.
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. The Karnataka assembly has 224 seats.
Shake hands with female teachers or face fine, Muslim boys told
Geneva : Muslim school students in the Swiss canton of Basel cannot refuse to shake hands with their female teachers on religious grounds, otherwise...
Mother’s job tougher compared to dad’s
By IANS,
London: With modern-day fathers taking equal responsibility while raising their kids, a study says a mother's job is still tougher than the father's.
DCW writes to Maneka Gandhi on trafficking of women
New Delhi : Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Thursday urged Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi to convene a meeting...
Empowering lives, transforming villages – the self-help way
(March 8 is International Women's Day)
By Rashmi Saksena, IANS,
Protecting women’s dignity a collective responsibility: President
New Delhi : Women's right to equal opportunities and a dignified life must be respected, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday on the eve...
India’s oldest woman photojournalist recalls first I-Day shots
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
New Delhi : Her face crinkles into a smile that draws a fine mesh of crow-feet in the leathery folds of her skin. At 97, Homai Vyarawalla, India's first and oldest photojournalist, is still as spirited as she was in the 1920s when she shot glimpses of Mumbai life with her box camera and chronicled the Independence struggle in striking black and white compositions.
The story of Vyarawalla's life spans almost a century - older than that of independent India.
CPI-M plenum to stress deepening links with people: Yechury
Kolkata : Describing the CPI-M as a "revolutionary party with a mass line", its general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said the five-day party...
Harassed husbands outnumber their counterparts: NGO
By IANS,
Chandigarh: The Domestic Violence Act, which aims to shield the rights of women, is being misused by some to harass their in-laws and extort money from their husbands, an NGO alleged here Saturday.
Representatives of Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), an organisation that is fighting for the rights of Indian husbands, said cases of men being harassed by their wives clearly outnumber the cases of harassed women.
Treat women with respect: President Mukherjee
By IANS,
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee Monday stressed the need to bring about a change of mindset in the society so that women are treated with dignity and respect.
‘अब खाना मिले या ना मिले रोज़ा तो रखना ही है’
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
चुड़ियाला/मीरापुर : उत्तर प्रदेश के मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर ज़िला में मीरापुर से खतौली मार्ग पर एक गांव है चुड़ियाला. यहां गांव में प्रवेश...
Akhilesh gets luxury cars, but cuts budget for women’s panel
By Mohit Dubey,
Lucknow : As women's safety continues to be a cause for concern in Uttar Pradesh, here's a shocker: An activist has found...
World Heart Day brings bad news for Indian women on fast lane
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
New Delhi : World Heart Day Sunday brings bad news for Indian women who have been found to be more vulnerable to coronary diseases because their arteries are narrower than those of men.
"Since arteries in women are narrower in India, risk factors have a bigger impact. Coronary and heart diseases need to be more aggressively managed in women than men," Madhukar Shahi, senior interventional cardiologist of Gurgaon-based Artemis Health Institute, told IANS on World Heart Day.
President meets UN-bound former women scavengers
By IANS,
New Delhi : President Pratibha Patil has met 30 women from Rajasthan who have been liberated from the age-old inhuman practice of manual scavenging and are all set to walk the ramp at the United Nations General Assembly hall witn some wellknown models.
Assuring them that the manual scavenging practice would soon be abolished completely in India, the president told them that she would also discuss the matter with the government.
The 30 women were selected as part of a social reform initiative of the Sulabh sanitation movement.
Principal held for molesting girl in Andhra Pradesh
By IANS,
Hyderabad: The principal of a private school in Andhra Pradesh's Vijayanagaram district was Saturday arrested for allegedly trying to molest a girl student.
The incident took place in Bhogapuram in Vijayanagaram in north coastal Andhra.
Police said Srinivas Rao had called three girl students of Class 5 to his house for some work as the school was closed on account of second Saturday. He allegedly tried to molest one of the girls in a room.
Women rights’ organizations appeal to President to not sign anti-rape ordinance
By Citizen News Service
Modi hails all-women IT centre as ‘glory of Saudi Arabia’
Riyadh : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described an all-women IT centre set up by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) here as the “glory...
