Sania and Saina symbols of woman power
By Veturi Srivatsa,
Saina Nehwal has officially been anointed the No.1 woman player in world badminton. Sania Mirza is on the cusp of becoming the top-most in tennis doubles - she is No.3 right now. The two Hyderabadis are the best role models for young Indian women trying to make a mark in today's highly competitive world of sport.
Majiziya Bhanu wins gold in World Powerlifting Championship
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
Majiziya Bhanu has done it again. The Kerala girl has won a gold medal in the 56 kg senior women's open...
Triple Talaq and the silence of the Muslim men
By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net
Many Muslim women are against the Triple Talaq , Around 50 thousand women have signed a petition asking...
भूख से लड़ते भारत के बच्चे
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
भारत में कुपोषण की शुरुआत मां के गर्भ से ही हो जाती है. गर्भवती महिलाओं को जीवन भर पौष्टिक भोजन का अभाव...
Three Russian women drown off Goa coast
Panaji: Three Russian women tourists drowned while on a boating excursion to see dolphins in the sea off Goa, police said Tuesday.
The incident took...
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...
Delhi rape accused let off, woman says he’s innocent
New Delhi: A court here has let off a man, facing a trial on charges of raping a widow, after the complainant said he...
ईसाई समाज की ननों के साथ एबीवीपी कार्यकर्ताओ ने की अभद्रता,केरल के सीएम नाराज,...
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केरल की चार ईसाई ननों को उत्तर प्रदेश के झांसी रेलवे स्टेशन पर एबीवीपी के कार्यकर्ताओं द्वारा जबरन चलती ट्रेन से...
Police custody till April 30 for rape accused actor Inder Kumar
Mumbai: A Mumbai magistrate Saturday granted police the custody of Bollywood actor Inder Kumar who has been accused of rape by a woman, a...
NHRC notice to Rajasthan on branding women as witches
New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday issued notice to the Rajasthan government on the plight of women branded as...
Bharti is ‘violent’, says HC, dismisses bail plea
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, accused of domestic violence...
Ayesha Noor, the Karate champion from slums of Kolkata conferred with Tejaswini award
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Ayesha Noor, four times gold winner, also known as 'golden girl' of Kolkata, has been conferred with ‘Tejaswini’ award at the ICCR, Kolkata organised...
Woman power pulls Orissa’s chariots of gods
By Byomakesh Biswal, IANS,
Baripada (Orissa) : It's a tug of equality. For women in the small town of Baripada that has come alive during the Jagannath rath yatra, pulling the chariot of goddess Subhadra is as much about empowerment as it is about tradition.
The Hindu chariot festival is observed in many parts of India, with mostly men doing the tugging, but in Baripada it is a unique affair because there women have the exclusive right of pulling the chariot of goddess Subhadra - the sister of Lord Jagannath - in an act considered sacred.
NHRC questions sterilising women unhygienically
By IANS,
Kolkata: Days after over 100 women were sterilised in a single day at a health camp under unhygienic conditions, the NHRC Monday issued a notice to the West Bengal government.
Mrs. Badar Sayeed: A fearless leader
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
Politics is not a dirty word for her. In fact she enjoys being a politician. Mrs. Badar Sayeed, who represents Triplicane constituency in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assemby, always wanted to be part of the decision making process of the country and politics gives her that opportunity.
UN chief seeks help against female genital mutilation
Nairobi: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on the media Thursday to speak out and help put an end "within this generation" to Female...
Mystery over woman’s death in Ghaziabad
By IANS,
Ghaziabad : Police were Wednesday investigating the death of a former air hostess under mysterious circumstances at Ghaziabad.
Some passers-by noticed Jaya Kaushik, a 26-year-old who earlier worked with Deccan airlines, lying critically injured near railway tracks at 11.30 p.m. Tuesday. They rushed her to a hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.
Attending doctors said her left leg and right arm were found broken and there were multiple injuries in her abdomen.
Sri Lanka to increase women’s involvement in local politics
Colombo : Sri Lanka's new cabinet on Thursday vowed to amend laws to increase the number of women in local politics and state institutions.
Addressing...
Delhi girl Sukriti Gupta tops CBSE class 12 exam
New Delhi : Sukriti Gupta of Montfort School here on Saturday topped the class 12 examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE),...
