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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".

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

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

Dreams from Japan, in the bylanes of Okhla

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By Iqra Raza for Twocircles.net New Delhi: The rickshaw wheels lazily on the bumpy road making me jump every now and then. Dragging on,...

Women activists welcome anti-rape bill

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Powell calls for more Indian women students in US

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By IANS, Kolkata: Asserting that the US was stepping up efforts to increase the number of young women studying in her country, Ambassador to India...

Coming soon: Separate courts for rape victims

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By Kanu Sarda, IANS, New Delhi: Rape victims coming to a court to depose will not have to sit along with criminals facing trials as the Delhi High Court has proposed to set up separate courts for them. During a hearing on a rape case, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar said Wednesday, "We are proposing to have separate courts for rape victims and initially nine such courts will be set up and the district judge will look after it."

SC to hear contempt plea against Sabarimala tantri for closing temple for purification

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New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on January 22 a contempt plea against the Sabarimala temple tantri for shutting the...

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...

National consultation on violence against women in January

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New Delhi: A national consultation will be held between civil society organisations and government officials in January on protection of women from violence, organisers...

खोजबीन : क्या सचमुच नीट के रिजल्ट में मुस्लिम बच्चों ने कोई कमाल कर...

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

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

Crucial women’s quota bill lapses for the fourth time

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(March 8 is International Women's Day) New Delhi : Amid a plethora of gestures on women's empowerment, a crucial piece of legislation, a bill reserving 33 percent of seats in parliament and the state assemblies for women, has again lapsed with the 15th Lok Sabha holding its last sitting ahead of the April-May general elections.

Shabana addresses global summit on women’s abuse in Afghanistan

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By Subhash K. Jha, IANS, Mumbai : Ignoring her family's concern for her safety, Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi visited Afghanistan this week on an invitation by the UN to be the main speaker at a global summit to address the issue of violence against women. Shabana left for Kabul Tuesday night although her family, including husband Javed Akhtar, expressed fear for her safety in the war ravaged country. "Danger is fun," the actress said before departing.

Women quota bill will further marginalize backward sections: PFI

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net, Bhopal: Popular Front of India General Secretary K. M. Shareef has stated that the Women’s Reservation bill passed by the Rajya Sabha would not lead to empowering women, instead if it became law will further accelerate the marginalization of Dalits, backward castes and Muslims.

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

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नीरज बंकर Two circles.net के लिए जहाँ एक ओर ओटीटी प्लेटफार्म ने दुनियाभर की फिल्मों, वेब शोज और बाक़ी कलाओं से परिचय कराया जिससे...

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.

Female suicide bomber kills six in northeast of Baghdad

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By Xinhua, Baghdad : A woman suicide bomber blew herself up on Wednesday outside a court in Baquba, the capital city of the volatile province of Diyala, killing six people and wounding 18 others, a provincial police source said. The attack occurred around midday when a woman wearing an explosive-belt blew herself up among a crowd of people at the entrance of the city court, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The powerful blast also destroyed several nearby civilian cars and buildings in the city, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, the source said.

Medical superintendent warned over remark on nurses’ room

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New Delhi : Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Wednesday warned the medical superintendent of the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital over his...

Interview: Thasneem Fathima – M.Tech. topper of AMU

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Women activists stage silent protest in Srinagar

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By IANS, Srinagar : Women's rights activists staged a silent protest in Srinagar Thursday against the alleged deteriorating women's rights scenario in Kashmir.

Four held in Delhi for gang-raping Assam woman

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New Delhi: Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested on charges of gang rape and sexual assault of a 30-year-old woman from Assam,...

After UN award, Bihar woman gets Florence Nightingale award

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Patna : After being honoured with the United Nations Foundation award, a Bihar health official has now been selected for the National Florence Nightingale...

Haryana man kills wife, 3 kids; commits suicide

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Chandigarh : A man gunned down his wife and three minor daughters before committing suicide by hanging himself in a Haryana village, police...

Where are the women religious leaders?

