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Why are girls looked upon as marriage material only?

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By Zohra Javed,

Number of rape cases rising in India

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By IANS, New Delhi: India has recorded a rise in the number of rape cases during the past five years with states like Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal accounting for a large number of them, parliament was informed Wednesday. According to the data compiled by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), a total of 20,737 rape cases were registered in 2007 against 19,384 in 2006, while the figure was 18,359 in 2005 and 18,233 in 2004 against 15,847 in 2003. The data tabled in parliament pointed out that the maximum number of cases were registered in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.

हरियाणा के नूह में रोहिंग्या बस्ती में आग,32 झुग्गियां खाक

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विशेष संवाददाता। twocircles.net एक और रोहिंग्या बस्ती में आग लग गई है। इस बार आग हरियाणा की नूह इलाक़े में लगी है। आग के कारणों...

The Widow Colony: stories of the widows of 1984 anti-Sikh violence

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net The worst thing for the victims is that their stories will be forgotten. Their suffering will not be recorded. May be more than justice, it is the fear that their stories will not be preserved. The newspaper accounts and future historian will just reduce them to numbers. Before we can begin to seek justice we need to listen to the stories of sorrow, pain, suffering, loss, anger and betrayal. Documentary ‘The Widow Colony’ attempts to document the loss of some of the widows of anti-Sikh violence of 1984.

BJP’s claim of protecting Muslim women is fraudulent, Talaq Bill satisfies Hindutva forces: SDPI

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By TCN News New Delhi: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) condemned and opposed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s desperate attempts to pass...

Mamata seeks to defend pendency of rape trials

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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday sought to defend the administration's inability to ensure speedy trial of pending rape cases, saying it...

SC bars seeking votes over religion, ruling hailed

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New Delhi (IANS) : The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that seeking votes on the basis of religion, race, caste or language of a candidate...

Ayesha Khatun : The woman on a mission

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,

Bihar Muslims show black flags to protest Narendra Modi

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By TCN News Patna: Activists of Muslim United Front (MUF) led a protest march against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Bihar arrival on Saturday. Hundreds raised slogans against Narendra Modi, Varun Gandhi, and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for their alleged attempts to turn Bihar into a Gujarat, reference to genocide of 2002.

Colombian inmate allowed to dress like a woman

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By IANS, Bogota : A Colombian court allowed an inmate to wear a skirt and makeup in a men's prison, acknowledging his freedom of personality, EFE has reported. The decision of the Superior Court of the central city of Ibague Friday will allow Fairber Narvaez to dress like a woman and go by the name of "Mireya" in the jail near Chaparral. "There are a lot of homosexuals here, but they haven't dared to come out of the closet," Narvaez said upon hearing the decision. "I did it and now they don't see me as a clown - they respect me."

McCain takes Woman as Formula Partner

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By Prensa Latina, Washington : US Republican presidential candidate John McCain appointed Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, as his electoral formula partner for the November 4 general elections. In an electoral meeting at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, McCain presented Sarah Palin as his candidate for Vice President of the US. Palin is exactly what I need, she is exactly what the US needs, he stated. Palin was grateful for McCain’s decision and called US women to vote for the Republican Party in the November 4 general elections.

HC gives ex-minister Bharti two-day protection against arrest

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New Delhi: In a relief to former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, booked in a domestic violence case on his wife's complaint, the Delhi...

Antony orders probe into woman army officer’s allegations

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By IANS, New Delhi/Chandigarh : Defence Minister A.K. Antony Wednesday ordered the Indian Army to probe allegations of "physical and mental torture" levelled by a woman captain against three senior male officers, even as the army said the investigations had begun. "The minister has taken a serious view of the matter and ordered that it be thoroughly investigated and a report presented to him," a defence ministry official said in New Delhi. In Chandigarh, a senior officer said the investigations had already begun.

Meira Kumar may battle two ex-IAS officers

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By IANS, Patna : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, a former IFS officer, may face two retired IAS officers in the Lok Sabha polls at...

Woman alleges gang rape, police file molestation complaint

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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.