Meet the woman who groomed Freida Pinto
By Madhusree Chatterjee , IANS,
New Delhi : Indian actress Freida Pinto is making waves internationally for her walk down the Oscar red carpet, her designer gowns and gracing the covers of popular magazines, thanks to "Slumdog Millionaire". But not many know the woman who helped groom her and introduced her to British director Danny Boyle.
Rahul targets Modi on manifesto delay, women’s security
Sirsa/New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Sunday launched a multi-pronged attack on the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, accusing them...
Confessions of a hijabi
By Farah Zahidi Moazzam
I watched the Bollywood film My Name is Khan the other day. The brilliant depiction of an autistic person by India's leading actor Shah Rukh Khan and director Karan Johar's surprisingly taut direction made for a good film.
In one particular scene, I felt a lump form in my throat. Sonya Jehan, the actress who plays Khan's sister-in-law, a working woman living on the West Coast of the United States, has her hijab pulled off while walking down a hallway.
Women judges should increase: Balakrishnan
By IANS,
Shimla: Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Saturday said women's representation in the judiciary was at the minimum and "needs to be enhanced".
"Women's representation in the courts is minimum and their representation needs to be enhanced. Steps are being taken to appoint more and more women judges," he said, addressing the inaugural session of year-long 40th anniversary celebrations of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
‘Women, small farmers should be brought under financial inclusion’
Chennai : A deposit scheme for the girl child, linking of Aadhaar card to each individual credit account, and development of solutions based on...
Many Sri Lankan women are harassed in public transport
By IANS,
Colombo : Many Sri Lankan women travelling in public transport face some form of "sexual harassment" mainly in the cosmopolitan areas, a media report quoting a research study said Sunday.
According to the report, a study conducted by the Legal Aid Commission has "found that two out of every five women experienced some form of sexual harassment on buses and trains".
Congress accuses RSS of trafficking tribal girls in Assam
New Delhi : The Congress on Saturday alleged that three affiliates of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were involved in trafficking of 31...
Fire in Ghaziabad women’s hospital
Ghaziabad : A fire broke out on Tuesday at the Government Women's Hospital in Ghaziabad, but was brought under control soon, officials said.
Fire...
Women form only a third of India’s internet population: Google
New Delhi: Only one-third of the total Indian population with access to the internet are women, says a survey conducted by Google.
The survey revealed...
#MeToo must also fight against agents of state, realise the truth of occupation: A...
By TCN News:
The #Metoo Campaign is gaining momentum with each passing day with more and more women comng out in the open to talk...
India at 148th in number of women MPs; UN calls for quotas
By Arul Louis
United Nations, (IANS): Releasing a world ranking of the number of women parliamentarians that that placed India 148, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the head...
Acid attack on Chandigarh woman for alleged affair
By IANS,
Chandigarh : A single mother in Chandigarh was Wednesday battling serious burn injuries after unidentified men threw acid on her for allegedly having an affair with her employer, police said.
Nisha, 32, who is divorced and lives with her father, was attacked Tuesday night while she was going to the market on her scooter.
"Some unknown persons chased Nisha, who was going towards a market on her scooter, in a Maruti car. After reaching close to her, they threw acid on her," a police official said.
Mamata slams Modi government over flood relief fund
Kolkata : Lamenting the Centre's financial non-cooperation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday charged the Narendra Modi government with double standards...
Woman should remove burqa, Australian court told
By IANS,
Sydney: A lawyer in an Australian court has argued that a Muslim woman should remove her burqa while giving evidence, just as she would have to while appearing in an Islamic court.
But the court in Perth hearing the lawyer's submission Thursday rejected the argument as not relevant, Australian news agency AAP reported.
District Court Judge Shauna Deane said the defence counsel's submission, that in Islamic courts women had to remove their burqas, was not relevant as the matter was not being heard in an Islamic court.
‘A woman in every 26 seconds raped in South Africa’
By DPA,
New York : South Africa's Academy Award winning actress and activist Charlize Theron said Monday that a woman is raped every 26 seconds in her country, a situation she described as "quite horrific".
Appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Theron took over her new job as United Nations Messenger of Peace to lead the campaign to end violence against women.