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By Vishnu Makhijani, IANS, Astana : Whatever the third Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions held in Kazakhstan might have achieved, it did prove that when it comes to religious leadership, women are yet to break through the glass ceiling. A list circulated by the organisers featured the names of 184 participants - and only 13 of them were women.

The invisible makers of the city

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Homeless, vulnerable in equal measure to the vagaries of nature and human whims, and deprived of any form of social security, street dwellers often...

Khudai Khidmatgar holding Save Girl Child summit in Delhi

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By TCN News,

Gang-rape case: Notice to police, government on media’s plea

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the city government and police on the plea of journalists seeking access to the proceedings of the Dec 16 gang-rape trial.

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

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Kolkata : Describing the CPI-M as a "revolutionary party with a mass line", its general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said the five-day party...

Nation is always empowered by its women: PM

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said a nation is always empowered by its women. “Nation is always empowered by its women....

Namrata Damor was smothered to death: Doctor

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

आस्था के नाम पर धोखा : ऑनलाइन मूर्ति मंगाई, खेत मे दबाई , अगले...

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के उन्नाव जिले में 3 लोगों की अपने ही गांव के मासूम ग्रामीणों को ठगने की विस्तृत योजना विफल रही। एक...

South Asians laud US law on violence against women

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By IANS,

‘ट्रिपल तलाक़ का ख़त्म होना एक इंक़लाबी फ़ैसला है’ —शाईस्ता अम्बर

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ : ‘ट्रिपल तलाक़ का ख़त्म होना एक इंक़लाबी फ़ैसला है. इसके लिए हमने काफ़ी संघर्ष किया है. बहुत लम्बी लड़ाई...

Protests as two women pray at Sabarimala, Kerala shutdown called

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Thiruvananthapuram/Sabarimala, Jan 2 (IANS) Protests erupted across Kerala on Wednesday after two women in the hitherto banned age group entered the Sabarimala temple before...

Sanitation crisis at alarming stage, say experts

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New Delhi : Highlighting issues like menstrual hygiene management, women's dignity and poor defecation facilities, a national convention here Tuesday raised concern on the...

Tribal women protestors in Lalgarh teargassed

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By IANS, Lalgarh (West Bengal): A Trinamool Congress team, including two junior central ministers, visited this trouble-torn belt Tuesday and demanded the withdrawal of the ongoing security operations before police staged a baton charge and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse a group of agitating tribal women.

Women’s rights activists condemn assault on Mangalore girls

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women's rights activists Sunday condemned the attack on girls in a pub in Karnataka's coastal city of Mangalore by a self-styled moral brigade called Sri Rama Sene. Several women's rights organisations expressed their anger at the assault, saying it was violation of freedom. "Nobody has right to assault anyone and there can be no justification for this. Due action should be taken against them," Meenakshi Lekhi of the National Commission for Women (NCW) told IANS.

Himachal CM launches save girl child programme

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Shimla : Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Sunday started a programme to save the girl child in the Kangra district - the...

In twilight of their lives, they look for life partner

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By Rafat Quadri, IANS, Ahmedabad : They were in their 50s, 60s and even in their 70s. With love and longing in their hearts and dressed in their best clothes, hundreds of elderly men and women from various parts of Gujarat gathered here to look for a suitable match. The 75 women and 700 men, many of them lonely in the twilight of their lives, offered their bio-data as prospective marriage candidates at the unique function in Town Hall here.

Rashmi Shukla is Pune’s second woman police chief

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Pune : Senior police officer and State Intelligence Department Commissioner Rashmi Shukla was appointed the new police commissioner of Pune on Thursday, official sources...

Census 2011: India’s Muslims are no better today than a few decades earlier

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BY Sourjya Bhowmick, Via Catch News Recently released Census 2011 data based on religious faiths has revealed that Muslims have the lowest share...

