Women victims of abuse turn child abusers: study
By IANS,
Washington : Women who have faced abuse at the hands of elders and relatives as children can themselves turn into child molesters, according to an extensive new study.
Most people believe women are incapable of committing such acts and the abuse of boys by women is often dismissed as the boys sowing their wild oats, said Susan Strickland of University of Georgia and author of the study.
Let 2015 be a start to a future of ‘lasts’ rather than ‘half’ measures...
By TCN News,
New Delhi: After receiving the Nobel Peace prize with India’s Kailash Satyarthi, Pakistan’s young education activist Malala Yousafzai has written an open letter to the world leaders. In India, the campaigners have sent this letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Women likely to miscarry if exposed to cigarette smoke
By IANS,
Washington : Women exposed to cigarette smoke, either as adults or children, are more likely to face fertility problems and suffer miscarriages.
An analysis of more than 4,800 non-smoking women showed those who were exposed to cigarette smoke six or more hours a day as children and adults, faced a 68 percent greater chance of facing difficulties in getting pregnant and suffering one or more miscarriages.
जेयूसीएस द्वारा योगी आदित्यनाथ की संसद सदस्यता खारिज़ करने की मांग उठाई गयी
By TCN News,
लखनऊ : पिछले दिनों भाजपा सांसद योगी आदित्यनाथ का विवादित वीडियो चर्चा में आया, जिसमें वे मुस्लिम लड़कियों को जबरन हिंदू बनाने की बात कर रहे हैं. उक्त वीडियो के बारे में जर्नलिस्ट्स यूनियन फॉर सिविल सोसाइटी(जेयूसीएस) के सदस्य डॉक्यूमेंट्री फिल्मकार शाहनवाज आलम, राजीव यादव व लक्ष्मण प्रसाद ने कहा है कि यह दलितों के हिंदूकरण, महिला हिंसा, सांप्रदायिकता और आतंकवाद की राजनीति पर केन्द्रित एक डॉक्यूमेंट्री फिल्म 'SAFFRON WAR’ का हिस्सा है, जिसे 2011 से ही कई फिल्म महोत्सवों व अकादमिक गोष्ठियों में दिखाया जाता रहा है.
Shiela Dikshit urges women to gain social status
By IANS,
New Delhi: On the eve of International Women's Day, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday called upon women to come forward and gain economic and social status through empowerment.
Dowry law cannot be harassment tool, says court
New Delhi: A court here has observed that dowry prohibition law cannot be allowed to become a tool for harassment.
Granting relief to a man,...
Shabnam resigns from NIC protesting Udhav’s entry
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Eminent civil rights activist and Member, National Integration Council (NIC), Shabnam Hashmi has resigned from the NIC protesting against the entry into the council of Shiv Sena leader and son of Bal Thackerary, Udhav Thackeray. Hashmi, who heads ANHAD NGO, has called Udhav’s entry into NIC as “a cruel oxymoron.”
In a her resignation letter to the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Hashmi expresses surprise over the inclusion by the Prime Minister of a person whose whole life is based on “divisive and hate politics.”
सादिया देहलवी…. याद तो बहुत आएंगी ‘आपा’
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़ । Twocircles.Net
उनके दुनिया से रुख़सत हो जाने की ख़बर इतिहासकार इरफ़ान हबीब ने दी थी। इरफ़ान हबीब ने अपने टिवीटर पर लिखा...
“Anti-nationals” of the world unite: Umar Khalid back in JNU campus
By TCN News,
New Delhi: The JNU campus was enlighten on Sunday night when Umar Khalid, an accused of raising anti-national slogans, returned to the...
Special rooms at TN bus stations for lactating mothers
Chennai : In a novel initiative for the benefit of lactating mothers, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa on Friday announced that exclusive rooms...
Arab woman to head UN’s new gender programme?
By Hibaaq Osman
In the halls of the United Nation's New York bureau, officials have been considering a proposal to unify the UN's many organisations promoting women's equality and rights into a single "gender entity". This entity would have a greatly increased budget - exactly how much is still being debated - and would be headed by an executive at the rank of Under-Secretary General.
DMK calls for 33 percent reservation for women
By IANS,
Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu) :The DMK, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu and an important ally of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Sunday called for 33 percent reservation for women in parliament and legislative assemblies.
A resolution passed at the DMK's womens' meet here, urged the central government "to first pass a law on this".
After that, "all the parties can together consider and decide if there can be reservation within reservation", the resolution said.
Periods, women’s health and Ramadan
By Afshan Khan for TwoCircles.net
Imagine that it is the first day of the holy month of Ramadan and you are fasting with full excitement...
Women honchos give leadership mantra to female entrepreneurs
By IANS,
Bangalore : Top female leaders from India's corporate fraternity called on more women to join the business houses spread across the country and also take up the mantle of leadership in the mostly male-dominated corporate sector.
Biocon Ltd chairman and managing director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, State Bank of India regional head Arundhati Bhattacharya and several other women leaders of India Inc, who gathered here Wednesday to attend a conference, "Leading the Change", said more women should aspire for top positions in the industry.
