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Women’s panel row: UP blames typo

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Lucknow : Faced with outrage over downsizing the budget for the state women's commission, the Uttar Pradesh government Wednesday clarified that information given in...

Bihar Muslims show black flags to protest Narendra Modi

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By TCN News Patna: Activists of Muslim United Front (MUF) led a protest march against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Bihar arrival on Saturday. Hundreds raised slogans against Narendra Modi, Varun Gandhi, and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for their alleged attempts to turn Bihar into a Gujarat, reference to genocide of 2002.

SSSC condemns Irom Sharmila’s re-arrest

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign (SSSC) has condemned the re-arrest of Irom Sharmila. On 19th August, Imphal Court in its...

Empower women through self-help groups: Ramesh

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Woman jailed for 10 years for biting son to death

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By RIA Novosti, Moscow : A court in the Sverdlovsk region in Russia's Urals has sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for killing her three-year-old son in a violent attack during which she bit the child over 50 times. Investigators said that Svetlana, aged 31, had been drinking with two friends at her home in Kamensk-Uralsky in October 2008. On noticing that her son Ivan had dirty hands, she took him into the bathroom. The woman told the police that she only has a vague recollection of what followed.

Anti-trafficking activist Shafiq Khan wins Amazing Indian award

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British Indian jailed for raping 12-year-old girl

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London: A British Indian man has been jailed for over ten years for raping a 12-year-old girl in Britain last year, a media report...

Assamese woman gang-raped in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 21-year-old Assamese woman was raped here by two men who have been arrested, police said Sunday. One of the men...

DCW seeks appellate authority under sexual harassment act

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New Delhi : Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Wednesday urged union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to constitute an appellate authority...

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

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

Woman hangs herself in Assam police station

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Guwahati : A 39-year-old woman hanged herself inside a toilet at the Dispur police station in Assam's main city of Guwahati, police said on...

Single largest gathering of women at Kerala festival

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Seven women pickpockets nabbed from Delhi Metro

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New Delhi: Seven women pickpockets were arrested from a Delhi Metro station here Friday, police said Friday. Sharda, Parwati, Roshni, Rita, Renu, Nisha and Poonam...

बिहार में पर्दानशीं मतदाताओं पर है विशेष नज़र

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter पश्चिम चम्पारण : बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव में फ़र्जी मतदान रोकने के लिए निर्वाचन आयोग की पर्दानशीं मतदाताओं पर विशेष नज़र है....

2009 a record year for women Nobel winners

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By DPA, Stockholm : The shared Nobel economics prize for Elinor Ostrom of the US Monday further underscored that 2009 was a record-year for women prize winners. Ostrom, of Indiana University in Bloomington, became the first woman to win a Nobel prize for economics. The economics prize - first awarded in 1969 - was not in the original will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, who endowed the awards.

Yasmeen Abrar is the new acting Chairperson of National Commission for Women

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By TCN News New Delhi: a member of NCW since 2005, Yasmeen Abrar was made acting chairperson on the completion of tenure of Dr. Girija Vyas.

The Kerala Story: A Frustrated Attempt to Silence Vocal Muslim Women

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Snobar | Twocircles.net Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues in the BJP are promoting the film “The Kerala Story,” but a large number of...

NCW upset with ‘obscene’ depiction of women

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By IANS, New Delhi : Alarmed over the rise in "obscene" depictions of women in the print and electronic media, including in television soaps, the National Commission for Women (NCW) wants a self-regulatory board to keep a check on this. NCW Chairperson Girja Vyas Tuesday demanded a change in the existing legislation. She also suggested stiff penalty and punishment for violators. "In today's world, the depiction of women is done in obscene ways through various mediums," she told reporters here. She said soap operas either show woman as a vamp or a simple innocent girl.

Woman raped in bus in Jharkhand

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Ranchi : A 32-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a bus in Jharkhand's Koderma district, police said Saturday. According to the police, the woman was...

Almost month after Dalit woman’s rape, accused surrenders

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Chandigarh : Almost a month after a young Dalit woman was dragged out of her office and later allegedly raped in Punjab's Muktsar district,...

Odisha man held for harassing woman

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Bhubaneswar:The Odisha Police crime branch Wednesday arrested a man for opening a fake Facebook account in the name of a woman and for harassing...