Woman gives birth outside health centre, inquiry initiated

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By IANS, Lucknow : A 25-year-old woman gave birth to a still-born child outside a community health centre (CHC) in Uttar Pradesh after she was denied admission there. An inquiry has been initiated into the case. Vidyawati was Tuesday night brought to the Gosaiganj CHC in Lucknow district in an advanced stage of pregnancy by her relatives. However, the medical staff at the CHC allegedly refused to admit her. Vidyawati subsequently gave birth to a still-born child in the gallery of CHC, officials added.

IAF women exorcise 2005 Everest ghost

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS,

Reservation bill will be beacon for emancipation of women

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By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, The passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha is a momentous, heartwarming step not only for India, but is likely to be an inspirational trendsetter for women's empowerment in the entire region. Although it is only the first step, the ripples from the smashing of a glass barrier are bound to be felt in virtually all areas of traditional male dominance. Like its democracy, therefore, India will also be a beacon in the matter of women's emancipation.

‘Misconduct’, ‘Indiscipline’: IIT-BHU Students Suspended While Demanding Justice for Gangrape Survivor

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Sayeda, TwoCircles.net Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): Almost a year after a 22-year-old student of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) was allegedly gangraped by three workers of the...

NCW seeks probe in Punjab woman’s thrashing

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

Arms and the woman – Uttar Pradesh’s proxy gun culture

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By Rajat Rai, IANS, Lucknow : Nearly 700 women applied for arms licences in 2008 in western Uttar Pradesh. No, the region is not witnessing some sort of movement - rather politicians and criminals are using female members of their family to procure licences by proxy. Western Uttar Pradesh, in the past few years, has registered a surprising rise in the number of arms licences procured and applied for by women.

Anti-election protests in Kashmir

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By IANS, Kupwara : Dozens of people, mostly women, Sunday took to the streets and shouted anti-election slogans in a village in Kupwara district during the third phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir. The demonstration took place soon after polling stations opened in Trehgam village. Police said one woman was injured when the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) tried to disperse the protestors, who were demanding suspension of the assembly elections and independence for Kashmir.

Destitute women to get living quarters

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Penniless widow writes to Patil for mercy death

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: A 45-year-old widow in Orissa has sought permission from President Pratibha Patil to end her life, saying she has no money to feed her three mentally challenged children.

Ensure women’s protection, say Rajya Sabha members

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To mom with love: Lifestyle stores line up special Mother’s Day hampers

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By IANS, New Delhi : "Mother of mine you gave to me, all my life to do as I please..." As children gear up to pamper their mothers this Sunday, lifestyle and home decor stores are getting ready to cash in on the umbilical tie with an array of gifts. The wares on offer for Mother's Day vary from designer coffee mugs, delicate silver bric-a-bracs, chandeliers with antique finish, ivory bathroom sets, fine-dining cutlery, upholstered chairs to designer 'kurtis', accessories and handbags.

Only five percent Indian women in senior corporate posts: Study

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New Delhi: Only five percent of working women in India make it to senior leadership positions in the corporate sector, compared to the global...

Women safety initiative ‘Panic Button’ launched in 18 states

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New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The much awaited safety tool for women Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) called "Panic Button" was on Tuesday launched...

UN chief calls for end to violence against women

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By Xinhua, United Nations : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated his call to bring an end to violence against women, a scourge whose impact is devastating and immeasurable, as the United Nations began a series of events to mark International Women's Day. "It is sometimes said that women are weavers and men are too often warriors," Ban said in an address to the commemoration of the day, observed annually March 8, in New York.

Woman pensioner donates Rs 50,000 for LPG to poor women: Modi

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New Delhi : Pitching for the government's 'Give It Up' campaign to voluntarily surrender cooking gas subsidy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday...

Indian women’s relay team to compete Friday

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By IANS, Beijing : It will be India's last chance to salvage prestige on the track event of athletics as the women's 4x400m relay team get into action at the Beijing Olympics Friday. The showpiece track and field have seen pathetic performances from the Indians so far, with none of the competitors progressing beyond the first stage and none managing to replicate the performance they had come up with to make the cut for the big event.