Women’s safety, power, water top priorities in poll-bound Delhi
New Delhi : As Delhi inches closer to the assembly polls, the three main parties in the fray - the AAP, the Congress and...
NCW to start 24×7 toll free helpline
By IANS,
New Delhi: The National Commission for Women will soon start a 24-hour helpline to assist women in distress, its chief Mamta Sharma said Friday.
Free education among women-specific budget initiatives in Kashmir
Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday announced special budgetary initiatives for women that include school fee waiver up to Class 12,...
A bus ride to remember victim of Dec 16 gang rape
New Delhi : Activists from Delhi's red light area and students Monday boarded a bus from Connaught Place and rode to Munirka in south...
UP, Bihar, Rajasthan: Worst states for women, J&K catching up
By Devanik Saha
Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar are the worst states for women, an IndiaSpend analysis of social indicators and demographic data of Indian...
Bengal man nabbed with dismembered bodies of woman, child in bags
Kolkata: A man in West Bengal's Hooghly district was arrested on Saturday while he was trying to dispose off the bodies of a woman...
Omar Abdullah targets Mehbooba on Women’s Day
By IANS,
Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah lashed out at his rival Mehbooba Mufti for "playing petty politics" on women victims.
Mamata not averse to coming together with Mayawati, Jayalalitha
Kolkata : Preferring to be a "humanist than a feminist", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday however said she was not averse to...
Two women figure in Kuwait’s new 15-member cabinet
By IANS,
Dubai : Two women are among a new 15-member cabinet formed in Kuwait following elections in the Gulf city-state earlier this month.
Kuwait's ruler Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah approved the new cabinet unveiled late Wednesday with Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah being retained as prime minister.
The cabinet has seven new faces including a woman. In the last cabinet, there was only one woman.
President Mukherjee emphasises women empowerment
New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday stressed the necessity of educating women, providing them economic independence, and legal rights and social awareness...
Men who want women to stay home earn more
By IANS,
Washington : Men holding the view that women should stay at home earn more than men who don't. But women with more egalitarian views don't take home much more than their traditional counterparts.
Timothy Judge and Beth Livingston of University of Florida analysed data from a nationally representative study of men and women who were interviewed four times between 1979 and 2005.
Some 12,686 people, aged between 14 and 22 at the beginning of the study, participated, even as 60 percent remained with the study.
बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती की मां रामरती देवी का निधन
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उत्तर प्रदेश की पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री और बहुजन समाज पार्टी की अध्यक्ष मायावती की मां रामरती देवी का शनिवार शाम दिल्ली के एक...
Sonia, Rahul condole death of Sister Nirmala
New Delhi : Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday condoled the death of Mother Teresa's successor Sister Nirmala.
Sister...
‘Internet Saathi’ to digitally empower one lakh women in Bengal
Kolkata : 'Internet Saathi', a joint digital literacy programme of Google India and Tata Trust, is all set to roll out across 400 villages...
Haryana to spread hygiene among rural women
By IANS,
Chandigarh : In order to spread health and hygiene among the rural women of the state, the Haryana government has decided to provide them with sanitary napkins at a price of Re.1 each.
Manufactured under the brand name Mukti by the Haryana Women Development Corporation, each sanitary napkin would cost Rs.2 but the state's health department will subsidize half the cost.
Haryana's Women and Child Development and Health Minister Kartar Devi said Wednesday that the focus of the campaign was to make sanitary napkins available easily to rural women throughout the state.
Women’s panel launches NRI cell
By IANS,
New Delhi : Faced with increasing cases of abandonment and divorce of women married to overseas Indians, the National Commission for Women (NCW) Thursday launched an NRI cell to deal with such complaints.
The NRI cell will provide legal counselling to women deserted by their overseas husbands. It will also advise and give recommendations to the government on policies related to NRI marriages. Besides, the cell will also carry out awareness campaigns on the subject.
Conviction rate low, says DCW as Delhi sexual crimes hit 15-year high
By Rajnish Singh
New Delhi : Twentyone cases of sexual abuse of women, on an average, are reported in the capital every day, according...
Rahul calls for ‘tsunami of women members’ in Congress
New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday called for a "tsunami of women members in the Congress" and said his party will...
