Four commit suicide in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: At least four members of a family committed suicide Tuesday in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, police said.
The incident occurred at Dhenkanal town, the district...
Under the pretext of Uniform Civil Code, there is an attempt to humiliate India’s...
By Misbahuddin Mirza for Twocircles.net
The present government’s attempt to specifically and selectively target the Indian Muslim Personal Law, while conveniently ignoring the serious negative...
Woman, 70, commits ‘Sati’ in Bihar
Patna : A 70-year-old woman allegedly committed "Sati" by jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband at a Bihar village, police said Sunday.
Gahwa...
Women journalists take on PM on price rise
By IANS,
New Delhi : Women journalists cornered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the rising prices of food stuff during an interaction in the capital Friday.
During the meet with members of the Indian Women's Press Corps at the Hotel Taj Palace here, one journalist pointed out that the prices of pulses, rice and flour was lower during the National Democratic Alliance government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
"I was told that the price of dal (pulses) has come down," Manmohan Singh responded, evoking titters in the all-female audience.
President, PM call for end to violence against women
New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called for gender equity and decried violence against women as the...
Khudai Khidmatgar opens vocational centre for women of Mewat
By TCN News
Khudai Khidmatgar made an important contribution towards women empowerment in the region of Mewat, Haryana by starting a vocational centre on March...
SC/ST Bank sought on lines of Mahila Bank
New Delhi : The All India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations -- Parisangh -- urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open a separate bank with...
Pregnant grandmother commits suicide in West Bengal
By IANS,
Kolkata : A 35-year-old woman hanged herself to death in a West Bengal village after being allegedly humiliated by neighbours for being pregnant despite having grandchildren, police said Friday.
The incident took place at Amai village in West Bengal's Dakshin Dinajpur district, about 400 km from here.
“Chobi Kayal, 35, hanged herself to death at her Amai residence Thursday late night. She was five months pregnant,” a senior police officer at Banshibari police station said.
He said Kayal has two married daughters. The elder daughter Sona has a one-year-old daughter.
Kerala government gives three job options to returnee nurses
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government Tuesday offered three options to the 534 nurses who had to return from Iraq and Libya due to the conflict...
Singing party’s tune, Minority Minister Heptullah backs Maha govt in denial of reservation to...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Mumbai: Affirming the stand of the BJP-SS government in Maharashtra selectively providing reservation to Maratha community, Union Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptullah has said Muslims do not need reservations, instead, they should be made self-reliant.
Centre lacks will to address women’s safety issue: AAP
New Delhi : The AAP Tuesday said the BJP-led central government had no "political will" to address the women safety issues, citing a government...
Woman’s place is in the kitchen – in a hotel or on a ship
(March 8 is Woman's Day)
By Venkatachari Jagannathan, IANS,
‘In Afghanistan, little things could spell death for journalists’
By Murali Krishnan, IANS,
Lillehammer (Norway) : Men and women journalists in Afghanistan are increasingly being intimidated for exercising their right to freedom of speech, with at least 58 cases of violence against scribes being reported from the country last year.
At the just concluded Global Investigative Journalism Conference here, fears were raised that such factors could lead to self-censorship, forcing journalists in Afghanistan not to cover Islamic and religious issues.
SIT trying to shield Rathore: Ruchika’s lawyer
By IANS,
Chandigarh: Pankaj Bhardwaj, molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra's lawyer, Wednesday said the special investigation team (SIT), constituted to probe fresh cases registered against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, is trying to shield the accused.
"SIT is working hand in glove with the accused and they are only trying to shield him and delay the proceedings of the case. We have no trust in SIT's investigation, that is why we had demanded a CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) probe in the case," Bhardwaj told IANS here.
Intrepid French woman unveiled Tibet for the world
By IANS,
Chennai : The 73rd birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama is being marked by the University of Madras and Alliance Francaise here Sunday with a three-day festival of Tibetan culture.
The festival began with a presentation on an extraordinary French woman, who was one of the only two French explorers to be able to reach the forbidden land of Lhasa in the hundred years between 1846 and 1950.
Sikkim woman raped in Delhi, five arrested
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...
J&K: CPW workers on the verge of committing suicide over delayed and meagre wages
Arjumand Shaheen, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar J&K: While the world celebrated the International labourers' day on 1st May, the Contingent paid workers/Sweepers (CPWs) in the department of...
Opposition gives privilege notice against Odisha minister
Bhubaneswar : The Congress party on Monday gave a breach of privilege notice against Odisha Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh for misleading the...
मुजफ्फरनगर में दहाड़े ओवैसी “खैरात नही अब हक़ लेंगे”
<strong विशेष संवाददाता।Twocircles.net
https://youtu.be/S3ERAo6SjSU
उत्तर प्रदेश चुनाव क़रीब आने के साथ ही यूपी में राजनीति की गरमा-गरमी बढ़ती जा रही हैं। आज किसान यूनियन के...
