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Ramadan 1439: Sarah

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By Poornima Marh, TwoCircles.net Sarah, 33, was born and brought up in Bangalore. She is an Electronics Engineer and used to work as a microchip...

Woman power pulls Orissa’s chariots of gods

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By Byomakesh Biswal, IANS, Baripada (Orissa) : It's a tug of equality. For women in the small town of Baripada that has come alive during the Jagannath rath yatra, pulling the chariot of goddess Subhadra is as much about empowerment as it is about tradition. The Hindu chariot festival is observed in many parts of India, with mostly men doing the tugging, but in Baripada it is a unique affair because there women have the exclusive right of pulling the chariot of goddess Subhadra - the sister of Lord Jagannath - in an act considered sacred.

Dalits should come forward and participate in the development of society: Devyani Khobragade

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By TCN News Nagpur: "Dalits should utilize all possible government schemes and should actively participate in the developing of society”, said IAF officer...

UPA believed in work rather than empty talk: Manmohan Singh

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Guwahati : Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said his UPA government had always believed in work rather than empty talk and the...

All India Democratic Women’s Association ask the president to not sign the TT bill

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TCN News The AIDWA ( All India Democratic Women's Association) have issued a statement on the Triple Talaq Bill to the press wherein they refer...

Sri Lanka to increase women’s involvement in local politics

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Colombo : Sri Lanka's new cabinet on Thursday vowed to amend laws to increase the number of women in local politics and state institutions. Addressing...

NCW chief for more contraceptive choices for women

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New Delhi : Women should be offered the entire bouquet of contraceptive choices available for family planning instead of just one method of sterilization,...

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...

Rajasthan gets NHRC notice over woman’s rape by policeman

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New Delhi : The NHRC has issued notice to the Rajasthan government over a report that said a police assistant sub-inspector allegedly raped...

दिल्ली: बस्तियों में बदतर ज़िन्दगी

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net दिल्ली: इस शहर में जहां एक तरफ़ मेट्रो की रफ़्तार से भी तेज़ ज़िन्दगी भागती है, जहां बड़े-बड़े आलीशान मकान और कोठियां...

Drop in women MLA numbers in Telangana stresses need for 33% reservation

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net The number of women in Telangana State Assembly has come down this year as compared to the previous elections of 2014,...

Anandiben Patel: Gujarat’s first woman CM (Profile)

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By Quaid Najmi, Ahmedabad : Some 25 years ago, without a second thought, a woman school teacher plunged into the Narmada river and rescued two...

Woman mortgages jewellery to construct toilet

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Patna : Setting a rare and inspiring example that has drawn her applause, a woman in Bihar mortagaged her gold and silver jewellery to...

Sharmila, Vani set for another face-off

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Saradha scam: Mamata demands arrest of union minister’s wife

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Kolkata: In an angry retaliation over the Saradha scam issue which has again grabbed the spotlight, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday wondered...

Muslim women can opt out of triple talaq, AIMPLB tells SC

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New Delhi, (IANS): The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it has decided to issue an advisory...

Computer training for madrasa teachers at AMU

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Woman’s burnt body found in Delhi house

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By IANS, New Delhi : The burnt body of a woman was found in her house here Monday, police said. Anju, a resident of Uttam Nagar in west Delhi, was found dead around 3 a.m., a police officer said. "We found the burnt body of a woman in the house. We are investigating the case and have apprehended her husband Ramu for questioning," the officer said.

No Country for Women: Love and rights in troubled times

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By Neha Dabhade Recently in Rajsamand, Rajasthan, Shambu lal Raigar brutally hacked Mohammad Afrajul, a migrant from Malda, West Bengal to death with his own...

मोदी के बनारस में छात्रों पर अत्याचार, देखें तस्वीरें

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net वाराणसी: देश के विश्वविद्यालयों में सरकार की दखलंदाज़ी का मामला अभी थमा नहीं था कि अब विश्वविद्यालयों के कुलपतियों द्वारा छात्रों पर अत्याचार करने और उन पर लाठियां चलवाने के आरोप लग रहे हैं. ताजा मामला नरेंद्र मोदी के संसदीय क्षेत्र बनारस स्थित काशी हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय का है.