Mukherjee to open meeting of women speakers of parliament

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By IANS, New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee will Wednesday inaugurate the seventh meeting of women speakers of parliament, which will exchange experiences on gender issues.

Obama bypasses Congress to promote equal pay for women

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Washington: President Barack Obama resorted Tuesday to an executive order to oblige federal contractors to provide equal pay for women who currently earn less...

Women wear hijab in support of hate victim

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By IANS, London : One million women worldwide have posted their pictures on Facebook wearing the hijab to show their support for an Iraqi immigrant in the US who was brutally murdered.

NCW seeks guidelines on online content offensive to women

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New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Thursday said the government should create guidelines for intermediaries to pull down any content offensive...

West Bengal announces compensation for tribal women in Lalgarh

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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.

Gurgaon police to train women in physical security

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Gurgaon: The Gurgaon police will give lessons in physical security to women participating in the spiritual camps organised here by Brahma Kumaris, an official...

Rapes make country’s head hang in shame: Modi

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday the country's head hangs in shame whenever there is news about rape. "Our heads hang in shame...

Stop female foeticide: Modi

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday drew attention to the dismal sex ratio in the country, and appealed to Indians to stop female...

Are women programmed for failure?

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By IANS, London : Leadership positions in business have proven to be precarious for women. Female business leaders are more likely to be appointed to powerful leadership positions when an organisation is in crisis or high-risk circumstances. Michelle Ryan, associate professor in psychology at the University of Exeter, who researched the subject, proposes that this scenario of "the glass cliff" extends to the political arena.

Interim bail to BSP MP in maid torture case

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New Delhi: A court here Friday granted interim bail, till May 20, to BSP MP Dhananjay Singh, accused in the case of the torture...

Rape victims of Rwandan genocide lead shattered lives

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By IANS, Johannesburg : Hutu troops raped a quarter million women and girls systematically during the Rwandan genodice in 1994, after being ordered by their superiors. While rape is always a matter of regulating power relations between the sexes, some differences exist between rape during peace and wartime. Researchers garnered focusing on what happened in the lives of the women and what was important about their experiences.

JIH to organize three day Spring of Islam conference in Hyderabad

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,

‘Consider us human’: Stigmatised, vulnerable sex workers at Kolkata’s Khidderpore, Bowbazar urge world

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Atika Sayeed, TwoCircles.net “Vaishya aur ba-ismat aurat ka muqaabla hargiz-hargiz nahi karna chahiye. In dono ka muqabla ho hi nahi sakta. Vaishya khud kamaati hai...

निर्मल पाठक की घर वापसी: अम्बेडकर के बहाने गांधी के हरिजन को गले लगाती...

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Bodies of missing woman, minor daughters found in Kolkata

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

एक और सानिया मिर्ज़ा, इस बार पहली फाइटर पायलट

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Rajya Sabha adjourned again over women’s bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the second successive day Tuesday as a handful of opposition members noisly voiced their protest against passing the historic women's reservation bill. When the house assembled in the morning, chairman Hamid Ansari read out a condolence message on the Chilean earthquake and then announced question hour.

इसरो में चयन, अब वैज्ञानिक बनेंगे काशिफ,अरीब और जमशेद

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net दिल्ली स्थित जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया के छात्र मोहम्मद काशिफ़ का इसरो में चयन हुआ हैं। काशिफ़ ने राष्ट्रीय स्तर की इस...

A trip to Rajgir: Atithi Devo Bhava, but what about the poor?

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By Arfina Khanam for Twocircles.net The caption of ‘Incredible India’: Atithi Devo Bhava, seems like an unfinished dream when I visited Rajgir in Bihar. The...

Dr. Rahat Abrar’s book “Muslim Female Education: From Veils to Moon” released

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

Delhi Congress’ women’s wing protests

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New Delhi:Hundreds of female activists of the Delhi Mahila Congress protested at the BJP headquarters here against yoga guru Baba Ramdev for his recent...

SRK celebrates women’s power, calls them ‘leaders of future’

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By IANS, New Delhi: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has said women are the future and that "one needs to have women to have men", so they must be respected.

