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Molestation charges against a college teacher in Karimganj district of Assam: What is the...

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By Mustafa A. Barbhuiya, Curfew has been imposed for last two days in the Karimganj district of Assam after massive street protests from people...

Woman gets Rs.6.7 mn as maintenance

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By IANS, New Delhi : Granting anticipatory bail to an NRI husband involved in a matrimonial dispute, the Delhi High Court Thursday awarded Rs.6.7 million as maintenance to his wife. Justice Kailash Gambhir granted anticipatory bail to Ankur Sahni (name changed), a British national and a businessman, and directed him to pay the settlement amount to his wife Ritu (name changed) in three installments and file for mutual divorce.

Woman found murdered in Gurgaon

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Gurgaon: A nearly 25-year-old woman was Saturday found dead on the roadside here. Police said the woman may have been raped before the murder. The...

59-year-old woman murdered in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 59-year-old woman was killed and valuables from her west Delhi house looted in a broad daylight Sunday, police said. Sumitra Gulati was at her house with only her five-year-old grandson Pranav when a robber impersonating as a cable TV operator came in. The woman was stabbed to death, and Rs.50,000 in cash and some jewellery were taken away. "The neighbours told us that Pranav said a man had come to repair the cable TV. The boy went to the first floor and when he came down he saw his grandmother lying in room in a pool of her blood," a police officer added.

Woman kills daughter’s rapist in Jharkhand

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

Can I express without being judged as a Muslim, and a woman?

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By Sabrina Iqbal Sircar for TwoCircles.net I feel constrained at times. It's like I have to think a hundred times to speak...

This party picks ordinary yet extraordinary folks

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By Mayank Aggarwal, IANS, New Delhi : One look at its candidates and you know that the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party is trying hard to be a party "with a difference". For the Delhi polls, it claims to have fielded the city's lone woman auto driver, a house painter, the youngest male and female in the fray, and a man who has married his wife six times! For some of the party's 11 candidates for the Nov 29 polls to elect a 70-member assembly, this is the first brush with politics. What's more, most of them hail from ordinary backgrounds.

Maid’s paramour held for drugging women employers in south Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi : A paramour of a domestic maid, who allegedly drugged and looted her two women employers by mixing sedatives in the supper at their south Delhi home last month, has been arrested on charges of trying to sell stolen goods, police said Wednesday. Rahul Paul, a 22-year-old from West Bengal, was arrested Tuesday near a shop in Ashram area where he had gone to sell the articles stolen from the rented accommodation of Sharan Suri and Saloni Mahajan. Two stolen laptops, four mobile phones and five credit cards were recovered from him.

More than 52,000 pregnant Nigerian women die every year

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By Xinhua, Lagos : The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) has said more than 52,000 Nigerian women die every year from pregnancy-related complications, the Punch newspaper reported Monday. Unsafe sex has become the second highest cause of death among people in one of the poorest countries of the world, the UNFPA said in a report titled Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights released Sunday.

President to visit women’s first education institute

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By IANS, Pune : President Pratibha Patil will arrive here Friday on a three-day visit, her first to the city after she assumed the country's highest office, to attend a function at India's first, over a century-old education institution for women. On the day of her arrival, India's first woman president will grace the commemoration ceremony of Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Sansthan, marking the 150th birth anniversary of Maharshi Dhondopant Karve, the founder of this institute which was the country's first to impart women's education.

Electronic bangles to keep Kerala women safe?

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by IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : On the eve of International Women's Day, Kerala is mulling over the use of electronic gadgets for the protection of women, a state minister revealed Wednesday.

Russian woman to be extradited from Spain for trafficking

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By IANS/RIA Novosti,

Why do women prefer crime stories?

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By IANS, Washington : Women prefer real crime stories based on rape and murder -- more so than men -- as they fear becoming victims, says a new study. Many people might assume that men, being the more aggressive sex, would be most likely to find such gory topics interesting. But research says women fear becoming victims of crimes, so they turn to crime books in a possible effort to learn strategies and techniques to prevent crimes.

German mother, Goa police trade charges

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By IANS, Panaji : A German woman who has complained that her daughter was being sexually harassed by the Goa education minister's son, says police would "prefer" her to withdraw the complaint, though police said she was evading them. Speaking to the media Sunday, Fadella Fuchs alleged the police were sitting on her complaint filed on Oct 2.

Sania to get Khel Ratna Award

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Delhi : The sports ministry on Friday confirmed that tennis icon Sania Mirza will be awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest...

