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Dalit couple lynched in Punjab ‘honour killing’

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By Parminder Singh Bariana , Hoshiarpur (Punjab):The failure of Punjab Police to provide security to a newly-married Dalit couple despite directions from the high court...

Folk art shows how women fought for their rights

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By IANS,

Little has changed; Modi should ensure women’s security: Parents

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(Two years after Dec 16, 2012, gang-rape) By Rajnish Singh, New Delhi : Saying that nothing has changed since the brutal Dec 16 gang-rape that shook the nation two years ago, the parents of the victim have now pinned their hopes on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to initiate a mission for women's safety on the lines of his Clean India Campaign.

Kerala to recruit more women as police officers

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

Woman alleges molestation by Uber driver in Gurgaon

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By Rajnish Singh, Gurgaon: Six months after the rape of a financial consultant by an Uber cab driver, the App based cab service provider ran...

#तीन_तलाक़_क़ानून : सवाल दर सवाल ही है, जवाब का पता नहीं

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नासिरूद्दीन लोकसभा ने तलाक़-‍ए-बिद्दत या एक मजलिस की तीन तलाक़ से जुड़ा बिल ध्वनिमत से पास कर दिया है. अब इस बिल को राज्यसभा से...

8 महीने से जेल में है सपा विद्यायक नाहिद हसन, अखिलेश यादव से अब...

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मोहम्मद वसीम । Two circles.net के लिए तबियत खराब होने पर कैराना के विधायक नाहिद हसन को मुजफ्फरनगर अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया है...

Woman’s in-laws arrested for causing forceful abortion

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By IANS, New Delhi: The in-laws of a 22-year-old woman were arrested here Monday after she accused them of drugging her and causing her to abort her over one month-old foetus, the police said. Impreet Kaur, in her complaint to the Geeta Colony police station, alleged that her husband Rajdeep Singh, a property dealer, and in-laws, Gurdeep Singh and Devendra, took her to the house of her husband's sister two days ago. At her sister-in-law's house she was allegedly given a sedative laced tea and after that the "foetus was removed". She had married Singh in December last year.

‘We Are Hiding in Forests’: Fear in Uttar Pradesh’s Rohingya Camps After Anti-Terrorism Squad...

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Mohsina Malik | Twocircles.net Sajida Begum, 26, had just finished fajr prayers when the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) barged into her shanty in the Rohingya refugee...

Women’s bill moved, torn to shreds in Rajya Sabha

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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 them at chairman Hamid Ansari. This happened on a day when both houses assembled to calls to "celebrate and honour women" and include them in the decision making process to mark the International Day of Women being observed worldwide.

Women’s commission condemns serial on Colors channel

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By IANS, New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) Thursday strongly criticised the serial "Na Aana Is Desh Lado" aired on Colors TV for the way it portrays women. In a statement Girija Vyas, chairperson of NCW, said the commission has asked for clarifications from the channel because the serial presents women in a poor light and appears to be derogatory, and outrages the modesty of women.

Ban urges gov’ts to ensure full range of rights for rural women

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By IRNA,

Maulvi Mumtaz Ali- A Nineteenth century advocate of women’s rights

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By Asghar Ali Engineer,

It is generally thought that movement for women’s rights began with western educated people and in 19th century. But very few people know about Maulavi Mumtaz Ali Khan, a traditional ‘alim, product of Darul ‘Uloom Deoband who was very enthusiastic supporters of gender equality. There are two things to be noted here: one, he was a traditional ‘alim and was not under the influence of western thought and two, he was advocating gender equality purely on the basis of Islamic traditional sources i.e. Qur’an and hadith.

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

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

Representation of Muslim women in Lok Sabha since Independence

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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.

NCW wants CBI probe in Bhatta-Parsaul violence, Mayawati hits back

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By IANS,

Activist lawyer killed in Navi Mumbai

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Thane: Activist lawyer Minakshi Jaiswal was brutally killed with her neck slit and two fingers cut off at her residence in Navi Mumbai, officials...

Sonia, Rahul condole death of Sister Nirmala

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New Delhi : Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday condoled the death of Mother Teresa's successor Sister Nirmala. Sister...