Four commit suicide in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: At least four members of a family committed suicide Tuesday in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, police said.
The incident occurred at Dhenkanal town, the district...
Many under financial constraint as Delhi riot victims still wait for compensation
About 2569 families in North East Delhi have filed claims for compensation. Of the 2,569 claims, 1,425 have been examined, while work on the...
Change mindset to curb female foeticide: Experts
By IANS,
New Delhi: The patriarchal Indian society has a deep-rooted bias against the girl child and changing this mindset is essential to curb female foeticide, experts said here Thursday.
’48 percent Indian women drop out mid-career’
New Delhi : The percentage of women in India dropping out of white collar jobs in mid-career is as high as 48 percent, as...
Displaced Pakistani women suffer more due to customs, says report
By IANS,
Lahore : Displaced women in Pakistan are in dire need of medical help by female health professionals as their customs and traditions bar them from even talking to a stranger, a media report said Wednesday.
"At the Shaikh Shahzad and Shaikh Yaseen camps for displaced people, there are thousands of expectant women, and their deliveries are due in the coming months," said assistant professor Asima Karim, who recently spent about a week in Mardan, heading the first medical team comprising woman doctors and nurses from the University of Health Sciences.
Railway employee’s gang-rape: Bengal women’s panel seeks report
Kolkata : The West Bengal Commission for Women Saturday said it will seek a report from the railway authorities after a woman employee filed...
Women in Chhattisgarh protest award of liquor shop licences
By IANS,
Raipur : Hundreds of women laid siege to the collector's office in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh Tuesday to protest the district authorities' move to award a large number of annual contracts for opening liquor shops in villages.
The protesters said that district authorities are allotting several liquor shops in each village in Rajnandgaon district to raise revenue but it would lead to rise in violence against women as males will waste money on consuming liquor.
Woman priest, a mother – they fight cultural beliefs for change
By IANS,
New Delhi : At first glance, Suniti Gadgil doesn't look like a Hindu priest. One of the very few women who have broken yet another male bastion, Gadgil always wears a bright smile though not necessarily a priest's robes.
"My journey to becoming a priest has been a challenging one. Initially, people were not ready to accept it, even my husband did not support me. But now things have changed," Gadgil said at the UN Population Fund's (UNFPA) report release function Wednesday.
गुरुग्राम : जहां मुसलमान पढ़ रहे थे नमाज़ ,वहीं हिन्दू संगठन करने लगे कीर्तन
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...
Delhi Police ask SHOs to be sensitive in women’s cases
New Delhi : Station House Officers (SHOs) of Delhi Police have been asked to be more sensitive towards crime against women, sources said.
Delhi Police...
Padma Shri Saba Anjum Karim: Story of Grit, determination and much more
From gali hockey, to India’s hockey captain to DSP of police, it has been an incredible and equally inspiring journey for daughter of Chhattisgarh Saba Anjum who has received the Padma Shri 2015 honour
By Sharique Anwer, TwoCircles.net,
Durg (Chhattisgarh): Growing up in the Kelabandi locality of this place Durg, one of the district headquarters of Chhattisgarh, she was just another girl in the neighbourhood, daughter of a muezzin in a local mosque, youngest of the four siblings with not much resources at hand for the poor family.
Women more satisfied working in public sector than BPOs
By IANS,
New Delhi : Women working in public sector undertakings (PSUs) are more satisfied than those working in private outsourcing companies, says a study by the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).
"Majority of working women gave priority to PSU sectors because the sector provided them job satisfaction, including reasonably good annual income, with job security and convenient working hours besides a healthy work environment," the study, Empowering the Women, said.
Make varsity campuses safe for women: Pallam Raju
By IANS,
Hyderabad: Union Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Monday asked the universities and colleges to make the campuses safe for women.
Woman techie cheats NRI of Rs.1.3 mn, booked for cyber crime
By IANS,
Kendrapada (Orissa) : At least eight persons, including a female software engineer, have been booked in Orissa for cheating a non resident Indian (NRI) of Rs.1.3 million by making false promises, the police said Thursday.
"The police have registered criminal cases against software engineer Kaveri Patra, a resident of Mulabasanta village in Kendrapada district, and seven others including her father, husband and father-in-law on the charge of cheating and committing a cyber crime," officer in charge of the local Pattamundai police station K. C. Mallick told IANS.
दंगे की ज़मीन में मुहब्बत की फसल,जाट -मुस्लिम साथ आए तो बदल गए मुजफ्फरनगर...
हिना आस। Twocircles.net
उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव के दौरान कुछ सुखद परिणाम भी आए हैं। 2013 में दंगे की तल्खी को राजनीति के गणित ने...
Asian women show they’re on top
By IANS,
Kathmandu: Nearly 24 years after mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner became the first man to conquer the 14 highest peaks in the world, South Korean Oh Eun-sun followed in his footsteps Tuesday, becoming the first woman to achieve the feat, beating her closest rival Spain's Edurne Pasaban.
The 44-year-old became South Korea and Asia's heroine after she reached the summit of Mt Annapurna, 8,091m, with her ascent being broadcast live.
