Women

Park Street rape: Charges framed against three

Women

By IANS,

Government’s gift for rural brides: pregnancy test strips!

Women

By Prashant K. Nanda, IANS, New Delhi : Call it a thoughtful wedding gift. The government will give packets of pregnancy test strips to rural women on the occasion of their marriage - to reduce unwanted pregnancies and maternal mortality across India. "It's a known fact that 53 percent of Indian women get married before reaching the legal age of 18 and have their first baby by 15 or 16 years of age. The problem is really huge in rural India," Health Secretary Naresh Dayal said.

Badshah Khan’s hundred-year-old message of peace

Women

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net "There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed 1,400 years ago by the Prophet all the time when he was in Mecca.” - Badshah Khan

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

Women

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

Muslim girl from Telangana wins gold medal at National Boxing Championship

Women

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Guwahati: Nikhat Zareen, a 19-year-old boxer from the Nizamabad District of Telangana brought more laurels to her state...

कैथोलिक चर्च की मूक भूमिका पर उठ रहे सवाल

Women

TCN News, बिशप फ्रैंको मुलक्कल पर रेप का आरोप लगाने वाली नन का समर्थन करने वालींं 5 ननों के खिलाफ कार्रवाई किए जाने के विरोध...

GfK official: Number of women Internet users on rise

Women

By Xinhua, Hanoi : The number of women using the Internet has been on the rise in the past eight years, according to Zhao Xiaoyan, senior vice president and director of the Global Research and Consulting GfK Roper of the United States on Friday. At a plenary session of the three-day Global Summit of Women, which opened here on Thursday, Zhao said in 2000, only 17 percent of women in GfK worldwide survey said they had used the Internet in the past 30 days. The number rose to the present 49 percent.

Two women killed by Tunisian police

Women

Tunis: Two women were killed Saturday by patrol officers in Tunisia's Kasserine town, the interior ministry said. According to the ministry, the patrol officers were...

Government mum on allegations against Akbar

Women

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The government on Wednesday continued to maintain silence on the allegations of sexual misconduct against Union Minister M.J. Akbar...

Women’s group slams Goa government over liquor notification

Women

Panaji: The Goa government's decision to allow bars and retail liquor outlets to remain open until 4 a.m. was criticized Thursday by a leading...

Women turnout highest-ever in LS polls in Karnataka

Women

Bangalore: The turnout of women voters at 65.81 percent in all the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka was the highest in a parliamentary...

Exhibition portrays facets of women in Indian popular art

Women

By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : Want to see how women can be provocative, trendy and empowered at the same time through popular art? Visit the ongoing exhibition here, showing them in all their incarnations in various media. The genre of popular art, a form of alternative art, is relatively new, but it is fast carving a niche for itself. It can be anything - right from memorabilia and miniatures to the collector's hobby art - like personal collections of stamps, postcards, coins, textiles, prints and posters, to name a few.

Jamia Professor receives RULA Award

Women

By Manzar Imam Professor (Dr) Tasneem Fatma, scientist and former Head of the Department of Bio-Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), New Delhi has been honoured...

Males are good at sniffing out infidelities

Women

By IANS, Washington : Straying women beware. The male is particularly good at sniffing out your infidelities, even though you may have fine-tuned the art of concealing your liasons. "Eighty percent of women's inferences about fidelity or infidelity were correct, but men were even better, accurate 94 per cent of the time," said Paul Andrews at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, who conducted the study with colleagues.

Women on Wings targets 1 mn rural jobs by 2018

Women

New Delhi : A social enterprise, Women on Wings targets to create one million jobs for women in rural India by 2018, an official...

Rajya Sabha members condemn acid attacks

Women

New Delhi: Cutting across party lines, Rajya Sabha members Friday condemned the many incidents of acid attacks and demanded stringent punishment for their perpetrators,...

Two women rewarded, 2,000 jailed on Women’s Day

Women

By IANS,

Want justice not revenge: Bilkis Bano

Women

New Delhi, (IANS): Refusing to compare her case with the Nirbhaya gang-rape case where the apex court upheld death penalty for the convicts, Gujarat...

Running in Olympics is like wining gold for Afghan girl

Women

By IANS,

Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh enter sub-junior women’s hockey semis

Women

By IANS, Sonepat: Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh entered the semifinals from Pool B of the Hockey India Sub-Junior Women's National Championship (North Zone) played here Saturday.