‘मैं अंतिम सांस तक डेल्टा के इंसाफ़ के लिए संघर्ष करूंगा’ –राहुल गांधी
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
नई दिल्ली : कांग्रेस के उपाध्य़क्ष राहुल गांधी आज डेल्टा मेघवाल के परिवार से मिलने बाड़मेर पहुंचे और डेल्टा के परिवार...
We can make a difference, say women MPs
By Sreeparna Chakrabarty,
New Delhi : Having been elected in their largest number his time, women MPs in the 16th Lok Sabha feel they will...
First Zamira Begum Rahman memorial lecture held in Tezpur
By TCN News
Guwahati: The First Zamira Begum Rahman Memorial Lecture on the topic “Women Empowerment and Society” was delivered by Sarmistha Das, Assistant...
Taiwan woman dismembers unfaithful husband
By DPA,
Taipei : Enraged by her husband's unfaithfulness, a Taiwan woman killed him Friday in front of their 10-year-old grandson and then dismembered his body, police said.
Wu Ah-yin, 57, and her husband Chiang Tien-tsai, 55, were both pork sellers in Tucheng, near Taipei. The couple often quarrelled because Wu had a mistress and often stayed out late, Wang Jen-hong, spokesman for the Tucheng Police Bureau, told reporters.
Bengal rights panel seeks report on nun’s gang rape
Kolkata : Taking cognizance of the gang rape of a septuagenarian nun in Nadia district, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission has sought a...
Asma Nama: Listen to Rajeena; dismissing her is a sign of clear hypocrisy
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...
Delhi HC upholds death sentences in Dec 16 gang-rape
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Thursday upheld the death sentences awarded to four convicts in the Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape.
A division bench...
‘BJP working to boost presence in southern, eastern states’
New Delhi: The BJP Mahila Morcha is working to strengthen the party's presence at the booth level in the southern and eastern states where...
Amnesty’s annual report criticizes India for ‘growing intolerance’
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Amnesty International in its annual report released today has accused India of supporting a climate of intolerance by cracking...
Table Tennis: AAI win girls title, PSPB in men and women’s finals
New Delhi : The Airports Authority of India dethroned Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) to win the youth girls team title in the...
Two out of every three blind in India are women
By IANS,
New Delhi: Nearly two million people are blind in India but what is startling is that around 66 percent of them are women, government authorities and experts said Thursday, observed as the World Sight Day (WSD).
This year, the focus was on gender and eye care. G.V.S Murthy, a professor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said that out of every three blind in the country, two are women and there is need to bring a gender equity while providing eye care.
BJP to issue whip on women’s bill
By IANS,
New Delhi: Faced with dissidence over the women's bill, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said it will issue a whip to its MPs to support the proposed legislation in the Lok Sabha.
"All the MPs will support the decision taken by the party leadership. A whip will be issued," party leader Sushma Swaraj, who is the leader of the opposition in the lower house, told reporters.
She added that all BJP MPs will support the party's decision to back the bill, which seeks to reserve a third of all seats in legislature for women.
Responsibilities must be shared to prevent trafficking: NCW chief
New Delhi: The state alone can't prevent trafficking and people must get together to fight the stigma associated with it at the grassroot level...
50,000 women in Himachal covered under Rural Livelihood Mission
Shimla : Nearly 50,000 women from below poverty line (BPL) families in Himachal Pradesh have been covered under the National Rural Livelihood Mission, the...
Kalam prays for rape victim’s recovery
By IANS,
Patna : Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Monday prayed for the speedy recovery of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim in Delhi.
Meet Waseema Shaikh: A deputy collector from rural India
Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
Born and brought up in a small village called Joshi Sanghvi in Loha Taluka of Nanded District of Maharashtra, Waseema Shaikh struggled...
India committed to peace: Modi
Tokyo : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said that India is committed to peace and this commitment has "significance far above any international treaties...
68 with criminal cases, 56 crorepatis in Bengal polls second phase
Kolkata : As many as 68 of the 383 candidates contesting in the second phase of the West Bengal assembly polls have declared criminal...
Woman paraded naked in Rajasthan
Jaipur : A woman has been paraded naked in Rajasthan's Sikar district by her husband following an argument in their house, eyewitnesses said Monday.
Only...
AIMMM reiterates demand for Muslim reservation, sub-quota in WRB
By TCN News,
New Delhi: All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) has reiterated demand of 10% reservation for Muslims in job and education and sub-quota for OBCs and Muslims in Women Reservation Bill. It also demanded government not to play games to sow discord between Muslims & non-Muslims OBCs and suggested the government to conduct Caste Census.
Ten-year-old donates birthday money to Islamia Hospital
By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net
Kolkata: Ashna Khan, a ten-year-old girl from Kolkata, set a fine example of kindness by donating the entire amount received...
Journalist’s sister wants viscera examined in Delhi
New Delhi : Pakshi Singh, the sister of television reporter Akshay Singh who died in Madhya Pradesh under mysterious circumstances while covering the...