Allowing women to be guardians: Panel examines bill

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By Rana Ajit, IANS, New Delhi : A parliamentary panel is scrutinising a bill aimed at giving Indian women equal rights as men in adopting children and becoming guardians of minors, including their own kids - something they are barred from under existing law.

BJP forms panel over atrocities on Dalit women in Kerala

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New Delhi : BJP president Amit Shah has set up a three-member committee to look into the incidents of atrocities against Dalit women in...

IAF women officers on Himalayan cycling expedition

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Pathankot (Punjab) : An Indian Air Force all-women officers' team Sunday embarked on a month-long cycling expedition from here to Leh in Jammu and...

Ban calls for ending violence against women

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By IANS, New York : On the occasion of the International Women's Day Sunday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for ending all forms of violence against women that perpetuate poverty and inequality. He said the habitual and socially ingrained violence against women mars lives, destroys health, and perpetuate poverty and inequality, WAM reported.

Credit society run by Muslims offers respite for low-income wage groups

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Headquartered in a small building in the state capital Patna, Al-Khair Co-operative Credit Society, with thirteen branches in four states, has transformed lives by...

UDF lawmakers outraged modesty of Left women MLAs: Achuthanandan

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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan on Monday led a delegation of five women legislators to Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam and complained that...

Honour for AMU teacher

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

Cops take woman to husband in Kerala, parents cry foul

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Islamic theological “expertise” in the liberal press

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By Umair Azmi for TwoCircles.net The article points out the internal inconsistencies in the theological arguments made by A. Faizur Rahman in articles which...

Manmohan to meet Chile’s first woman president Tuesday

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By IANS, New Delhi : With his health improving by the day after a coronary bypass surgery seven weeks ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Chile's first woman president Michelle Bachelet here Tuesday. President Pratibha Patil will host a state banquet and cultural programme for Bachelet Monday night, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Chile.

Pinki to smile again, to be given free education

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

पिछले पांच साल से रूकी हुई है भाजपा की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष रेणु देवी की...

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बेतिया: देश के नेता हमेशा ही अपनी राजनीतिक उम्र लंबी करने की दुआएं मांगते हैं. तमाम तिकड़में...

91-year-old woman takes on Kerala legislator

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By IANS,

वीडियो में देखिए लखनऊ घण्टाघर का सीएए के खिलाफ ऐतिहासिक प्रदर्शन!

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़, Twocircles.net लखनऊ। नागरिकता संशोधन कानून के विरोध में उत्तर प्रदेश की राजधानी लखनऊ में शाहीन बाग़ की तर्ज़ पा चल रहा प्रदर्शन का आज...

DMK calls for 33 percent reservation for women

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By IANS, Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu) :The DMK, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu and an important ally of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Sunday called for 33 percent reservation for women in parliament and legislative assemblies. A resolution passed at the DMK's womens' meet here, urged the central government "to first pass a law on this". After that, "all the parties can together consider and decide if there can be reservation within reservation", the resolution said.

SC stays death sentence of rape-murder convict

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed the death sentence of Kalu Khan, convicted for the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl in...

Woman burnt to death for giving birth to girl child

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By IANS, Lucknow : A 25-year-old woman was allegedly burnt to death by her husband and in-laws for giving birth to a baby girl for the second time in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh, police said Wednesday. "Just hours after Momeena delivered a baby girl Tuesday, she was set on fire by her husband, brother-in-law and mother-in-law," police inspector Somveer Singh told IANS on phone. Singh said the three accused ran away with the newborn girl after setting Momeena on fire. Momeena, married for five years, was a resident of the Ahera village in Baghpat, some 350 km from Lucknow.

Dowry law cannot be harassment tool, says court

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New Delhi: A court here has observed that dowry prohibition law cannot be allowed to become a tool for harassment. Granting relief to a man,...

Over 14,000 Gujarati women went missing in 2 years

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Gandhinagar, (IANS): On the eve of International Women's day, the BJP government in Gujarat admitted that 14,004 women from the state were reported missing during...