Aim to create positive influence for women within the boundaries of Shari’ah: The Muslimah...

Women

The Muslimah Network is a website dedicated to stories and commentary on Muslim women from an Islamic perspective. Started by the UAE-based writer/graphic designer...

29 UP cops named in 23 rape cases in 14 months: CM

Women

Lucknow: As many as 29 Uttar Pradesh Police personnel were named in 23 cases of rape registered in the state in the 14 months...

BJP women will get equal opportunity in 2014 polls: Smriti Irani

Women

By IANS, Panaji : Women will get "equal opportunity" to contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, BJP vice president and TV acterss Smriti Irani said Wednesday.

Assam singer faces gender discrimination; barred from performance as she refused putting traditional chadar

Women

By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net, Guwahati: Even as several measures are being taken in minimizing the gender discrimination in the country, a female singer in Assam was barred from performing at a function, allegedly for not wearing a particular kind of dress.

Let AAP government control Delhi Police, Kejriwal tells Modi

Women

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hand over Delhi Police and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to...

Haryana village women to get exclusive meeting place

Women

By IANS, Chandigarh: Rural women in Haryana will get "women chaupals" - an exclusive common meeting place for them - in all villages across the state. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said Thursday that the women chaupals, each costing Rs.300,000 and having a covered shed, would be constructed in all villages in a phased manner. Nearly 100 model villages in the state have already got these women chaupals. The first phase of the project was started by the Haryana government in 2008-09.

Woman attacked with acid in Srinagar

Women

Srinagar : A young woman, who is a law student, was attacked with acid here Thursday, leaving her in a critical condition, police said. Police...

Hakim Muhammed Abdur Razzack paid tribute at Jamia

Women

By TCN News, New Delhi: In order to commemorate the life and achievements of Hakim Muhammed Abdur Razzack, a Memorial Lecture was held at Jamia...

SC seeks details on trafficked women, children

Women

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked all state governments to furnish to the central government details of all the cases filed under...

Woman kills three daughters, attempts suicide

Women

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 27-year-old woman killed her three daughters and attempted suicide by hanging herself from a tree on Monday...

Abu Dhabi firm launches portal on Arab women

Women

By IANS/WAM, Abu Dubai: An Abu Dubai media company has launched a website solely dedicated to Arab women, the firm said Tuesday. The anaZahra.com aims to reflect the lives, passions and pursuits of Arab women. It also hopes to offer greater interaction and create "a sense of community", it said. The portal will deal with topics ranging from beauty, fashion, well being to society, personal empowerment and celebrity news. Innovative digital tools enable a higher level of engagement and connection with audiences. The content is well defined, categorized and easy to navigate.

Dhaka can take lessons from Beijing, says Rasheda

Women

By NNN-BSS, Dhaka, Bangladesh : Adviser for Women and Children Affairs Rasheda K Chowdhury described Dhaka-Beijing friendship as an excellent one since time immemorial in terms of trade and commerce, culture and history and said, Bangladesh could take lessons from China. Bangladesh should follow the strategies of China to move towards economic prosperity as Beijng had shown amazing economic achievement in agriculture, industry and human resources development, she said at a discussion at a city hotel on Saturday afternoon.

Rajouri braveheart Rukhsana honoured with medal, cash

Women

By IANS, Jammu: Rukhsana Kousar, the brave heart of Rajouri who killed top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Abu Osama in her house in September last year, Saturday received an award for her act of exemplary bravery. The Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak was presented to Rukhsana, on behalf of President Pratibha Patil, by Rajouri Deputy Commissioner J.P.Singh at an official function in Rajouri, 160 km north of Jammu.

Women safe under Shariah laws: Muslim women activists

Women

New Delhi: Several women activists and female members of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Thursday insisted that Muslim women are...

Bengal Muslim groups oppose doing away with triple talaq

Women

Kolkata : A forum of Muslim organisations in West Bengal on Thursday opposed any interference by the government in matters of religious practices, including...

It is women’s power that rules Kochi

Women

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."

Hyderabad commemorates 2nd anniversary of Shaheen Bagh protests with songs, poetry recitals

Lead Story

Scores of people in Hyderabad, comprising of activists, students, NGOs, youth groups came together at Lamakan – a place in Hyderabad dedicated to the...