Women who did not lose faith: tales of grit and fortitude

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By Kanu Sarda, IANS New Delhi : Neelam Katara, Neelam Krishnamurthy, Indu Jalali, Sabrina Lall... they are all stories of grit and fortitude. Women who have been moved by personal tragedy to step into India's courts day after day to bring the perpetrators of crime to book. And in the process they have inspired hundreds of others not to lose faith.

NHRC orders probe into abduction of woman by BJD MLA

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Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Odisha government to conduct a fresh inquiry by the Crime Branch into the alleged...

IAF women officers scale new heights, summit Mt. Kamet

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women officers of the Indian Air Force (IAF) are scaling heights...literally, in preparation to summit Mt.Everest next year. Young Flight Lieutenant Nivedita Choudhary and Squadron Leader Nirupama, who are members of the all-women IAF officers' Everest expedition, have just returned after scaling the 7,557-metre Mt. Kamet and 7,354-metre Mt.Abi Gamin respectively in Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand, close to the border with China.

Now, women are new vote bank in Bihar

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Patna: With women voters outnumbering male voters in the first two of the five-phase Bihar assembly polls, they have emerged as a prominent vote...

Nine days after charge-sheet, rapist gets 10 years in jail

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By Parminder Singh Bariana, IANS,

Rights panel to probe tribal woman’s harassment

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has deputed a team to inquire into sexual harassment charges levelled by a tribal woman against a suspended senior police officer in Jharkhand. The victim has also alleged threat to her life from the officer, a statement said. The rights panel said that in her complaint, the tribal woman alleged sexual harassment by former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ranchi, P.S. Natarajan. A criminal case was registered against the IGP and the trial of the case is pending in a court.

Sanjay Dutt’s remarks against Samajwadi Party ideology: women activists

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By IANS, New Delhi : Condemning Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt's remark that married women should not use their father's surname as archaic and patriarchal, women activists have pointed out that his statement is also in contrast with the ideology of the founder of the Samajwadi Party that he has joined. "Ram Manohar Lohia, founder of the Samajwadi party that Sanjay Dutt has joined, was against caste. Therefore, most of the former socialists didn't even write their surnames," said Ranjana Kumari, chairperson of Centre for Social Research.

Protests against TDP legislator for ‘manhandling’ woman officer

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Hyderabad : Government employees in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday launched protests demanding the arrest of a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislator and his aides...

Kerala community colleges to empower women

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Thiruvananthapuram : The Kerala government's women empowerment project Kudumbashree is launching four community colleges for technical education in the state, an official said here...

जहांगीरपुरी के निवासियों का नफ़रत की राजनीति को करारा जवाब

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विशेष संवाददाता ।Twocircles.net दिल्ली के जहांगीरपुरी इलाके में एक हफ्ते पहले हनुमान जयंती की शोभा यात्रा के दौरान हुई हिंसा के बाद रविवार को हिंदू...

More women reporting cases of sexual harassment: Maneka Gandhi

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New Delhi : Women are coming forward in larger numbers to report cases of sexual harassment at the workplace, Minister of Women and Child...

‘If Delhi is unsafe for a woman police officer, what about common girls?’

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New Delhi: Three youths literally caught the wrong hand when a woman they tried to molest turned out to be a Delhi Police constable. While...

Indian-origin man sentenced to life for wife’s murder

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Wellington: An Indian-origin man in Newzealand has been sentenced to life for killing his estranged wife while he was on bail, The New Zealand...

ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट : कोरोना ने जिनकी मासूमियत छीन ली और मुस्तक़बिल बिगाड़ दिया !

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यह ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट बताती है कि कोरोना की महामारी ने नोनिहालो की जिंदगी को बर्बाद कर दिया, गरीब परिवारों के बच्चें इससे ज्यादा प्रभावित...

Kerala HC declines anticipatory bail to rape-accused priests

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By IANS Kochi, July 11: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of three Catholic orthodox priests accused of sexually assaulting a woman...

Abducted Tripura girl rescued in Bihar

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Agartala: Bihar Police have rescued a 16-year-old girl kidnapped from Tripura and arrested her abductor, police said here Saturday. "A married young man kidnapped the...

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...