Minister seeks report from Delhi LG on Belgian woman’s molestation case
New Delhi : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday sought a report from Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on the molestation of a...
Jadavpur varsity sets up panel to probe ‘sanitary pad protest’
Kolkata: Disapproving of the "sanitary pad" campaign against rape and sexism on campus, the Jadavpur University on Monday set up a three-member fact-finding panel...
Women devotees flood Kerala capital for festival
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : Spirals of smoke rose from hundreds of firewood stoves here Tuesday as an estimated three million women devotees from Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu converged on the path to the Attukal Bhagavathi temple and cooked rice offerings for the goddess.
The offering is made on the penultimate day of the 10-day-long Attukal Pongala festival, which is often referred to as the equivalent of the Sabarimala pilgrimage for women.
Attukal Bhagavathi is believed to be an incarnation of Kannaki, the central character of the Tamil epic "Silappathikaaram".
Neglect charge against British teenager’s mother dismissed
By IANS,
Panaji : Goa's Women and Child Development (WCD) department has dismissed a petition against slain British teenager Scarlett Keeling's mother Fiona Mackeown on a technicality, as the police was already investigating similar charges against her.
A petition filed by a local NGO Utt Goenkara had argued that it was Fiona's criminal neglect of Scarlett which had resulted in the teenager's death and sought penal action against her.
Implement reservations else say goodbye to Muslims votes in 2014: Islamic summit in Hyderabad
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
Muslim women hold rally in support of women reservation bill
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: All India Muslim Mahila Andolan today lambasted the comments of Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad in which he reportedly said Muslim women have no role in politics, rather they should stay at home and produce children of good race. The group staged a protest against the comments and in support of Women Reservation Bill at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. The group condemned efforts not to pass the bill in its present form, for one reason or other.
Ramadan1433: Zakaat
By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net
Zakaat is the obligatory charity for Muslims which is 2.5% of all their savings, investments, and gold. Two women wait for...
Missionaries of Charity mourn Sister Nirmala’s death
Kolkata: The Missionaries of Charity on Tuesday saluted Sister Nirmala's life of service and dedication, recalling her role in taking the religious order forward
"We...
Muslim women who took part in Nupi Lal of 1939 remembered
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
Women to operate two-wheeler ambulances in Tamil Nadu
Chennai : In a first-of-its-kind, Tamil Nadu will now have women paramedical members weaving in and out of traffic on their two-wheeler ambulances to...
Najma Heptullah gets her Calculations Right
By Fawaz Shaheen,
Ms. Najma Heptullah, the Minority Affairs Minister in Mr. Modi’s newly sworn in Cabinet, has shocked the public in her first public statement by saying that Muslims must not be called a minority in India since they are “so large in number”.
Orissa girl sacrificed for good harvest
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : A 10-year-old girl in an Orissa village was beheaded by her grandfather, who believed that sowing seeds mixed with her blood would yield a bumper crop, police said Monday.
The barbaric incident, spurred by age-old superstitions, took place Sunday at the tribal-populated Adapathar village in Sambalpur district, over 450 km from here. The heinous crime came to light after villagers caught the man, Rajesh Hembram, and handed him over to the police.
Abu Dhabi firm launches portal on Arab women
By IANS/WAM,
Abu Dubai: An Abu Dubai media company has launched a website solely dedicated to Arab women, the firm said Tuesday.
The anaZahra.com aims to reflect the lives, passions and pursuits of Arab women. It also hopes to offer greater interaction and create "a sense of community", it said.
The portal will deal with topics ranging from beauty, fashion, well being to society, personal empowerment and celebrity news.
Innovative digital tools enable a higher level of engagement and connection with audiences. The content is well defined, categorized and easy to navigate.
Triple Talaq: Turning a mole hill into a mountain
By Moin Qazi for TwoCircles.net
O People, it is true that you have certain rights over your women, but they also have rights over...
The iron lady of Tamil Nadu (Profile)
By Venkatachari Jagannathan,
Chennai : J. Jayalalithaa, often described as the 'Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu', returned to power on Saturday - after a seven...
Telangana, Headley, women’s quota share space in parliament
By IANS,
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Noisy protests for and against the creation of Telangana forced adjournment of the Lok Sabha Thursday while in the Rajya Sabha, the Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) found common cause on the Headley saga and asked the government to make clear its stand on the case that was getting "curiouser and curiouser".
250 women pray at Haji Ali Dargah after 5 years
Mumbai : After five years and a series of legal battles and agitations, around 250 women entered the famous Haji Ali dargah here on...
79% Women’s report harassment and abuse, trend more prevalent in Northern India, reveals a...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: A recent research by UK-based advocacy group ActionAid has once again highlighted the grim situation of women's...
A family of 47 voters wooed by all in Bihar
By Imran Khan,
Patna : It's a joint family of 85 people, with 47 being voters and in this poll season, they find themselves much...
Women with hormonal problems prone to diabetes: AIIMS
New Delhi: Women suffering from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), a problem in which a woman's hormones are out of balance, are highly prone to...
Father kills daughter for returning late from school
Chandigarh : A man was arrested in Punjab's Ropar on Saturday for allegedly hacking his teenaged minor daughter to death, after getting enraged when...