Woman dies of burns, father alleges dowry death

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By IANS,

Nabard’s Rs.15 bn fund to help women’s self-help groups

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By IANS,

SC to hold speedy hearing of cases of sexual abuse

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said it would be shortly evolving a mechanism for the speedy hearing of cases of sexual and other criminal offences against women.

Rheumatoid arthritis rising among women

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Washington, Oct 27 (IANS) After lying dormant for four decades, rheumatoid arthritis has resurfaced among women in the US. "More research needs to be done to better understand the causes and treatment of this devastating disease," said Sherine Gabriel, Mayo Clinic rheumatologist and lead investigator of the study. From 1955 to 1994, its incidence had continually been on the decline, but changed in mid-nineties. When Mayo researchers analysed patient data from early 1995 to early 2005, they found that both the incidence and prevalence (percentage) of the condition were rising.

दलित छात्र की पिटाई से मौत के मामले ने तूल पकड़ा, बवाल

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के औरैया जिले में परीक्षा में ग़लत जवाब देने पर टीचर ने एक दलित छात्र की पिटाई कर दी थी जिसके...

Woman IAS officer targeted in Bihar for Thackeray surname

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By IANS, Patna : In response to the attacks on north Indians in Maharashtra, a senior woman government official from the state, with the surname Thackeray, was the target of an angry mob that surrounded her office and shouted slogans against her in Purnia district of Bihar.

यहां तीन बार तलाक़ कहा तो देना होगा पांच लाख का जुर्माना

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter सम्भल : उत्तर प्रदेश की ज़मीन पर पंचायत का रिवाज पुराना है. लेकिन गुरूवार को हादीपुर गांव का पंचायत इन सबसे अलग...

Relative arrested for murder of MGR kin

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By IANS, Chennai : A woman was arrested Monday for allegedly masterminding the murder of her relative, Vijay Kumar, kin of former chief minister M.G. Ramachandran, police said. The six men that Bhanumati, Vijay Kumar's sister-in-law, reportedly hired to kill him have also been arrested. Vijay Kumar, 53, was killed in a posh southern suburb here over a property dispute June 4. A week later, the case was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department under the control of the Director General of Police K.P. Jain.

Mamata leads Trinamool rally to mark International Women’s Day

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Kolkata: Kickstarting her party's campaign for the coming Lok sabha polls, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Saturday led women leaders and candidates of her...

Home ministry official denies tutoring witness in Ishrat probe

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New Delhi : Home Ministry official B.K. Prasad on Thursday dismissed the charge that he tutored a witness in the probe relating to missing...

NGO Majlis Manch allowed to assist SC in final hearing on Triple Talaq

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By TCN News Mumbai-based NGO Majlis Manch, which has been working for legal rights of women and provides support to victims of domestic violence, especially...

Woman found dead in Aravali foothills in Gurgaon

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Gurgaon: The body of a woman in her 50s was found in the foothills of the Aravali mountain range here Saturday, police said. The woman...

Sharad Joshi lone dissenter against women’s quota bill

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By IANS, New Delhi: Sharad Joshi, a prominent farmers' leader from Maharashtra, was the lone dissenter against the women's quota bill during voting in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday, saying he didn't oppose the measure but the manner in which it would be implemented. "Women's reservations yes, yes, yes, yes. Rotation (of constitutions) and (their) selection by lottery no, no, no," Joshi maintained while participating in the more than three-hour debate on the bill. Thus, when the bill was put to a voice vote, Joshi let the crescendo of "ayes" to subside before quietly saying "No".

Is Al-Qaeda preparing British women bombers?

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By IANS, London : Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit women for carrying out suicide bombings in Britain, parliament members have warned in a report.

बिहार में नाबालिग ‘नाजिया’ के साथ क्रूरता, हत्या के बाद तनाव !

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समी अहमद । Twocircles.net बिहार के पूर्वी जिले कटिहार के पस्तिया गांव में 25 मई को एक 16 वर्षीय मुस्लिम लड़की के मौत पर हंगामा...

Islamists oppose women as heads of state, government

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

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...

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...

Pinki alleges harassment in police custody

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By IANS,

College women drink excessively to hook men

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By IANS, Washington : College women may be downing a peg too many in order to hook their male counterparts but without much success, according to a new study. A survey of 3,616 college students at two universities found that the bulk of women overestimated the amount of alcohol a typical guy would like his female friends, dates or girlfriends to drink. The results showed 71 percent of women overestimated the men's actual preference of drinks at any given event. The women overestimated by an average of one-and-a-half drinks.