STF asked to trace missing woman official in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS, Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has entrusted the Special Task Force (STF) with finding a 53-year-old woman government official, who has been missing along with her driver since Friday, an official said Monday. Rakesh Jain, district manager of state Food and Essential Commodities Corporation, posted in Sitapur, has been missing since last Friday. "A team of STF would now probe the case. We would make every effort to trace the woman official," Additional Director General (law and order) Brij Lal told reporters here.

Rajya Sabha calls for passing of women reservation bill

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By IANS,

Illegal migration leads to exploitation of women: study

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By IANS, New Delhi: Poverty, landlessness and unemployment are pushing larger number of Indian and Bangladeshi women to different countries through illegal channels and subjecting them to exploitation and sexual harassment, a new study said here Friday. The study titled 'Gender dimensions of international migration from India and Bangladesh: Impact on the families left behind' found that majority of women, who emigrate illegally, were subjected to isolation, low remuneration, exploitation and sexual harassment by their employers.

In a first, Kashmiri woman pens stories of abuse faced by women

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Azra Mufti might not be a well known name in the literary circles of the country, but this...

Vitamin-D supplements benefit diabetic Indian women

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By IANS, Sydney : Women from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with insulin resistance showed marked improvement after taking vitamin D supplements, says a study. Von Hurst, nutrition lecturer at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health at Albany, conducted the study for her doctoral thesis. Insulin resistance is largely symptom-free and sufferers are unaware of their condition. "Once it has fully developed into type-2 diabetes, it can be treated, but not cured," says Von Hurst.

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...

Women journalists protest slanderous stereotypes, seek watchdog

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New Delhi : A national organisation of women journalists Monday highlighted the need to regulate the social media in the wake of prevalent "slanderous...

Woman commits suicide, blames husband, sister

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New Delhi : A 22-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan. She left a note blaming her husband and her...

Two women robbed of passport, US currency in Noida

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By IANS, Noida : Two women who were returning after shopping at a mall here were robbed of their passport, US currency and other valuables at gunpoint by two men on a motorcycle, police said Saturday. The victims, Swati Dwivedi and Monika, residents of Sector 20, were returning home in a cycle rickshaw at around 11 p.m. Friday after shopping at the Great India Place (GIP) mall, when their rickshaw was intercepted by the two men, police said.

Mumtaz rides on Mamata’s wave

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Five killed in Jammu gunbattle, four hostages rescued

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By IANS, Jammu : Security forces rescued three children and a woman, who were held hostage during a gunbattle in which three civilians, an army officer and a guerrilla were killed Wednesday in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir. The militants, holed up in a house in Chinore on the outskirts of this city, took six civilians hostage Wednesday morning. The police said they were trying to rescue the two remaining hostages before launching an assault on the guerrillas.

रामनवमी शोभायात्रा के दौरान देश भर में हुई हिंसा पैदा कर रही है बड़ी...

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आकिल हुसैन। Two circles.net देश की राजधानी दिल्ली में शनिवार को बाला जी शोभायात्रा के दौरान दो समुदायों के बीच संघर्ष हो गया था। इससे...

Muzaffarnagar riots: NHRC accepts UP government’s explanation and closes all cases

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Three years after western districts of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli in Uttar Pradesh witnessed serious communal violence, National Human Rights commission...

Former VC Hamid Ansari, Shashi Tharoor to speak at Reclaiming India conference on democratic...

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TCN News Mohammad Hamid Ansari (Former Vice President of India), Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi (Historian and a Grandson of Mohandas Gandhi) and Rev Dr William Barber (Co-Chair...

Student gang-raped in Bihar, two held

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By IANS, Patna: Two people have been arrested for allegedly abducting and gang-raping a student in a Bihar village, police said Sunday.

I want to improve bureaucracy: IAS woman topper

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By IANS, New Delhi : This year's woman topper of the prestigious civil services examination has a simple aim - she wants to help people who haplessly run with files from one office to another. "I must be able to improve bureaucracy so that I can help people who are running from one office to another with files," said Iva Sahay, who ranked third in the All India civil services examination and has the highest ranking among women. The results of the exam were announced Thursday.