Take money and abort, Bihar panchayat tells raped girl, booked
Patna : A case has been lodged against eight members of a panchayat, a village executive, in Bihar's Kishanganj district for asking a girl,...
Peace march in Hyderabad condemns communal hatred prevailing in country, calls for peace, unity
The march in the heart of Hyderabad began with every participant reading the preamble of the constitution of India and taking the pledge to...
रोशन होने से पहले ही बुझने लगी अल्पसंख्यक मंत्रालय की ‘नई रोशनी’
Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net
मोदी बजट आ चुका है. बड़े-बड़े ऐलान किए जा चुके हैं. पुरानी बोतल में नई शराब भरी जा चुकी है. अलग-अलग...
‘India’s tech revolution led by men and women under 27’
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.
Hakim Muhammed Abdur Razzack paid tribute at Jamia
By TCN News,
New Delhi: In order to commemorate the life and achievements of Hakim Muhammed Abdur Razzack, a Memorial Lecture was held at Jamia...
Saina in final of Indonesian Open Super series
By IANS,
Jakarta: India's Saina Nehwal stormed into the final of the Indonesian Open Super Series with a 21-9, 21-10 victory over Eriko Hirose of Japan Saturday.
Defending champion Saina, who is the top seed in the tournament, will take on Japan's Sayaka Sato, who beat Indonesian qualifier Ana Rovita 22-20, 21-17, in the title clash Sunday.
The Indian is in line for three titles in three weeks, having won the Indian Open Grand Prix and Singapore Open Super Series in the last two weeks which saw her climb three places to world no.3.
Woman hangs self in front of five-year-old son
New Delhi: After an altercation with her husband, a 23-year-old woman hanged herself from a ceiling fan and asked her five-year-old son, the witness...
तक़लीफ़ -ए-ख़्वातीन : इस शर्मिंदगी से निज़ात मिलना ही ‘जन्नत ‘ है!
कोरोना महामारी के दौरान किए लॉकडाऊन में सबसे गहरी तक़लीफ़ का सामना ख़्वातीनो ने किया है। बैंक के बाहर 500 ₹ और राशन डीलर...
उलझ गया है कि यूक्रेन में छात्रों की वापसी का मामला, परिजनों में निराशा
मुहम्मद आसिम। Two circles.net
यूक्रेन की विनिशिया मैडिकल यूनिवर्सिटी में पढ़ने वाली छात्रा अस्मिता इस समय काफी चर्चा में है। अस्मिता दिल्ली की रहने वाली...
Women just 7.53 percent of central government work force: Official
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Women constitute just 7.52 percent of the central government work force, revealed T.K.A. Nair, the principal secretary to the prime minister, Sunday.
"The percentage of women working in the central government is 7.53 percent, of which 24 percent are in All India Civil Services, 18.5 percent in the Indian Police Service and 18 percent in the Indian Foreign Service, Nair said.
Nair was speaking on the launch of the special International Women's Day issue of Bureacracy Today magazine here.
Woman helps cops nab son wanted for rape
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : A woman helped the police arrest her son, who had allegedly raped a woman in Orissa's Balasore district after tying her to a tree, an official said Thursday.
Nitay Mohanty, 22, a resident of Abhayamahai village tied the 35-year-old woman to a tree in an isolated area near the village and allegedly raped her July 24. Balasore is about 200 km from here.
He then fled and hid at his uncle's house in Keodanal village in neighbouring West Bengal.
His mother, Chhayamani Mohanty, 50, expressed her desire to help police.
SDPI disappointed at CBI letting Amit Shah off the hook in Ishrat case
By TCN News,
Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI) feels dismayed at the Central Bureau of Investigation, (CBI) which while filing a supplementary charge-sheet in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case has let Amit Shah, a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, off the hook. Only former Intelligence Bureau, (IB), special director Rajender Kumar has been accused of murder and three serving officers of criminal conspiracy in the case.
IIMs want more girls, non-engineering students
By IANS,
Kolkata: The Indian Institutes of Management are now looking to rope in more girl students and those with non-engineering background to get a more diversified variety on their rolls.
‘बीफ़ के मुद्दे पर धार्मिक ध्रुवीकरण करके ब्राह्मणवादी सरकार मूलनिवासी बहुजनों को आपस में...
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
नई दिल्ली : बामसेफ की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष डॉ. मनीषा बांगर ने देश की मौजूदा स्थिति को लोकतंत्र के लिए ख़तरनाक बताया है....
Orissa woman gives birth to identical triplets
By IANS,
Jajpur (Orissa) : A 24-year old woman in Orissa's Jajpur district has given birth to identical triplets, a rarity that occurs once in three million births, a health official said here Monday.
The woman, Santilata Mahalik, a resident of Kunida village, gave birth to three sons Sunday through a normal delivery in the community health centre at Sukinda, 140 km from here.
Ban weddings on reality TV: Women’s panel
By IANS,
New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) Saturday criticised weddings in reality television serials and said they should be banned.
"There should be strict restrictions on such marriages. All media houses must come forward for this," NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said Saturday. "It should be banned".