Law to protect women from workplace harassment soon

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By IANS,

Pakistani woman indicted for attempted murder in US

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By DPA, Washington : The US government Tuesday indicted a Pakistani woman for attempting to murder American interrogators while she was being held in Afghanistan. Aafia Siddiqui, 36, faces attempted murder charges after she allegedly seized a rifle from a US Army officer and tried to fire it at the interrogators who arrived in Ghazni, Afghanistan in July to question her about possible terrorist related activities, the US Justice Department said.

Minor raped by neighbour in Delhi

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New Delhi: A seven-year-old girl was raped by her 55-year-old neighbour in the national capital, police said Saturday. The incident took place in central Delhi's...

Women protest atrocities in Uttar Pradesh, caned by police

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By IANS, Lucknow: Women activists of the Congress party here were caned by the police Tuesday as they sought to raise the issue of "increasing atrocities on women" in Uttar Pradesh, party workers said. State party president Rita Bahuguna Joshi and All India Congress Committee secretary Pervez Hashmi, who is in charge of the party's affairs in Uttar Pradesh, were among those who suffered serious injuries. Hashmi was hospitalised with a fractured lower limb, while Joshi received cane blows on her arm, a party worker said.

Men’s groups resent move to empower women panel

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New Delhi : Men's rights groups, fighting for shared parenting in case of divorce, Thursday protested the central government move to empower the National...

It was worth the risk: Sonia

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By IANS, New Delhi: "I am very happy," Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared Tuesday after the Rajya Sabha passed the women's bill to reserve a third of seats in all legislatures for women, adding the "larger picture" of women's empowerment was worth the political risk that the ruling coalition had taken. Speaking to NDTV's Barkha Dutt, Gandhi said she was grateful to all the political parties who helped the bill to pass, including the Left, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) "and our coalition partners".

Women cab drivers soon on roads, courtesy Delhi Police

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New Delhi : In the aftermath of the Dec 5 rape in a cab by its driver, the Delhi Police have selected 115 women...

Theatre fest from South Asia on Women’s Day

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By IANS, New Delhi : Be it strife-torn Afghanistan, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, women in South Asia are playing an increasingly important and powerful role fostering peace. Come March 8, the International Women's Day, some 13 plays will be staged in the capital to celebrate this recognition. The festival "Leela" March 8-15 will showcase women-oriented plays directed and staged by women from nine South Asian countries. These will be presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in association with the National School of Drama and the Jamia Millia Islamia University.

Immigrant Muslim woman to be the first hijab-wearing senator in Australian parliament

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Fatima Payman is an Afghan-Australian woman whose family fled Afghanistan in 1999 to settle in Australia. Basil Islam | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Labor Party candidate...

Canadian women tourists robbed in Lucknow

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By IANS, Lucknow : Two Canadian women tourists were robbed in the Uttar Pradesh capital late Sunday night, police said. The incident took place in the central Hazratganj locality of the capital at around 11:30 p.m. when the tourists from Ottawa, Canada, were returning to their hotel in a cycle rickshaw. "According to the complainants, Gillian and Catherine, two motorcycle borne men intercepted them and snatched their purses," additional superintendent of police Paresh Pandey told IANS.

Britain starts its largest-ever debate on violence against women

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London, March 9 (IANS) The British government Monday launched its largest-ever public consultation to tackle violence against women and girls, including a probe into the sexualisation of teenage girls. Thousands in towns and cities across England are expected to take part in the consultation, which was launched by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and also includes a review into police powers for dealing with serial perpetrators of domestic violence.

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...

Maya calls for Mulayam’s mental treatment over sexist remark

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Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati has suggested that Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh be admitted to the Agra mental asylum for treatment following his sexist...

Pakistan frets over burqa bombers

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By IANS, Islamabad : Burqa-clad women suicide bombers in Pakistan have posed a potent threat to the country as it grapples to deal with the Taliban.

More girls studying, but 84% drop out after graduation

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By Prachi Salve While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before -- and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board...

Woman gang raped, killed

Women

New Delhi: A 30-year-old woman, who was reported to be missing since Friday morning, was gang raped by her friend and his associates who...