Women eat less with men, but more with other women

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By IANS, Toronto : Women count their calories when dining with men, but not so when eating with other women, says a new Canadian study. Research at Canada's McMaster University at Hamilton near Toronto has found that a woman dining with a man will gobble fewer calories than if she dines with another woman. Researcher Meredith Young says what a person chooses to eat at lunch or dinner is influenced by who they eat with and the gender make-up of the group, a university statement said Wednesday.

Indian, foreign women artists tread common ground

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : Malathi Selvam, a rangoli artist from Puducherry, draws patterns in coloured powder. Figures of women, mostly of goddesses and brides, make up her art as she draws at weddings. Anna Laine from Sweden, an anthropologist by profession, works with laces, which she uses to trace simple patterns on paper and canvas. Kristina Matousch, a packaging industry employee in Sweden, traces her patterns with old packages, which are folded and scissored to black-and-white linear and rectangular shapes.

Winds of change: A step forward

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A Year-long Series on Education, Sponsored by The Aligarh Forum : - A Mirror on our Efforts, our Successes & our Shortcomings ; Stories...

Vocational training: 30 percent quota for Bengal girls

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Kolkata: The fees for girls will be halved at entrance tests for polytechnics or ITI vocational courses and 30 percent seats reserved for them...

बिहार में पर्दानशीं मतदाताओं पर है विशेष नज़र

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter पश्चिम चम्पारण : बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव में फ़र्जी मतदान रोकने के लिए निर्वाचन आयोग की पर्दानशीं मतदाताओं पर विशेष नज़र है....

Female racing drivers strive to break male bastion

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By Bharat Sharma, IANS,

National consultation on violence against women

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New Delhi : A national consultation process will be held in January to evaluate the current progress in combating violence against women and improvise...

Haryana sisters thrash molesters as passengers look on

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Rohtak (Haryana) : The Haryana Police is drawing flak for not being able to take any action after an incident of two sisters courageously...

AMU alumni band ‘ANTIM’ to release its composition of National Anthem on Republic Day

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: A music band formed by the alumni of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come...

21 Nepali women rescued, two traffickers held

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New Delhi : Twenty-one Nepali women, who were set to be sent to Dubai for the sex trade on the pretext of getting jobs,...

Father, brother, uncle arrested for raping minor for two years

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Kolkata: A 16-year-old girl in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district has alleged that her father, uncle and brother have been raping her for the past...

Many Sri Lankan women are harassed in public transport

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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".

Cooch Behar tribal women to float new handicrafts company

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Kolkata : A hundred tribal women in the district of Cooch Behar in West Bengal are gearing up to float a new company next...

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...

Efforts on to free abducted Indian woman: Family

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Kolkata/Kabul : The Afghan and Indian governments are working at "various levels" to secure the release of an Indian woman development worker abducted in...

Better working sought for law against domestic violence

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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.

Lucknow Biotech park to train women farmers

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By IANS, Lucknow : Free training programmes will be provided to women farmers by the Biotech Park here to enable them to apply new technologies to increase agricultural yield, an official said Monday. "We will be launching training programmes to hone the skills of women farmers from Sep 7," said P.K. Seth, CEO of the Biotech Park. "Though the programmes will be open to women farmers from across the state, initially we will enrol farmers from Lucknow and its adjoining districts," an official at the Biotech Park said.

Assamese woman gang-raped in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 21-year-old Assamese woman was raped here by two men who have been arrested, police said Sunday. One of the men...

Shehla Masood laid to rest; hunt on to nab assailant

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

Saudi women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them

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By IANS, London: Saudi women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them up under a new law in the country.

Creator of Bulli Bai app arrested from Assam: Delhi Police

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The report quoting sources said the man identified as Neeraj Bishnoi was the mastermind who allegedly created the app on the GitHub platform. TCN...

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

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Meet on rising crime against women in Bengal Feb 23

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By IANS, Kolkata: Blaming West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government for the rise in rape cases in the state, a coordination body of Left-affiliated women's organisations...