Women’s security of prime concern: President

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By IANS,

Women celebrate in Bihar’s first ‘smokeless’ village

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Patna : Women in a village in Bihar are celebrating -- as all its 240 households have been provided with cooking gas connections and...

Six held, three women rescued from prostitution in Goa

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Panaji: Three women forced into prostitution were Saturday rescued and six people were arrested during a raid at a beauty salon in the Goa...

AIDWA condemns Dalit youth’s murder in Maharashtra

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New Delhi: The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) Thursday condemned the murder of a Dalit youth in Maharashtra in the name of honour...

Pregnant women beaten, abused in Madhya Pradesh district

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By Shahnawaz Akhtar, IANS,

Police not to arrest Rathore ‘hastily’ despite criticism

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By IANS, Panchkula (Haryana): Haryana Police has been pulled up for delaying action in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case but police officials say they did not want to arrest former top cop S.P.S Rathore "hastily" despite a Panchkula court having dismissed his anticipatory bail pleas. "Our investigation is still under process and we are looking into all aspects of the case before arresting anybody. We cannot do things hastily in this matter and we are busy collecting evidence pertaining to these FIRs," Superintendent of Police (Panchkula) Maneesh Chaudhary told IANS here Saturday.

Islamic clerics fume at ‘Abdullah’s anti-burqa’ views

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By IANS, Lucknow : Leading Islamic clerics have taken strong exception to union minister Farooq Abdullah's reported views against Muslim women wearing the burqa. Several maulanas in Lucknow and some well known scholars at the prominent Deoband school of Islamic thought have raised serious objections to former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Abdullah's reported remark at Ajmer Monday that the burqa was largely responsible for backwardness among Muslim women.

Reserved Past: De-reserving Future

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Ram Puniyani,

विधानसभा चुनाव का ऐलान, यूपी में इस दिन यहां पड़ेगी वोट

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स्पेशल डेस्क।Twocircles.net देश के पांच राज्यों मे होने वाले विधानसभा चुनाव के लिए चुनाव आयोग ने तारीखों का ऐलान कर दिया है। जिन राज्यों...

Government to launch campaign against dowry, foeticide: Kejriwal

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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said his government will plan a campaign involving people to fight against the menace of...

Woman kills daughter’s rapist in Jharkhand

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By IANS, Ranchi : A woman armed with an iron rod beat to death a man who raped her five-year-old daughter in Jharkhand, police said...

Amla products to empower women in rural Bengal

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Kolkata: A campaign has been launched to produce Indian gooseberry or amla sauces, candy, dried chips, pickle, jellies to provide an alternative livelihood for...

Kerala temple fire heartrending, shocking: Modi

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described the fire at Kerala temple that killed over 90 people as "heartrending and shocking"....

All-women’s R-Day contingent leader hopes more of ilk will sign up

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By Anjali Ojha, New Delhi : As India prepares to showcase the 'woman power' of its armed forces, the officer leading the all-women's contingent of...

Irom Sharmila, youth from war zones to join global peace fest

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Chandigarh : Manipur's Irom Chanu Sharmila and other civil rights activists, as well as youth from war-ravaged countries like Syria, Afghanistan and Libya, will...

Hindutva groups in Orissa should be dealt with strictly: Justice AP Shah

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: “The continuing programme of communal provocation that the groups and organizations of Hindutva ideology have been engaged in, should be ended forthwith through strict administrative action,” said Justice AP Shah, former CJ, Delhi High Court and head of the Jury, National People’s Tribunal (NPT) on Kandhamal.

SC disallows burqa, full sleeve shirt for AIPMT examination on Saturday

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The SIO that had filed the PIL, withdrew the case “as a mark of protest” seeing what it called the decline of interest of...

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.

Girl student made to take off shirt during exam

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By IANS, Ghaziabad: A girl student appearing for her high school examination was made to take off her shirt in the classroom by a woman invigilator who suspected her of concealing some written material for cheating inside her clothes. The girl's parents Friday protested against the incident. The girl was appearing for the Uttar Pradesh board high school examination in Modi Nagar of Ghaziabad Thursday.

Book Review: The Mothers of Manipur: Twelve Women Who Made History

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By Aparna Sharma for TwoCircles.net Name of the book: The Mothers of Manipur: Twelve Women Who Made History Author: Teresa Rehman, Publisher: Zubaan Books, 154 pages Number of...