Polygamy a blessing, not curse, says AIMPLB; defends triple talaq
New Delhi : The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday defended the practice of triple talaq and polygamy, professing that polygamy...
‘Misconduct’, ‘Indiscipline’: IIT-BHU Students Suspended While Demanding Justice for Gangrape Survivor
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...
Delhi accident victim’s donated organs save three lives
New Delhi : In a fortuitous series of events, doctors in two Delhi hospitals were able to save the lives of three people on...
Sania gets Khel Ratna, Arjuna awards for 12 others
New Delhi : Tennis star Sania Mirza received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour on Saturday, while 12 others,...
Two arrested for throwing acid on Kashmir woman student
Srinagar : Two people were arrested Thursday for throwing acid on a 21-year-old woman law student in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital, police...
Women scavengers make new beginning, join mainstream
By IANS,
New Delhi : For Usha Chaumar, a former woman scavenger who now lives a life of respect and sells home-made pickles for a living rather than carry human excreta, the change she is happiest about in her life is that people now offer her water in the same glass as they drink from - a sign that she is accepted in the society.
"I couldn't imagine that people would invite me to their homes, and what's more, offer me water in a glass that they use themselves!" said a confident looking Chaumar, dressed in a blue sari, at a press meet in the capital Tuesday.
Two arrested for raping sisters in Rajasthan
Barmer (Rajasthan): Two people have been arrested in Rajasthan's Barmer district for allegedly raping two sisters when they were returning home last week, police...
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...
First woman vice chancellor in Delhi University?
By IANS,
New Delhi : Meenakshi Gopinath, principal of Lady Shri Ram College, may become the first woman vice chancellor of Delhi University, informed sources said Thursday.
Army regrets killings as woman dies in Kashmir
By Sarwar Kashani
Srinagar : A woman injured in firing a day ago died in a hospital here on Tuesday as the Indian Army expressed...
Ramadan 1438: Kulsum
By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net
I did a funny thing on the day of my first roza, well according to me." Says Kulsum, 29, who...
Did Ishrat Jahan, one of the petitioners in Triple Talaq, lie about her divorce?
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net
Over the past few years, the issue of instant Triple Talaq has been discussed, criticised, debated and analysed a lot....
Marginalised students of JNU can now speak for themselves: Bhupali Magare, President, BAPSA
By Atul Anand and Dhrubo Jyoti for Twocircles.net
Bhupali Magare, one of the students suspended from JNU for speaking out against the authoritarian decisions...
Maldives woman kept confined in room for 12 years
By IANS,
Male : A 30-year-old Maldivian woman was kept confined in her room for 12 years by her family. She was discovered only last week after a complaint.
The Gender Ministry is investigating the case reported on Kinbidhoo island of the Thaa atoll. The 30-year-old woman is the daughter of one of the Island Chiefs of Kinbidhoo, according to the Haveeru Daily.
Ministry officials observed that the room where she was kept hadn't been cleaned for a long time and even her clothes were filthy. Her bed was covered with a sheet of linoleum, which was torn in several places.
Behind Closed Doors: Kashmiri Women Battle the Silent Burden of PCOS
Shah Khursheed, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Bareera, 24, a postgraduate student from Pulwama, remembers the first signs of something being wrong with unsettling clarity. In Class 11,...
मेडिकल फील्ड में आती तब्दीली में दाई का काम हो रहा बंद
पूनम मसीह, TwoCircles.net
सावित्री (बदला हुआ नाम, 70) और सुनीता(55) अपने घर में दोपहर के वक्त आराम कर रही थीं। घर में 21 दिन पहले...
Women celebrate the legacy of Bharati Roy Chaudhury
By Lalita, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Delhi Solidarity Group, Women Forest Rights Action Committee and All India Union of Forest Working People, organized the 2nd Bharti Roy Chaudhury memorial lecture titled “Women Resisting Violence - Assertions, Struggles, and Solidarity in Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, on 9th March.
NGOs want protection of men in sexual harassment bill
By IANS,
New Delhi: A group of NGOs working for men's rights Saturday demanded that the bill on prevention of sexual harassment of women at the workplace be made gender neutral to also protect men being harassed at the workplace.