‘Our prayers have been answered:’ Haldwani residents after Supreme Court stays HC eviction order

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The Supreme Court Thursday stayed Uttarakhand high court's order for evictions in Haldwani that threatened to displace more than 50,000 people, most of whom...

Out of Reach: The Quiet Ways India’s Digital Push Leaves Rural Women Behind

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Musheera Ashraf, Twocircles.net Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh: India’s digital story is often told through numbers. Millions of UPI transactions every minute. Seamless online services. Government schemes...

Woman gang raped in Telangana

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Hyderabad : An autorickshaw driver and three others gang raped a woman in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana. The incident took place late Sunday in...

18 castes to be included in ST category

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Ranchi: Jharkhand's Bhokta and Puran are among the 18 communities across India that are likely to be designated as Scheduled Tribes (STs) by the...

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

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

Congress gears up to support women’s quota bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : The ruling Congress party Monday said it would support with all its "strength" the Women's Reservation Bill to provide 33 percent seats for women in parliament and legislative assemblies. At a meeting, the party's women ministers and senior MPs, including those who are members of the Parliament Standing Committee on the bill, discussed the Congress strategy to push the legislation. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi also attended the meeting held at the party headquarters here.

Uber cab driver diverted route with intent of rape: Prosecution

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New Delhi:Rape-accused Uber taxi driver Shiv Kumar Yadav, instead of taking his woman passenger to her destination, diverted the route with the intention to...

Rural women from Uttar Pradesh win International Literacy Prize

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By Betwa Sharma, IANS, United Nations : Khabar Lahariya, a newspaper run by rural women in Uttar Pradesh, has won the United Nations International Literacy Prize. Khabar Lahariya is produced and marketed by rural women from marginalised Dalit, Kol and Muslim communities in Chitrakoot and Banda districts of India's most populous state. The King Sejong Literacy Prize was given by the United Nations Education and Social Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to this fortnightly paper, started by Nirantar, a centre for gender and education, which is based in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

Saudi men lobby for remarriages of widows, divorcees

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Riyadh : A group of Saudi men have formed a society to promote remarriages of widows and divorcees within the existing system of polygamy...

Government committed for women’s safety: PM

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By IANS, New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said that his government was committed to ensure the safety and security of every woman of the country.

SCs growing interest for Engineering in contrast with Muslims in Tamil Nadu

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By A. Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in Tamil Nadu has released Engineering admission statistics community wise over the past few years which reveals that SCs are getting more inclined towards Engineering stream with exponential growth every year where as Muslims figures display steady admission rate – nor significantly increasing nor declining.

Ramadan 1437: Reshma Sadiq

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By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net Remembering from a time when she was little girl, Reshma mentioned how her father took her out for an evening during...

Sabrimala can’t ban women under right to manage religious affairs: SC

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court in Monday said that gender equality is a constitutional message and Sabarimala temple management cannot say that banning...

Women’s commission to probe Mangalore pub assault

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By IANS, New Delhi : Terming it as a "very unfortunate" incident, the National Commission of Women (NCW) Tuesday formed a committee to probe the assault on some young women by members of a self styled moral brigade in a pub in Mangalore last week. "The commission is aghast at the kind of behaviour of the so called moral police with the young women in Mangalore. It was a very unfortunate incident, both illegal and not permissible. We have taken suo motu cognizance of the same and formed a committee," Girija Vyas, chairperson of NCW told IANS.

Paying a debt to our mothers, says law minister

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By IANS, New Delhi: Law Minister Veerappa Moily Tuesday said by passing of the historic Women's Reservation Bill providing 33 percent representation to women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies "we are paying a debt to our mothers". The apprehensions expressed by some MPs on the quota would be addressed, the law minister assured the house.