Policing My Plate? Such A Dadri!

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By Dr.Asma Anjum Khan He Died, but Hope Hasn’t I am a Muslim and I don’t eat mutton chicken beef. Not because someone tells me...

No relief for Soni Sori: Brother-in-law, sister, picked up for interrogation

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter Delhi: Having barely recovered from a brutal attack on her face by assailants, Soni Sori, the human rights activist from Chattisgarh,...

No deportation for Bangladeshi woman married to Indian

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By IANS, New Delhi: Giving relief to a Bangladeshi woman who fled her country to marry an Indian whom she met on the internet, the government Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that they would not deport the woman. Submitting a status report before Justice V.K. Jain, the government said the process of deportation of the woman is under consideration for the time being. The woman could not be brought to the court due to some pregnancy problems, her counsel told the court.

Mappila culture: A harmonious mix of Arab and Kerala traditions

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net TCN Malabar series: Part 7

ख़ामोशी से घरों में घुसता क्रूर रंगभेद

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net देश में गर्मी बढ़ने के साथ-साथ टेलीविज़न पर गोरापन बढ़ाने की क्रीमों के विज्ञापन भी बढ़ गए हैं. देश में रंग एक...

Irom Sharmila appears in Delhi court

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Irom Sharmila, the Manipuri activist who has been on a hunger-strike for 14 years for repealing AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act), appeared for the hearing at Patiala House Court, in the national capital. She was produced here in a case where she sat on fast on Jantar Mantar, New Delhi in the year 2006, but was charged section 309 of IPC for attempting to commit suicide.

Dhanya Raman: Giving a voice to the marginalised in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi Thiruvananthapuram: In March 2016, while the entire mainstream media was still busy with the incidents in JNU,...

AAP leader Ashutosh appears before NCW

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New Delhi : Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh on Thursday appeared before the National Commission for Women (NCW) in compliance with the women panel's...

Death of a Muslim woman in police station and her missing son

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By TCN News, Hyderabad: Blaming the insensitive local police for the alleged suicide of a woman from a poor family from Doma area in Rangareddy district and inaction in finding her missing son, the Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC) has demanded the DGP of Telangana to set up a special team to find out the whereabouts of the missing youth Mohammad Muqtar and ensure safety of his life.

Women bag majority ranks in ISM Qur’an Learning School annual exams

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By TCN News,

एक बड़े सामाजिक प्रश्न के जवाब में ‘निल बट्टे सन्नाटा’

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जावेद अनीस विदेशों में सभी परिवार घरेलू सहायक अफोर्ड नहीं कर पाते हैं क्योंकि उनकी पगार बहुत ज्यादा होती है, लेकिन भारत में कामवाली...

HC notice to woman who accused Vishwas of molesting her

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to a woman who had accused Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas...

AFMI releases its Top 5 Students List 2009

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By TwoCircles.net foreign desk Boston: Muslim students in India have once again shown that with courage and determination they are shining academically. In a national competition for the American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin's Gold medal program for 10th graders the top winners have displayed exceptional academic excellence.

Women most vulnerable to climate change, says UN report

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women, particularly those in poor countries, are among the most vulnerable to climate change, said a United Nations report released here Thursday. "They (women) are among the most vulnerable to climate change, partly because in many countries they make up a larger share of the agricultural work force and partly because they tend to have access to fewer income-earning opportunities," the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) report said.

NC woman legislator, activists protest award to army major

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Srinagar, (IANS): Women workers of the opposition National Conference (NC) on Wednesday protested against the award of the Army Chief's commendation card to an...

Women in Bihar plough fields, sing to please rains gods

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By IANS,

Asia’s richest woman was feng shui master’s lover, court told

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By DPA, Hong Kong : Asia's richest woman, according to court testimony, was the lover of a feng shui master for 14 years before leaving him her entire multibillion-US-dollar fortune, a news report said Saturday. Lawyers for feng shui master Tony Chan said he and Nina Wang shared a "long-lasting, close and affectionate love" from 1993 to her death last year, the South China Morning Post reported. The pair allegedly had "midnight meetings" disguised as feng shui consultations during their secret affair, which began three years after Wang's husband was kidnapped, never to reappear.

Rahul Gandhi flays Centre for ‘indifference’ to Dalits

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Jaipur : Demanding a CBI inquiry into the rape of a now-dead minor Dalit girl in Rajasthan, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday...