Understand the world from the eyes of a woman: Ayesha Khatun
By TCN News,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: “Understand the world from the eyes of a woman” said Ayesha Khatun to an audience of over 60 people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 25, 2014. In the hour-long talk Ayesha Khatun had her audience in rapt attention as she shared stories from the ground, cracked jokes, and talked about her struggles working for some of the most marginalized people in India.
Bihar liquor ban should be ‘participatory’, not agenda: Experts
By Bhavana Akella and Sushil Kumar
New Delhi : Bihar on Thursday joined the states that have banned liquor, with newly elected Chief Minister...
एक सप्ताह बाद भी जुनैद नासिर के हत्यारों तक नही पहुंचे कानून के हाथ
आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net
राजस्थान के जुनैद और नासिर की हत्या के एक हफ्ते बाद भी पुलिस खाली हाथ हैं। शुक्रवार को जुमे की नमाज़ के...
Fear of flying keeps Indian in Bahrain grounded for 13 years
By IANS,
Dubai : An Indian woman in Bahrain has not been home for 13 years because of her fear of flying.
The aerophobic 43-year-old woman, who has not been named, told the Gulf Daily News that the last time she flew was 13 years ago when she and her husband took a flight from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain.
"I flew for the very first time just after I got married 24 years ago," the woman, who teaches dance at a school in Bahrain, was quoted as saying.
Two injured in Agra clash
Lucknow : Two people were injured when two groups clashed in Agra which prompted police reinforcements to control the situation, police said on Monday.
The...
Women MPs more successful, qualified than men: Study
By IANS,
New Delhi : Even as women are set to get more political power in India, a study shows that women MPs were more successful and qualified than their male counterparts.
According to data prepared by the PRS Legislative Research, women candidates in elections were more successful than men. While 10 percent of all women candidates won elections, the corresponding figure for men was only six percent.
More women are now heart specialists: India’s first woman cardiologist
(World Heart Day is Sep 29)
By Anjali Ojha, IANS,
Lalitha Kumaramangalam takes charge as NCW chair
New Delhi : BJP leader Lalitha Kumaramangalam Monday took charge as the chairperson of the National Commission for Women and said that she will...
Indian MPs urged to back transgender rights
New York: India’s parliament should enact a bill to ensure better legal protection for the rights of the transgender population, Human Rights Watch said...
Human rights activist Hasina Kharbhih attacked in Shillong
By TwoCircles.net News Desk
New Delhi: Human rights activist Hasina Kharbhih was attacked on Thursday in Shillong when she was going to the District Council Court to attend hearing in her case. She was allegedly attacked by the very persons against whom she is fighting the court case. She said she was attacked to force her withdraw the case.
Tamil woman identified as Malaysian after 11 months’ detention
By IANS,
Kuala Lumpur : A Tamil woman has been identified as a Malaysian national by the country's human rights body after 11 months in detention, when she fell seriously ill.
Rajeswary Murugiah, 22, was detained in October last year after she was found without an identity card and said she did not remember her ID number. She was lying unwell in detention till human rights watchdog Sukham took up her case and resolved it in a single day, The Star newspaper said Thursday.
Triple Talaq: Turning a mole hill into a mountain
By Moin Qazi for TwoCircles.net
O People, it is true that you have certain rights over your women, but they also have rights over...
Five arrested for assault on German woman’s counsel in Goa
By IANS,
Panaji : Five people have been arrested from the hill station of Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra for Monday's assault on Aires Rodrigues, the counsel of German researcher Fadela Fuchs who has accused Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate's son Rohit of raping her 14-year-old daughter, police said Saturday.
The combined team of Goa and Maharashtra police arrested Jenito Godinho, Santosh Shinde, Sandeep Pujari, Michael Jhonson Chakkal and Anison Nunes from a resort in Mahabaleshwar Friday.
Women activists hold press conference condemning love jihad ‘myth’, say individuals have right...
By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Women and civil rights activists and lawyers held a joint press conference in Delhi and Mumbai on “Right to Choose and Politics of Love Jihad.” Speakers condemned the propaganda over so called ‘Love-Jihad,’ dismissing it as myth and stressed on the fact that individual women or men not only have the right to choose their partners but are also free to choose their faith in a secular democratic country.
Will, grit are key to achievement, say power women
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
New Delhi : They balanced homes and careers, often with great success. But breaking bastions and new grounds was not easy, say a cross-section of women who look back on their lives this International Women's Day.
And what keeps them going? Determination, they chorus.
"My message to the women is that if you have a goal then you have to let all the rest eddy around you - but you need not totally reject all that the Indian society forces on you," Anjolie Ela Menon, the 70-year-old artist, told IANS.
Pregnant woman among seven massacred in Uttar Pradesh
By IANS,
Bulandshahr : Seven members of a family, including a nine-month pregnant woman, were massacred in an Uttar Pradesh village Tuesday, the police said suspecting it to be related to a property dispute.