The NGOs under the banner of Save Indian Family Foundation said the draft bill, which is likely to be introduced in the monsoon session of parliament starting July 26, should be discarded and a fresh gender neutral draft should be prepared.
The draft bill was prepared by the Women and Child Development (WCD) ministry.
Five women stripped, paraded naked in Jharkhand
By IANS,
Ranchi : Five women were stripped and paraded naked in Deoghar district of Jharkhand after being charged of witchcraft, police said Monday.
Five women, including three widows, were forcibly brought to a field Sunday in Patharghatia village in Deoghar, about 350 km from state capital Ranchi. They were stripped and paraded naked and two of them were forced to eat excreta, police said.
Dikshit urges more women representatives in MCD
By IANS,
New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Thursday said 50 percent seats will be reserved for women under the new set up proposed for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
Malaysian Indian woman faces new hurdle to get child from husband
By IANS,
Ipoh : Malaysian Indian woman Indira Gandhi was facing a fresh hurdle in recovering her infant daughter from her husband who has been granted interim permission to retain the child by an Islamic court. Gandhi's husband had converted to Islam and taken away the one-year-old girl from her.
Lawmaker M. Kulasegaran, who is fighting her case, has challenged Perak state Mufti Harusani Zakaria's statement permitting Gandhi's husband Patmanathan, who converted to Islam last month, to keep the child.
Court orders Permanent Commission for women in army, air force
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Friday ordered the grant of Permanent Commission in the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF) to over 50 women officers who had accused the government of discrimination vis-a-vis their male counterparts.
A division bench of Justices S.K. Kaul and M.P. Garg also ordered the reinstatement of all Short Service Commission women officers who retired and approached the court seeking Permanent Commission in the forces.
Anandiben Patel: Gujarat’s first woman CM (Profile)
By Quaid Najmi,
Ahmedabad : Some 25 years ago, without a second thought, a woman school teacher plunged into the Narmada river and rescued two...
Indian men 3rd, women 6th in archery World Cup qualifiers
By IANS,
Kolkata: The Indian men's team finished third in the qualifying round of the archery World Cup Stage III at Ogden, US, while the women finished sixth, according to information received here.
The Indian team, comprising Tarundeep Rai, Mangal Singh Champia and Kapil, logged 1,982 points Wednesday.
The Indian women - Dola Banerjee, L. Bombayla Devi and Deepika Kumari - ended sixth with 1,915 points.
After two rounds of 36 arrows for a total of 72 over 70m distance, Korea dominated the proceedings, occupying the top spots in both men's and women's categories.
Deendar Anjuman: Damned by the Muslim community, haunted by the security agencies
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
Hasina seventh top world woman leader
By IANS,
Dhaka : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named the seventh among 12 top world women leaders by Time magazine.
Widowed in Muzaffarnagar riots, 50-year-old Nimmi has given up on getting justice
By Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net
Nimmi lives in Muzaffarnagar’s Kidwai Nagar locality. Her real name could very well be Naeema, but she never went to...
Bengal woman found living with father’s corpse
Kolkata : A tribal woman in West Bengal's Burdwan district was found living with the decomposed body of her father, police said on Sunday.
This...
DCW writes to Bassi over crime against women
New Delhi : The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Saturday wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi seeking information on the...
Delhi hospital restores mobility to 130-kg Uzbek woman
New Delhi: An accident four years back left Kavlaynova Oygul, from Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, with a broken thigh bone that refused to heal despite...
Rape is fault of the victims, say half of women: survey
By IANS,
London : Half of women think that rape victims are to blame for the attack, a media report said Monday quoting a British study.
The poll of 1,000 adults found that 54 percent of women believe rape victims should be held accountable for their attack and women were more likely than men to blame victims, with those aged between 18 and 24 the most likely to judge, Daily Mail reported.
Growing intolerance in India is worrying: Shabana Azmi
New Delhi : Veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Friday expressed support to those raising issues of intolerance in the country. She said "the growing...
In Hailakandi, a father-son duo might hold edge over their rivals
By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net
Hailakandi: The district of Hailakandi, Assam, has been a hotspot of political activity in the past few weeks, and...