After actor Rakhi Sawant's engagement on a reality television show last year, late Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan's son Rahul is set to get married on the "Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega" show on NDTV Imagine channel late Saturday.
In house of memories, meet the nowhere women
(March 8 is International Women's Day)
By Madhulika Sonkar, IANS,
Rajya Sabha discusses JNU, Vemula; Irani’s reply cut short
New Delhi: Functioning for nearly the whole day after a long time, the Rajya Sabha on Thursday witnessed an intense debate on the recent...
Kashmiri women’s group ups ante on V-Day
By IANS,
Srinagar : Activists of Kashmiri women's separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Faith) raided some restaurants here Saturday to foil Valentine's Day celebrations, saying it was un-Islamic.
The group's chief, Asiya Andrabi, headed a small group of her activists who visited some hotels and restaurants in the city centre Lal Chowk area.
"We did not find anybody observing the vulgar and immoral celebrations connected with the so-called Valentine's Day here," Asiya told reporters.
Obey your wife and rule the world: Supreme Court
By IANS,
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has a recipe for a successful marriage, more so for men: Obey your wife and rule the world!
"Bibi joh boltee hai woh sunno (Listen to whatever your wife says). We all listen," a vacation bench of Justice Markandeya Katju and Justice Deepak Verma observed while hearing a lawsuit by Indian Air Force officer Deepak Kumar, who had complained that his estranged wife Manisha had ruined him and his family by implicating them in false criminal cases including sodomy.
नसबंदी शिविर की लापरवाही में आम सवाल
By मनोज मिश्रा,
शनिवार को बिलासपुर, छत्तीसगढ़ से दस किलोमीटर दूर पेंडारी के नेमीचंद जैन अस्पताल में सरकार की तरफ़ से महिलाओं के लिए नसबंदी शिविर आयोजित किया गया. इस शिविर को लगाने का मक़सद महिलाओं के स्वास्थ्य की चिंता नहीं था. बल्कि शिविर इसलिए लगाया गया था ताकि सरकार अपना एक कोटा पूरा कर सके और सर्वे में यह दर्शा सके कि उसने एक साल में इतनी नसबंदियों को अंजाम दिया है. ऐसा इसलिए ताकि उन्हें पिछले कुछ वर्षो की तरह इस बार भी नंबर एक मुख्यमंत्री का ख़िताब मिल जाए.
Iqra Hasan: A Century-Old Struggle and the Ascent of ‘Brave’ and Consistent Daughter
Special Correspondent/ TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: “I don’t comment on numbers, but it’s for sure that I got blessings of people who want me to represent them...
Efforts on to free abducted Indian woman: Family
Kolkata/Kabul : The Afghan and Indian governments are working at "various levels" to secure the release of an Indian woman development worker abducted in...
Girls allege sexual exploitation in north Gujarat college
By IANS,
Ahmedabad : As many as 23 girls studying in a training college in Mehsana district of north Gujarat have fled their hostel, complaining of sexual molestation by the institute's managing trustee.
The students of the K.B. Dave Adhyapan Mandir, a co-education primary teachers' training college at Pilvai in Vijapur sub-district, 190 km from here, ran away from their hostel Saturday night and took shelter at the home of their college-mate Kinjal Patel in Sabarkantha district.
National Women’s Front celebrates International Women’s Day
By TCN News,
Calicut: Seminar, handbill distribution, public meets and poster campaigns marked the events on the occasion of the International Women’s Day (March 8) organised by the National Women’s Front (NWF).
These programmes were held across Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Rajasthan and West Bengal, Fareeda Hassan, national general secretary of NWF, said in a release.
Female scribes face misogyny and patriarchy, say women journalists
New Delhi : Women journalists, like men, should be judged on the basis of their stories rather than their gender in the male-dominated world...
Dr. Rahat Abrar’s book “Muslim Female Education: From Veils to Moon” released
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Tribal activist attacked in Kerala
By Shafeeq Hudawi
Thiruvananthapuram: A few weeks after Soni Sori was attacked, a smilaar incident has been reported from in Kerala. Dhanya Raman, a noted...
Why polygamy should not be encouraged?
Need to repeat and reassert that polygamy is only an option not a compulsion in Islam.
By Dr Kouser Fathima
First and foremost. Let it be...
Taking justice to women’s doorstep in Kerala
By Jeevan Mathew Kurian, IANS,
Kozhikode (Kerala) : Justice at the doorstep is a much espoused cause but remains a dream. For women in Kerala justice may not be at their doorstep, but they can at least seek it in their neighbourhood.
The Jagrata Samithis (Vigilance Committees) in local administrative bodies is slowly turning into sanctuaries of justice for them. The committees have come up in 832 local administrative bodies out of around 1,200 in the state.
Women’s panel to probe forcible stripping by cops
By IANS,
New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Friday said its has formed a committee to enquire into the alleged case of a woman being forced to strip in front of her son at a west Delhi police post last month.
NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said: "I was shocked to hear of such police atrocity. We have formed a three-member enquiry committee which will probe into the circumstances leading to the incident and action taken by the authorities."