The brutal killings took place at around 2 a.m. in Bararai village in Bulandshahr district, when the family members were sleeping. Bararai comes under Aurangabad police station. Bulandshahr is some 190 km from state capital Lucknow.
Delhi: How Women Are Stitching New Lives from Fabric of Loss and Thread of...
Maryam Hassan and Unzila Sheikh/TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: Shiv Vihar carries the silence of broken dreams. The 2020 Delhi riots swept through this northeast Delhi neighbourhood....
Flexi HR policies make working attractive for women
(March 8 is International Women's Day)
By Arpana, IANS,
Muslim women in India are in miserable condition: Uzma Naheed
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net
Uzma Naheed comes from a family of the founders of Darul Uloom Deoband. She is a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and has been working for the upliftment of the Muslim women in India and abroad.
Though she comes from the religious establishment she is very critical of religious establishment for keep Muslims in intellectually and socially miserable condition.
‘खुदाई खिदमतगार’ वाले फैसल खान और संत राघवेंद्र दास की दोस्ती की बहुत प्यारी...
अभी सात आठ महीने पहले की बात है। हमारी सोशल मीडिया टीम के एक साथी ने बताया कि एक साधू महाराज आपका फ़ोन नंबर...
AMU Convocation: Women take centre stage, bag 122 medals
By TCN News
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) plays a special role in India’s development and AMU students have made their mark not only in India...
India at 148th in number of women MPs; UN calls for quotas
By Arul Louis
United Nations, (IANS): Releasing a world ranking of the number of women parliamentarians that that placed India 148, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the head...
Apex court strikes balance between justice and compassion
By Rana Ajit, IANS,
New Delhi : The Supreme Court has upheld a five-year jail term to a paralysed Gujarati woman who abused a member of a Scheduled Caste, but has suspended her sentence for three months to enable her to appeal to the governor for remission of her sentence.
The verdict, which struck a fine balance between justice and compassion, was delivered earlier this month by a bench of judges Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma.
Women activists try to storm BJP, Congress offices
Imphal : Women activists on Sunday tried to storm the offices of the ruling Congress and the BJP here in Manipur demanding to know...
Saba Anjum: Muezzin’s daughter is now Indian hockey team captain
By AnIndianMuslim.com,
The story of Saba Anjum Karim, 26, is nothing short of a fairy tale.
Nun gang rape: Women’s right panel team to visit Bengal
Kolkata : Taking cognizance of the gang rape of a 71-year-old nun in West Bengal's Nadia district, the National Commission for Women on Friday...
Muslim women who took part in Nupi Lal of 1939 remembered
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
BJP leader suspended from Delhi assembly for derogatory remark
New Delhi : BJP lawmaker O.P. Sharma was suspended from the Delhi assembly for making derogatory remarks about his AAP counterpart Alka Lamba...
Women’s bill torn, Rajya Sabha adjourned fifth time
By IANS,
New Delhi : A historic bill that promises to reserve 33 percent of legislative seats for women was moved in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament, amid unruly scenes as a dozen members opposing it tore up the document and hurled the pieces at Chairman Hamid Ansari before forcing a fifth adjournment in a day.
This happened on a day when both houses assembled to the call to "celebrate and honour women" and include them in the decision making process to mark the International Women's Day being observed worldwide.
Migrants linked to Cologne violence, assault on women
Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been forced to modify her liberal stance towards refugees, after a spate of assaults on women during New...
12 Muslim women among top 200 women nominees of #100Women achievers contest of Ministry...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), in collaboration with Facebook, have announced the...
Victim offered Rs.31,000 to forget rape
Patna: A panchayat in Bihar has ordered one of its members accused of raping a woman to pay her Rs.31,000 and asked the victim...
Woman murdered in Bengal, family alleges rape
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.
Ramadan 1436: Rain
Who hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby...
Modi flays governor over women’s reservation
By IANS,
New Delhi : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Monday criticised Governor Kamla Beniwal for not signing a legislation reserving 50 percent of all seats in local bodies to women.
Meet Kaneez Fatima, Karnataka’s Only Muslim Woman MLA
By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net
Kaneez Fatima, the hijab-clad politician who won in the recent assembly elections in Karnataka is currently very popular with her videos...
Dec 16 gang-rape: Two convicts move Supreme Court
New Delhi: Two convicts in the Dec 16, 2012 gang-rape moved the Supreme Court Saturday challenging the Delhi High Court verdict upholding their death...
CBI files closure report in case against Maneka Gandhi
New Delhi : The CBI has filed a closure report in a case against union minister Maneka Gandhi and two others for allegedly diverting...
Representation of Muslim women in Lok Sabha since Independence
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: The newly elected 15th Lok Sabha will see women members in highest number since the 1st Lok Sabha in 1952. Among 59 women Lok Sabha members in the new house there will be three Muslims. This will be the third time in all 15 Lok Sabhas that the number of Muslim women MPs will be three.