High BP in women may cause dementia in later life

Women

By IANS, Washington: Women with high blood pressure (BP) may be at a greater risk of dementia later in life, says a new finding in the US. "Hypertension is very common in the US and many other countries and can lead to serious health problems," said Lewis Kuller, professor of epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. "Proper control of blood pressure, which remains generally poor, may be very important to prevent dementia as women age," added Kuller.

Strong legislation needed to check crime against women: MPs

Women

New Delhi : Decrying the rising atrocities on women, members in the Lok Sabha Thursday advocated strong legislation and a change in the mindset...

All-women’s team gears up to scale greater heights

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : One has a doctorate, another is an instructor with a US-based adventure club -- eleven women from diverse backgrounds with a common passion - scaling heights - have come together for a mountaineering expedition to a peak in Himachal Pradesh. Cheering and geared up to scale the 6,349-meter Phawararang peak, the women will start their journey July 5 and are expected to be back July 25 - roughly in three-weeks.

NCW to start 24×7 toll free helpline

Women

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.

Court asks doctors to decide on abortion for rape victim

Women

By IANS, Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court Tuesday ordered the setting up of a special committee of doctors to decide on terminating the pregnancy of a 19-year-old mentally challenged rape victim as she does not have a guardian. Justice Surya Kant directed the Chandigarh administration to form a committee comprising senior doctors of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) and an additional sessions judge, who will act as a member-cum-coordinator. The committee will submit its report within 10 days of its constitution, the court said.

Women victims of abuse turn child abusers: study

Women

By IANS, Washington : Women who have faced abuse at the hands of elders and relatives as children can themselves turn into child molesters, according to an extensive new study. Most people believe women are incapable of committing such acts and the abuse of boys by women is often dismissed as the boys sowing their wild oats, said Susan Strickland of University of Georgia and author of the study.

Woman raped by Delhi Police constable

Women

By IANS, New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a constable of Delhi Police's Crime Branch in Dwarka area of southwest Delhi earlier this week, police said Sunday. "The incident took place in Sector 16 of Dwarka when the victim's husband was not at home. Her husband had gone to Haryana. She complained that the constable was drunk at the time of the incident," a police officer said. When her husband returned, she told him about the incident after which they approached police Wednesday.

Women fight shame in flood-hit Bihar

Women

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

Media award for young woman journalist

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : Alifiya Khan, 24, has won the third Anupama Jayaraman Memorial journalism award for exposing loopholes in the country's healthcare system with a series of investigative articles. The award consists of a citation and a cash award of Rs.15,000. Khan, a Mumbai-based correspondent with the Hindustan Times, wrote on 12 state-run healthcare centres. "Primary Hell Centres" - one of her articles which helped Khan clinch the award - unveiled the condition of health centres where untrained Ayurvedic doctors carried out post mortems and used disposable needles on patients.

J&K mulls strict laws for crimes against women

Women

By IANS,

Delhi Police to focus on safety of women

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : Protection of women in the national capital is being increasingly focused on and more women police officers are being deployed for patrolling, Delhi Police said Thursday.

Sania overcomes Groenefeld to reach Wimbledon second round

Women

By IANS London: India's Sania Mirza made light of the second set loss to outlast German Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 in the opening round at the Wimbledon tennis championships here Monday. The 22-year-old Hyderabadi maintained her unbeaten record against the 52nd ranked German, beating her for the third successive time. She next plays 28th-seeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea, who beat compatriot Edina Gallovits 7-5, 6-1. Sania looked good to wrap up the match in straight sets but a lapse in concentration saw her literally throw away the second set.

Kejriwal asks Bassi for details on crime against women

Women

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday asked Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi to provide details regarding crime against women in the national...

Akhilesh Yadav bats for 25 percent reservation for women

Women

By IANS, Lucknow : Adopting a softer stand on the women's reservation bill, Samajwadi Party MP and Uttar Pradesh state unit chief Akhilesh Yadav Sunday said his party could support the move if the reservation is brought down to 25 from 33 percent. "The percentage should be decreased from 33 to 25. Then only can our party consider supporting the women's reservation bill in parliament," Yadav told reporters in Barabanki district, 40 km from here.

First woman press photographer among 32 Padma women awardees

Women

By IANS,

Misguided empowerment camouflaged as choices

Women

By Zoya Khan for TwoCircles.net, A lot has been said about the recent Vogue campaign which claims to empower women by having to make their own choices. Well I have something to say, and I will say it not because I have the choice to but because I have the option to. To exercise that option could be my choice. Most certainly it is not the case. Our choices are driven by the current market situation and are dependent on the dynamics and functioning of the markets. It is amidst this that the choices we make are heavily market-oriented.