Triple Talaq: Muslim Personal Law Board’s stand is un-Islamic

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By Syed Ubaidur Rahman The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has told the Supreme Court that Triple Talaq in a single sitting is not...

MPs’ panel wants ‘flexible working hours’ for women in banks

Women

New Delhi : A parliamentary panel has lamented that its recommendation that "flexible working hours" be introduced for women in banks has not been...

Women can’t be treated as chattel: SC strikes down adultery law

Women

New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) In another landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Thursday decriminalised adultery after striking down a British era law, Section...

NWF’s ‘Awakening’ conference to be held at Coimbatore on Nov 16

Women

By TCN News, Mangalore: The Awakening conference for women empowerment will be held at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on 16th November 2014. Presenting the theme and objectives...

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.

Congress committed to passing women’s quota bill: Sonia

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By IANS, New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday said her party was committed to getting the women's reservation bill passed in the Lok Sabha.

Woman helps cops nab son wanted for rape

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : A woman helped the police arrest her son, who had allegedly raped a woman in Orissa's Balasore district after tying her to a tree, an official said Thursday. Nitay Mohanty, 22, a resident of Abhayamahai village tied the 35-year-old woman to a tree in an isolated area near the village and allegedly raped her July 24. Balasore is about 200 km from here. He then fled and hid at his uncle's house in Keodanal village in neighbouring West Bengal. His mother, Chhayamani Mohanty, 50, expressed her desire to help police.

No uniform policy of Waqf boards on Muslim widow pension

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By Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: In March, 2013 West Bengal Chief Minister, who also holds the charge of minority affairs and madrasa education, had announced honorarium for Muslim widows and divorced women. The honorarium, it was decided, would be given from the special funds of the Chief Minister, but would be delivered through State Waqf Board.

1,800 trained Indian nurses recruited in Saudi Arabia

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Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's health ministry has recruited 1,800 Indian nurses to work in various government hospitals, a media report said. The new nurses would assume...

National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) demands action against “unprecedented police brutality on unarmed...

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TCN News National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) President Aruna Roy has launched a fact-finding report on the February violence inside New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamic...

Two students arrested a month after video-recorded gang rape on crowded US beach

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Phoenix (Arizona): No one intervened while a woman was being gang raped in daylight on a crowded public beach in Florida in March, or...

Soccer girls

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net When FIFA World Cup Soccer Final match is played on Sunday, there will be at least a billion people will be watching it around the world. Going by the two pictures that I will present to you, some of these fans will be young Muslim girls of India.

NCW condemns Mamata government for crimes against women

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Kolkata : Holding the Mamata Banerjee government's "lethargic attitude" as responsible for rise in crimes against women in West Bengal, National Commission for Women...

Former Bihar minister rules out contesting against Khurshid

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By IANS, Patna : Parveen Amanullah, Bihar's first woman Muslim minister who quit the ruling JD-U last week to join the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),...

Government moots scheme to combat social evils against women

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By IANS, New Delhi: If all goes well, the government will soon launch a national programme, called the National Mission for Women, to combat social evils against women. This will be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Proposed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the 'umbrella mission' will cover all existing programmes for women's welfare and evaluate and monitor their efficacy.

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

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

BJP derails Rajya Sabha over triple talaq row

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New Delhi, (IANS): The ruling BJP on Wednesday forced an unprecedented adjournment in the Rajya Sabha as the opposition pressed for the triple talaq Bill...

अस्पताल की लापरवाही से यासीन की मौत, संगठनों ने लगाया सपा सरकार पर आरोप

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter लखनऊ: जमीनी विवाद में जिंदा जला दिए गए बाराबंकी स्थित हैदरगढ़ के मोहम्मद यासीन की लखनऊ के सिविल अस्पताल में इलाज के...

Rahul Gandhi meets women artisans in Gujarat

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By IANS, Ahmedabad : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi interacted with women artisans in a Kutch village Sunday as part of his two-day tour of the Kutch, Saurashtra and northern regions of Gujarat. The young Congress MP met women engaged in handicrafts in Bhujodi village of Kutch district, which was devastated by a major earthquake on Jan 26, 2001.