Literary journal ‘Andaz-e-Bayan’ is the quest for understanding feminine pain and protest
By Manzar Imam for TwoCircles.net,
Subjugated for centuries, women have come a long way to getting their voice heard even in the most so-called progressive...
Wife, separated for years, cannot sue husband for torture: Apex court
By IANS,
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that a woman, living separately from her husband for years without taking divorce, cannot accuse him of torturing her after years of separation.
A bench of Justice Mukundakam Sharma and Justice B.S. Chauhan gave the ruling while upholding the conviction and sentence of an Assam government official on charges of bigamy.
But the bench set aside the conviction for physical and mental torture allegations levelled by the estranged wife, who had been living separately for years.
Bengaluru garment workers protest change in PF law
Bengaluru : About 15,000 women garment workers on Monday staged a massive demonstration on the outskirts of Bengaluru, protesting change in the Provident Fund...
Over 3,000 Delhi women two-wheeler riders ticketed
New Delhi : At least 3,236 women two-wheeler and pillion riders were issued challans or traffic tickets for not wearing helmets in the national...
CBI yet to take over Ruchika case, waiting for FIR copies
By IANS,
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has not taken over the case against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990 as the probe agency is yet to receive copies of the fresh FIRs filed.
"We have not received papers regarding fresh First Information Reports (FIRs) against Rathore from the state government," a CBI official told IANS here.
The official said the case was "in principle" with the Haryana police and they have to decide about Rathore's custodial interrogation.
Punjab Police asked to submit report on women cells’ working
By IANS,
Chandigarh : Acting on a complaint by a city-based NGO, the Punjab State Human Rights Commission Saturday sought a report from the state police chief about the functioning of women cells meant to deal with cases of dowry demands, domestic violence and matrimonial disputes.
The Global Human Rights Council (GHRC) had filed the complaint with the commission after its officials conducted a secret survey about the women cells of 13 districts of Punjab following hundreds of complaints from aggrieved families and individuals against their functioning.
High court dismisses woman wrestler’s plea
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Monday dismissed the petition of a woman wrestler who challenged the selection criteria of the Wrestling Federation of India for the Commonwealth Games.
Justice S. Murlidhar, while dismissing the plea of Sonika Kaliraman, said: "Irrespective of past performances, the Federation is supposed to select players with good current performance."
Hearing the submissions of WFI, the court clarified that there is no "arbitrariness" on the part of the Federation in rejecting anyone's participation in the Games.
Muslim women should be allowed to wear burqa: Tory chairperson
By IANS,
London : Muslim women should have the right to choose to wear the burqa, Conservative Party chairperson Sayeeda Warsi has said. "Just because a woman wears the burqa, it doesn’t mean she can’t engage in everyday life," she says.
Warsi, the first Muslim woman to serve in the cabinet, defended the burqa Monday.
"Just because a woman wears the burka, it doesn’t mean she can’t engage in everyday life. Why should we tell women what to wear? What it boils down to is choice. If women don’t have a choice over what to wear then they are oppressed.
India-born woman gets 20-year jail for killing husband
New York : An India-born woman in the US state of Texas, convicted of setting her husband afire, has been sentenced to 20 years...
उज़मा नाहिद : मुस्लिम महिलाओं को आर्थिक रूप से सशक्त बनाने की एक मिशन
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
मुंबई : मुसलमानों में मज़हबी तौर पर जो रिवायती घराने हैं, उन घरानों की बेटियां भी देश की खुली फ़िज़ा...
Turned away by health centre, woman gives birth at tea-stall
By IANS,
Lucknow : After a pregnant woman was turned away from a community health centre (CHC) in the Uttar Pradesh capital, she was forced to give birth at a tea stall, officials said.
Tej Kumari was brought to the CHC in the Mall village on the outskirts of Lucknow in an advanced stage of pregnancy midnight Wednesday, the officials said.
However, Kumari was declined admission in the CHC as her family refused to pay a bribe to the medical staff at the CHC, the officials added.
Raped Dalit girl battles for life
Ghaziabad : A minor Dalit girl who set herself on fire after being raped in Ghaziabad is battling for life with 50 percent burns...
Three men rape Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh
By IANS,
Lucknow : A Dalit woman was allegedly raped by three young men in an Uttar Pradesh village, police said Saturday.
"The complainant, who is a resident of the Mubarikpur village in Etah district, approached us late Friday night to register a case against three youth, who allegedly raped her," police inspector Dheeraj Prasad told IANS by telephone.
In her complaint, the 30-year-old woman has alleged that the three young men of her locality followed her while she was returning from the fields Friday evening. Later, they forcibly took her to a secluded place and raped her.
Decision on women fighter pilots to be considered: President
By IANS,
Pune : A decision on inducting women into the fighter stream will be taken after due consideration, President Pratibha Patil said Wednesday after her maiden sortie in an Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi Su-30MKI combat jet.