मजबूत गवाही और तकनीकी साक्ष्य बने आज़म खान को सज़ा की वजह

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। twocircles.net समाजवादी पार्टी के नेता आज़म ख़ान की मुश्किलें एक बार फिर बढ़ गई है। 2019 के एक हेट स्पीच के मामले में...

Over three years, 70 pregnant women found HIV+ in Tripura

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Agartala : About 70 pregnant women have tested HIV-positive in Tripura in the past three years, an official of the Tripura State AIDS Control...

Indian woman found dead in Oman

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Muscat: An Indian woman has been found dead in her apartment in Oman's Sohar city, hours after having lost her daughter and husband in...

Female racing drivers strive to break male bastion

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By Bharat Sharma, IANS,

Women’s dignity must be upheld: JIH Rajasthan chief

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By TCN News, Jaipur: “Women’s Dignity must be upheld and their rights must be protected,” said Engineer Muhammad Saleem, State Chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Rajasthan. He was addressing the women attending a conference for them on “Women’s Rights in the light of the teachings of Prophet Muhammad”, held at Muslim Musafir Khana of Jaipur on Monday on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Women live-in partners covered by domestic violence act: Minister

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women live-in partners are protected under the domestic violence act and there is no move to enact a law governing such relationships, parliament was informed Monday. “It is not that prevalent,” said Law Minister H.R. Bharadwaj, referring to live-in relationships, during question hour in the Rajya Sabha, adding: “If it is acceptable by society, then the government can make laws. Laws are made keeping in view societal trends. “It is hypothetical to ask a question whether we are contemplating a law (to govern live-in relationships),” the minister added.

Far from home, Kerala nurses a lifeline for families

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By Sanu George, IANS,

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

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अमन की और बढ़ा कानपुर मगर एकतरफा कार्रवाई पर उठे है सवाल !

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आकिल हुसैन। Two circles.net कानपुर हिंसा के बाद अब कानपुर अमन की तरफ बढ़ रहा है। धरपकड़ चल रही है। हालांकि पुलिस की कार्रवाई पर...

Brutalised with iron rod, woman undergoes throat surgery

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By IANS,

Triple Talaq and the silence of the Muslim men

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By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net Many Muslim women are against the Triple Talaq , Around 50 thousand women have signed a petition asking...

Woman burnt alive for opposing husband’s affair

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Patna: A woman was allegedly burnt alive after she objected to her husband's extra-marital affair with his sister-in-law in Bihar's Nalanda district, police said...

Indian women’s hockey team wins Asia Cup bronze

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By IANS, New Delhi: There were finally some smiles in the Indian women's hockey team as they won the bronze medal Saturday by beating much fancied rivals China in the inaugural edition of the Asia Cup held in Busan, South Korea. The medal will lift the morale of the team, which has been rocked with charges of sexual harassment that saw chief coach Maharaj Kishan Kaushik resigning. India came from behind to register a 2-1 victory over world No.3 China. The Indian team is currently ranked 13th in the world. Wang Mengyu scored the only goal for China in the 16th minute.

ERDF opens women’s college in Assam’s Karimganj

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Speakers at the seminar stressed upon the importance of education for women and appealed to the families, especially from the minority communities, to send...

A woman, a Muslim, and an artist: How a 23-year-old in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar...

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23-year-old Anjum, who lives in Jamia Nagar, a middle-income Muslim-majority enclave near the Yamuna River in Delhi, has been actively involved in art-based...

Four held for illegally selling Rs.700 mn property of actress

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By IANS, Chennai : Four people, including two women, have been jailed for allegedly selling a property worth over Rs.700 million and partly owned by actress-turned-politician Vijayashanti. They used forged papers to sell the property in the northwest suburbs of this city, the police said. The four were arrested Friday following a complaint from one of the owners of the property. All of them were sent to Puzhal prison after a court remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days, a police official said.