Safe, comfy and chatting away – women’s empowerment at PCO booths

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : Anjali Kher, 33, a small-time designer from Srinagar, keeps in touch with her family in the Kashmir Valley from the public telephone booth next to her home in Delhi. "The booth remains open till midnight and I drop in almost every day after work to call my father and my brothers," Kher, who lives in Mayur Vihar, told IANS. The public telephone - including the PCO (public call office) phone booths with STD facilities - in India has become a tool of empowerment for women in middle class India, particularly migrants.

Women literacy rate higher than men in UAE

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By IANS/WAM, Abu Dhabi : The literacy rate of women is higher than men in the UAE, a report said Tuesday.

Indian Americans protest Hijab ban, urge Karnataka court to lift ban

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More than a hundred people in Houston, Texas, United States called on the Karnataka government to stop the discrimination against Muslim girl students who...

Leading Deoband Ulema oppose Women’s Reservation Bill

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By RINA, Deoband: Some of the leading Ulema of Deoband have shown their opposition to 33 per cent Women’s Reservation Bill that has again gained momentum due to the elevation of Ms. Meira Kumar as the first woman speaker of Lok Sabha in the history of independent India. This issue has ruffled many a feathers in not only in the political circles but also in the realms of religion. Many Ulema are from the world renowned Islamic seminary of Darul Uloom have opposed the bill.

Women’s safety top issue in JNUSU election

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New Delhi : With growing cases of crimes against women at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), most student organisations Wednesday outlined women safety as their...

Women empowerment necessary, says ex-South Africa deputy president

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women should be given due recognition for their work in politics, education and social services, former deputy president of South Africa Baleka Mbete said here Monday.

AIDWA condemns Dalit youth’s murder in Maharashtra

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

Ramadan 1438: Shazia

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By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net "I started Ramzan just because everyone in my house used to fast and my father was pretty particular about it,"...

Woman with son jumps before train, killed

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By IANS, Kolkata : A woman, along with her one-and-half-year-old son, committed suicide Tuesday by jumping before a train in West Bengal's Hoogly district allegedly following dowry demands from her in-laws, the police said. "Punam Sahu jumped in front of a passenger train along with her one-and-half-year-old son at Hoogly's Gobra Station Tuesday. She was being allegedly pressurised by her in-laws for dowry," a police official said. Sahu went to live at her parental house after her husband was detected with cancer a few months ago.

West Bengal’s Left Front woos Muslims, women

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NCW seeks probe in Punjab woman’s thrashing

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

27-year-old woman becomes Delhi’s 15th swine flu victim

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 27-year-old woman succumbed to influenza A (H1N1) Monday taking the toll in Delhi to 15, the state Health Minister Kiran Walia said. The patient died at the Safdarjung Hospital. She was suffering from rheumatic heart diseases and had undergone treatment at the Escort Heart Institute before being shifted to the Safdarjung Hospital. Besides, the capital city reported 27 fresh cases taking the total number of infections so far to 2,920. However, around 90 percent of them have been cured completely. Of the fresh cases, 15 are children.

Women achievers honoured with CARE awards

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By IANS,

Bharti is ‘violent’, says HC, dismisses bail plea

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, accused of domestic violence...

Judge quits contempt hearing against slipper-hurling women

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By IANS, New Delhi : Justice B.N. Agrawal, the second senior most judge of the Supreme Court, Wednesday quit hearing a case of contempt of court charges against four women, one of whom had hurled a slipper at an apex court judge last month. Justice Agrawal, heading the bench, which also included Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice H.L. Dattu, quit the hearing as soon as the case came up before him. The women had made various allegations against Justice Agrawal in recent times.

Rise from home-makers to nation-makers, Modi urges women

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New Delhi: BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday urged the women to graduate from being home-makers to becoming nation-makers as they have both...

Engineering students arrested for misbehaving with tourist at Puri

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

Internationsl Day for elimination of violence against women on Dec 25

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By NNN-APP, Islamabad : International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women will be observed in Pakistan on Dec 25 with an aim to fight against gender‑based violence in all its forms. Public and private organizations have arranged several activities including seminars, rallies, fun fairs and interactive dialogues to mark the day, a private TV channel reported. Violence against women persists worldwide, occurring in every region, country and culture, and cutting across income, class, race and ethnic groups.