The victim, a 30-year-old woman, approached the commission Friday.
Policing My Plate? Such A Dadri!
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...
Islam and Muslim women’s social roles
By Maulana Waris Mazhari,
(Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand)
Two released Japanese tourists depart Yemen
By NNN-SABA,
Sana'a : Well-informed sources said that the two Japanese women tourists Keiko Mishima, 41, of Suginami Ward, Tokyo, and Shizuko Endo, 44, of Fukuoka, left Yemen on Friday morning a day after they were freed from their kidnappers in Marib province, 170 kilometers east of the capital, Sana'a.
The sources said to Saba, that Keiko Mishima and Shizuko Endo enjoy good health after they were kidnapped last Wednesday by gunmen in Marib.
27-year-old woman becomes Delhi’s 15th swine flu victim
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.
Don’t ban ‘India’s Daughter’: Panelists
New Delhi : Increasing violence against women and stifling of debate were among the issues highlighted at a discussion relating to the controversial documentary...
Merely 8 percent of higher judges in India are women
By IANS,
New Delhi : Around eight percent of the high court and Supreme Court judges in India are women, Minister of Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath said Friday.
Wearing of helmet optional for Sikh women: Delhi HC told
New Delhi : The Delhi government Wednesday informed the high court here that it has made wearing of helmet optional for Sikh women while...
Ambekar becomes fourth woman to be Mumbai mayor
Mumbai : First-time Shiv Sena corporator Snehal Ambekar was elected the mayor of Mumbai - the 73rd of the city - while ally Bharatiya...
Wife raped, husband murdered for flouting community norms
By IANS,
New Delhi: A married woman was raped and her husband murdered as the couple, who were from the same caste, married despite the opposition of her family members and other villagers, police said Tuesday. Four men have been arrested for the crime.
Daya Singh, 50, Sandeep, 23, Inderjeet Singh, 19, and Krishan, 19, were arrested from Sonepat in Haryana Monday, for murdering Virender Singh, 24, in Narela area of outer Delhi last week and taking his body to Sonepat, where it was tied with a heavy stone and dumped in a canal.
Amid reports of violence, 20 percent polling in Bengal
Kolkata : Amid allegations of violence and voter intimidation, nearly 20 percent of polling was recorded in the first two hours in 31 constituencies...
Family awaits return of first Indian woman who skied to South Pole
By IANS,
New Delhi : For Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu's family the year 2009 ended on a high note as she became the first Indian woman to ski to the South Pole. However, as the family earnestly awaits her return, their first priority is to repay the loan taken to fund the venture, and not the celebrations.
"We came to know about the news yesterday (Thursday). I have not been able to talk to her. But the Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition authorities told us that she was likely to return Jan 15," Love Raj Singh, her husband and a mountaineer himself, told IANS.
One cannot pursue political ambition at cost of one’s life, says Shweta Bhatt
By Sayema Sahar for TwoCircles.net,
Islamic practice cited to justify bar on women in Sabarimala
By IANS:
New Delhi, July 24: The Travancore Devaswom Board on Tuesday cited the Islamic practice of barring women from entering mosques to justify the...
Sex assault on infant, girl in India, Pakistan ‘heart-breaking’: UN spokesperson
United Nations (IANS): Sex assaults on an infant in India and on a girl in Pakistan are "heart-breaking" but the "scourge" of violence against...
After France, niqab controversy now hots up in Canada
By IANS,
Montreal: After France, the niqab controversy has now hotted up in Canada, with a Egyptian Muslim woman refusing to remove her veil in her French language class in a local college.
When the college and the provincial government asked her to remove the veil, she opted to quit the class.
The unidentified Egyptian woman, a mother of three who is a new immigrant to Canada, has now filed a petition with the human rights commission of Quebec province for violations of her religious rights.
Two arrested for assaulting American woman in Chennai
Chennai, June 2 (IANS) Two people were arrested for allegedly assaulting and molesting an American woman, the police said here Monday.
According to official sources, Kelly Laurel Baker, 26, a US citizen complained that she had been kidnapped by two men, Jose Mathew, 43, and S. John, 35, from the bar of an upmarket hotel May 24.
She was found waylaid with bruises a day later. Baker claimed she had a memory blackout following attempts to outrage her modesty and was robbed of an expensive digital camera and mobile phone, police sources said.
Sony postpones ‘Crime Patrol’ episode on Delhi gang-rape
By IANS,
New Delhi: Popular TV crime show "Crime Patrol Dastak", which was scheduled to show an episode based on the Delhi gang-rape case, has postponed the telecast citing "unavoidable reasons".
Shot putter Manpreet Kaur qualifies for Olympics
Kolkata : Manpreet Kaur of Railways created a new national record in the women's shot put at the 55th National Open Athletic Championship...
Scrap polls if no women votes: Pakistani daily
By IANS,
Islamabad: A leading Pakistani daily has described as "perfectly legitimate" a demand that elections be scrapped in those polling stations where no woman votes.
Traditional barriers put Indonesian women into improper position for progress
By Mulyanda Djohan, Xinhua,
Jakarta : Although some of the Indonesian women have exceeded or been equal with the position of men in many sectors of life, the social status of the nation's women as a whole is far behind the men, a woman leader said recently.