Self-help groups to arm women against economic slowdown: Tirath
By IANS,
New Delhi : India is strengthening its self-help groups to involve women in income generating work to arm them against the impact of economic meltdown, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said.
Addressing the plenary session of the third East Asia Gender Equality Ministerial Meeting at Seoul Thursday, Tirath said India is committed to uplift women in every sphere of life.
She said the government is making all efforts to protect women from the impact of economic slowdown on their health, nutritional level and economic sustainability.
Three held guilty of both gang rapes in Shakti Mills
Mumbai: A Mumbai court Thursday held three men, convicted earlier for gang rape of a call centre employee in the Shakti Mills complex...
50-year-old woman jumps to death from ninth floor
By IANS,
Ghaziabad : A 50-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide Monday by jumping from the ninth floor of her apartment building in Ghaziabad, the police said.
According to the police, Kumud Prasad, the wife of Nand Kishore Prasad, a deputy chief labour commissioner, jumped from her flat in Amrapali Royal apartments in the Vasundhara area.
According to her family, Kumud went out on the balcony of the flat in the morning. And about 10 minutes later, the apartment guards informed her husband that she was lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
Ramadan 1436: Photos of Day 8
A cute child from Malegaon, Maharashtra; another cutie from Jamnagar, Gujarat; Juma prayer at a Bohri masjid in Surat, Gujarat; a "connected" couple in...
Modi urged to safeguard women’s rights
New Delhi : On the occasion of International Women's Day on Sunday, over 30 organisations and NGOs came together to "assert women's freedom" and...
Yemen to appoint four women as district managers
By NNN-SABA,
Sana'a : Yemeni Local Administration Minister Abdul-Qater Hilal said that four women would be appointed in the positions of district managers in four provinces.
Hilal added that their appointment would be the first step to expand this policy in other provinces of the country, pointing that the appointments would be in the capital Sana'a and Aden, Taiz, Hodeidah and Ibb provinces.
He affirmed this experiment aims at strengthening the effective participation of women in political and administrative life and decision-making positions.
Meet Sadiya Shaikh, emerging community leader from Mumbai
Nikhat Fatima|Twocirlces.net
Born in Bihar, Sadiya’s family shifted to Mumbai when she was 4 years old. Sadiya, eldest of her 5 siblings has recently been...
Death of three Tamil Nadu students shrouded in mystery
Chennai: The death of three girl students of a naturopathy college in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district is shrouded in mystery, with police registering a...
Saina, Sindhu, Jwala-Ashwini in line for Worlds medal
Jakarta : As many as three medals will be on the line for Indian shuttlers on Friday as Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu and...
For Assamese media, every Muslim is a potential terrorist
By Aban Abrar Biplob for TwoCircles.net
The recent terrorist attack in Dhaka, allegedly by the Islamic State (ISIS), has seen the Assam Government...
Victim offered Rs.31,000 to forget rape
Patna: A panchayat in Bihar has ordered one of its members accused of raping a woman to pay her Rs.31,000 and asked the victim...
Seven beaten up in Jharkhand for suspected occult ritual
By IANS,
Ranchi : Seven people including a woman were brutally beaten near a Jharkhand village as local residents suspected them of carrying out an occult ritual.
According to local media reports Wednesday, about ten people reached Hundru waterfall Tuesday near Sikidiri village, around 70 km from Ranchi. Their luggage included two goats and three hens.
Rajya Sabha panel to examine rules to protect women
By IANS,
New Delhi : In view of rising cases of domestic violence against women, a parliamentary committee is examining the rules framed to implement a law to protect women from such violence and has invited suggestions from experts.
The Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the Rajya Sabha, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Najma A. Heptulla, is examining the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Rules, 2006.
The rules were framed to implement the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, and provide legal remedies to women.
Woman found murdered in Delhi home
By IANS,
New Delhi : A 30-year-old wife of a railway employee was Thursday found murdered at her south Delhi home with a dupatta around her neck and her hands and legs tied, the police said.
Manju's body was found by her neighbours at her first-floor flat in Naoroji Nagar area around 2.20 p.m. They informed her husband Mahender Joshi, who is posted in the railway ministry, and the police.