Jain body starts digital payment training scheme for women

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New Delhi, (IANS): In a first initiative of its kind post-demonetisation, an organisation of the Jain community has launched a programme to train 250 women...

सुलखानपुर : जहां इंसान तो इंसान जानवर भी मर रहे हैं भूखे

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नासिर अली, TwoCircles.net बांदा : उत्तर प्रदेश के बांदा क्षेत्र में हर गांव, हर आदमी बस एक ही इंतज़ार में है कि कब कोई करिश्मा...

Women’s safety now Delhi Police’s top priority

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

Kerala Govt women cell to facilitate poor girls for engineering courses

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By Aaliya N.P, TwoCircles.net, Kannur: The Women Empowerment Cell of Kerala Government is aiming to give engineering education for selected candidates. The girls who have passed science stream in +2 examinations will be given admission to three months engineering course of Indira Gandhi National Open University. “The girls are taught engineering to give technical help to the cell which will give those girls jobs in field of women empowerment and enlarge the reach of the cell to every section of the society,” said the director of the cell.

Goa serial killers committed murder in Mumbai too: Police

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By IANS, Panaji: Four persons, including a woman and a 16-year-old girl who were arrested by the Goa police earlier this week for multiple murders in the state, had left a trail of blood in Mumbai too, police said. Speaking to reporters here Wednesday, Superintendent of Police (CID) Atmaram Deshpande said that the gang, which includes a woman and a 16-year-old girl, had also confessed to murdering a woman in Virar, a suburb on the outskirts of Mumbai.

SpiceJet operates all-women flights on Women’s Day

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By IANS, Mumbai : International Women's Day got off to a flying start Friday with private carrier SpiceJet's first flights of the day being operated by all-women crew, an official here said.

68 percent working women suffer from lifestyle diseases: Assocham

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By IANS, New Delhi : More than two-third of working women in India suffer from lifestyle diseases, according to a survey conducted by an industry lobby on the eve of Women's Day Sunday. The study, released Saturday by the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Assocham), said 68 percent of working women surveyed in the age bracket of 21-52 years were found to be afflicted with lifestyle ailments such as obesity, depression, chronic backache, diabetes and hypertension.

Modernity a far cry for women on small screen

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By Radhika Bhirani, IANS, New Delhi: Independent and bold women characters are no more taboo in films, but one wonders why television serials have failed to come of age as far as realistic portrayals of Indian women are concerned. The makers of these serials say TV gives as good as it gets - women are usually appreciated by audiences as subservient, overtly loyal and moralistic or evil, conniving and home-breaking characters.

US-based organization distributes ‘Ramadan ration’ among widows, Rohingya refugees in Jammu

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By TCN News Jammu: US-based organisation Indian Muslim Relief & Charities (IMRC) conducted a two-day ‘Ramadan Ration Program’ among 300 poor and...

Men posing as policemen held for Delhi women’s gang rape in Goa

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Panaji : Five people, arrested for posing as policemen, have been charged with abducting, beating and sexually assaulting two young women tourists from Delhi...

Foreign woman journalist killed, another hurt in Afghanistan

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Kabul : A foreign woman journalist was killed In Afghanistan and another was injured after being fired at by an Afghan police officer Friday. "One...

Mukherjee asks governors to work for women’s safety

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By IANS,

A masjid for women in Shillong

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By Anju Azad for TwoCircles.net,

Pakistan activist honored with International Women of Courage Award

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Islamabad : After youngest ever nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, the scenic Swat valley is again in the limelight on the world scene...

Khargone violence aftermath: Muslims allege police of highhandedness, arresting ‘innocent youth’

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Accusing the Khargone police of harassment, protesting women said that they have been forced to hit the streets because of the persistent persecution of...

कुर्सी बचाने की खातिर आगरा की प्रिंसिपल ने रच दी नफरत की झूठी कहानी,...

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विशेष संवाददाता। Twocircles.net आगरा की जिस प्रिंसिपल ने स्कूल में अल्पसंख्यक समाज के बच्चों का बहुमत होने पर खुद को धार्मिक उत्पीड़ित दिखाया था उसकी...