Rahat Taslim KBC’s first woman crorepati

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By TCN Staff Reporter,

Webley-Smith wins $10,000 women’s ITF title

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By IANS, New Delhi : Top seed Emily Webley-Smith of Britain scored an easy 6-1, 6-1 win over seventh-seeded Uzbek Alexandra Kolesnichenko to claim the $10,000 women's International Tennis Federation (ITF) title at the DLTA complex here Saturday. The Briton thus completed a double, having won the doubles with Kolesnichenko Friday, beating Indian Ashmitha Easwaramurthi and Dalila Jakupovic of Slovakia 6-2, 6-4. The singles win has fetched Webley-Smith $1568 and Kolesnichenko $980 and will split $637 with Kolesnichenko for the doubles victory.

CPI-M plenum to stress deepening links with people: Yechury

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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...

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind women presses for women’s rights in Gujarat

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By TwoCircles.net special correspondent, Ahmedabad: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind(Women’s wing), Gujarat, organized a statewide women’s campaign ``Aapnu Abhiyan,Nari Sanman”(The March Towards Dignity) last week. During the week-long campaign, public meetings, symposiums and rallies were organized at different places in the state including Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Vijapur, Junagadh, Modasa, Bhuj, Patan, Dhori, Himmatnagar, Lamadia, Idar Dasaj, Panvad, Chhotaudepur and Vapi.

Rajiv killing conspirators not to be free for now, kin dismayed

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New Delhi/Chennai: The Supreme Court Friday said that the seven conspirators in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination will not be released for now, a...

Polygamy a blessing, not curse, says AIMPLB; defends triple talaq

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New Delhi : The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday defended the practice of triple talaq and polygamy, professing that polygamy...

Extraordinary stories of ordinary women

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TCN Special Series: Part V on Jyotsna Bewa By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

‘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"...

शिक्षा पर बेहतर काम करने वाली सरकार चाहती है सहारनपुर की पहली बार मतदान...

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Mayawati orders release of Banda rape victim

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By IANS,

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

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

‘Beauties of AMU’ meet successfully held in Lucknow

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By TCN News Women alumnae of Aligarh Muslim University reunited at the hotel Radisson Blu in Lucknow on Monday. It was the second get-together organized...

Eve teasing or crime against women?

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By M. Hanif Lakdawala, Raisa Baig, 18, a student of Mass Media had to spend three hours at the police station in South Mumbai to lodge a complaint against a man who physically touched her intentionally when she was commuting to college by bus. When she was struggling with the molester, not a single fellow traveler came to her rescue and she had to fight it out single-handedly. This happened in a Muslim dominated area and the victim and culprit both were Muslims.

Mamata not averse to coming together with Mayawati, Jayalalitha

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Kolkata : Preferring to be a "humanist than a feminist", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday however said she was not averse to...

Assam polls a fight between two opposing ideologies: Rahul

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Guwahati (Assam) : Terming the Assam assembly polls a "fight between two opposing ideologies", Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged the people...

Jaitley unveils schemes for women’s safety

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New Delhi : Noting that women safety was a matter of concern, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday unveiled schemes to ensure their security in...

Our society behaves horrendously with women: Author Amish Tripathi

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By Shilpa Raina, Jaipur : Controversies in India are given greater prominence than pressing issues like the oppression of women that need to be brought...

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

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

Canadian HIV man’s 20 sexual partners untraced

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By IANS, Toronto : Medical authorities in Canada have failed to trace 20 women who had unprotected sex with an HIV-infected man facing murder trial for causing death of two women by infection. Ugandan-born Johnson Aziga, 52, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1996, was warned to inform his sexual partners about his HIV condition. But he went on to have unprotected sex with numerous women, including the 13 who have been identified. Seven of these women have tested positive for HIV. Two of them have since died. Four women, who had sex with him, have not tested positive.

Women stressed during pregnancy have unhappy kids

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

Bihar: Muslim community anxious after spurt in communal incidents

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https://twocircles.net/2023mar10/448581.html Observers noted that there is a deliberate attempt to tarnish the image of the Bihar government and instil a sense of insecurity and fear...

सवर्ण छात्रों को दलित भोजन माता से हुई नाराजग़ी, नौकरी खत्म !

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Danish school bans Muslim students from wearing niqab

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Copenhagen : An adult education centre in a Copenhagen suburb has told Muslim students that they can no longer attend classes unless they remove...