कानपुर : सपना ने कहा हिन्दू संगठनों ने दबाव देकर दर्ज कराया था नौशाद...

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विशेष सवांददाता। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के कानपुर में बीजेपी नेताओं द्वारा एक मुस्लिम युवक को धर्मांतरण के मामले में जबरन फंसाने का मामला सामने...

हम जेंडर बराबरी चाहते हैं पर मर्दों को जेल में डालकर नहीं : जमीला

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नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए पिछले दिनों हमारे मुल्क में यह माहौल बनाने की कोशि‍श की गई कि सभी मुसलमान महिलाएं तीन तलाक़ क़ानून के नाम...

Bishop stirs trouble after he adopts 26-year-old

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By IANS, Kochi : A bishop in Kerala has stirred controversy by adopting a 26-year-old woman, prompting the archbishop of the area to hold an inquiry after priests in his diocese made a complaint. The issue of 58-year-old Kochi bishop John Thattumkal adopting a 26-year-old woman has been probed by the Archbishop Daniel Acharuparambil of the Verapoly Archdiocese near Kochi and the report has been sent to the Vatican.

#TCN10: Looking back at TwoCircles.net

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net “Are there enough news stories on Indian Muslims to do a daily news portal?” This was one of the first question that...

Saudi women face jail, flogging for checking husband’s phone

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Riyadh : Women in Saudi Arabia could be sent to jail and flogged if they check their husband’s telephone without his knowledge and consent....

The first woman VC of Calicut University steps down

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By TCN News,

Happy to see girl students shine: Modi

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated the students on their success in various examinations, and said he was Â“happy to see...

Dalit woman burnt alive in Madhya Pradesh

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By IANS, Bhopal : A Dalit woman, set on fire by two people in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district, died at a hospital in Gwalior Thursday, police said. The woman, Krantibai, was living with Raghuveer Gurjar in Padora village in the district after leaving her husband a few years ago. "Raghuveer Wednesday demanded some money from her for liquor. When Krantibai refused, he and his brother doused her with kerosene and set her on fire," Shivpuri Superintendent of Police Rajendra Prasad said.

Compensate the family of youth killed by cow vigilantes in Gujarat and immediately arrest...

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By TCN News, Vatva, Ahmedabad: A delegation of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) led by its National Vice President visited Vatva, Ahmedabad and met...

Dalit women on a tour of the US to highlight caste violence

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Come to the ASpace in Philly - #dalitwomenfight photo exhibit is open till September 4! pic.twitter.com/aIUXDTr1IT— DALIT WOMEN FIGHT! (@dalitwomenfight) September 2, 2015 By TCN...

Open letter to political parties to take up the issue of repealing AFSPA

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Civil Society groups and individuals, led by Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign (SSSC), and endorsed by several others have written an open letter to all the political parties to take up the issue of repealing The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA).

Ayesha Khatun : The woman on a mission

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,

Turkmenistan to gift women $14 on Women’s Day

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By IANS/RIA Novosti,

Single largest gathering of women at Kerala festival

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By IANS,

Rally for road safety among women held in Delhi

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New Delhi : A rally to promote road safety awareness among women was organised here on Sunday by International two-wheeler maker Honda in collaboration...

Nawab Sikandar Begum’s Hajj memoir

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and for over fourteen hundred years a journey of a lifetime for millions of Muslims living in different corners of the world. These hajis returned to their homelands to tell a tale of physical and spiritual journey of extraordinary proportions. Hajj is obligatory for every Muslim man and woman who are able to undertake this journey. A large number of Muslim women from India made this pious trip but one of the first to write an account of her hajj journey was Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal.