Rita Subowo, the first Indonesian woman taking up the post of the chairmanship of the country's top sport council known as KONI, told Xinhua in an interview that the traditional challenges of discrimination against women had hampered their progress.
Conflict to peace via women: Helping distressed women in J&K
Peace and conflict in Kashmir are linked to patriarchal interventions in Kashmir. “The women don’t have a slightest idea about it. They feel it...
BJP moves EC over Kumar Vishwas’ remark
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday filed a complaint with the Election Commission against Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas for allegedly...
Murder of young woman in Kerala galvanises politics
Ernakulam (Kerala) : The brutal murder of a poor law student in this district last week has galvanised politics in election-bound Kerala as Chief...
10-year jail for ex-BSP MLA for raping maid
Lucknow : Former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Purushottam Naresh Dwivedi was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a special CBI court on...
Woman gang raped on the banks of river Ganga
Patna, Oct 3 (IANS) A woman in Bihar was gang raped on the banks of the Ganga river when she had gone for a...
Special police teams in Hyderabad for women’s safety
Hyderabad : Hyderabad Police Friday set up 100 special teams to check harassment of women in public places.
To be called 'She' teams, their members...
In the name of progressiveness: A Note on the recent Speak-Out movement in...
By Praveena Thaali for TwoCircles.net
In recent times, Dalit-Bahujan women have started a speak-out* campaign to reveal their experiences of sexual harassment, which until now it...
Marginally more women in council of ministers
By IANS,
New Delhi : There are marginally more women in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's team now, with four new women members joining the council of ministers Sunday.
Women and child ministry gets Rs.21,000 crore in budget
By IANS,
New Delhi : The women and child development ministry got an allocation of Rs.21,000 crore in the interim budget presented by Finance Minister...
India takes up rape incident with Maldives
By IANS,
New Delhi: India has taken up "quite strongly" with Maldives the rape of an Indian woman and has been assured of action by its government, an official said Tuesday.
Let women’s bill be passed, Pawar tells opposing parties
By IANS,
New Delhi : Parties pressing for representation for minorities and other backward classes (OBCs) should let the women's reservation bill be passed in the Lok Sabha, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Thursday and suggested that other quotas could be "discussed later".
The Nationalist Congress Party president and agriculture minister, who had earlier suggested women's quota be reduced from 33 percent to 20-21 percent to help arrive at a consensus, said he had discussed the contentious bill with his "friends" opposing the bill.
Men outperform women on spatial tasks
By IANS,
Washington : Men outperform women on spatial tasks, including the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space, claims a new study.
The University of Iowa (UI) study shows a connection between this sex-linked ability and the structure of the parietal lobe, the brain region that controls this type of skill.
Women’s rights activists condemn Mulayam, Abu Azmi remarks
New Delhi : Women's rights activists Friday strongly condemned comments made on rape and women by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and party...
Women activists demand probe into stripping of anti-liquor activist
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : Women activists in Orissa Monday demanded a probe into the alleged stripping last month of a woman anti-liquor activist by some people in Balasore district.
Several women activists met the chairperson of the State Women's Commission (SWC) Namita Panda and demanded the immediate arrest of those responsible for stripping and beating Jayanti Padhi, a known anti-liquor activist. They also demanded a probe and action against police officials who they alleged were shielding the attackers.
Army to give permanent commission to women in two months
By IANS,
New Delhi : The government Monday told the Supreme Court that it would consider giving permanent commission within two months to women serving as short service commission officers in the legal and education branches of the Indian Army.
However, the absorption of women as permanent commission officers would be subject to "requirement" and after necessary training, Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium said in an undertaking on behalf of the defence ministry, recorded by the court.
‘मोदी ने रूकवा दी मेरे शौहर की रिहाई’
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: ओखला से आम आदमी पार्टी के विधायक अमानतुल्लाह खान की बीवी साफ़िया खान ने TwoCircles.net के साथ बातचीत में अपने...
Assam evictions: Pregnant women worst victims of eviction, decry non-availability of ‘medicine, proper food’
The Assam government’s eviction drive in Darrang district on September 23 has left many families in distress, including pregnant women. A TCN Ground report...
More women voters join polls in Bangladesh
By Xinhua,
Dhaka : More women voters are casting their votes in Bangladesh's 9th parliamentary election which is being held on Monday.
Witnesses said there are many women voters queuing up in different polling centers in Dhaka, adding the phenomenon was rare in the past.
After casting her vote in a polling center in Dhaka, Farhana Mahmud told Xinhua the government has created very good environment for voting, like the deployment of a highest number of security forces, banning the movement of vehicles.
Female suicide bomber kills six in northeast of Baghdad
By Xinhua,
Baghdad : A woman suicide bomber blew herself up on Wednesday outside a court in Baquba, the capital city of the volatile province of Diyala, killing six people and wounding 18 others, a provincial police source said.
The attack occurred around midday when a woman wearing an explosive-belt blew herself up among a crowd of people at the entrance of the city court, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The powerful blast also destroyed several nearby civilian cars and buildings in the city, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, the source said.