Bengal governor questions students’ silence over alleged molestation

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Kolkata: In the wake of the alleged molestation of a Jadavpur University student, West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Monday questioned the silence of...

India reduces baby deaths but still hasn’t met 2012 targets

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By Rhea Colaco First, the good news: 37 babies died for every 1,000 that were born in 2015, two better than the government's...

Bengal Muslim groups oppose doing away with triple talaq

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

Enough jails for women prisoners: Government

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New Delhi, (IANS) : The government on Wednesday said the country has enough jails for women prisoners. Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha,...

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

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

660 response centres for violence-hit women

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New Delhi: Crises and response centres will be set up at 660 locations across the country for violence-affected women, the ministry for women and...

NGOs protest against Honour Killing of a Dalit Boy

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By TCN News, Puducherry: Periyar Viduthalai Kazagam, a Tamil Nadu based organization along with Puducherry unit of Khudai Khidmatgar jointly protest against the brutal honour...

Will consider regional woman caucus idea, says Speaker

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By IANS, New Delhi : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Tuesday said she would consider suggestions by Pakistan's National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza that there should be a Women's Parliamentary Caucus in South Asia. "I will look into it," Meira Kumar said on the sidelines of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) when asked about the suggestion made by her Pakistani counterpart.

Hamida Aapa ki yaaden

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By Shaheer Khan for TwoCircles.net Eminent Urdu writer Hamida Salim passed away on Sunday, August 16th at the age of 93 at her house in...

Muslim women are oppressed in India: says minority social activist

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

Girl dies after being thrown from Badal family’s bus; four arrested

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Moga/Chandigarh : The death of a 13-year-old Dalit girl on Thursday after she and her mother were allegedly pushed out of a speeding bus...

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.

Indian challenge ends in ITF women’s tournament

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Indian challenge in the $10,000 women's International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament got over Friday with the defeat of Isha Lakhani and Sanaa Bhambri in the semi-finals. On a hot and humid day at DLTA complex here, third-seeded Isha went down 3-6, 4-6 to top-seed Emily Webley-Smith of Britain while Sanaa, seeded fifth, lost to seventh-seeded Uzbek Alexandra Kolesnichenko, 3-6, 2-6. Webley-Smith will meet her doubles partner Kolesnichenko for the title clash Saturday.

India takes up rape incident with Maldives

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By IANS, New Delhi: India has taken up "quite strongly" with Maldives the rape of an Indian woman and has been assured of action by its government, an official said Tuesday.

Government is clearing a way for Uniform Civil Code through triple talaq : JUH

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Strongly condemning Central government’s affidavit filed before Supreme Court that opposes practice of triple talaq and polygamy, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind...

Woman official arrested in Tripura multi-crore scam

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Agartala: A senior Tripura education department woman official was arrested for allegedly embezzling more than Rs.4 crore from a central government scheme, police said...

Colonial hangover ails workers of Assam’s tea industry

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By Azera Parveen Rahman, Tezpur (Assam) : Colonial-style bungalows of Assam's expansive tea gardens and the British-era lifestyles of their executives paint a picture postcard of yore. Sadly, this hangover also extends to the poor living conditions of labourers - an issue now in the limelight after the World Bank said that it was probing the violation of workers' rights inthese plantations it jointly finances with Tata Global Beverages.

‘SC’s obligation to protect women, churches and religious freedom’

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court will hear a plea seeking security for women and freedom of religion in the wake of attack on...

Bhopal gas tragedy: Many women couldn’t become mothers again

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By Sandeep Pauranik Bhopal, (IANS): The tragedy that struck this city 33 years ago following methyl isocyanate leak from an industrial unit has not allowed...

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Mizoram woman found dead in Delhi

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New Delhi: A 24-year-old woman from Mizoram was found dead at her home here and the police are now hunting for her male partner,...

Can Shariah be changed?

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By Asghar Ali Engineer,

Anti-trafficking Bill to be introduced in Parliament soon: Maneka Gandhi

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Chandigarh : Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the government will soon bring an anti-trafficking legislation in Parliament to...