NCW sends notice to Tapas Paul over rape remark
New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Tuesday issued notice to Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member Tapas Paul seeking an explanation for...
Neerja Bhanot conferred ‘Bharat Gaurav Award’ in London
Chandigarh : Braveheart flight purser late Neerja Bhanot was conferred the 'Bharat Gaurav Award' at a function at the House of Commons in London,...
Women scavengers make new beginning, join mainstream
By IANS,
New Delhi : For Usha Chaumar, a former woman scavenger who now lives a life of respect and sells home-made pickles for a living rather than carry human excreta, the change she is happiest about in her life is that people now offer her water in the same glass as they drink from - a sign that she is accepted in the society.
"I couldn't imagine that people would invite me to their homes, and what's more, offer me water in a glass that they use themselves!" said a confident looking Chaumar, dressed in a blue sari, at a press meet in the capital Tuesday.
Delhi needs woman chief minister: Meenakshi Lekhi
New Delhi : BJP parliamentarian Meenakshi Lekhi Wednesday said that only a "woman chief minister with administrative experience" can ensure the safety of women...
Having lost all to floods, woman waits for missing family
By Imran Khan, IANS,
Saharsa (Bihar) : Meena Devi lost everything she had - her thatched house, clothes, two buffaloes, four goats and two sacks of wheat - in the floods caused by the turbulent Kosi river in Bihar and she has been surviving on water. But all this seems immaterial to her as she prays day and night for the safety of her missing husband and sons.
More women joined politics in 2008, says a global report
United Nations, March 6 (Prensa Latina) The 143-member Inter-Parliamentarian Union Thursday said the number of women occupying seats in the legislative institutions worldwide reached record levels in 2008, with one out of every five elected members was woman.
The Women in Parliament 2008 report released by the union said of the 12,879 seats in 66 parliaments in 54 countries last year, women occupied 2,656 seats, or 20.6 percent.
In the past five years, 60 percent of the women legislators were re-elected, the report said.
Irate women staff beat up Maharashtra official for harassment
By IANS,
Ratnagiri : A top district health official, accused of sexual harassment, was attacked, stripped and assaulted by some women colleagues, a government official said Thursday.
"The women, including at least two employees in the district health department office, stormed into the cabin of District Health Officer (DHO) Pradeep Savale shortly after lunch break," Ratnagiri Chief Executive Officer K.S. Shingare told IANS.
Dec 16 gang rape timeline
A woman was brutally raped by six people Dec 16, 2012, night in a moving private bus in the national capital. She later died...
India’s Hindu nationalist movement intrudes into Maryland’s gubernatorial election
Lieutenant Governor candidate Aruna Miller’s association with US supporters of the RSS-BJP prompts outcry from Maryland voters.
Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net
MARYLAND (UNITED STATES) —...
नाइंसाफी,अन्याय,संवेदनहीनता, दुख और तक़लीफ़ का साल 2020
आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net
साल 2020 पूर्ण होने पर हैं। यह साल देश के लिए तमाम कठिन परिस्थितियों से गुज़रा है। कोरोनावायरस का प्रकोप, लाकडाउन,दिल्ली दंगे,लाकडाउन...
Couple booked for torturing Dalit girl
By IANS,
Lucknow: A woman was arrested Wednesday and a search was on for her husband after they allegedly held a six-year-old Dalit girl hostage for the past six months and tortured her, police said.
The matter came to light Sunday when police raided their home on a complaint by the girl's mother and rescued her.
"We were shocked to see the condition of the girl who had injuries and bruises all over her body. She could hardly walk," Paresh Pandey, superintendent of police (Trans Gomti), told reporters.
Woman prisoner tries to escape by scaling 22-feet jail wall
By IANS,
Raipur : A woman prisoner scaled a 22-feet jail wall and jumped off it to escape but broke her leg during the fall and was caught by the prison guards, the police said.
Amrika Bai, 28, is facing a 10-year jail term since 2007 and late Saturday dodged the jail security to try and escape by scaling the complex wall.
But she was caught when the guards deployed outside the jail complex spotted her. She tried to run away with a fractured leg and bruises but the guards caught her.