Probe begins into Odisha student’s suicide

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Bhubaneswar: A probe has been initiated into the suicide of a tribal woman student a week ago in Odisha's Gajapati district after she did...

Malaysian Indian woman to sue for false detention

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By IANS, Kuala Lumpur : A Malaysian Indian woman is seeking compensation and an unqualified apology from the Malaysian immigration department for her wrongful detention for 11 months after she was mistaken for an illegal alien from Sri Lanka. Perak state's Health, Environment and Human Resources Committee chairman A. Sivanesan relayed Rajeshvari's demand during a media conference in Ipoh Tuesday. Urging the department to check all detention depots in the country, Sivanesan said he feared that Rajeshvari's case could be "just the tip of the iceberg".

Women’s education important for development: President

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By IANS,

लावारिस लाशों का अंतिम संस्कार करने वाली पूजा शर्मा को अपनों ने ठुकरा दिया,...

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पूनम मसीह/ TwoCircles.net “अब मेरे मोहल्ले के लोग भी मुझसे बात नहीं करते हैं. मेरे दोस्तों ने मुझे छोड़ दिया है। लेकिन मैं अकेली खुश...

Triple talaq verdict a lesson for Muslim community on reforms: Former minister Salman Khurshid

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By Prashant Sood New Delhi, (IANS): The triple talaq bill is a step towards imposing a Uniform Civil Code and the judicial verdict on the...

Naidu bats for women’s quota bill, uniform civil code

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New Delhi : Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said political parties must reach a conclusion on the long-pending women's reservation...

Extraordinary stories of ordinary women

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TCN Special Series: Part 1 on Nazma Phumdreimeiyum By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Congress wants Priyanka Gandhi to campaign more: Singhvi

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Kolkata: The Congress was "keen and eager" to see party chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra play a bigger role in the election...

Mother, daughter held for stoning woman to death

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By IANS, Raipur : A village headwoman in Chattisgarh was arrested Monday with her daughter and son-in-law for allegedly stoning to death a woman who was branded a witch. The incident took place at Narkela village in Jashpur district, about 450 km from here. "The village sarpanch, Rimni Bai, and her daughter and son-in-law were arrested following strong evidence that they stoned to death a middle-aged tribal woman Budhiaro Bai after branding her a witch," said a police official probing the case.

पति की हत्या के बाद शकीना बनी नई ग्राम प्रधान, ग्रामीणों ने उपचुनाव में...

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर ।Twocircles.net सोमवार को यूपी के परगवां ग्राम में लोग उस समय खुशी से झूमने लगे जब ग्राम पंचायत के उपचुनाव परिणाम...

Rape cases against SC and ST women increasing

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By IANS,

Muslim women will not tolerate interference in Sharia: AIMPLB members

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Hyderabad : Women members of All Indian Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Wednesday said that Muslim women are safe and secure in Islamic...

Extraordinary stories of ordinary women

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TCN Special Series: Part IV on Jayanti Keishing By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Adivasi Women Continue to be Killed on Pretext of being a “Witch”

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Sami Ahmad|TwoCircles.net Sonamuni Murmu, 47, of Aswari village under Saraiyahat police station in Dumka district of Jharkhand, was forced to eat human excrement for allegedly...

Delhi government to send school heads to Cambridge for training

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New Delhi : The Delhi government will soon send 90 school principals to Cambridge University for an education leadership training exercise, as part of...

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.

‘Two Women’ and More: A diva’s remarkable story (Book Review)

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By Vikas Datta, Title: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life ; Author: Sophia Loren; Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK; Pages: 352; Special Indian price: Rs.699

‘Discrimination against women in India higher than poorest African countries’

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By TCN News,

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.

Malaysian Indian woman seeks help for kidney treatment

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By IANS, Kuala Lumpur : A desperately ill Malaysian Indian woman suffering from kidney failure has sought the help of the public and the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) for raising funds so she can be treated in an Indian hospital. P. Sivasakthi tried the traditional medicine route but now finds that she can no longer avoid dialysis, surgery and a possible kidney transplant.