Fewer women at top due to glass ceiling: Women entrepreneurs

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By IANS, New Delhi : Although more and more women are joining the workforce in India, a glass ceiling is keeping them away from top positions, women entrepreneurs feel.

‘Consider us human’: Stigmatised, vulnerable sex workers at Kolkata’s Khidderpore, Bowbazar urge world

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Atika Sayeed, TwoCircles.net “Vaishya aur ba-ismat aurat ka muqaabla hargiz-hargiz nahi karna chahiye. In dono ka muqabla ho hi nahi sakta. Vaishya khud kamaati hai...

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.

रमज़ान मुबारक : फिर से लौट आई रमज़ान की रौनक, तस्वीरों में देखिए दिल्ली...

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रमज़ान के पाक महीने की आमद के साथ इस बार मुसलमानों में काफा उत्साह दिखाई देता है। इबादत,रहमत और बरक़त का महीना रमज़ान दुनियाभर...

Pakistan frets over burqa bombers

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

AMU alumni band ‘ANTIM’ to release its composition of National Anthem on Republic Day

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: A music band formed by the alumni of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come...

Ramadan 1438: Bisma

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By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net "I just finished taking my Math exam. I practiced for two whole days and forgot one answer in the end,"...

Obama to designate monument to women’s equality movement

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

Muslim Women’s Aid Society established in Kancheepuram

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net,

‘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.

Eve teasing or crime against women?

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By M. Hanif Lakdawala, Raisa Baig, 18, a student of Mass Media had to spend three hours at the police station in South Mumbai to lodge a complaint against a man who physically touched her intentionally when she was commuting to college by bus. When she was struggling with the molester, not a single fellow traveler came to her rescue and she had to fight it out single-handedly. This happened in a Muslim dominated area and the victim and culprit both were Muslims.

Woman gangraped in a moving car in Noida

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By IANS, Noida : A 46-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped in a moving car Wednesday night. The woman was badly thrashed by a group of five men before being finally dumped at a secluded place in Sector-31, police said. The woman was picked by the assailants and pushed into a white Qualis near her house at Pandav Nagar in east Delhi. She was forcibly taken in to the car and was driven to Noida. The woman alleged that the assailants first assaulted her and then dumped her near Nithari after commiting gang rape.

दिल्ली दंगों में पहली सज़ा,दिनेश को पांच साल का कारावास

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net दिल्ली की एक अदालत ने फरवरी 2020 में उत्तर-पूर्वी दिल्ली में हुए दंगे के मामले में पहली सज़ा सुनाई है। गुरुवार को कड़कड़डूमा...

Congress defends Kurien in rape case

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By IANS,

Muslim bodies in Manipur observed International Women’s Day

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: As in other parts the globe, International Women’s Day was observed in Manipur on March 8, 2014. Manipur State Commission for Women, Department of Social Welfare, political parties and different civil society organizations observed the day by deliberating on some of the pressing issues of women in the State.

Women’s rights group seeks close vigil in Pinki case

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By IANS,

Unveiling the Truth: Women of Kashmir Break Silence on social media to confront molestation

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By Fahim Mattoo, TwoCircles.net The safety and protection of women in Jammu and Kashmir hang in the balance following the dissolution of the State Commission...

Parliament must take steps to empower women: M.S. Swaminathan

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By IANS,

40% Muslims in Telangana have no savings, only 19.2% have salaried jobs; Sudheer Commission...

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter The Sudheer Commission on `Socio-economic and educational conditions of Muslims in Telangana,' India’s newest state, has shown that the condition of...

In Rural Telangana, How a Dalit Women-Run Radio Station Is Changing Lives

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Mohini Kapoor, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad: Not long ago, in a corner of southern India where caste and gender boundaries still hold strong, the idea of Dalit women...

Unusual kinships: Foreign women in Gandhi’s life

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

Women journalists protest slanderous stereotypes, seek watchdog

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

Curious case of Moinal Mollah: Both parents Indian, but declared foreigner

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Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net Guwahati: Asma Khatun (25) has been struggling with life under extreme circumstances where she has very slim chance of...

Do ‘liberal icons’ encourage identity politics among Muslims?

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By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net The ‘liberal icons’ are again preaching Muslims, especially women, about what is an acceptable form of dressing. This has...