“The victim's daughter came running to us and was crying. She said her mother is not opening the doors. When we went to check, the door was bolted from outside,” said one of the neighbours.
Obama bypasses Congress to promote equal pay for women
Washington: President Barack Obama resorted Tuesday to an executive order to oblige federal contractors to provide equal pay for women who currently earn less...
Case against BJP MP in UP; says framed
Lucknow : A case was registered against BJP's Lok Sabha member Sachidanand Hari Sakshi, better known as Sakshi Maharaj, in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday...
Asma Nama: P for Preaching; P for Practice?
Are Today’s Muslims Only Talking Toms?
By Dr Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net,
Whenever I read George Bernard Shaw saying, ‘Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst people’, it makes me angry. Be it the international scene or our closed communities, does Shaw metaphor stick to us (and stinks too?)
Farm widows to fast on International Women’s Day
Nagpur (Maharashtra) : Thousands of widows across the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra will go on fast on International Women's Day Saturday to protest government...
BJP continues attack on Mamata over crime against women
Kolkata : Continuing its attack on the Mamata Banerjee government over crime against women, the BJP on Friday claimed the situation in the Trinamool...
Mystery shrouds Japanese woman’s death in Delhi hotel
By IANS,
New Delhi : Uncertainty loomed large over the cause of the death of a 50-year-old Japanese woman, who was found dead in a central Delhi hotel Monday, a police officer said Tuesday.
The officer said the autopsy could not be carried out because the body was unclaimed.
Oda Koru was found dead and her French husband Agase Jean Marie unconscious in the Sun Light hotel in Karol Bagh. Initially police suspected a drug overdose may have caused the death.
Mayookha, Anu Rani set new meet records of national athletics
Kolkata : Triple jumper Mayookha Johny and javelin thrower Anu Rani shone for their respective departments as both bagged new meet records on Day...
Ten women labourers drown in Rajasthan
Jaipur : Ten women drowned when a boat they had boarded to cross a river capsized in Rajasthan Friday, police said.
The mishap occurred in...
Leading Deoband Ulema oppose Women’s Reservation Bill
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.
Everest climber alleges police misbehaviour in Orissa templettt
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : Kalpana Dash, who became the first Oriya woman to scale Mount Everest last month, was allegedly manhandled and abused by a policeman at a temple in the state's Keonjhar district, her brother said Monday.
Kalpana had gone with her mother, brother Pradeep and uncle to the Maa Tarini temple in Ghatagon in Keonjhar Sunday to offer prayers for her good health. While she was praying, a constable forcibly dragged her out and paid no heed to her pleas even after the mountaineer revealed her identity, Pradeep told the police.
Woman, child scheme not being properly implemented: Amartya
Kolkata : Nobel laureate and Nalanda University chancellor Amartya Sen Monday said there were "shortcomings" in the implementation of the Integrated Child Development Services...
Women fast making inroads into male dominated professions
By Ruchika Kher, IANS,
New Delhi : From driving taxis to tending bars, an increasing number of women in India are breaking into male bastions and asserting that they can be as good, if not better, at jobs that were traditionally perceived as being only for men.
Shanno, a widow and mother of three children, broke free from a stereotypical job and became a part of an all-woman cab service called Sakha in the national capital.
Women, religious minorities should be protected: Rajnath
New Delhi : Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday underlined the need for women, religious minorities and people belonging to the north-eastern region of India...
Odisha man held for acid attack on woman
Bhubaneswar: A man was arrested in Odisha for throwing acid on a married woman Tuesday over some old quarrel, police said.
The incident occurred in...
Widow found brutally murdered
By IANS,
Chandigarh : A 55-year-old widow was found brutally murdered in her rented accommodation here Sunday evening, police said.
According to police, the woman, identified as Shashi Sharma, lived alone in the top floor of the house in Sector 42. Her throat was slit and her body was found in a pool of blood on the bed.
Sharma was running a cement store here in Sector 40.
Three Indians, four NRIs win US women’s empowerment award
By Arun Kumar,
Washington : Three Indians and four persons of Indian origin have received the 2013 World of Difference Awards' from US-based The International...
Kanyashree scheme to be part of school syllabus: Mamata
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the Kanyashree Prakalpa - a scheme for girls - would be included...