Man hammers two minor daughters to death in UP

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By IANS, Lucknow: A man hammered his two minor daughters to death Saturday in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district, police said. He was arrested.

Speed up adoption process: Maneka

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New Delhi: Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has asked the authorities to speed up the child adoption cases pending in various institutions...

Sudanese woman faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers

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By DPA, Nairobi : A woman Sudanese journalist and United Nations worker could face up to 40 lashes Wednesday for wearing trousers. Lubna Ahmed Hussein, a columnist and public information officer at the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), was arrested in Khartoum along with 13 other women in early July. Ten of the other women were given 10 lashes for breaching Islamic law, but Hussein demanded a lawyer and delayed her trial. She has invited local and foreign journalists to view her flogging should she be convicted.

Cops take woman to husband in Kerala, parents cry foul

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By IANS,

Three raped in Bihar

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By IANS,

11 arrested for beating up police, woman

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Kolkata : Eleven persons were arrested on Saturday for allegedly beating up a policeman after a fight broke out between neighbours over playing...

Woman conceives after tubectomy at Uttar Pradesh hospital

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By IANS, Lucknow : The wife of a poor farmer of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh gave birth to twins earlier this week -- even after opting for a tubectomy operation in a government hospital following the birth of their third child last year. Although the farmer, not willing to be named, says he will make all possible efforts to bring up his five children, the state health department terms this to be a minor issue.

Turkmenistan to gift women $14 on Women’s Day

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By IANS/RIA Novosti,

Reform sexual assault laws, treatment of survivors: HRW

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‘Fight Back’ to represent India at US youth summit

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By IANS, New Delhi/Mumbai : Fight-Back, an online gender justice campaign launched this year in Mumbai after a woman there was molested outside the JJ Marriott Hotel on New Year's eve, will represent India at the prestigious International Youth Movements Summit in New York Dec 3-5. The celebrity campaign helps young women across the country with wallet cards listing police helpline numbers, online discussion forums, support groups and media to enable them fight against gender abuse and injustice.

Report of the national programme on “Hunar Se Rozgaar Tak”

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The All India Confederation for Women’s Empowerment Through Education (AICWETE), New Delhi in collaboration with Committee on Girls’ Education, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, Govt. of India, conducted a National Programme on the Topic “Hunar Se Rozgaar Tak” (From Skill to Employment) at India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi on 26th February, 2014.

AIPMT dress code controversy: CBSE softens stand, SC to hear PIL requesting quashing CBSE...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Even as the Supreme Court is likely to hear at 12 noon on Friday a case by...

Crimes against women on the rise in Assam

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By IANS,

Millions of women devotees expected at Kerala temple on Sunday

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram: Upwards of four million women devotees are expected to cook an offering as part of the famed Attukal Pongala festival to be...

UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo visiting Imphal on April 28

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,

Ramadan 1437: Unsa Rehmani

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By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net Working at the ART Centre, an Anti-Retroviral Treatment Centre at Medical College run by Aligarh Muslim University for HIV positive patients,...

Women key to US presidential elections: poll

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By DPA, Washington : Women hold an important key to winning the US presidential elections in November because neither Democrat Barack Obama nor Republican John McCain has yet won a majority of women voters into their corner, according to a poll. Obama has won the support of 49 percent of women, while 38 percent are for McCain, according to the poll released Tuesday, commissioned by a coalition of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a female-oriented TV broadcaster, and hundreds of women's organisations.

SC to begin hearing on validity of triple talaq vis-a-vis Muslim women’s rights

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New Delhi, (IANS): A five judge Constitution bench of Supreme Court will on Thursday commence hearing on a plea that the triple talaq, nikah...

UAE’s Sheikha Fatima named UN goodwill ambassador

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By IANS/WAM,

Woman official among two held for accepting bribe

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By IANS, Shimla: Two people, including a woman excise taxation officer, were arrested in Himachal Pradesh Saturday while accepting a bribe, police said. "Excise taxation officer Nirmal Kumari and her assistant Neeraj Kumar were caught red-handed Saturday by the Vigilance Bureau while accepting bribe in their office in Mandi town," Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhupinder Singh told reporters. He said they were arrested on a tip-off from a businessman. The Vigilance Bureau has registered 271 corruption cases against government officials from January 2008 to Jan 31, 2010.