Woman official in Punjab attempts suicide

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By IANS, Patiala : A woman revenue official in Punjab has been admitted to a hospital here after she attempted suicide in this town, 80 km from Chandigarh, police officials said Thursday. The woman, Jaspal Kaur, a 'Naib Tehsildar' in the revenue department, consumed some poisonous substance after paying obeisance at a gurudwara (Sikh shrine) here Wednesday. She was rushed to the Rajindra Medical college and hospital here where doctors said that her condition was now stable.

Father kills daughter for returning late from school

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Chandigarh : A man was arrested in Punjab's Ropar on Saturday for allegedly hacking his teenaged minor daughter to death, after getting enraged when...

Reporting Rape: February edition

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By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net This article is part of a monthly series Reporting Rape in which we will aggregate the media coverage on atrocities against...

Who is Teesta Setalvad? From 2002 Gujarat riots to 2022 SC verdict

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The arrest of Padma Shri awardee Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad has been widely condemned. Muhammed Nihad P V | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — The detention of...

Men against violence-5: Men also face violence but…

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By Nasiruddin Haider Khan, Dhaka : Do the men also face violence within domestic sphere? I come across this question from my friends. They alleged, activists do not want to see violence faced by men in the home. Sometimes, they cite examples of men in abusive relationships. I also wanted to share this question with activists. I was afraid that I will be blamed politically incorrect if I ask this question to anyone from the women’s movement. I thought I will be branded with certain ideological terminology. But during Dhaka Consultation, I gathered courage and raised this question.

On the Meanings of the Hijab

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By Sana Khan, More than three years ago I wrote an article titled ‘burqa-to wear or not to wear’. A friend said that she supported the view of the French government banning the burqa as it truly was doing it to respect the principle of secularity in school and well of course it would liberate women, and in this light I wrote this article. That time I was arguing that the wearing or not wearing of a burqa/hijab is an individual choice about attire. Just as the other women exercise their opinion to dress in the manner they want, without any hue and cry, a woman in burqa/hijab should have the right to dress in the way she wants to. I am sharing here some excerpts from that article which I think are significant only to place the discussion around hijab in a more lucid way as it explains my position on hijab.

Saina beats Yihan Wang to storm into All England semis

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Birmingham: Leading Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal got the better of China's former world champion Yihan Wang 21-19, 21-6 to march into the semifinals of...

Alleged rape victim commits suicide in West Bengal

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Kolkata: A housewife Thursday allegedly committed suicide in West Bengal's Malda district after being raped, police said. Her family members have alleged that she set...

Five Bengal girls fight child marriages

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By IANS,

Irom Sharmila released from custody, resumes fast

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Guwahati : Human rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanua "who has been fasting since 2000 demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA),...

Women’s groups seek action against Dev

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New Delhi : Different women organisations Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission, seeking action against Bengali actor and Trinamool Congress candidate Dev...

Government adopts policy for women’s empowerment

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government has adopted a national policy for empowerment of women with the objective of bringing about their advancement, development...

Minority women’s scheme fund for 64 organisations

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government has sanctioned funds to 64 NGOs for implementing a 'Leadership Development of Minority Women' scheme across 12 states, the Lok Sabha was informed Friday.

Women’s Day: March planned to Chouhan’s house Tuesday

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By IANS,

Woman dies in Delhi, family alleges dowry death

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By IANS, New Delhi : The relatives of a 22-year-old woman who died in the national capital have alleged that the victim was killed by her in-laws for dowry, police said Thursday. Deepti Sharma, mother of a girl, was admitted to a west Delhi hospital Wednesday by her in-laws where she died the same day, a police officer said.

Government expands scheme to benefit adolescent girls

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By IANS, New Delhi: Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath Monday said that the government's Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) would be expanded to benefit adolescent girls and also grant benefits to pregnant and nursing mothers. "Around 7,073 ICDS projects have been sanctioned under which 1.4 million anganwadi (primary care) centres would be functioning in the long run. The ICDS would be expanded to include two new schemes for improving nutrition of adoloscent girls and women for which the minitry has allocated Rs.9,000 crore (Rs.90 billion)," Tirath said.

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...

Three-year-old allegedly raped, murdered in UP

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Lucknow: A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped and then killed in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi, police said Saturday. The incident took place late Friday in Ramgarh...