Sexual harassment case against Pachauri heads to trial

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New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) A Delhi court on Saturday paved the way for trial as it framed sexual harassment charges against noted environmentalist...

Indian charged with rape, sodomy of Indonesian woman

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Kuala Lumpur: An Indian national was charged in a sessions court here with three counts of raping and sodomising an Indonesian woman. Mohamad Aslam Abdul...

Violence against women keeping them away from politics: NGO

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women are making steady inroads into almost every profession in South Asia these days. Yet, when it comes to politics, why are many women politicians not seen? The reason, according to an NGO, is violence - more psychological than physical - against women in politics. Representatives of the South Asia Partnership (SAP), an international organisation that promotes democracy through the civil society came together Monday to discuss the various aspects of this disturbing fact that has, until now, not been highlighted.

‘Northeast-The Women’s campaign’ launched in Guwahati

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: ‘Northeast – The Women’s Campaign’, an initiative by Assam Youth For Change (AYFC) and supported by University of Science and Technology Meghalaya was launched in Guwahati in a bid to bridge the gap of gender inequality on Sunday. The year-long campaign was launched by Meghalaya Social Welfare Minister Deborah C. Marak in presence of Vice Chancellor of University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya Dr. PG Rao.

Bihar’s silent revolution: 30,000 women now own land

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By Imran Khan, IANS,

Impose president’s rule, make Odisha safe for women: BJP

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday demanded president's rule in Odisha to prevent rape cases and atrocities on women.

Patna Muslims react to the Women’s Reservation Bill

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Patna: After much hue and cry, at last Rajya Sabha has passed the Women's Reservation Bill, one of the most controversial bill, on 9th March 2010. Though its advocates named it a historical step towards women empowerment and necessary for active political participation of women but its opponent termed it as biggest blunder in democratic India and an attempt to deprive Minority and backward classes people.

Do you know these women who won their right to Hijab?

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These four Muslim women across the globe are resisting discrimination and reasserting their right to wear their Hijab.  Naila Khan | TwoCircles.net  NEW DELHI — The Karnataka...

From former sanitation worker to Deputy Mayor of Gaya, meet Comrade Chinta Devi

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62-year-old Chinta Devi belongs to the socially backward Dalit Manjhi caste and is the first ever Scheduled Caste (SC) person to become the...

Women Maoist commanders charged with sedition in Chhattisgarh

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By IANS, Raipur : Two women Maoist commanders and three of their associates have been charged with sedition for dropping a huge cache of arms at a busy square here in January, police said Friday. "We have framed a chargesheet in a local court here against these five accused and witnesses will depose in October when the trial begins," a police official told IANS. Two top women insurgents - Meena Chaudhary alias Geeta and K.S. Priya alias Malti - dropped eight bags loaded with 91 pistols and 26 wireless sets at Dangania area in Raipur while travelling in a car.

Woman among five hanged to death in Iran

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By DPA, Tehran : Five prisoners, including a woman, convicted in a case of murder, were hanged here, the official newspaper Iran reported Thursday. The five were hanged Wednesday in the Evin prison in northern Tehran after their death sentence had been confirmed by the Supreme Court. The woman had reportedly killed her husband who wanted to marry a younger woman. Murder, rape, sabotage and drug-trafficking of quantities in excess of five kilograms are crimes punishable by death in Iran.

Body of 21-year-old woman found in Delhi, rape suspected

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New Delhi : The body of a 21-year-old woman, who went missing on Thursday, was found without any clothes on from a secluded...

Hyderabad commemorates 2nd anniversary of Shaheen Bagh protests with songs, poetry recitals 

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Scores of people in Hyderabad, comprising of activists, students, NGOs, youth groups came together at Lamakan – a place in Hyderabad dedicated to the...

Probe lodged into woman’s death in hospital during outage

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By IANS, New Delhi: A three-member team will probe a 74-year-old woman's death in a government hospital here last week when her life support device stopped working during a power cut, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said Wednesday. Sharda Gaur, who was admitted to the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, died Oct 11 after her life support system failed during power cut. "The committee will look into matter and will submit its report within seven days," said Kiran Walia.

75-year old man in Bihar marries woman half his age

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Patna : A 75-year-old man has married a woman half his age in Bihar's Samastipur district, ignoring the criticism of people and society. Ram Chander...

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan rips through traditional views about women in Islam

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By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net, Director of the New Delhi-based Centre for Peace and Spirituality, editor of the monthly Al-Risala journal and author of almost two hundred books, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is one of India’s best known Islamic scholars. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he talks about issues related to Islam and women. You have written extensively on the issue of Islam and women. Contrary to many traditional ulema, you argue the case for gender equality in Islam. How does your approach differ from that of most traditionalist scholars?