Honour for AMU teacher

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By TCN News, Aligarh: Dr. Ghazala Yasmin, guest teacher, Department of Applied Mathematics, ZH College of Engineering and Technology at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been awarded the “A K Agarwal Prize for Best Publication of the Year 2014”.

Panel discussion on racial discrimination bats for improved laws, public education to tackle racism

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By TCN News New Delhi: Control Arms Foundation of India in collaboration with Multiple Action Research Group and India Habitat Centre successfully conducted...

Kejriwal orders magisterial probe into Kenyan woman’s gang-rape

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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape of a Kenyan woman here in a moving...

Missing woman Everester: Mamata wants to monitor rescue

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Kolkata:West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is planning to head to Nepal to monitor rescue operations for missing ace mountaineer Chhanda Gayen, a minister...

Women’s groups protest caning of women in Malaysia

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By IANS, Kuala Lumpur: The recent caning Thursday of three Muslim women in Malaysia on charge of engaging in illicit sex drew angry protests from women's groups, who complained of violation of their human rights and constitutional guarantees. Some Muslim groups, on the other hand, said the caning should not be "sensationalised", reported Star Online, web site of the Star newspaper. Caning of those convicted under Islamic laws was earlier reserved for Muslim males, but these three Feb 9 became the first women to be caned in Malaysia.

Aged 120, living on boiled food, rice beer – and loving it!

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By Syed Zarir Hussain, IANS,

‘India can learn from Bangladesh on women’s empowerment’

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By Ranjana Narayan, IANS,

Only Muslim woman candidate in Manipur elections vows to fight against domestic violence

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The upcoming elections in Manipur are likely to be the most interesting one in years with Congress, historically the strongest party in the region,...

Ruchika’s family not cooperating, claims probe team chief

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By IANS, Panchkula (Haryana: The work of the special investigation team (SIT), probing criminal charges against former state police chief S.P.S. Rathore, is getting delayed as teenaged molestation victim Ruchika's family is not cooperating, the SIT chief said Sunday. Family members, however, dismissed the charge and questioned the team's efficiency.

Goa child lured with Rs.10 note, raped; UP man held

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Panaji: A native of Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for raping a minor girl, after luring her with a Rs.10 note, police said Monday. The...

Sex selective abortion rampant in Delhi, says study

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Sikkimese woman raped in Delhi

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New Delhi: A 25-year old woman from Sikkim has allegedly been raped in the national capital, police said Friday. The victim in her complaint said...

Woman murdered in Bengal, family alleges rape

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By IANS, Kolkata: A 42-year-old woman was murdered Saturday after being allegedly raped in West Bengal, police said Sunday. Her husband too was assaulted and is critical.

Women not asking for charity: former speaker

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By IANS, Kendrapada (Orissa): Women are not asking for charity through the women's reservation bill and the move would check the "muddy politics" brought about by men, former Lok Sabha speaker Rabi Ray said Tuesday. "Women are not asking for grace and charity. The reservation is not a bounty but only an honest recognition of their contribution to social development," Ray said criticising those opposing the bill that seeks to reserve 33 percent seats for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.

20 girl students suffer sun stroke, fall unconscious

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By IANS, Raipur: As many as 20 girl students suffered a sun stroke and fell unconscious Tuesday at a government school near Chhattisgarh's capital city, officials said. They have been hospitalised. The incident took place at a school in Urkura village on the outskirts of state capital Raipur.

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...

Punjab to recruit 500 women constables

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By IANS, Phillaur : Punjab Police will soon recruit 500 women constables, the state police chief said Friday.

Orissa girl sacrificed for good harvest

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : A 10-year-old girl in an Orissa village was beheaded by her grandfather, who believed that sowing seeds mixed with her blood would yield a bumper crop, police said Monday. The barbaric incident, spurred by age-old superstitions, took place Sunday at the tribal-populated Adapathar village in Sambalpur district, over 450 km from here. The heinous crime came to light after villagers caught the man, Rajesh Hembram, and handed him over to the police.