Violence against women: Madhya Pradesh cuts sorry figure

Women

By Sanjay Sharma, IANS, Bhopal : Domestic violence has increased by five times in the last nine years, a shocking 1,217 gang rapes were reported in 1,300 days and maternal mortality is one of the highest in India - women in Madhya Pradesh don't have much to cheer about this International Women's Day Monday. From 7,283 cases of domestic violence against women in 2001, the number went up by five times to 36,215 in 2009, according to police records.

Indian women’s recurve archery team qualifies for Olympics

Women

Copenhagen : The Indian women's recurve archery team made a strong comeback to book a place in the 2016 Rio Olympics as the...

Schoolgirl raped in Agra

Women

Agra: A 14-year old schoolgirl going for her tuition class Friday evening was picked up by three boys in a car and raped by...

Karnataka: Muslim girl commits suicide after being harassed by teacher ahead of R-Day rehearsals

Women

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net In a tragic turn of events, a Muslim girl named Zaibunnisa committed suicide on January 25 after allegedly facing violence and...

Delhi court takes cognizance of complaint against AAP legislator Gaur

Women

New Delhi : A court here on Thursday took cognizance of a complaint against Aam Aadmi Party legislator Bhavna Gaur for allegedly misrepresenting...

Women’s Day: March planned to Chouhan’s house Tuesday

Women

By IANS,

40% Muslims in Telangana have no savings, only 19.2% have salaried jobs; Sudheer Commission...

Women

By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter The Sudheer Commission on `Socio-economic and educational conditions of Muslims in Telangana,' India’s newest state, has shown that the condition of...

Nepali woman raped in Delhi, two held

Women

New Delhi : A 22-year-old woman from Nepal was allegedly gang raped by two people here, police said on Tuesday, adding the accused have...

Orissa assembly woman marshal to move court

Women

By IANS, Bhubaneswar : A suspended woman marshal of the Orissa assembly, who had accused the house speaker of sexual harassment, Saturday said she would move court after a human rights panel found him not guilty. Gayatri Panda, who had in March alleged that then speaker Maheswar Mohanty was sexually harassing her, expressed her dissatisfaction with the findings of the Orissa Human Rights Commission and said she would move the Orissa High Court for justice.

12 female workers killed in road accident

Women

By IANS, Raipur : At least 12 female labourers were killed Friday and 20 others injured in Chhattisarh when a vehicle in which they were travelling overturned, the police said. A Tata 407 truck crowded with about 45 industrial workers turned turtle in Akoli village in Durg district, some 60 km from here, when the driver lost control while negotiating a turn. The injured, mostly male workers, were rushed to a government hospital at Durg town.

Pinki to smile again, to be given free education

Women

By IANS, Lucknow: Eight-year-old Pinki Sonkar, the protagonist of the "Smile Pinki" documentary that won an Oscar, has just got another reason to smile with the Lucknow Public Schools and Colleges (LPSC) authorities deciding to provide free education to her. The LPSC made the announcement after a section of media reported that the little waif still washes utensils in her village in Mirzapur, in order to meet the expenses of her family.

Pass women’s reservation bill immediately: Activists

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : Demanding immediate passage of the women's reservation bill, women rights groups and activists Wednesday took out a protest march here. Organised...

34,000 women paramedics go missing after Pakistan floods

Women

By IANS, Islamabad : According to the UN, around 34,000 women paramedical workers have gone missing from the flood affected districts of Pakistan, a media report said Saturday.

This Kashmiri woman distributes sanitary napkins for free

Women

Asma Hafiz, Twocircles.net Irfana Zargar was settling in after a long day at work when she received a desperate call from a woman asking for...

Do ‘liberal icons’ encourage identity politics among Muslims?

Women

By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net The ‘liberal icons’ are again preaching Muslims, especially women, about what is an acceptable form of dressing. This has...

Women play key role in Indian Navy traditions: official

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : Women may not be allowed on board its warships but they do play an important role in Indian Navy traditions for it is always a woman who customarily launches a ship, says an official ahead of Navy Day Dec 4. "It may sound strange but even though we consider all our warships to be feminine, women are not allowed on board except for occasions like Families' Day, when naval officers are allowed to bring along their spouses," an Indian Navy official told IANS.