Rajasthan woman beaten with chain to ‘free’ her of evil spirit

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Jaipur : A 32-year-old woman resident of a small village in Rajasamand district of Rajasthan was beaten up severely with an iron chain by...

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.

261 women artists paint their thoughts

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By IANS, New Delhi : Spirituality, women's bonding, landscapes, coloured abstractions, shapes and figures - 261 artists from all over the world have put their thoughts on 300 canvases in one of the biggest women's art exhibitions at the Art Mall here. The exhibition titled "Stree", which began three years ago as an annual event, is a tribute to talented women artists who have either taken up art as a vocation or hobby, said Ila Jain, director of the mall, who manages the mammoth display space-cum-learning centre. The 10-day exhibition began March 8.

Bleak outlook for women’s empowerment in Uttar Pradesh

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By Bhoomika Joshi and Sanober Umar, Gender equity and the status of women remain the hand-maiden of callous politics in India's largest state by population and 2014 has been deplorably stark. The 'Bahu lao, Beti Bachao' campaign in Uttar Pradesh is the latest feather in the BJP's cap of regressive and communal politics.

Zain Masud named international director of art fair 2016

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New Delhi: Zain Masud, a former assistant fair director to Art Dubai, was appointed the international director of India Art Fair 2016 here on...

Minor raped by 20-year-old man

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By IANS, New Delhi: A nine-year-old girl was raped by a 20-year-old man in the heart of the national capital, police said Saturday. No arrests have been made in the case so far. The incident took place in the servant's quarters at Kasturba Gandhi Marg near Connaught Place Friday, police said. "The incident took place Friday afternoon when the victim was alone in the servant's quarters. Neeraj Kumar, who lives in a servant's quarters in the nearby area, came and forced himself on the minor," a police officer said.

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.

1,600 pregnant women perform yoga in Gujarat city, set world record

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Ahmedabad : More than 1,600 pregnant women in Gujarat's Rajkot city claim to have set a new Guinness record on the International Yoga Day...

Woman who blew lid on Woods’ affairs now regrets

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

Saina, Sindhu, Jwala-Ashwini in line for Worlds medal

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Jakarta : As many as three medals will be on the line for Indian shuttlers on Friday as Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu and...

‘Women empowerment need of the hour’

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Lucknow : If a woman is empowered, she has the potential not only to change the society for the better but can also inspire...

Rahul calls for ‘tsunami of women members’ in Congress

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New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday called for a "tsunami of women members in the Congress" and said his party will...

SC to set up 3-judge bench to hear plea challenging Karnataka Hijab ban

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With exams scheduled in February, the petitioners contended that students may be permitted to appear in the exams wearing hijab. NEW DELHI — The Supreme...

…और मैंने नोखा को ‘डेल्टा’ के लिए लड़ते हुए देखा

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दलित छात्रा डेल्टा मेघवाल की उनके कॉलेज परिसर में हुई विवादित मौत पर देश भर में चर्चा और चिंता है. कॉलेज-प्रशासन जहां इसे आत्महत्या...

इंस्पेक्टर सुबोध के हत्यारोपियों की जमानत रद्द, पत्नी ने कहा अब मिला सुकून

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के बुलंदशहर में 2018 में हुई हिंसा में इंस्पेक्टर सुबोध सिंह की हत्या के मामले में आरोपी योगेश राज की ज़मानत...

NHRC to hear rights violation cases in North East India

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By TCN News

Decadal increase in separated women goes up to a million

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government Friday said the number of divorced and separated women in the country has gone up by nearly a...

Self-defence training programme for girls in West Bengal madrasas

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By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net Starting from July, the West Bengal Director of Madrasa Education will start a 45-day free of cost self-defence training programme...

Tinkering with Muslim personal laws would be like desecrating Indian Constitution: AIMPLB

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net AIMPLB announces formation of Women's Wing under Dr Asma Zahra “UCC under Article 44 is highly inflammable issue, which divides the...

Modi government tried to kill me in a plane crash: Mamata

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Kolkata: Virtually comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Ravana, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused his government of running a terror...

Attack on human rights defenders Soni Sori

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By TCN News, Geedam (Chattisgarh): Reports are emerging that Soni Sori, the adivasi leader from Bastar, was attacked by few unidentified men in Geedam, Chattisgarh....