Jamiat to organize woman conferences to show Muslim women are not against Sharia

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By TCN News, New Delhi: In its national executive meeting, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind decided to organize woman conferences in various cities across the country to...

Women claim top spot for Nepal – on Everest

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS, Kathmandu : After unprecedented participation in the movement that helped bring down King Gyanendra's absolute regime and making their presence felt in last month's historic election, Nepal's women Thursday claimed the top spot for their country on Mt Everest. An expedition by, for and of Nepali women saw five climbers, including first-timers, summit the world's highest peak with more members readying for a fresh push in the afternoon and Friday.

शर्मसार बिहार : महिलाओं पर बढ़ते हमले

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निम्मी अब मुजफ्फरनगर के किदवईनगर में रहती है। हो सकता है उसका नाम नईमा हो मगर स्कूल वो कभी गई नही और नईमा उसे...

Islamic practice cited to justify bar on women in Sabarimala

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By IANS: New Delhi, July 24: The Travancore Devaswom Board on Tuesday cited the Islamic practice of barring women from entering mosques to justify the...

Women’s quota bill in present form is injustice: Muslim group

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By IANS, New Delhi: The All India Milli Council, a Muslim group, Saturday demanded a "quota within quota" in the women's reservation bill and said it will hold a protest march Monday against the government's move to pass the legislation in its present form. M. Manzoor Alam, general secretary of the Milli Council, said here Saturday that the protest march at Jantar Mantar would be joined by other religious minority groups and Dalit organisations. "If passed, the bill will amount to injustice against the women belonging to minorities and Dalits," Alam said.

AMU sets operating procedure to deal COVID and pregnancy

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TCN News Aligarh: What COVID 19 could do to the pregnancy? The pregnant women grope in the dark and to address their misery, the department of...

Woman detained in Lebanon not Baghdadi’s wife: Iraq

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Baghdad ; The Iraqi interior ministry said Wednesday that a woman recently detained in Lebanon is not the wife of the Islamic State (IS)...

Rs.50 crore for making public transport safer for women

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New Delhi : To make public transport safer for women, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday allocated Rs.50 crore to the road transport and highways...

Amnesty’s annual report criticizes India for ‘growing intolerance’

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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...

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

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

Space for women in Masjid, that is, room for women in Muslim community

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By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net,

14-year exile of women’s quota bill set to end: Sushma

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By IANS, Raipur: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said Sunday that her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would ensure the end of the "14-year exile" of the women's reservation bill in parliament. "The BJP will ensure the bill sails through smoothly in the Rajya Sabha Monday. The party has issued a whip to its members to favour the bill and end the 14-year exile of the bill that was first moved in parliament when H.D. Deve Gowda became the prime minister in 1996," the BJP leader told newsmen here at the New Circuit House.

UAE’s first woman athlete in Olympic Games arrives in Beijing

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By NNN-WAM, Beijing : Determined to win, the first woman athlete of the UAE participating in the Olympic Games, Sheikha Maitha bint Mohammed has arrived in the Chinese capital. She is the only UAE athlete participating in the 67 kg category of taekwondo in the Beijing Olympiad.

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

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

Majority of women unaware of rights: Study

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By IANS, New Delhi : Seventy percent of women in the national capital are unaware of constitutional and legal provisions made for them, a new study released Tuesday said.

Shocked at targeting of sexual harassment complainant: ‘Gulabi Gang’ maker

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Kolkata : National award winner Nishtha Jain, who helmed documentary "Gulabi Gang", has supported women students of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute...

Dhaka can take lessons from Beijing, says Rasheda

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

Cuddalore decks up for DMK women’s meet

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By IANS, Cuddalore : Preparations are on in this coastal town for a key meeting of the women's wing of Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK that is headed by its influential leader and Rajya Sabha MP M.K. Kanimozhi. The daughter of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will preside over the June 14-15 conference that is expected to draw some 500,000 women, Health Minister M.R.K. Paneerselvam said here. Among those expected to address the gathering are the chief minister and senior members of the Karunanidhi cabinet besides Kanimozhi.