Sixty percent of burn patients in Jammu are women

Women

Jammu : Women constitute sixty percent of those with burn injuries here, a study said here on Wednesday. The study -- Burns in Jammu: Retrospective...

96 percent women feel unsafe in Delhi, says survey

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : Nearly 96 percent women do not feel safe in the national capital, especially so in the popular markets of Chandni Chowk, Connaught Place and Karol Bagh and in the buses, according to a survey. The survey was conducted by the Centre for Equity and Inclusion (Cequin) in association with the Centre for Media Studies (CMS). "Almost 96 percent of the women in Delhi believe that women are not very safe in the city and 44 percent of the abused respondents chose to remain silent after the incident," said Lora Prabhu, director and co-founder of Cequin.

NCW for passing women’s quota bill this session

Women

By IANS,

Ramadan1433: Ablution

Women

By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net

Delhi needs woman chief minister: Meenakshi Lekhi

Women

New Delhi : BJP parliamentarian Meenakshi Lekhi Wednesday said that only a "woman chief minister with administrative experience" can ensure the safety of women...

Woman summoned for cheating husband

Women

New Delhi: A court here has issued summons against a woman for allegedly cheating her husband and causing a miscarriage before marrying the man. Additional...

आशियाना टूट जाने के डर से सड़क पर आई हजारों महिलाएं , यह है...

Women

आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net नये साल की सुबह हल्द्वानी के मुस्लिम बहुल वनभूलपुरा इलाके के लोगों के लिए बैचेनी लेकर आई थी। वनभूलपुरा इलाके के...

Making it Plain: Women’s Rights in Islam

Women

By Asma Anjum Khan, TwoCircles.net In Muslim discussions, feminism is a bad word. Speaking our mind helps us earn this label; they think, is going...

More Indian women marrying before turning 25: Survey

Women

By IANS,

Relative arrested for murder of MGR kin

Women

By IANS, Chennai : A woman was remanded to judicial custody Monday for allegedly masterminding the murder of her relative, Vijay Kumar, a kin of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M.G. Ramachandran, the police said. "Sustained investigation revealed that Bhanumati, Vijay Kumar's sister-in-law, enlisted the services of a police constable, Karuna, 39, who in turn hired other mercenaries who killed the deceased on June 4. The motive was a dispute over control on property left behind by the late chief minister," Archana Ramasundaram, additional director general of police, told reporters.

Arab-American family slams United Airlines over discrimination

Women

New York : An Arab-American family slammed United Airlines after its staff removed them from a flight in an incident that they claimed was...

2009 a record year for women Nobel winners

Women

By DPA, Stockholm : The shared Nobel economics prize for Elinor Ostrom of the US Monday further underscored that 2009 was a record-year for women prize winners. Ostrom, of Indiana University in Bloomington, became the first woman to win a Nobel prize for economics. The economics prize - first awarded in 1969 - was not in the original will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, who endowed the awards.

Bihar’s silent revolution: 30,000 women now own land

Women

By Imran Khan, IANS,

मनोबल टूटा था, पर हिम्मत नहीं हारी…

Women

नेहा रोज़ टोप्पो झारखंड : जब हौसला और विश्वास साथ हो तो कठिन परिस्थितियां भी आपको आगे बढ़ने से नहीं रोक सकती. इस बात को...

Women rights activist held for attacking cops

Women

By IANS,

ये घटनाए बताती है कि उत्तर प्रदेश में पत्रकारों के लिए सब कुछ सही...

Women

हिना मंसूर ।Twocircles.net 13 जून- न्यूज़ वेबसाइट 'स्क्रॉल' की कार्यकारी संपादक सुप्रिया शर्मा ने लॉकडाऊन खत्म होने और अनलॉक के प्रारंभ होने के तुरंत बाद भारत के...

Namrata Damor was smothered to death: Doctor

Women

Ujjain : The post-mortem report of 19-year-old medical student Namrata Damor has revealed that she was smothered to death, a medical expert said here...

SC pulls up home ministry for not acting promptly on rape videos

Women

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday took to task the union home ministry for doing just nothing for 20 days on a complaint...

Looking beyond Women’s Day and Capitalism-inspired Feminism

Women

By Ashley Tellis for Twocircles.net Now that Women’s Day has gone, women will be forgotten once again for the rest of the year....

FIRs against Mumbai tabloid, Marathi news channel for hurting religious sentiments

Women

By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Two separate FIRs were lodged on Thursday against a newspaper and its reporter and an editor of a Marathi news...