Organisations structured to keep women down: study

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By IANS, Sydney : Why there are so few women in top positions in companies may have more to do with their hierarchical structure rather than attitudes to women, a new study contends. The study, by Terry Fitzsimmons of the University of Queensland, has sought to understand gender inequality at workplaces and the barriers preventing women from obtaining top leadership positions. The challenges encountered by women rising through company hierarchies are not entirely explained by existing theories, which claim that inequality stems from social stereotypes and culture, Fitzsimmons said.

Police prevent women from reaching Trimbakeshwar Temple

Women
Pune/Nashik : Moving swiftly to avoid a possible confrontation, Maharashtra Police on Monday evening detained over 100 women activists planning to storm the sanctum...

Disfigured but not defeated: Hajida, an acid attack survivor, ensured the culprit does not...

Women
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Hajida and her mother Zareena were walking back home through the market, engaged in a light conversation when Subhan flung two...

Death of a Muslim woman: Missing son surrenders, denies he kidnapped Minor

Women
By Ayesha Minhaz for Twocircles.net Hyderabad, February 22: When Mohammad Muqtar returned home to Doma village of Ranga Reddy District (Telangana) on Friday night, his...

Women’s quota bill passage will invite agitation: Mulayam

Women
By IANS, New Delhi : Days after President Pratibha Patil declared the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in parliament as one of the top priorities of the government, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Monday opposed the bill saying that its passage would invite an agitation. Mulayam Singh, who argued for the provision of reservation for women from the backward classes and minorities in parliament, warned of an agitation if the bill was passed in its present form. He further demanded convening of an all party meeting to seek opinion of various political parties.

Assam waives entertainment tax on ‘Mary Kom’

Women
Guwahati : The Assam government Wednesday announced exemption of entertainment tax on "Mary Kom", a new Bollywood movie on the World champion woman boxer...

NHRC seeks report on six witchcraft killings in Odisha

Women
Bhubaneswar : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued a notice to Odisha's Keonjhar district magistrate and superintendent of police to...

हरिद्वार धर्म संसद में ऐलान ‘हिन्दू राष्ट्र ‘ बनाने के लिए 1857 से बड़ा...

Women
विशेष संवाददाता।twocircles.net उत्तराखंड के हरिद्वार में हुई हिंदू धर्म की संसद में भड़काऊ भाषणों का एक वीडियो सामने आया है। जूना अखाड़े के महामंडलेश्वर यति...

Lijjat – Empowering women through papads for 50 years

Women
By Quaid Najmi, IANS, Mumbai : A group of illiterate housewives with lots of time but no resources used to spend the day gossiping in their cramped, lower middle-class Mumbai building till they hit upon the idea of selling papads. Fifty years later, their entrepreneurial effort, Lijjat Papad, is an award-winning company with an annual turnover of Rs.5 billion (Rs.500 crore/$97 million).

Are Indian ads coming of age with social messages?

Women
By Azera Parveen Rahman New Delhi: Why should laundry be a woman's job? asks a new TV commercial for a detergent. Featuring the father of...

St.Stephen’s principal maligning my image: Molested student

Women
By Ruwa Shah New Delhi : Launching a scathing attack on St. Stephen's College principal Valson Thampu for "maligning her academic career", the research...

Orissa assembly woman marshal to move court

Women
By IANS, Bhubaneswar : A suspended woman marshal of the Orissa assembly, who had accused the house speaker of sexual harassment, Saturday said she would move court after a human rights panel found him not guilty. Gayatri Panda, who had in March alleged that then speaker Maheswar Mohanty was sexually harassing her, expressed her dissatisfaction with the findings of the Orissa Human Rights Commission and said she would move the Orissa High Court for justice.

Protests as two women pray at Sabarimala, Kerala shutdown called

Women
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...

Don’t ban ‘India’s Daughter’: Panelists

Women
New Delhi : Increasing violence against women and stifling of debate were among the issues highlighted at a discussion relating to the controversial documentary...

Girl murdered by youth in Andhra, rape suspected

Women
By IANS,

How Toxic Masculinity, Cultural Crisis and Legal Failures Fuel Sexual Violence

Women
Sidra Fatima, TwoCircles.net In a world tainted by the curse of masculinity, a word that translates solely to dominance, I walk as an object to...

Hijab is my ornament: Mumbai corporator Afreen

Women
TCN Special Series on Women of Inspiration By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

Woman dies in police custody in Kerala

Women
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Malapuram: A 23 year old woman reportedly died in police custody in Kerala in March. According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, the police took the victim Hanisha, into illegal custody on 23rd March 2014. The police did not record the arrest and detained the woman at the police station, and on the next day, reported that Hanisha committed suicide inside the police station.