The president, who is also the first woman supreme commander of the Indian armed forces, said that while she had confidence in the capability of women, the decision to allow women in combat would be taken by the three services after deliberation.
Mystery shrouds Japanese woman’s death in Delhi hotel
By IANS,
New Delhi : Uncertainty loomed large over the cause of the death of a 50-year-old Japanese woman, who was found dead in a central Delhi hotel Monday, a police officer said Tuesday.
The officer said the autopsy could not be carried out because the body was unclaimed.
Oda Koru was found dead and her French husband Agase Jean Marie unconscious in the Sun Light hotel in Karol Bagh. Initially police suspected a drug overdose may have caused the death.
Students in burqa denied entry into UP college; authorities cite ‘dress code’
Professor Dr AP Singh of Hindu college in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district said that they have implemented a dress code for the students...
Hotel management student abducted, raped
By IANS,
New Delhi: A 23-year-old hotel management student has alleged that she was abducted and raped by four men who kept her confined for about a month, police said Wednesday.
The victim told the police that she was kidnapped from near Pragati Maidan exhibition complex Aug 31 by a man whom she had known for some years.
He first tried to drag her into his car but she resisted. He then beat her and told bystanders not to interfere claiming it was a "family matter", said a senior police officer.
57 mn more men than women globally: UN report
By IANS,
New Delhi : There are 57 million more men than women globally, a UN report said.
Women protest Meghalaya minister’s derogatory remarks
By IANS,
Shillong: All women's organisations Monday boycotted the official International Women's Day celebration in Meghalaya, one of India's matriarchal states, in protest over the deputy chief minister's alleged derogatory remarks against them.
The organisations instead held protest rallies and a signature campaign against Deputy Chief Minister B.M. Lanong's remarks.
Rajasthan woman beaten with chain to ‘free’ her of evil spirit
Jaipur : A 32-year-old woman resident of a small village in Rajasamand district of Rajasthan was beaten up severely with an iron chain by...
Women’s groups protest caning of women in Malaysia
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.
Four arrested for woman professor’s murder
By IANS,
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh police Thursday claimed to have solved the murder of a woman professor, in a Kanpur university campus, with the arrest of four people.
Mandavi Singh, an assistant professor at the Chandra Shekhar Azad Agriculture University, was shot dead on the campus Monday evening.
"Three of the arrested, Jitendra Rathore, Mohammad Mohsin and Sonu are petty criminals. Rathore shot Singh on her face when she resisted their attempt to snatch her gold chain," Superintendent of Police (Crime) O.P. Singh told IANS by phone.
Muslims, though most neglected, little interested in using RTI: Perveen Amanullah
By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,
It was a good step by UPA government in 2005 when it introduced Right to Information (RTI) Act as it gave a ray of hope to millions of citizens seeking transparency and accountability in government. Four years down the line, have citizens got real fruits of the Act? Yes, but not fully, says Mrs Perveen Amanullah, president, Bihar Suchna Adhikar Munch, in an interview with Manzar Bilal of TwoCircles.net on the 4th anniversary of RTI.
RTI Act completed its four years. How do you think people benefited from this act during these years?
Woman caught smuggling heroin-stuffed buttons to Turkey
By RIA Novosti,
Dushanbe : Customs officials in Tajikistan detained a Filipino woman at Dushanbe airport Tuesday for attempting to smuggle more than three kilograms of heroin stuffed into fabric buttons to Turkey.
"During an individual baggage search of passengers, customs authorities detained Milagros Nolasko, 48, who was attempting to smuggle some 3,300 grams of heroin on a flight from Dushanbe to Istanbul," a customs agent told RIA Novosti.
Pakistan: govt. striving for women’s empowerment, says MNA Farahnaz Isphahani
By NNN-APP,
Washington : The elected Pakistani government is firmly committed to women’s empowerment and taking a number of steps to realize their full participation in national development, Member National Assembly Farahnaz Isphahani said.
Speaking at a reception she hosted at Pakistani Ambassador’s residence in honor of women ambassadors and wives of Washington-based diplomats from various countries, the parliamentarian said the government is particularly focused on realizing women’s access to education all over the country.
Eight of 10 Malala attack suspects were acquitted, confirms police
Islamabad : Eight of the 10 militants reportedly jailed for their role in the 2012 attack on Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai have been freed,...
Teacher killed for eloping with woman
Lucknow : A school teacher was beaten to death by family members of a young woman with whom he eloped, police said on Wednesday.
The...
Trial in Lucknow for women’s wrestlers from Monday
New Delhi : The selection committee of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will meet at Sports Authority of India (SAI) training Centre in...
IPS officer alleges harassment by senior
Gurgaon: Gurgaon's Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Bharti Arora has accused her boss, Navdeep Singh Virk, of harassment and mental torture and wrongly interfering...