Woman who blew lid on Woods’ affairs now regrets

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By IANS, London: Ashley Samson, the woman who revealed fallen golfer Tiger Woods' affair with club hostess Rachel Uchitel, claims she was offered more than 150,000 pounds by the sports star's agents to stay mum. She now regrets the mess she has created, reports The Sun. Samson says she wished she had taken the "hush money", reports the newspaper's website thesun.co.uk. "It probably would have been better as what ended up happening was a big mess," she said.

Foxconn’s Discriminatory Hiring Practices: Undermining Women’s Empowerment in India

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Sanjana Chawla, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: A startling revelation regarding Foxconn’s alleged discriminatory hiring policies at its Apple iPhone plant in India has come to light. Shockingly, the company...

Death sentence for rapist, murderer of teenaged girl

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By IANS, Jaipur: A court in Rajasthan's Sriganganagar town sentenced to death a man for raping and then brutally killing a 15-year-old girl, a lawyer said.

Defence ministry considering women pilots for navy

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New Delhi : A proposal to induct women pilots in the navy is under consideration of the defence ministry and certain clarifications have been...

Court grants bail to Delhi Police official

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By IANS, New Delhi : A Delhi court Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to a Delhi Police official accused of raping and making a video clip...

Over three dozen feared dead as boat capsizes in Bihar

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By IANS, Patna : Over three dozen people, mostly women and children, are feared drowned after an overloaded boat capsized in flood-hit Bihar Thursday, an official said. The boat with a capacity of 25 persons was carrying over 40 people in Sheikhpura district about 125 km from here when it overturned. "Only two boatmen managed to swim and survived," an official of the district administration, requesting anonymity, said.

US woman, 80, with no training, lands plane

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By IANS, Washington : An 80-year-old woman in the US who had never flown before managed to land a small aircraft after her pilot husband passed out at the controls.

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.

BJP praising Ambedkar for petty political gain: Sonia

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Nagpur : Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday said the BJP which earlier opposed and targeted Babasaheb Ambedkar was now praising him for "petty...

Assam evictions: Pregnant women worst victims of eviction, decry non-availability of ‘medicine, proper food’

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The Assam government’s eviction drive in Darrang district on September 23 has left many families in distress, including pregnant women. A TCN Ground report...

Can the burqa coexist with the bikini?

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Marginalized groups march to Parliament for quota within women quota

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4 women allegedly slain by own family in possible `honour killing’

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By DPA, Montreal : Canadian authorities have charged an Afghan immigrant, his wife and their oldest son with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of three Montreal sisters and an older female relative. Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar Shafia, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13, all sisters, were found dead with Rona Amir Mohammed, 50, in a submerged car June 30 in the historic Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ontario. From the beginning, investigators were baffled how the car managed to negotiate several obstacles to end up in the canal tail first, without leaving any skid marks.

50 women sick after getting vaccine in MP

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Gwalior, (IANS): As many as 50 women fell sick after getting a vaccine at the maternity ward of a hospital in this Madhya Pradesh city,...

Uber rape: Indian woman withdraws US case

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By Arun Kumar Washington : An Indian woman executive who sued Uber after allegedly being raped by a driver for the cab-hailing service in...

10,000 Saudi women get mobile phone repairing training

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Riyadh, (IANS) : More than 10,000 Saudi women have received mobile phone repairing training to improve the employment chances of females, the media reported...

Delhi by night – many cops but so few women

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

Saudi Arabia to launch work-at-home programme for women

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Riyadh : Saudi Arabia will launch an updated work-at-home programme for women in a few weeks, while its portal will be introduced by the...

Watch: Haldwani residents welcome Supreme Court oder on staying evictions

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After Supreme Court stayed the Uttarakhand HC's order for evictions, people in Haldwani celebrated and congratulated each other. Shrutti Sharma | TwoCircles.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSGDJD9oSg

Gurgaon doctor sent to custody for raping sister

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Gurgaon: A 33-year-old doctor was Sunday sent to 14 days judicial custody on charges of raping his younger sister for over eight years, police...

Woman thrashed, paraded naked in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS, Lucknow : A group of locals thrashed a pregnant woman and paraded her naked through a village in Uttar Pradesh after she objected to encroachment on her land, police said Monday. The incident took place Sunday evening at Karnawala village in Bijnor district, about 400 km from Lucknow. Of the four people who were primarily behind the incident, two have been arrested, police said. "In the incident, the woman suffered a miscarriage. She is undergoing treatment at a hospital," police inspector Rajesh Kumar Gautam told reporters.