Muslim women are oppressed in India: says minority social activist

Women

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

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

Women

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

First woman editor of The Hindu quits

Women

Chennai : Malini Parthasarathy, the first woman editor of The Hindu daily, put in her papers on Tuesday. The 138-year-old daily is one of the...

Noida Authority plans old age home cum orphanage

Women

Noida: The Noida Authority plans to construct an old age home cum orphanage to take care of the elderly and orphaned children under the...

#BreakingCaste: Sujatha Gidla shines reading from Ants Among Elephants

Women

By Valli Karunakaran, TwoCircles.net New York City, March 10, 2018 — Sujatha Gidla was among the authors invited to speak at #Breaking Caste, a literary...

Women Commission for setting up of family courts in J&K

Women

By Agence India Press, Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir State Commission for Women proposed setting up of Family Courts to settle domestic disputes, besides enhancing existing domestic acts and laws against women rights violations in the state.

Address female infanticide first, then women’s quota: Akali MP

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : It was her maiden speech in parliament and Speaker Meira Kumar didn't mind giving her an extra two minutes. Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur surprised many with her poise as well as passionate anger over female infanticide and the plight of farmers in Punjab. "More than 2,000 female babies are killed everyday," the graceful Kaur informed Lok Sabha (lower house), asking members to address the shameful practice of killing of unborn female foetuses.

Girl killed in Pakistan-India firing

Women

Islamabad: A teenaged girl was killed Saturday in an exchange of fire between Pakistani para-military troopers and India's Border Security Force (BSF) along the...

NCW seeks probe in Punjab woman’s thrashing

Women

By IANS, New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) Tuesday asked the Punjab Police chief to probe the attack on a woman by policemen in the state's Tarn Taran district.

Indian-origin doctor accused of performing unnecessary surgery

Women

London : A woman in Britain has accused an Indian-origin doctor of performing unnecessary surgery on her. The woman, who is identified only as A,...

SC notice to lawyers Sharma, Singh for anti-women remarks

Women

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to advocates M.L.Sharma and A.P.Singh on a petition by the apex court's women lawyers association...

95% verdicts of Shara’yee Panchayats go against women: Research Scholar

Women

By RINA, New Delhi : An analytic survey conducted by Ms. Qutub Jehan Kidwai of Mumbai-based institution ‘Islamic Studies’ reveals that in ninety-five per cent of cases decided at Shara’yee Panchayats go against Muslim women. Her survey on ‘Islamic Rights of Women’ mainly targets religious institutions and intellectuals in Uttar Pradesh.

Now women will guard the frontiers

Women

By Jaideep Sarin, IANS, Attari (Punjab) : They might not be taking on combat positions straightaway but women guards of the Border Security Force (BSF) will soon be deployed in Punjab villages along the 553-km fenced border between India and Pakistan. BSF officials say nearly 180 young women recruits, aged between 18 and 22 years, will be deployed along the India-Pakistan border soon after they complete this week their physical training at the BSF's Kharkan camp, 10 km from Hoshiarpur town. Some recruits will be deployed on the India-Bangladesh border later.

Number of women MPs from Andhra decreases

Women

Hyderabad: The number of women representatives in the Lok Sabha from Andhra Pradesh has come down to just three from five in the last...

Women honchos give leadership mantra to female entrepreneurs

Women

By IANS, Bangalore : Top female leaders from India's corporate fraternity called on more women to join the business houses spread across the country and also take up the mantle of leadership in the mostly male-dominated corporate sector. Biocon Ltd chairman and managing director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, State Bank of India regional head Arundhati Bhattacharya and several other women leaders of India Inc, who gathered here Wednesday to attend a conference, "Leading the Change", said more women should aspire for top positions in the industry.

Women politicians make significant presence in Europe

Women

By Xinhua, Paris : Spain's first woman Defence Minister Carme Chacon, one of the nine female ministers in Spain's 17-member cabinet, attracted world attention when she showed up in April, pregnant for seven months, to inspect the troops. The political world was even more surprised when Mara Carfagna, a former Italian showgirl who finished sixth in a Miss Italy contest, was appointed Italy's Minister of Equal Opportunities.

Allow women into Haji Ali dargah: Rights group

Women

Mumbai : The Bhumata Ranragini Brigade on Wednesday said it will launch an agitation so that women entry to the famed Haji Ali Dargah...