There should be no problem in saying ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’: Najma Heptullah

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By Sushil Kumar New Delhi : Terming the controversy related to chanting of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' as "unnecessary and uncalled for", Minority Affairs...

Family demands CBI probe into attacks on Meghalaya women’s activists

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Shillong, Dec 4 (IANS) The family members of two prominent women's rights activists, who were injured in a mob attack in Meghalaya, on Tuesday...

HIV woman returns to hospital after rape-accused arrested

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By IANS, Chandigarh : Almost two years after an HIV-positive woman was allegedly sexually abused by staff members of a leading hospital and the state AIDS control society, the victim has resumed treatment at the facility following the arrest of the two accused. According to the police, accused James, a senior technician of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh and Nek Ram, a counsellor with Chandigarh AIDS Control Society were arrested Friday. A case of rape has been registered against the accused.

Muslim men come out in support to abolish Triple Talaq

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By TCN News New Delhi: A group of 225 Muslim men from across the country have come out in support of the...

President pitches for women’s education, skill development

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Domkal (West Bengal): Calling for focusing on women's education, President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday asserted that by 2030, India will have an edge over other...

Woman who sought to abort foetus suffers miscarriage

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By IANS, Mumbai : Niketa Mehta, the Mumbai housewife whose plea for aborting her 26-week-old foetus had been turned down by the Bombay High Court, has suffered a miscarriage. Her husband Haresh Mehta, 35, said Niketa, 34, had been admitted briefly to a clinic after complaints of severe abdominal pain and there was a miscarriage Tuesday. "I don't want to go into the details. She is very weak and she has been advised complete bed rest for a month," Haresh told IANS Thursday.

Women form only a third of India’s internet population: Google

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New Delhi: Only one-third of the total Indian population with access to the internet are women, says a survey conducted by Google. The survey revealed...

Kerala different from rest of India in women’s health: study

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By IANS, Kochi : Women in Kerala have higher life expectancy, they have an upper edge in the state's sex ratio, are more prone to obesity and experience higher stress levels than men. A new study, therefore, says health problems faced by women in Kerala are different from those at the national level. The study titled 'Health of Women in Kerala: Current Status and Emerging Issues' was conducted by researchers attached to the Centre for Socio-economic and Environmental Studies (CSES) here and was distributed to the media Sunday.

Over 50,000 women cleared to work as domestic maids

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New Delhi : A total of 53,616 women have been granted emigration clearance to work as domestic workers in the Middle East in the...

Woman burnt to death in Orissa violence over VHP leader’s killing

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : A young woman was burnt to death and a church official seriously injured when a mob torched an orphanage in an Orissa village, sparking tension across the state Monday even as thousands observed a statewide shutdown called by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to protest the killing of one of its leaders. A 22-year-old woman was killed and a church official badly injured when angry mobs burnt down an orphanage in Khuntpali village in Barhgarh district, 300 km from here, Monday. While Christians claimed the woman was a nun, the state police have denied it.

Meet Ariba Khan: A Young Municipal Councillor from Shaheen Bagh

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Aatika S. | TwoCircles.net Ariba Khan from the Indian National Congress, and Municipal Councillor from Abul Fazal Enclave in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, speaks to...

Tihar has separate lock-ups for women, Delhi HC told

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court was Wednesday informed by the city government that there were separate lock-ups for women accused in Tihar...

NGOs release charter urging men to say no to violence against women

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New Delhi : A 10-point charter was released here by Non-Government Organisations on Tuesday urging men to become agents of change and say no...

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

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NCW team meets Bengal gang rape victim, Trinamool cries foul

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By IANS, Kolkata : A NCW team, which Tuesday met a gang rape victim in West Bengal's Birbhum district, asked the Mamata Banerjee government to...