Nine all-women polling stations in Tripura
Agartala: The Election Commission will set up nine all-women polling stations - with all-women polling personnel - in Tripura, an official said here Wednesday.
"Considering...
AIPMT Retest: Nun Denied Entry to examination hall in Kerala
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Kozhikode: Although the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) cleared its stand over wearing veil and the Supreme Court of India refused...
Jamaat Islami’s women wing protests Nicolas Sarkozy’s remark on hijab
By Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net,
Mumbai: As a part of the ongoing agitation against the French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s statement calling hijab a sign of ‘subservience’, the women wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s Maharashtra unit handed over a memorandum to the Consulate General of France in Mumbai and urged them to take it to President Sarkozy.
British woman lifeguard will inspire locals, Goa authorities hope
By IANS,
Panaji : A young British woman, Kerry Blewett, part of a team of experts brought to the coastal state of Goa to train lifeguards, has been given a tough job - persuade local women to become lifeguards and then train the recruits.
While her colleagues teach the local lifeguards various techniques to handle drowning emergencies at sea, Blewett has been given the special role of motivator by Drishti Special Response (DSR), the agency appointed by the Goa government to make Goan beaches safe for swimmers.
DSR has had problems hiring female lifeguards.
Death sentence for rapist, murderer of teenaged girl
By IANS,
Jaipur: A court in Rajasthan's Sriganganagar town sentenced to death a man for raping and then brutally killing a 15-year-old girl, a lawyer said.
From Kairwan’s meadows to poetic pages, how Kashmiri woman attempting to revive native language
Tauseef Ahmad and Nuzhat Masoodi, TwoCircles.net
Kupwara: Each sunrise in Lolab, also called Wadi-e-Lolab (the land of love and beauty), gives the valley a golden...
Activist groups demand passage of women reservation bill
New Delhi, (IANS) : Several members of women's rights groups assembled here on Tuesday to demand from the government passage of long-pending Women's Reservation...
Rahul attacks Modi, says he is backed by business groups
Rampur/Akbarpur (Uttar Pradesh)/Doda (Jammu and Kashmir): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday slammed BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over his alleged links with...
Use of women for trafficking drugs via India on rise
By Mayank Aggarwal, IANS,
New Delhi : Powerful cartels from West Africa are increasingly using human carriers, especially women from Southeast Asia, to smuggle drugs via India, warns the country's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
"The use of human carriers, specially women, for drug trafficking is on the rise. Nigerian gangs are sending cocaine and heroin through Southeast Asian women," A.P. Siddiqui, NCB's deputy director, told IANS ahead of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking June 26.
Malaysian Indian woman seeks help for kidney treatment
By IANS,
Kuala Lumpur : A desperately ill Malaysian Indian woman suffering from kidney failure has sought the help of the public and the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) for raising funds so she can be treated in an Indian hospital.
P. Sivasakthi tried the traditional medicine route but now finds that she can no longer avoid dialysis, surgery and a possible kidney transplant.
1.22 lakh Delhi women fined for not wearing helmets
New Delhi : A staggering 1,22,523 women two-wheeler riders in the national capital have been fined by the Delhi traffic police in the last...
50 percent women married as minors: Experts
By IANS,
New Delhi : Nearly 50 percent of marriages in India involve minors - children under the age of 18 years, thanks to the poor implementation of the law, experts said Monday.
Five booked for human trafficking in Uttar Pradesh
By IANS,
Lucknow : Five people, including two women, who used to fleece youths by promising them jobs abroad have been booked in Uttar Pradesh for human trafficking, the police said Saturday.
"We are on the look out of the five, who used to fleece money from youths with the promise of providing them with jobs in foreign countries," police Inspector I.M. Verma told IANS.
The five, who are absconding, used to procure fake visas for their clients for sending them abroad, the police said.
Women are backbone of nation, says Sachin Tendulkar
Nellore (Andhra Pradesh): On his first visit to a village which he has decided to adopt for development, cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar Sunday said...
अंधविश्वास ख़त्म करने की सरकारी नाकामी में बढ़ते मनोरोगी
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
सासाराम (बिहार) : आज जहां एक ओर देश में मेडिकल साईंस आसमान की बुलंदियों को छू रहा है. जहां अत्याधुनिक मशीनों से...
Hundreds join in silent protest against NRC and Citizenship Amendment Bill, NRC in Hyderabad
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
Hundreds of citizens from various civil rights groups and organisations working for urban poor, domestic workers, religious minorities, women, homeless, farmers,...
Sikh Woman elected city council member in US
Washington : A Sikh woman in the US was elected a city council member, first woman from the community to hold the post not...
St.Stephen’s principal maligning my image: Molested student
By Ruwa Shah
New Delhi : Launching a scathing attack on St. Stephen's College principal Valson Thampu for "maligning her academic career", the research...
Recurrent lockdowns in Kashmir see surge in domestic abuse
By Asma Hafiz, TwoCircles.net
In August 2019, Insha (name changed) lay dying in her husband’s house after he locked her in a room for seven...