Longform: Sonal Shah’s journey from American Sangh to US Department of Homeland Security

Lead Story

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...

Empowering Rural Women: India’s Drone Pilots Pioneering Agricultural Innovation

Women

Suhail Bhat, TwoCircles.net Gurugram (Haryana): On a Monday morning in Manesar, a village in Gurugram district, Haryana, a group of four women attentively follows instructions from...

Book “Future of Indian Muslim Women” released in Aligarh

Women

By TCN News Aligarh: The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah on Saturday released the book “Future of Indian Muslim Women”

288 percent rise in teen rape suspects, India mulls new law

Women

By Chaitanya Mallapur , Rape is the fastest-growing crime among juveniles; 86 percent of teens arrested for various crimes come from poor families, only six...

Kerala mulls law to protect women

Women

By IANS,

Asma Nama: Listen to Rajeena; dismissing her is a sign of clear hypocrisy

Women

By Dr.Asma Anjum Khan for Twocircles.net When the comments section of an article becomes a filthy ditch of abuses getting too personal, it’s an easy...

Kerala to recruit more women as police officers

Women

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala will induct more women in the state police force for maintenance of the law and order situation of the state. Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan announced in the state legislative assembly Wednesday that the government has initiated measures to increase the number of women police officers. The Kerala Police Act would be amended soon to enable the public service commission (PSC) to invite applications from women for the posts of sub-inspectors, he said. At present women are not recruited directly as sub-inspectors.

Multi-party democracy has worked, give voice to women: PM

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : India's journey to a multi-party democracy has been marked with "stresses and strains" but it has worked, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday while making a strong case for a meaningful voice for women in political and developmental processes.

Ramadan 1437: Nazreen Bano

Women

By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net “It’s my first roza today.” Nazreen tells me, but then quickly clarify that it is her first fast after getting married....

Mulayam under fire for his rape remark

Women

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Friday came under heavy fire for his rape remark, made a day earlier at an election...

Mentally-unstable woman kills her children

Women

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...

Teresa Rehman wins Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity

Women

By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Stringent punishment sought for stalking, acid attack

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) wants separate clauses on acid attacks and stalking of women in the the Indian Penal Code and stringent punishment for the crimes.

Poor Muslim women connect to global fashion with crafts

Women

By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

Women’s body not to send team to Rajasthan

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Sunday said it had not received any complaint from the Gujjar community of police atrocities on their protesting women, but added that it had given suo moto orders that the women be treated humanely and according to the law. NCW chairperson Girija Vyas told IANS Sunday that they had first given the instructions to the Rajasthan police “ten days ago”, when 26 women from the Gujjar community were arrested for stopping railway traffic near Bandikui in Dausa district for nearly six days.

Muslim women threaten to leave Central African Republic

Women

Bangui : More than 100 Muslim women in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), are threatening to leave amid tension between...

Meet Shariya Manzoor: The boxer girl from Kashmir

Lead Story

Twenty-year-old Shariya Manzoor from a restive region in Kashmir is a boxer whose passion for combat sports has earned her laurels. Her dream is...

The right to life must be guaranteed and culture of impunity must end: Anjuman...

Women

Anjuman Ara Begum is Ph.D scholar of Department of Law, Gauhati University, Assam, India and the Regional Research Associate for the North Eastern states for South Asia Forum for Human Rights for the Project Understanding Impunity. She has researched the armed conflict in North Eastern states and its impact on civilians since 2004. Kashif-ul-Huda of TwoCircles.net interviewed her about her research. Opinions given are her personal. Read some of the cases after the interview. Q: Why were you interested in this investigation?

The Unseen Struggles of Women on Election Duty

Women

Gauri Sharma, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: For millions of voters, elections last a day. But for the women who make them possible, the experience stretches far...

Dilshada Begum and Arifa Begum: Kashmiris from the ‘other’ side who won Sarpanch elections

Women

By Auqib Javeed, TwoCircles.net Dilshada Begum and Arifa Begum were born and brought up in Kashmir. They are in fact, as Kashmiri as Omar Abdullah...

Tamil Nadu’s rape survivors are minorities we don’t know about

Women

Society neglects rape survivors, and those who have been to prison and juvenile homes. It’s this exclusion that makes these victims and survivors indulge...

DU students, youth pitch for women rights

Women

New Delhi : Delhi University students and youths from nine urban settlements in the capital Tuesday released a charter of demands for India's policy...