लखनऊ: उजरियां में धरने को हुआ एक महीना पूरा, घण्टाघर पर भूखहड़ताल शुरू

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़, Twocircles.net लखनऊ। नागरिकता संशोधन कानून, एनआरसी और एनपीआर के विरोध में लखनऊ के उजरियाँ मे चल रहे धरना-प्रदर्शन को एक महीना पूरा हो...

Woman’s solo mission helps Ladakh schools bloom

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By Shudip Talukdar, IANS,

Implement our suggestions: Women’s panel

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By IANS, New Delhi: Expressing its unhappiness over most of the recommendations made by women's commissions remaining unimplemented, the National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday said it will consult the government for tabling its reports and the action taken on them. Addressing the media at the beginning of a meeting with representatives from state women commissions, NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said the commission would write to the central and state governments to ensure that the reports submitted by the commissions are tabled in the respective assemblies and the parliament.

Women’s commission meets Nupur Talwar

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By IANS, New Delhi : Nupur Talwar, mother of murder victim Aarushi Talwar, Friday provided to the National Commission for Women (NCW) the sequence of events in the sensational crime in which the family's domestic help was also killed. The NCW will now forward this to the Noida police that is investigating the case. "We spoke to her for 25 minutes alone in her home and she gave us the details about what happened on the fateful day. We will be providing her statement to the Noida police," NCW member Nirmala Venkatesh told IANS.

Probe into trafficking of Indian women into SE Asia

Women

By Mahendra Ved, IANS, Kuala Lumpur : Authorities in India, Malaysia and Singapore are intensifying a probe into a widespread trafficking racket that pushes women from India's northeastern states into flesh trade in Malaysia and Singapore. Investigations have intensified after the rescue of five Indian girls here, leading to the arrest of several kingpins in three countries, The New Straits Times said.

Kids, women severely burnt as high-tension wire falls on them

Women

By IANS, Ghaziabad : Three children and three women were severely burnt when a high-tension wire fell on them in the Khoda area of Ghaziabad Monday night, police said Tuesday. According to officials, the children and the women were sitting on the rooftop of their house when the overhead high tension 11,000 volt transmission wire fell on them, severely burning them.

Four nuns transferred for protesting against Bishop refuse to go

Women

Kottayam (Kerala), Jan 16 (IANS) Four nuns -- who went on a public protest last year demanding arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who then...

Two women held in Chennai for dowry harassment

Women

BY IANS, Chennai : Two women were arrested Sunday on charges of harassment for dowry and assisting bigamy by attempting to arrange the third marriage of an IT professional relative domiciled in Singapore, the police said. "Madina Begum (55) and Safina (35) were arrested based on a complaint from Abu Bakkar Siddique that his Singapore-based son-in-law Mohammad Ali Maraikkayar was attempting to marry a third time through the efforts of his mother Madina and sister Safina," police inspector S. Kalyani told IANS.

A woman contesting polls for women’s cause

Women

By F. Ahmed, IANS, Bandipora, (Jammu and Kashmir) : Defying separatists' boycott call and militant threats, Gousia Bashir, the lone woman candidate in this north Kashmir constituency, says she is contesting the elections to highlight the problems of women and the poor. Bandipora, once a hotbed of militants, goes to the polls Nov 17 in the first of the seven-phase assembly elections. And Gousia is contesting against 21 other candidates, all men.

Imran Khan’s bride’s choice of dress for Nikah and Islamophobia

Women

By Shaheen Naqshbandi for TwoCircles.net Recently, Pakistani politician Imran Khan married Bushra Maneka. During the Nikah, the bride wore the full veil and some people...

Saina loses to Xuerui in Malaysia Open semis

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Kuala Lumpur: World No.1 shuttler Saina Nehwal went down 21-13, 17-21, 20-22 in her women's singles semifinal to reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui at...

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.

Saarc, UN to work for women’s empowerment in South Asia

Women

Kathmandu : Saarc and UN Women will work towards promotion of gender equality, gender justice and empowerment of women among the countries in the...

UP woman MLA seeks action against peers’ stripping act

Women

By IANS, Lucknow : A woman legislator in Uttar Pradesh lodged a complaint with the speaker's office over two Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) legislators taking...

India recalls envoy to New Zealand after wife accused of assaulting staff

Women

New Delhi/Wellington: India on Saturday asked its envoy in New Zealand to return following allegations that his wife assaulted a member of the domestic...