Kerala woman arrives from Dubai to testify against godman
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : A Kerala woman settled in Dubai, who had filed charges of cheating against controversial godman Santosh Madhavan that led to his arrest earlier this month, arrived here Monday.
Serafin Edwin and her son landed here Monday morning and were greeted by a posse of policemen at the international airport. Both were taken in a convoy of police vehicles to their home in the city.
In a brief stop, Serafin told the media that she hoped the police would investigate her case of cheating against Madhavan.
Women’s quota bill likely in Lok Sabha
By IANS,
New Delhi: The government hopes to introduce the contentious women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha during the monsoon session of parliament after holding "consultations" with the political parties opposed to the measure, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said Friday.
The Rajya Sabha has already passed the bill, seeking to reserve 33 percent of seats in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies for women.
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...
Woman home guard in Agra dupes dozens of over Rs.10 mn
By IANS,
Agra : A woman home guard in Agra has duped over a dozen people of nearly Rs.1 crore on the pretext of getting them jobs, getting their relatives out of jail and so on, police said Monday.
An FIR has been lodged against the home guard, Manju Tomar who is absconding and police have launched a hunt for her.
Poverty-stricken woman athlete in jail for prostitution
By IANS,
Raipur : Too poor to cough up the bail amount, a former national level woman athlete was still lodged in a jail in the Chhattisgarh capital Tuesday, four days after being arrested for prostitution, police said.
A police officer who arrested Nisha Shetti, 26, last Friday from a posh locality of Raipur said she had revealed during interrogation that she was forced to become a call girl due to deprivation and had travelled to Raipur from Mumbai to earn Rs.50,000 from a few businessmen, who had booked her for 15 days.
Assam waives entertainment tax on ‘Mary Kom’
Guwahati : The Assam government Wednesday announced exemption of entertainment tax on "Mary Kom", a new Bollywood movie on the World champion woman boxer...
288 percent rise in teen rape suspects, India mulls new law
By Chaitanya Mallapur ,
Rape is the fastest-growing crime among juveniles; 86 percent of teens arrested for various crimes come from poor families, only six...
Vedanta college completes 20 years educating Rajasthan’s girl child
Jaipur : Hindustan Zinc, a part of the Vedanta Group, has completed 20 years of its initiative in Rajasthan's Sikar district to educate the...
Little has changed; Modi should ensure women’s security: Parents
(Two years after Dec 16, 2012, gang-rape)
By Rajnish Singh,
New Delhi : Saying that nothing has changed since the brutal Dec 16 gang-rape that shook the nation two years ago, the parents of the victim have now pinned their hopes on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to initiate a mission for women's safety on the lines of his Clean India Campaign.
Protests continue in Punjab over girl’s death, molestation
Chandigarh: The protests over the molestation and death of a teenaged Dalit girl continued on Saturday in Punjab's Moga town and other places, with...
2014 Election: TV actress hope for better education, women’s security
Mumbai : The 16th Lok Sabha elections are underway and actresses like Jennifer Winget and Deepika Singh sat that once the new government comes...
Sheena murder: Cops quiz ex-lover, brother fears for life
Mumbai : In a bid to get to the bottom of Sheena Bora's murder, police on Thursday twice grilled Rahul Mukherjea, the victim's...
खाप पंचायत हुए निष्क्रिय, क्योंकि अब भाजपा नेता हैं सक्रिय!
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
लड़कियों के पहनावे या उनके जीने के तरीक़ों को लेकर अब तक विभिन्न खाप पंचायतों के तुग़लकी फ़रमान सामने आते रहे...
Hotel management student abducted, raped
By IANS,
New Delhi: A 23-year-old hotel management student has alleged that she was abducted and raped by four men who kept her confined for about a month, police said Wednesday.
The victim told the police that she was kidnapped from near Pragati Maidan exhibition complex Aug 31 by a man whom she had known for some years.
He first tried to drag her into his car but she resisted. He then beat her and told bystanders not to interfere claiming it was a "family matter", said a senior police officer.
UP woman booked for raping minor boy
Lucknow : A 23-year-old woman has been booked for allegedly raping a 16-year-old boy in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.
A...