Jaipur woman gets rights over Delhi property
New Delhi : Landlords were free to choose properties for doing business wherever they want, a Delhi court has held while allowing the eviction...
JNUSU demands arrest of professor accused of sexual misconduct
New Delhi, (IANS): Scores of Jawaharlal Nehru University students on Monday staged a protest outside police station near the varsity demanding the arrest and...
Two women figure in Kuwait’s new 15-member cabinet
By IANS,
Dubai : Two women are among a new 15-member cabinet formed in Kuwait following elections in the Gulf city-state earlier this month.
Kuwait's ruler Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah approved the new cabinet unveiled late Wednesday with Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah being retained as prime minister.
The cabinet has seven new faces including a woman. In the last cabinet, there was only one woman.
Kunta Devi: A woman farmer from UP
By Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service,
One day, more than 20 years ago, Kunta Devi’s husband never returned home from his workplace at a brick kiln and has been untraceable since then. He seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving his wife alone with their 3 children—I daughter and 2 sons, with the youngest one barely 2 years old. Kunta does not know if he is dead or alive. She now lives with her 2 sons and their wives and 4 grandchildren—3 grandsons and 1 granddaughter.
Kejriwal assures help to women entrepreneurs
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party government will "extend all possible assistance" to the city's emerging women entrepreneurs, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said...
Status of women in India worse than in 18th century: Modi
By IANS,
New Delhi : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said Monday the status of women in India has become worse than in the 18th century despite progress made by society in other areas.
Women activists urge president not to sign sexual crime ordinance
By IANS,
New Delhi: Some women's organisations Saturday urged the president not to sign the ordinance on criminal law amendments passed by the union cabinet to deal with sexual crimes.
Fringe fundamentalists are now mainstream: Teesta Setalvad
By Anurag Dey
Kolkata: India is going through difficult times where the "once fringe" fundamentalist groups have now become mainstream and, with the...
Class 11 girl raped by three classmates
By IANS,
Lucknow: A Class 11 girl was allegedly raped at gunpoint by three of her classmates in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district, police said Saturday, adding that the suspects were absconding.
Residents of Hilwari village in Baghpat, some 400 km from here, held a series of protests, demanding the arrest of the boys.
The 16-year-old victim was abducted Friday by three boys of her class and raped at a secluded place. Medical reports of the girl have confirmed rape, police added.
दिल्ली: बस्तियों में बदतर ज़िन्दगी
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: इस शहर में जहां एक तरफ़ मेट्रो की रफ़्तार से भी तेज़ ज़िन्दगी भागती है, जहां बड़े-बड़े आलीशान मकान और कोठियां...
Hillary Clinton hopes to see a woman president, but wouldn’t run again
By Arun Kumar, IANS,
Washington : Onetime rival of President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton says she hoped there would a woman US president in her lifetime but doubts she herself would run for America's top job again.
It was a "daunting" challenge for a woman to run for president, Clinton now secretary of state in Obama's cabinet told NBC's "Meet the Press" programme Sunday.
"It will take the right woman who can make the case and win the votes and get elected. I am certainly hoping it will happen in my lifetime."
Over 60,000 cholera cases in Zimbabwe: WHO
By Xinhua,
Geneva : More than 60,000 people have been infected with cholera in Zimbabwe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday.
Of the infected people, 3,161 have died, said WHO, which described the situation as a "worst case scenario" since the epidemic broke out in August.
WHO reported over 1,000 deaths in just the past 15 days, and called on international non governmental organisations and the Zimbabwean government to help.
…और मैंने नोखा को ‘डेल्टा’ के लिए लड़ते हुए देखा
दलित छात्रा डेल्टा मेघवाल की उनके कॉलेज परिसर में हुई विवादित मौत पर देश भर में चर्चा और चिंता है. कॉलेज-प्रशासन जहां इसे आत्महत्या...
Prof Vimal Thorat delivers lecture on Dalit feminist writing at MIT
‘Babasaheb Ambedkar instilled a consciousness in women who then resolved to have their children, especially daughters, educated’
By Umang Kumar for TwoCircles.net,
Cambridge MA: Professor Vimal Thorat, current co-convener at the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) and former professor of Hindi at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on "Caste and Gender in Dalit feminist writing" on Thursday, May 21. The event was organized by the Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia.
पूजा करने गई महिला से गैंगरेप,बंदायू में हुई जघन्य वारदात
आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net
उत्तर प्रदेश के बदायूं में एक महिला के साथ निर्भया कांड जैसी घटना को फिर से दोहराने का मामला सामने आया है। 50...
Casteism and communalism are twin banes of UP : Subhashini Ali
By Kulsum Mustafa, TwoCircles.net
Lucknow, October 28: 2009: Subhasani Ali, the firebrand CPI (M) leader is not known for mincing words. She talks direct and forcefully with a certain conviction that is both appealing and stimulating and display signs of a leader. True to her party ideals, the lady makes sure that her public addresses generate a mass appeal. She has over the years brought out the common man’s point of view strongly. She did the same at Hindustan Samagam-2009 -UP-Dasha aur Disha ‘(UP’s present situation and its future.) on October 27 in Lucknow.