Saina regains No.1 spot

Women
New Delhi: Star Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has regained the top spot in the latest women's singles rankings released by the Badminton World Federation...

UAE minister in Forbes’ Most Powerful Women list

Women
By IANS/WAM,

Saluting ordinary women doing extraordinary work on Women’s Day

Women
By IANS,

Bihar woman sells 15-day-old to arrange for dowry

Women
Patna: In a shocking incident, an elderly woman allegedly sold her infant grandson for Rs.50,000 to arrange for dowry for her daughter's marriage in...

Meet Ariba Khan: A Young Municipal Councillor from Shaheen Bagh

Women
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...

Delhi hospital restores mobility to 130-kg Uzbek woman

Women
New Delhi: An accident four years back left Kavlaynova Oygul, from Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, with a broken thigh bone that refused to heal despite...

Badi Ammi: In memory of educationist Mrs.Fatima Anees

Women
By Asma Anjum Khan It seemed Badi Ammi was going to live forever. We were so used to her. The shore that tells you to traipse along...

Four decades on, Bhopal gas tragedy victims yet to find closure

Lead Story
Many victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy still reel from the devastation that the incident caused in their lives.  Huneza Khan | TwoCircles.net BHOPAL (MADHYA...

Muslim women beaten up in MP for allegedly carrying beef; uproar in Rajya Sabha

Women
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: In yet another violence caused due to suspicion of possessing beef, two Muslim women were thrashed and abused by...

Uber driver arrested for raping, robbing passenger in Mexico

Women
Mexico City : A driver for the ride-hailing service Uber was arrested for raping and robbing a female passenger in Mexico City. The driver was...

Saba Anjum: Muezzin’s daughter is now Indian hockey team captain

Women
By AnIndianMuslim.com, The story of Saba Anjum Karim, 26, is nothing short of a fairy tale.

Manipur’s second Lok Sabha seat votes Thursday

Women
Imphal : Eight candidates are in the fray in Thursday's poll to Manipur's second Lok Sabha constituency with issues like misgovernance, unemployment and drug...

Women should occupy leadership positions: Sitharaman

Women
Vijayawada : Women can improve their status in society only when they occupy leadership positions in all walks of life, Union Minister of State...

Ramadan 1439: Sakina

Women
By Poornima Marh, TwoCircles.net Sakina, born and brought up in Mumbai, is a teacher. She lives in Bangalore with her family. She says “We shifted...

Women representation low at AICC meet

Women
By IANS,

Murder of young woman in Kerala galvanises politics

Women
Ernakulam (Kerala) : The brutal murder of a poor law student in this district last week has galvanised politics in election-bound Kerala as Chief...

India’s first woman diplomat Muthamma dies at 85

Women
By NNN-Bernama, Bangalore : The first woman diplomat of India, C B Muthamma, died at a private hospital in this south Indian city on Wednesday following a brief illness, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported quoting family sources as saying. Muthamma (85) was born in a modest family at Virajpet in the hilly Kodagu district of Karnataka. She had served as the ambassador to Hungary, the Netherlands and Ghana. She was also part of Indian diplomatic missions in several countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Muslim girls shine in Jharkhand Intermediate exams, Fauzia Maram is state topper

Women
By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net, “Choose subjects of your interest, and you can be successful”, says Fauzia Maram, the first rank holder in the Intermediate (Arts) Examinations in Jharkhand. “Once interest is of high importance in choosing the way one wants to study. Choosing one’s way should not be dependent upon the immense pressure from family or teachers. Then only can one excel.”

Danish woman’s rape: Victim identifies all accused

Women
New Delhi : A Danish woman, allegedly gangraped by six vagabonds last year, appeared before a court here on Wednesday and identified all...

Salem’s Muslim Women’s Aid Society: Idea of young women

Women
By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: While studying the role and activities of Muslim Women’s Aid Society (MWAS) in Tamil Nadu this correspondent came into contact with Mrs. Umai Banu, Honorary Secretary of Salem District’s MWAS. Mrs. Banu was a source of not only information but also inspiration.
Mrs.K.M.Umai Banu

Shahnaz to attend White House summit of entrepreneurs

Women
By IANS, New Delhi: Herbal beauty care queen Shahnaz Husain has been invited for a summit to the White House and will also be undergoing a short course at Harvard University. The 63-year-old has been invited to attend the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, April 26 and 27. "I am very happy to receive this invitation and to represent brand India there," Husain told IANS.