Life in jail for woman for killing grandson

Women

New Delhi: A 62-year-old woman has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her minor grandson to take revenge on her daughter-in-law. Additional Sessions...

Daughter of Nagpur Court peon becomes judge at the age of 25

Women

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Nagpur: In a distinguished event that brought cheer to the face of a Nagpur Court peon, his daughter cracked the competitive...

HIV-positive mother gets child custody

Women

By IANS, New Delhi : A smile lit up Sunita Verma's face as she got her two-year-old boy back after nearly a year thanks to the Delhi High Court which Tuesday ruled in her favour despite the fact that she is HIV-positive. Justice Gita Mittal also appointed an activist who will look after the child on a regular basis. She also ordered that the child undergo a medical test Thursday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Sunita approached the court as her in-laws refused to give her the child after her husband Satish died of AIDS.

Haryana institutes awards for women

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Deendar Anjuman: Damned by the Muslim community, haunted by the security agencies

Women

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Three caught for harassing woman in Kolkata Metro

Women

Kolkata: Three youths have been caught for allegedly harassing a Kolkata Metro railway passenger, an official said Thursday. Following a complaint from a woman passenger...

More study before taking in women fighter pilots: IAF chief

Women

By IANS, New Delhi: Indian Air Force Chief P.V. Naik Thursday admitted that more studies need to be done before a decision is taken to induct women as fighter pilots.

India-born woman gets 20-year jail for killing husband

Women

New York : An India-born woman in the US state of Texas, convicted of setting her husband afire, has been sentenced to 20 years...

Dulla Bhatti and communalization of history

Women

By Japal Singh for TwoCircles.net Today is Lohri, a festival that is celebrated in Punjab with great gusto. Few days before, young boys go around...

A woman with a mission: She safeguards maternal health in Himachal villages

Women

By Vishal Gulati Chamba (Himachal Pradesh) : In spite of advancing years, health worker Kaushalya, whose name roughly translates into "ability to do something well",...

Women’s quota, nuclear liability – two hot potato bills in monsoon session

Women

By IANS, New Delhi: Two contentious pieces of legislation, on women's reservation and civil nuclear liability, are among 59 bills listed for consideration during the monsoon session of parliament beginning Monday. Parties opposed to the women's reservation bill are ready for battle in the Lok Sabha where it is to be tabled, while the Left and BJP said they will contest the nuclear bill tooth and nail.

Khap panchayats check social evils, says Haryana CM

Women

New Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has come out in defence of khap panchayats, saying they keep a check on social evils...

Why does a group of women walk at midnight in Delhi?

Women

Aatika S. |TwoCircles.net It's been seven years that the group- Women Walk at Midnight has been walking in various cities. For Mallika Taneja, the person...

Delhi HC refuses to entertain plea against Uber

Women

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday refused to entertain a plea that accused global cab company Uber of doing business in India without...

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

Women

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...

18 killed in Shimla accident

Women

By IANS, Shimla : At least 18 people, mostly women, were killed when a private bus rolled down a gorge near the tourist destination of Kufri in Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh Tuesday morning, police said. Eyewitnesses said more than 40 people were travelling in the bus when the accident took place. The bus was coming to the state capital here from Kumar Sein town, 70 km away. Unconfirmed reports put the toll at 33 dead. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal confirmed 18 deaths. The injured have been admitted to the Indira Gandhi Medical College here.

PM confident women’s quota bill will be passed

Women

By IANS, New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said he was confident that the women's reservation bill that seeks to provide 33 percent reservation for women in legislative bodies will be passed in parliament. The bill will be introduced in the Rajya Sabha Monday, International Women's Day. The legislation has been pending for over 13 years -- it was first brought to parliament by the H.D. Deve Gowda government in 1996.

‘Did I hit her? Did I abuse her? Then why the fuss?’ says BJP...

Women

Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Gorakhpur : A couple of days after a video surfaced in which BJP MLA from Gorakhpur(Sadar) Radha Mohan Das Aggrawal was shown shouting...

Agra lawyers’ strike over advocate’s wife’s murder

Women

Agra : Lawyers in this Uttar Pradesh city went on strike on Wednesday to protest the loot and murder of a colleague's wife and...