Pandemonium in UP Assembly over gang-rape, law and order

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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh assembly on Tuesday erupted into noisy protests by the opposition against the gang-rape and killing of a college girl in...

जेएनयू में प्रवेश प्रक्रिया की जटिलता को लेकर उठ रहे गंभीर सवाल

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आलोक राजपूत जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय (जेएनयू) विभिन्न राष्ट्रीय विवादों एवं गरमा-गरम बहसो का केंद्र बिंदु रहा हैं। हालांकि स्वयं जेएनयू के भीतर व्याप्त विभिन्न...

Seminar on ‘Contribution of Muslim Women in Natural and Social Sciences’ held in Aligarh

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TCN News Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) held a seminar on Contribution of Muslim Women in Natural and Social Sciecnces and noted pediatrician, Dr Hameeda...

Show your mom you care!

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By Radhika Bhirani, IANS,

Concerned over violence against Dalits, women: Congress

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New Delhi : Expressing concern over what it said were growing incidents of violence against the Dalits, minorities and women in the country, the...

Indian man’s tweet to Swaraj saves sister from traffickers

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Abu Dhabi : A brother's tweet to Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj led to the rescue of his sister from human traffickers...

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

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

84% Of 12 mn married children under 10 are Hindus

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Devanik Saha Nearly 12 million Indian children were married before the age of 10 years - 84 per cent of them Hindu and 11 percent...

अजय राय की पत्नी ने कहा, मोदी-मुलायम डरे हुए थे मेरे पति से, ‘ऊपर’...

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net वाराणसी: पिंडरा से विधायक अजय राय ने लोकसभा चुनाव में मोदी के खिलाफ चुनाव लड़ा था. कल इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट ने उन पर रा.सु.का. की धारा हटा दी है. इसके साथ ही अजय राय की जमानत का रास्ता भी आसान होता दिख रहा है. लेकिन बेहद लोकल लगती यह खबर दरअसल पूर्वांचल की राजनीति की दिशा बदल सकती है. TwoCircles.net ने कल विधायक अजय राय की पत्नी रीता राय से बात की. पेश है वह बातचीत -

‘Allocate more funds to implement Domestic Violence Act’

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29 percent women economically active in India: Report

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New Delhi : In India, just 29 percent of women are economically active compared with over 80 percent of men, the Vodafone Connected Women...

Only seven women candidates in Rajasthan

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Jaipur : A grand total of only seven women candidates have been fielded by the Congress and the BJP to contest the Lok Sabha...

Kerala assembly refers bill on women’s dignity to panel

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : The Kerala Assembly Thursday referred to the subject committee of the house a bill to safeguard women from harassment and protect their dignity and privacy.

This Kashmiri woman distributes sanitary napkins for free

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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...

Delhi accident victim’s donated organs save three lives

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New Delhi : In a fortuitous series of events, doctors in two Delhi hospitals were able to save the lives of three people on...

Sikkim woman raped in Delhi, five arrested

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New Delhi: A 25-year old woman from Sikkim, brought to Delhi on the pretext of getting her a job, was raped here by a...

Bigger conspiracy behind killing: Greater Noida victim’s wife

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Greater Noida : The killing of a man in a village here following rumours that his family consumed beef was part of a bigger...

Islamists oppose women as heads of state, government

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By IANS, Dhaka : Women should be debarred from holding office as heads of government or state, an Islamist party has said in Bangladesh, where women have headed governments between 1991 and 2006. The election law should be amended to make women ineligible to hold these offices, the Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan (BKA) Saturday told a government panel led by Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed, currently holding a dialogue with political parties. Ahmed performs prime ministerial functions in a caretaker government holding office since January last year.

‘For a woman’s safety, mindsets need changing’

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By Azera Parveen Rahman, IANS,

Most MPs against women’s bill: Sharad Yadav

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By George Joseph, IANS, New Delhi : Continuing his opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav says that 90 percent of MPs are against the bill that seeks to set aside a third of all seats in India's legislatures for women. "If there is no party whip, 90 percent of the MPs will oppose the bill, whether they are from the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) or the NDA (National Democratic Alliance), whether they are from backward classes or upper castes, whether they are male or women MPs," Yadav claimed in an interview.