Women fast making inroads into male dominated professions

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By Ruchika Kher, IANS, New Delhi : From driving taxis to tending bars, an increasing number of women in India are breaking into male bastions and asserting that they can be as good, if not better, at jobs that were traditionally perceived as being only for men. Shanno, a widow and mother of three children, broke free from a stereotypical job and became a part of an all-woman cab service called Sakha in the national capital.

Concerned over violence against Dalits, women: Congress

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

ओवैसी ने यूपी में बहराइच से फूंका चुनावी बिगुल , ‘एमवाई’ समीकरण नही बनने...

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Here’s How Digital Platforms Proliferate Anti-Muslim Hate

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A new study documents an exponential rise in hate on digital platforms in India since BJP came to power in 2014. Snobar | TwoCircles.net NEW...

महिलाओं की दुनिया का एक कड़वा सच

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net महिला दिवस हर साल की तरह आया और चला गया. खानापूर्ति के लिए महिलाओं पर जमकर भाषणबाज़ी की गई और सशक्तिकरण...

The sorry state of Delhi’s women labourers

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By Prashant K. Nanda, IANS, New Delhi : They live and work in the capital, but the city's 200,000 women labourers - most of whom work at construction sites - along with their children are some of the worst sufferers when it comes to health indices. Nearly 48 percent of them got married before the legal age of 18, and 46 percent of the ones among them who were mothers also had their first baby before that age, says a new study carried out by voluntary organisation Mobile Creche.

Bail plea of BSP MP arrested in dowry death case rejected

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Ghaziabad : A court here on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of BSP MP Narendra Kashyap who was arrested on charges of dowry death...

British woman seeks truth about daughter’s death in India

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By IANS, London : A British woman is running from pillar to post to find the cause of her daughter's death days after she married her Indian boyfriend in India. Sandy Hunter, 50, has just returned from India after securing guardianship of her daughter Charlotte Bending's son from a previous marriage. Charlotte began a relationship with Jitendra Singh, from Kurukshetra in Haryana, who was living and working in Plymouth for the past six years. Singh has a natural son, Gorkarak, while Nasrullah is the Charlotte's son from her earlier marriage to a person now said to be in custody.

On the right side of the border in Assam and Mizoram

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The no man's land—the disputed region between Assam and Mizoram saw violent clashes between the forces of the two states leading to the...

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...

Woman sets herself ablaze over dowry harassment

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

Two women run over by Mumbai suburban train, driver arrested

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By IANS, Mumbai: In a rare occurrence on the Mumbai suburban railway network, two women commuters were run over by a train Thursday, leading to a massive agitation at Virar. Police have booked the train driver and guard for "causing death by negligence". According to Government Railway Police (GRP) senior inspector, Vasai Division, N. More - the duo have been charged under Sec. 304(a) of the Indian Penal Code (causing death by negligence) and other offences.

Women have the highest status in Islam: Former CEC

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New Delhi: Women have the highest status in Islam and the Muslim community must see things with a liberal interpretation now, former Chief Election...

Indian-origin researcher’s model to empower women in IT

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New York : Under-representation of skills had forced women working in the IT sector to flee the profession but a 12-year-old model by an...

क्यों क़ुबूल नहीं है मुस्लिम समाज को महिला क़ाज़ी…?

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Women take part in great numbers in training programme

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: As many as 30 women trainees passed out from the first 90-day ‘Placement linked skill training programme’ under the ‘Swarna Jayanti Swarojgar Yojana (SJSRY) – principally aimed at the urban unemployed women – here on Tuesday.

Will look at every aspect in Geetika case: Women’s panel

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By IANS, New Delhi : A National Commission for Women (NCW) team, probing the suicide of former flight attendant Geetika Sharma, Tuesday said it will look into every possible aspect in her death.

‘Parliament may take up bills on communal violence, women’s quota’

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Communal Violence Bill, Women's Reservation Bill, Seeds Bill and Insurance Laws amendment bill were among the significant legislations likely to be taken up by parliament in the ongoing budget session, an independent parliamentary research organisation said Tuesday. An official of PRS Legislative Research, which works to strengthen the legislative process and tracks functioning of parliament, said that the four bills were among the legislations held up in the past due to lack of political consensus.