Slain SP’s family demands jobs, Badal to meet families
Chandigarh : The family of Superintendent of Police Baljit Singh, who died in the terror attack in Gurdaspur in Punjab, on Tuesday demanded...
Allocation for women and child development ministry slashed
New Delhi : The allocation of the women and child development ministry has been slashed by 44 percent in the budget for 2015-16 presented...
Mentally unstable woman jumps to death from AIIMS building
By IANS,
New Delhi : A mentally unstable woman jumped to her death Thursday from the fifth floor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), hospital authorities said.
According to the AIIMS administration, 32-year-old Babita Goutam, a resident of Loni in Ghaziabad district on the outskirts of Delhi, jumped from the fifth floor of the main hospital building at around 12.30 p.m.
The hospital and police have informed the family.
Self-help groups to arm women against economic slowdown: Tirath
By IANS,
New Delhi : India is strengthening its self-help groups to involve women in income generating work to arm them against the impact of economic meltdown, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said.
Addressing the plenary session of the third East Asia Gender Equality Ministerial Meeting at Seoul Thursday, Tirath said India is committed to uplift women in every sphere of life.
She said the government is making all efforts to protect women from the impact of economic slowdown on their health, nutritional level and economic sustainability.
Austrian FM hails appointing two women in Kuwaiti cabinet
By KUNA,
Vienna : Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik expressed happiness regarding the appointment of two women ministers in the new Kuwaiti government, noting that such step would encourage local women toward success and achievement on various levels.
The Minister stressed importance, in a press release on her website, of women's vital role in Kuwait, particularly in the set-up of the Arab world, hoping that such step would be an example for the region.
Why no quota for women in Rajya Sabha, asks Mamata
By IANS,
New Delhi : A day after her party boycotted voting on the women's reservation bill, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asked why a third of the Rajya Sabha seats too should not be kept for women.
"Why there is no 33 percent reservation for women in the Rajya Sabha?" a visibly upset Banerjee asked reporters.
The Trinamool Congress chief said that her party had "so many times" raised the issue of reservation for women in the Rajya Sabha.
Meet Ayesha Qureshi, a resin artist from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut
Nikhat Fatima /TwoCircles.net
Ayesha, 31, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut town was born with a passion for drawing and painting and displayed it from...
दर्दनाक : बेबस माँ ने बच्चो के साथ ख़ुदकुशी कर ली
आस मोहम्मद कैफ, बिजनौर (नहटौर)
बिजनौर में एक दर्दनाक घटनाक्रम में मुफलिसी से तंग आकर एक गरीब औरत ने अपनी दो बेटियों के साथ ख़ुदकुशी...
Man held in Delhi for raping, killing 15 children
New Delhi: In a replay of the chilling Nithari killings, a man has been arrested from south Delhi for sexually assaulting and killing at...
Women-only buses roll out to loud approval in Kashmir
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: A special bus service for women was launched in Srinagar on Tuesday, April 19, and this step,...
Smriti Irani: TV’s popular ‘bahu’ to play a crucial role in educating India
By Mohammad Mudassir Alam,
Monday, May 26, 2014 was a red letter day in democratic history of India as Narendra Damodaran Das Modi was sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of the country. Modi’s swearing in ceremony was stud with many highlights such as the presence of heads of SAARC countries, politicians, entrepreneurs, Bollywood stars, sports persons, etc. Besides these, the countrymen and analysts appreciated the cabinet of Modi, which is quite smaller in comparison to previous government and featuring considerable number of youth parliamentarians.
बुंदेलखंड की बहादुर बेटी और ‘गुलाबी गैंग’ की शेरनी हेमलता पटेल की भूली बिसरी...
हेमलता पटेल गुलाबी गैंग की संस्थापक सदस्यों में से हैं। बुंदेलखंड का मशहूर गुलाबी गैंग महिलाओं के विरुद्ध होने वाले अत्याचारों से लड़ने के...
Ruchika’s principal returns state award
By IANS,
Chandigarh: Four days after a magisterial inquiry held the Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School here guilty of being unfair in expelling teenage molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra for fee default, the school principal S. Sebestina Monday returned the state award.
The Chandigarh administration had directed her to return the award, which was given to her in 2005 for meritorious contribution to city education. She was the principal of the school in 1990, when Ruchika was expelled.
Sexual harassment of serious concern: Himachal acting CJ
Shimla: Violence against women and sexual harassment at the workplace are serious concerns and the judiciary can play a major role in delivering gender...
4 held for misbehaving with JNU girls, baton charge on campus
By IANS,
New Delhi: Violence broke out on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus late Sunday evening when four outsiders in an inebriated state were caught teasing women students and Delhi Police had to resort to baton charge and teargas to disperse the agitated students.