Police still to interrogate Pune call centre rape victim

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By IANS, Pune : Police said Sunday they hadn't found any "corroborative evidence" of rape following allegations that a 22-year-old woman employee of a call centre here had been gangraped by around 10 men, including her cab driver. The call centre employee of IBM has not yet made a statement to police. She was allegedly raped Thursday night and has been in a state of shock since then.

Engineering students arrested for misbehaving with tourist at Puri

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By IANS, Puri (Orissa) : Three students of an engineering college in Orissa were arrested for misbehaving with a woman tourist at the temple city of Puri, police said Saturday. The three are students of an engineering college in Bhubaneswar. They allegedly misbehaved with the woman tourist when she was bathing in the sea at Puri, some 56 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, an official of the sea beach police station told IANS. Police arrested the students, Manish Kumar Sharma, Prasant Sharma and Ashutosh Kumar on the basis of a written complaint filed by the husband of the woman.

जिसने काम चलाया था उसके लिए क़लम चला दिया…

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मोहम्मद अनीसुर रहमान खान कितना अच्छा विचार है कि हम अपने देश की बागडोर जिसके हाथ में दें उसका रिपोर्ट कार्ड भी हम ही बनाएं...

Sheila Dikshit: ‘mascot of a clean chief minister’

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By IANS, New Delhi : From a politician by default to the Congress' longest serving woman chief minister, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday wrote herself into the record books by steering her party to a third consecutive victory in the assembly elections. Riding the twin planks of development and good governance, the 70-year-old Dikshit, who is known for her humility and charisma, was the first chief minister in Delhi to get a second consecutive term in 2003. And now, one more.

Punjab’s first female bouncers lose their jobs

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By Alkesh Sharma, IANS, Chandigarh : Two women from Punjab who had become bouncers at a nightclub here a few months ago, a rarity in the country, have been sacked all of a sudden. They have been charged with indiscipline and dancing in a rival nightclub, but one of them says the real reason is envy of their popularity. Amandeep Kaur, 22, who hails from a village in Punjab's Barnala district, 250 km from here, was standing tall among her male counterparts in Score nightclub a month ago. She became the first female bouncer here in June.

Journey of Chandigarh woman – from telephone booth to mayor’s office

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By Alkesh Sharma, IANS, Chandigarh : She does not have an upscale address or family connections to boast of, but she holds the highest civic position in the union territory of Chandigarh. That Kamlesh Banarsi Das has managed to become mayor of the city for the second time is a tribute to her hard work, dedication and simplicity. The story of Kamlesh is special. From running an ordinary telephone booth, Kamlesh is back in the Chandigarh mayor's office - the only Congress leader to have entered the coveted office twice in this city.

Empower women through self-help groups: Ramesh

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Tantrik held in Delhi for raping woman

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New Delhi : A tantrik has been arrested here for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman after threatening to kill her brothers by using "black...

Obama to designate monument to women’s equality movement

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Washington : US President Barack Obama is designating a historic house in Washington as a monument honouring the movement for women's equality in the...

Interview: Manzoor Alam on Indian Muslim leadership

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By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net Manzoor Alam is the Chairman of the New Delhi-based Institute of Objective Studies, a Muslim social science research centre, and also the General-Secretary of the All India Milli Council. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he speaks about the Muslim leadership in contemporary India. Q: What do you think the priorities of the Indian Muslim leadership should be today?

Muslim women education in Kerala: My mom and I, then and now

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By Aaliya Rushdi, TwoCircles.net,

Burqa-clad Sumaiya makes history by securing 12 MBBS medals at AMU

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By Rahat Abrar, Two sparking eyes popping out of traditional Muslim attire burqa (veil) got the attention of the former first citizen of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wipro Chief Azim Premji and the audience as Sumaiya, a girl student with hijab, got as many as 12 medals in the prestigious MBBS course at the 58th annual convocation at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Her magnificent feat indicates that Muslim girls are also advancing in the field of education. A female can pursue the studies of MBBS by wearing traditional Hijab (Burqa).