Shani temple allows women devotees

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Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) : In a historic decision, the famous Shani Shingnapur Temple Trust has decided to throw open its doors to women from Friday,...

The first of women officers in Pakistan hope to carry arms soon

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By Igor G. Barbero, IANS/EFE, Abbottabad (Pakistan) : Amid shouts of "Allah Hu" of hundreds of men cadets, a group of 38 women does stretches, push-ups and a series of other exercises in their new dark green tracksuits, like that of the national flag, on the outskirts of the city of Abbottabad, in the north of Pakistan. Having had good education and fulfilled their dream of entering the most powerful institution in Pakistan, the army, the first few batches of women officers of the Military Academy also hope to hold arms soon and defend the country on its frontiers.

22-year-old gangraped by auto drivers

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by three auto rickshaw drivers in Sarai Kale Khan area of southeast Delhi Tuesday night, police said Wednesday. "The victim, a resident of Yamuna Vihar in northeast Delhi, had taken an auto from Civil Lines to her home. There were two other people in the auto rickshaw with the driver," said a senior police officer. "The accused took her to a deserted place where they raped her," the officer added. "The three men have been arrested," the officer said.

Dalit women protest outside Hooda’s house in Delhi

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New Delhi : A large number of Dalit women from Haryana Sunday protested outside the residence of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, demanding the...

Bihar reserves 35 percent quota for women in police

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By IANS, Patna : Bihar has approved 35 percent reservation for women in the direct recruitment of constables and sub-inspectors, an official said Wednesday.

Courage, determination keep single mothers going

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By Shilpa Raina, IANS, New Delhi : They are moms as well as dads for their children. Despite facing innumerable difficulties, these single women have taken life head-on and borne the dual responsibility with dignity and determination. For Kalpana Dhar, 50, separating from her husband was the only option especially after difference of opinion gave rise to regular arguments and confrontations. "I took this step at a very late stage of my marriage. But I had to do this because of my only son. He was suffering and I had to take a stand," said Dhar, a banker.

TCN – SEED APPRENTICESHIP 2023-24

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The TCN-SEED Apprenticeship offers aspiring journalists an opportunity to build their communication skills and professional network under the guidance of experienced mentors. The vision...

Criticism of Haj policy recommendations on women invalid: Review committee member

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By Mohd Asim Khan New Delhi, (IANS): The criticism of certain recommendations of the review committee on the new Haj policy -- including that of...

Mulayam under fire for his rape remark

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

Tribals to Form Political Party in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net, Thiruvananthapuram: Tribals in Kerala have remained on the periphery of the state's politics, since they have never been paid...

Woman sets herself ablaze over dowry harassment

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 20-year old woman, alleging harassment by her in-laws over dowry, committed suicide by setting herself afire here, police said Friday.

I didn’t know women were cricketers’ partners: Stanford

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By IANS, London : Sir Allen Stanford, the American sponsor of the $20 million Twenty20 cricket series in Antigua, has said he did not know the women he was filmed with this week were related to England players. Stanford has already apologised after being shown on the giant screen with his arms around an England player's girlfriend and the wife of another seated on his lap during a match being played in Antigua Monday.

Motivating women to contest elections

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By Richa Sharma, IANS, New Delhi : Women have less than 10 percent representation in India's parliament even though they make up 44 percent of the voting population. But much of that may change if an NGO that is encouraging women to join mainstream politics has its way. The Centre for Social Research (CSR), through a UN project, "Enhancing the Role of Women in Strengthening Democracy", has selected 1,000 women from across India and is grooming them to contest the April-May Lok Sabha election as well as state assembly polls.

First woman vice chancellor in Delhi University?

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By IANS, New Delhi : Meenakshi Gopinath, principal of Lady Shri Ram College, may become the first woman vice chancellor of Delhi University, informed sources said Thursday.