It is women’s power that rules Kochi
By IANS,
Kochi : It is women's power that rules this port city of Kerala. With B. Sandhya Monday taking over as the new inspector general of police of the central range, women are ruling this commercial capital - from district collector to the mayor.
The Kochi Mayor is Mercy Williams, the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) chairperson is M.C. Josephine, and the Ernakulam district panchayat president is P.S. Shaila - all women.
Sandhya, asked for her reaction, said: "As a critical mass, if women are there, things can be pushed much faster."
Women doctors force rape victim to deliver, kill infant
By IANS,
Mumbai : Maharashtra police have arrested and charged two women doctors with forcing a teenaged girl -- who had been raped and was seven months pregnant -- to deliver and then killing the newborn.
I.S. Patil, the investigating officer, said the incident occurred Nov 29 after the 15-year-old rape victim -- more than seven months pregnant -- was admitted to the Sitamai Hospital at Pen in Raigad district, around 100 km south of here.
The hospital is run by Pramodini Paranjpe, a gynaecologist.
Ramadan1433: Learning
By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net
You are never too young to start learning, a mother teaches her daughter in Jama Masjid, Delhi.
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Hajj and Mahram: Modi government taking credit for Saudi government’s decision, say clerics
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that his government has relaxed the rule to allow Muslim women to go for Hajj...
Many Christians come out opposing ban on play ‘Agnes of God’
By TCN News,
Mumbai: Several Indian Christians have criticized demand by some catholic groups to ban a play titled 'Agnes of God' and...
Naqvi faces wrath of ASHA, Anganwadi workers in Rajasthan
Alwar, Oct 1 (IANS) Dozens of Accredited Social Health Activists (Asha) and Anganwadi workers dissatisfied with central governments 60 per cent pay hike, heckled...
सदफ़ ज़ाफ़र- चीख और गालियों के बीच डरावनी थी थाने में बिताई गई वो...
मीना कोटवाल, Twocircles.net
''जेल से बाहर जरूर आ गई हूं लेकिन फिर भी मैं अभी ना संतुष्ट हूं और ना खुश. जब मुझे ले कर...
Army regrets killings as woman dies in Kashmir
By Sarwar Kashani
Srinagar : A woman injured in firing a day ago died in a hospital here on Tuesday as the Indian Army expressed...
Muslim clerics question court order on permitting women inside Haji Ali
New Delhi : Muslim clerics on Friday questioned the Bombay High Court verdict allowing entry of women up to the restricted grave area of...
No handicap to success for Jahanara Khatun
By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net
Kolkata/Berhampur: 41 year old Jahanara Khatun was ranked 31st in the examination for the West Bengal Junior Social Welfare Examination for...
Mystery shrouds death of woman in fall from moving train
By IANS,
Lucknow : Mystery shrouds the death of a 30-year-old woman who fell from a moving train on the outskirts of Kanpur Sunday.
Government Railway Police (GRP) officials claimed that the woman, Amina Khatoon, was mentally unstable and fell from the train by accident.
West Bengal announces compensation for tribal women in Lalgarh
By IANS,
Kolkata : The West Bengal government Monday announced compensation for the tribal women in West Midnapore's Lalgarh who had been victims of police excesses during raids November last year, officials said.
The compensation would be given to 14 tribal women who received injuries during the police action.
Indian-origin grandmother is Trinidad and Tobago’s first woman PM
By Paras Ramoutar, IANS,
Port-of-Spain : Kamla Persad-Bissessar, whose forefather came here from India as an indentured labourer, has been elected the first woman prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago after the political alliance led by her emerged victorious and ended the ruling party's 43 years in power.
Persad-Bissessar's People's Partnership won 29 out of the 41 parliamentary seats in the elections held Monday. She is expected to be sworn in as prime minister Tuesday evening by President George Maxwell Richards.
Over 14,000 Gujarati women went missing in 2 years
Gandhinagar, (IANS): On the eve of International Women's day, the BJP government in Gujarat admitted that 14,004 women from the state were reported missing during...
Modi promises free check-up for pregnant women
New Delhi : Expressing concern over pregnancy related deaths and other complications, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said government hospitals and other...