Bengal governor asks Jadavpur VC to act in molestation case

Women

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi, who is also the Jadavpur University chancellor, Saturday cautioned Vice Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti for delaying action in the...

Rahima living her dreams through slum kids in Guwahati

Women

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Poverty could hardly deter Rahima Begum from chasing her dream. Living in a slum in Guwahati, the lady in...

इंसाफ की लड़ाई को अंजाम तक पहुंचाने वाली आशा देवी को पदम अवार्ड देने...

Women

TCN News नई दिल्ली। हैवानियत की इंतहाई बयां करने वाला निर्भया दुष्कर्म व हत्या मामले में इंसाफ की लड़ाई को अंजाम तक पहुंचाने वाली आशा देवी...

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

Women

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

Ban Triple Talaq immediately: Women’s group

Women

New Delhi : A women's organisation on Wednesday demanded an immediate ban on Triple Talaq since "it is not prescribed in the Quran". The National...

Sania gets Khel Ratna, Arjuna awards for 12 others

Women

New Delhi : Tennis star Sania Mirza received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour on Saturday, while 12 others,...

Mahila Congress workers meet Manmohan Singh, express solidarity

Women

New Delhi: A delegation of Mahila Congress workers on Friday met former prime minister Manmohan Singh to convey their solidarity with him, days after...

Two women robbed of passport, US currency in Noida

Women

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

Aler Encounter: Mohammed Haneef’s family fights poverty, social exclusion, but justice remains elusive

Women

On April 7 2015, five people accused in the murder of two policemen were killed in an encounter in Aler, Nalgonda after the...

हम सब भारतीयों को मिलकर देश बचाना है – नासिरा ज़ुबैरी

Women

TCN News जयपुर: 'भारत में समाज व सामाजिक संबंधों को खून के रिश्तों से भी अधिक महत्व दिया जाता है, जिसे साम्प्रदायिक तत्व नष्ट करने...

Impressed with Indian women, Clinton seeks more opportunities for them

Women

By IANS, Mumbai: "Impressed" with Indian women, US Secretary of State of Hillary Clinton Saturday said that while "enormous progress" has been achieved in their empowerment, much more needs to be done. Addressing a press conference here on the first morning of her five-day visit to India, Clinton said: "I am very impressed with Indian women." "I have been in touch with a number of organisations that are promoting economic opportunities and greater choices in the lives of women here in India. Enormous amount of progress has been made in this field," she added.

Australia storm into ICC Women’s World Cup final

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Saina gets a bye in World Badminton Championships first round

Women

By IANS, New Delhi: India's world No.6 Saina Nehwal got a bye in the women's singles first round of the World Badminton Championships in Hyderabad August 10-16. For the sixth seed Saina it could be a smooth ride till the quarterfinals. In the third-round, she may face 10th seed Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva and if she overcomes her, she may run into second seeded Lin Wang of China in the quarterfinals.

Muslim women seek support to abolish triple talaq

Women

New Delhi : Thousands of Muslim women have sought support to abolish the "heinous" practice of 'triple talaq', which they have termed an "un-Quranic"...

SC to examine the legal validity of triple talaq

Women

New Delhi, (IANS): The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it would not get into the issue of Uniform Civil Code but described the...

Ulema express concern over social curse of dowry

Women

By RINA New Delhi: Expressing grave concern over the evil practice of dowry, Deoband’s Sheikhul Hadees Maulana Talha ‘Peerr Ji’ said, “Numerous mishaps of dowry in Saharanpur during last few months have forced Ulema, Muftis and intellectuals to contemplate on the issue deeply.”

Muslim Women’s rights and media coverage of Triple Talaq

Women

Despite the large number of positive court judgements in favour of Muslim women in India, the media prefers to endorse the view that once...

100 seats to be reserved for women in parliament: Hasina

Women

By IANS, Dhaka : The number of seats reserved for women in Bangladesh parliament would be raised to 100 from 45 at present, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said here. She said the government will repeal all the laws that discriminate against women, the Daily Star reported Monday.

Before rape, Goa MLA ‘bought’ minor girl for Rs.50 lakh

Women

Panaji : Goa's former education minister and an unattached legislator Atanasio Monserrate, who was arrested by the state police Crime Branch on Thursday for...