Jammu lawyers protest bill to strip women of property rights
By IANS,
Jammu: About 100 lawyers were arrested here Wednesday when they tried to lay a siege around the state assembly to oppose a bill moved last week in the upper house that seeks to deprive women of their permanent resident rights if they marry outside Jammu and Kashmir.
More than 150 lawyers of the Jammu Bar Association marched from the high court complex to the civil secretariat where they were intercepted by police.
Indian woman foiled in bid to smufflr 18 kg ketamine to Malaysia
By P. Vijian, NNN-Bernama,
Chennai : An Indian businesswoman who tried to outwit Customs officials by trying to smuggle 18 kg of ketamine to Malaysia by concealing them inside a kitchen grinder has been nabbed at the Tiruchi Airport in this capital of southern Tamil Nadu state.
Air Customs at the airport detained the 45-year-old suspect from the Virudhunagar district in Tiruchi when she was preparing to board a flight to Malaysia on Saturday.
The contraband, worth nearly 400,000 Ringgit (about 113,000 USD), was found when Customs officials were scanning her luggage.
Newspaper by rural Indian women wins UN literacy award
By IANS,
United Nations : A newspaper produced entirely by women in rural India is among the four winners of this year's Literacy Prizes awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).
Khabar Lahariya, the fortnightly newspaper distributed to more than 20,000 readers in Uttar Pradesh, is entirely created and marketed by newly literate "low caste" women who are training as journalists in Chitrakoot and Banda districts.
Referees course for women starts
New Delhi : The first All India Football Federation (AIFF) referees course for women was inaugurated here Monday by FIFA Development Officer for South...
Robbing their peace and declaring them dacoits
Unheard & Unspoken: Terror stories from Madhya Pradesh: Part 4
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
50 women sick after getting vaccine in MP
Gwalior, (IANS): As many as 50 women fell sick after getting a vaccine at the maternity ward of a hospital in this Madhya Pradesh city,...
Demand for Muslim quota under WRB gains momentum
By TCN news,
New Delhi: Women’s Reservation Bill that seeks to reserve 33% seats for women that has already been passed from Rajya Sabha is facing opposition from backward communities and Muslims. Muslim groups opposing it they think this will politically marginalize them even more. Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) is leading a signature campaign asking for quota for Muslim women in this Bill.
Beautician course for female inmates in Bengal correctional homes
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has started a beautician course for female convicts within four walls of correctional homes, a minister said here Monday.
Participating...
Woman judges and Sharia
By Asghar Ali Engineer,
Recently two women judges have been appointed in Malaysia in the Sharia court but strangely enough their appointment is conditional on their not handling cases pertaining to marriage and divorce.
They can handle other cases like the custody of children, maintenance, property, etc. The appointment of women judges is a welcome move but the conditionality attached seems strange.
ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट : अपनी जान जोखिम में डाल बदहाल व्यवस्था को सांसे देने का...
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कासमपुर की सविता (53) के गांव में इस महामारी के दौरान 4 मौत हुई है। घर -घर मौजूद मौजूद खतरे के...
Intermediate topper Talat Nazneen wants to become IAS officer
By Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net,
Patna: Talat Nazneen Zakia has secured first position in Intermediate examination 2009 in Bihar, and thus has become pride of not only for her family but her educationally backward community also – the community where more males are literate than females.
Pregnant women helpless at Orissa relief camps
By Prashant K. Nanda, IANS,
Kandhamal (Orissa) : Pregnant women are the worst sufferers in the relief camps for victims of anti-Christian violence. Their houses burnt down, over two dozen women have given birth during their stay in the makeshift tents in the last two months and many more are expecting.
Besides sleeping on the ground, with just a plastic mat to lie upon even though it gets cold at night, and eating just dal and rice, they have to cope with inadequate medical attention at several relief camps - far from the comfort of their homes.
Punjab’s first female bouncers lose their jobs
By Alkesh Sharma, IANS,
Chandigarh : Two women from Punjab who had become bouncers at a nightclub here a few months ago, a rarity in the country, have been sacked all of a sudden. They have been charged with indiscipline and dancing in a rival nightclub, but one of them says the real reason is envy of their popularity.