हज 2022 : ‘हज मोबाइल एप’ से होगा आवेदन,तैयारी में जुटी सरकार

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net हज 2022 के ऑनलाइन आवेदन प्रक्रिया को 1 नवंबर से शुरू हो गई है। केंद्रीय अल्पसंख्यक मंत्री मुख्तार अब्बास नकवी ने मुंबई के हज...

New Shia Nikahnamah: Reforming Muslim Law through the backdoor

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By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,

25 Maharashtra fast-track courts only for women cases

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By IANS,

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...

Norway, India to carry forward programme on infant and maternal mortality

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By IANS,

The untold story of Egyptian women’s rights

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By Rasha Dewedar In a report published last month on violent crimes committed against women in 2009, Karam Saber Ibrahim, Executive Director of The Land Center for Human Rights, a Cairo-based non-governmental organisation, spoke of a belief that some Egyptians continue to hold, that "women are fundamentally lacking.... They are not complete, because they are not men."

Violence against women in Bangalore: official numbers tip of iceberg

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By Maitreyee Boruah, IANS, Bangalore : When it comes to the number of women being subjected to violence on the streets of this tech hub of India, official figures conceal far more than they reveal, according to women's rights activists. "For every single reported case, 10 or more lie hidden," says Jagdeesh B.N., one of the founder members of Fearless Karnataka/Nirbhaya Karnataka (FKNK), a social group working for safety and security of women. Most of the cases of physical and verbal abuse on women on the streets of Bangalore were not reported, he added.

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.

Smriti Irani: TV’s popular ‘bahu’ to play a crucial role in educating India

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By Mohammad Mudassir Alam, Monday, May 26, 2014 was a red letter day in democratic history of India as Narendra Damodaran Das Modi was sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of the country. Modi’s swearing in ceremony was stud with many highlights such as the presence of heads of SAARC countries, politicians, entrepreneurs, Bollywood stars, sports persons, etc. Besides these, the countrymen and analysts appreciated the cabinet of Modi, which is quite smaller in comparison to previous government and featuring considerable number of youth parliamentarians.

New UN-managed fund announces over $9m in grants to empower women

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By IRNA, Tehran : A new fund managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Monday announced over $9 million in grants to support initiatives in 26 countries to empower women. The initiatives are ranging from boosting their political participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina to assisting those denied inheritance and property rights in Afghanistan, a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) said here on Tuesday.

‘India’s tech revolution led by men and women under 27’

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By Arun Kumar, IANS, Washington : Saying that the US needs to wake up to the reality of India's technological revolution being led by IIT-educated "young men and women under the age of 27", President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy commerce secretary said countries like India, China, Brazil and Russia were going to pose a major challenge to American dominance in the coming years.

Protest in Kolkata over nude photos of women with ‘Allah and Muhammad’ texts

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kolkata: Several Muslim groups led a protest in Kolkata angered by photographs published in a Bengali Daily of women protesting in nude, with Arabic texts, including names of Allah and Prophet Muhammad.

Othello-reciting Tamil rapist jailed in Britain

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By IANS, London : An Oxford University-educated Tamil banker who quoted from a Shakespeare play as he raped a woman has been sentenced to over three years of imprisonment by a British court. Paramasivan Sivasothy, an investment banker, recited lines from "Othello" to his terrified victim while raping her, Southwark Crown Court heard Friday. The woman managed to call the police while his back was turned and officers recorded Sivasothy as he carried out the "brutal, ugly and repugnant" attack, the prosecution said. A tape of the woman's ordeal was played in court.

Now, women to man India-Pakistan border

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By Jaideep Sarin and Parminder Singh Bariana, IANS, Hoshiarpur (Punjab) : With women getting ready for patrol duty, gender barriers are falling on the international border between India and Pakistan. The 36-week training of the first batch of about 200 out of the 612 women recruits, all between 18 and 22 years of age, started at the Border Security Force's (BSF) training camp at Kharkan village, 15 km from here, Monday. Classes for the remaining recruits will start later.