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

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

Women to the fore in Bihar panchayat polls

Women
By Imran Khan, IANS,

ट्रिपल तलाक़ : इस्लाम में क्या है?

Women
तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी इस्लाम और इस्लामिक देशों में ‘तलाक़’ कभी कोई मसला नहीं रहा. सच तो यह है कि हमारे देश में मुसलमानों की शिक्षा की...

First female four-star U.S. Army general nominated

Women
By SPA, Washington : America's first female four-star general has been nominated, the Pentagon announced Monday. U.S. President George W. Bush nominated Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody to serve as head of the Army's supply arm, CNN reported. By law women are excluded from combat jobs, the typical path to four-star rank in the military.

No Country for Women: Love and rights in troubled times

Women
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...

Most women don’t find sexual problems upsetting: Survey

Women
By IANS, Washington : The majority of women who experience low libido, poor arousal or face difficulties in orgasming, don't seem upset by these problems. These findings are based on one of the largest ever studies of its kind, which probed 32,000 women aged between 18 and 100 plus years across the US, regarding distress bearing on sex life, including anger, guilt, frustration and worry.

Police still to interrogate Pune call centre rape victim

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

गुरुग्राम : जहां मुसलमान पढ़ रहे थे नमाज़ ,वहीं हिन्दू संगठन करने लगे कीर्तन

Women
जिब्रानउद्दीन।twocircles.net बीते शुक्रवार, गुरुग्राम के सेक्टर 47 में मुस्लिम समुदाय के लोगों को एक बार फिर जुमे की नमाज़ अदा करने में दिक्कत का सामना...

“We should record our history, our victory” Dalit poet Mercy Margaret

Women
Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Dalit literature that revolves around the struggles and lives of Dalits first emerged in the 1960s and has seen exponential growth since....

AAP women MLAs to meet Rajnath, Jung over crimes against women

Women
New Delhi : Women legislators of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung and Delhi...

Education not diminishing India’s preference for boys

Women
By Tanay Sukumar Young graduate mothers gave birth to 899 girls per 1,000 boys, lower than the national average of 943, according to an IndiaSpend...

Unite to end violence against women: Ban

Women
By IRNA, Tehran : UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on International Women’s Day, March 8, while calling for a positive image of women in the media called for laws that say violence is a crime. According to a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) in Tehran on Saturday, the full text of his message reads:

नसबंदी का समाजशास्त्र

Women
By मोहम्मद आसिफ़ इक़बाल, पिछले दिनों छत्तीसगढ़ बिलासपुर में केंद्रीय परिवार नियोजन कार्यक्रम के तहत नसबंदी कैंप लगाया गया. सभी को पता है कि सिर्फ़ छः घंटों में लगभग 83 महिलाओं की नसबंदी कर दी गयी, जिसका अंतिम अंजाम क्या हुआ, वह भी किसी से छिपा नहीं है. कई महिलाएं मारी गयीं और अन्य औरतों की हालत बिगड़ती चली गई. वहीं दूसरी तरफ़ इस घटना में इस्तेमाल एन्टीबायोटिक की प्रारंभिक जांच में चूहे मारने वाला केमिकल पाया गया है.

Pinki’s treatment unjustified: NCW

Women
By IANS,

Anti-trafficking activist Shafiq Khan wins Amazing Indian award

Women
By TCN News

‘Violence against woman seen as assertion of power’

Women
By IANS,

Record holder Arunachal mountaineer Anshu to climb Everest for breast cancer awareness

Women
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: After creating world record for being the only mother to scale Mount Everest twice within the span of 10 days, Arunachal Pradesh mountaineer Anshu Jamsenpa is once again gearing up to climb the world’s highest peak. This time around Anshu is in a different mission to spread awareness on Breast cancer among her fellow countrymen.

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

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

एआईएमआईएम के नेता ज़ुबैर अहमद की हत्या में नही मिल रहा इंसाफ, साथ नही...

Women
ज़ाकिर अली त्यागी twocircles.net के लिए 28 अगस्त को मेरठ में हुए एक प्रॉपर्टी डीलर और एआईएमआईएम के नेता ज़ुबैर अहमद की हत्या का...

Women’s College of Aligarh Muslim University

Women
Aligarh Movement: Struggle for Women’s Education and establishment of Women’s College By Afzal Usmani

Mamata seeks to defend pendency of rape trials

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