Manipur woman injured in police firing loses hearing

Women

Imphal : A woman injured in police firing in Manipur during an agitation over what the protestors call anti-migrant bills has suffered hearing loss,...

Rohtak rape: Protests erupt after police apathy

Women

Chandigarh: Protests erupted in Haryana's Rohtak town Sunday after details emerged of the barbaric manner in which a mentally-challenged Nepali woman was raped and...

Better working sought for law against domestic violence

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence (PWDV) law suffers from poor implementation even three years after coming into force, voluntary organisations and social groups said Wednesday. United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem), Lawyers Collective and Oxfam, among others, have come together in the capital to hold consultations and suggest steps for better implementation of the law aimed at ensuring gender justice and providing civil relief to women in cases of domestic violence.

Yusuf Mukati: Empowering the poor through a multi-utility resource centre

Women

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net Aurangabad (Maharashtra): “Thodi si neki karle pyare …Allah ne mauka diya hai” (Do some good work dear …Almighty has given you...

Woman burnt alive by priest in Madhya Pradesh town

Women

By IANS, Bhopal : A woman was allegedly burnt alive by a priest after she resisted his advances in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district. The woman succumbed to her injuries in a hospital Friday evening, police said. The woman, Vinita Patel (27), in her dying declaration to the police said, "The priest, Devki Prasad Tiwari, entered my house in a bid to outrage my modesty and when I protested, he doused me with kerosene and burnt me." The incident took place in village Piprodha Chakkar in Damoh, 280 km from here.

Mother Teresa has been like god for me: Cured cancer patient

Women

By Anurag Dey Kolkata : As the world celebrates the Vatican approving sainthood for Mother Teresa, a 50-year-old woman, whose "miracle" cure from cancer was...

राजस्थान में भी पांच मुस्लिम लड़कियां बनी जज,यूपी की जज बनी लड़कियों को मिल...

Women

By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net जयपुर- देश भर की मुस्लिम बेटियों में न्यायिक सेवा के प्रति रुझान लगातार बढ़ रहा है।3 महीने पहले उत्तर प्रदेश...

Rays of hope from Hyderabad – story of two Muslim women

Women

By Nigar Ataulla,

Newspaper by rural Indian women wins UN literacy award

Women

By IANS, United Nations : A newspaper produced entirely by women in rural India is among the four winners of this year's Literacy Prizes awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). Khabar Lahariya, the fortnightly newspaper distributed to more than 20,000 readers in Uttar Pradesh, is entirely created and marketed by newly literate "low caste" women who are training as journalists in Chitrakoot and Banda districts.

मुजफ्फरनगर दंगा: भाजपा के विद्यायक को 2 साल की सज़ा, बाकी का क्या होगा...

Women

विशेष संवाददाता। Two circles.net 2013 के मुजफ्फरनगर दंगे में एक समुदाय को भड़काने और बलवे करने के आरोपी भाजपा विधायक को अदालत से 2 साल...

First British woman in space reunited with Russian crewmates

Women

London : The first British woman in space was reunited on Friday with her Russian crewmates on the space flight which took place 25...

Tax officer’s wife booked for running sex racket

Women

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

Women suffer more with rising trade globalization

Women

By Shobha Shukla, CNS,

ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट : फतेहपुर में दलित चाहते हैं कि बदल जाए सरकार !

Women

हमारे संवाददाता ने उत्तर प्रदेश के फतेहपुर सदर विधानसभा के लोगों से बात की और जानने की कोशिश की कि आगामी विधानसभा चुनाव में...

जहांगीरपुरी हिंसा में सवालों के घेरे में दिल्ली पुलिस की कार्रवाई

Women

जाकिर अली त्यागी Twocircles.net के लिए बाला जी जयंती शोभायात्रा के दौरान दिल्ली के जहांगीरपुरी इलाके में हुई दो पक्षों के बीच हिंसा में...

Kashmir council no place for bill limiting women’s rights: Chair

Women

By IANS, Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir legislative council Deputy Chairman Arvinder Singh Monday rejected the permanent resident (disqualification) bill that aims to deny citizenship rights to women marrying non-permanent residents of the state. "The bill cannot be discussed in this house," he said. "The legislative assembly is the appropriate forum to table the bill, not the council," Singh said giving a ruling over the bill tabled by Peoples Democratic Party's legislator Murtaza Khan on March 8.