SAAYA holds program to create awareness among Muslim women about govt. welfare schemes

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By TwoCircles.net news desk, Patna: With an aim to empower Muslim women and create awareness among them about the schemes launched by state as well as central government to improve socio-economic condition of Muslims particularly Muslim women, SAAYA Network organized a state level consultation meeting on November 21, 2009 in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu.

Rights of women in live-in relations under court lens

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By IANS,

The fight within Islam

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By Masarat Daud

1,203 candidates to fight for Kerala’s 140 assembly seats

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Thiruvananthapuram : A total of 1,203 candidates were left in the fray and will now fight for the 140 Kerala assembly seats on May...

Women, three daughters found dead in UP village

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Lucknow : A woman and her three daughters, including an infant, were found dead at their house in Mauranva village in Unnao district of...

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.

मेरठ में मृतक पार्षद जुबैर के परिजनों से घर जाकर मिले ओवैसी

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net शनिवार को एआईएमआईएम के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष असदुद्दीन ओवैसी मेरठ में स्वर्गीय जुबैर अंसारी के घर उनके परिजनों से मिलने पहुंचे। पार्षद जुबैर...

DCW to work with Delhi Police’s crimes against women cell

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New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday decided to work closely with Delhi Police's special unit dealing with crimes against women...

This super teacher is on a mission to transform the lives of children in...

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Kanchan Sharma, a retired lecturer, has been running a school for the slum children for over a decade now. Mubashir Naik and Irshad Hussain |...

Teen girl refuses to marry merry man!

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By IANS, Patna : Chances are that Mohammed Abdul Hakim is now sober. And still single. A day ago he was dumped at the altar by the teenage bride-to-be for being a drunkard. Kulsum Khatoon, a resident of Naharniya village in Madhubani district, Sunday refused to marry Hakim after she was informed that he was habitually drunk. "Kulsum stunned villagers when a Muslim priest began to solemnize their wedding and she publicly declared that she would not marry Hakim," a local police official said.

2012 rape-murder case: Key points of the verdict

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By IANS, The following are the key points in the 2012 rape-murder case of a teenage girl delivered by Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat: * Perpetrators...

Intermediate topper Talat Nazneen wants to become IAS officer

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By Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net, Patna: Talat Nazneen Zakia has secured first position in Intermediate examination 2009 in Bihar, and thus has become pride of not only for her family but her educationally backward community also – the community where more males are literate than females.

Girl murdered by youth in Andhra, rape suspected

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By IANS,

Muslim League forms org for female students

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By TCN News

Anti-AFSPA campaigner Sharmila in Delhi, desires to meet Modi

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Anti-AFSPA campaigner Irom Chanu Sharmila is in Delhi in connection with a case filed by Delhi Police against her for holding hunger-strike at Jantar Mantar in the National Capital in 2006 for which she will be produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate at Patiala on May 28. She left Imphal on May 27 accompanied by two jail staff, one doctor, three nurses of Jawahar Lal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) and two personnel of Manipur Police.

क्या तीन तलाक़ के फौजदारी क़ानून से महिलाओं का भला होगा?

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नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए अगर बीमारी की जांच-पड़ताल ग़लत होगी तो दवा भी ग़लत दी जाएगी. क्या सारे सामाजिक दु:खों का सिर्फ़-सिर्फ़ एक इलाज है कि...

Savita Ali: Raising her voice to highlight atrocities against Dalit and Muslim women

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Patna: Savita Ali remembers the time when she was in school, in a village called Naraina, district Panipat. She had just...

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

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By TCN News,

A woman killed every two hours in Brazil

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By IANS/EFE, Rio de Janeiro : A woman is killed every two hours in Brazil and this average puts the country in 12th place among nations registering the most violent deaths of women, a study has said. Most of the victims are killed by relatives, husbands, boyfriends, former partners or men they rejected, the 2010 Map of Violence study said Tuesday. Forty percent of women killed in Brazil are between the ages of 18 and 30, and most cases are related to domestic violence, the report prepared by the independent Sangari Institute said.