BSF women step closer to creating history at the border

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By Alkesh Sharma, IANS, Hoshiarpur (Punjab) : As they thumped their feet into the ground for the final parade as trainees, they all knew that they are just a step away from their destination - of being the first women to be guarding India's international borders. The Kharkan camp of the Border Security Force (BSF), 15 km from this Punjab town, saw history being made Saturday as 178 women recruits were inducted into the BSF fold after their impressive passing out parade here.

The Lady of “Women’s Jamaat”

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko,

Delhi needs woman chief minister: Meenakshi Lekhi

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

Crescent School: Harbinger of English education among Muslims, now struggling to keep pace

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Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

‘The Little Muslims Gift Factory’: An Indian Muslim Woman’s Islamic Gift Shop Is Going...

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Nikhat Fatima | Two Circles In 2015 at the age of 27, Madiha Basheer started her business with her first product a beautiful box curated...

Tripura is a start, AFSPA must go from every state: Save Sharmila campaign

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Welcoming the announcement of repeal of AFSPA from Tripura, the Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign (SSSC) on Friday said it believes that the repeal of AFSPA from Tripura is a decision in favor of democracy and humanity.

Minor raped by step-father in Delhi

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New Delhi: A 10-year-old girl was raped by her step-father at her home here, police said Thursday. The accused has been arrested. Police said the...

HRT therapy found to help menopausal women

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By IANS, Sydney : One of the longest and largest trials of hormone replacement therapy has found it helps post-menopausal women significantly improve quality of life. The study involved 2,130 post-menopausal women in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It evaluated the impact of combined oestrogen and progestogen hormone therapy (HRT) on their quality of life. The average age of women in this study was 13 years after menopause and most participants did not have menopausal symptoms.

Unfortunate that women are not safe even in woman-ruled states: Gadkari

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Kolkata : Stressing on the need for women empowerment, union minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said it was unfortunate for the country that women...

Dec 16 gang rape timeline

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A woman was brutally raped by six people Dec 16, 2012, night in a moving private bus in the national capital. She later died...

Official suspended over girl’s pregnancy

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Bhubaneswar: An Odisha government official has been suspended after an inmate in a state-run hostel, a student of Class 9, was found pregnant in...

Sony asked to drop Crime Patrol show on gang-rape

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By IANS,

Kolkata’s Rally Revolution: The RG Kar Tragedy and the City’s Defiant Stand

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Utsa Sarmin, TwoCircles.net “Kolkata has transformed into a city of rallies,” observed Mayurakshi Banerjee, a Mumbai-based cine worker who has called the city home for...

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 6 – The...

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(Editor’s note: This was first published on Yahoo.com as a single piece. We are reproducing the long form report in parts for TwoCircles.net readers.) You...

Advocate Shahid Azmi: Son for two mothers

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By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net

Hajj and Mahram: Modi government taking credit for Saudi government’s decision, say clerics

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that his government has relaxed the rule to allow Muslim women to go for Hajj...

Now Indo-US bilateral agenda on women’s issues

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By IANS, New Delhi : US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer, who is on a visit to India, Friday said she would discuss a "bilateral agenda" on issues concerning women during her stay here. Talking to reporters at the Indian Women Press Corps (IWPC) in the capital, Verveer, whose position was created by the Barack Obama administration this year, said women's issues were of primary global concern and every effort needs to be made on behalf of the government and the civil society to address them.

Taslima Nasreen, Amitav Ghosh condole Mahasweta Devi’s death

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Kolkata : Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Thursday condoled the death of eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi and remembered the litterateur's support...

Sonia Gandhi praises Andhra for women’s empowerment

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By IANS, Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) : Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday praised the Andhra Pradesh government for taking the lead in women's empowerment in the country. She said the performance of the state government - run by her party - to empower women was not only admired by the rest of the country but had also aroused curiosity abroad.

WTA may have to find a new sponsor

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By IANS, London : The Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which became the richest association in women's sport three years ago with Sony Ericsson as its title sponsor, is waging a losing battle to convince the mobile telephone company to renew its contract. The joint-venture company, which had signed a $93.3 million deal with the WTA, has two more years of its contract to run, and it is highly unlikely to go beyond 2010, reports The Guardian.