Amandeep Kaur, 22, who hails from a village in Punjab's Barnala district, 250 km from here, was standing tall among her male counterparts in Score nightclub a month ago. She became the first female bouncer here in June.
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.
Thousands of Muslim women gather to enroll in self-help groups only to get abandoned...
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
Hetalbari: The curious case of land acquisition which left residents confused
In the fourth and final part of the Sunderbans series, we look at the curious case of Hetalbari, a small village in Sunderbans, where...
Himachal tribal women don’t come under inheritance law
By IANS,
Shimla: Tribal women in Himachal Pradesh do not come under inheritance law if there is a male member in the family, Revenue Minister Kaul Singh said Tuesday.
Pune gets first woman police chief
By IANS,
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government late Wednesday appointed Meera Borwankar as the Pune's first woman police commissioner, transferring the current police chief Satya Pal Singh to the state police headquarters.
Singh will take over as the new additional director general of police (establishment) and will be based in Mumbai.
Borwankar till now was the joint commissioner of police (criminal investigation department), Pune.
She had hit the headlines when she was appointed joint commissioner of police (crime) in Mumbai a few years ago.
Women form only a third of India’s internet population: Google
New Delhi: Only one-third of the total Indian population with access to the internet are women, says a survey conducted by Google.
The survey revealed...
Let AAP government control Delhi Police, Kejriwal tells Modi
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hand over Delhi Police and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to...
Kerala HC’s order that ‘husband’s consent not essential for divorce in Islam’ sparks debate
The court observed in the absence of any mechanism in the country to recognize the termination of marriage at the instance of the wife...
Widow set afire in MP village
Betul (Madhya Pradesh) : A widow was set on fire in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district allegedly by her relatives in...
Indian expatriate jailed for molesting woman in UAE
Dubai: An Indian expatriate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sunday was jailed for three months for molesting a female co-worker in an elevator...
Ramadan 1435: Ladies entrance
By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net
In South Asia very few mosques have space for women worshipers. Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai, a Shia Masjid does have...
AFMI releases its Top 5 Students List 2009
By TwoCircles.net foreign desk
Boston: Muslim students in India have once again shown that with courage and determination they are shining academically. In a national competition for the American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin's Gold medal program for 10th graders the top winners have displayed exceptional academic excellence.
Joshna wins Victorian Open squash crown
Melbourne : Indian champion Joshna Chinappa kept her date with glory as she beat Line Hansen, the second seed from Denmark, 11-5, 11-4, 11-9,...
Arrangements made Gileem Juloos in Lucknow on 19th Ramzan
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Lucknow: District administration took out flag march in old city on Sunday to gear up for the 19th Ramzan procession in Lucknow. The procession is taken out by shia muslims as per the tripartitie agreement between Sunnis, Shias and district administration in 1999 which permitted 10 processions for Shias and one for Sunnis.
Rape remark: Bengal women’s panel wants Mamata to act
Kolkata : The West Bengal Commission for Women Tuesday said the onus is on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to act against Trinamool MP Tapas...
Honour for AMU teacher
By TCN News,
Aligarh: Dr. Ghazala Yasmin, guest teacher, Department of Applied Mathematics, ZH College of Engineering and Technology at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been awarded the “A K Agarwal Prize for Best Publication of the Year 2014”.
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.
Allocation for women and child development ministry slashed
New Delhi : The allocation of the women and child development ministry has been slashed by 44 percent in the budget for 2015-16 presented...
Woman among 13 new ministers inducted in Kashmir
By IANS,
Srinagar : A woman politician who has survived at least five assassination attempts was among the 13 new ministers inducted in the Jammu and Kashmir government Saturday.
With this, the strength of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's six-month-old coalition has gone up to 23.
Governor N.N. Vohra administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers, who include seven from the National Conference, six from the Congress and one from junior coalition partner, the National Democratic Party.
Congress wants Priyanka Gandhi to campaign more: Singhvi
Kolkata: The Congress was "keen and eager" to see party chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra play a bigger role in the election...
Goa serial killers committed murder in Mumbai too: Police
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.
In Rural Telangana, How a Dalit Women-Run Radio Station Is Changing Lives
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...
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.
AMU Women’s Club organizes Eid Milan programme
By TwoCircles.net
The Aligarh Muslim University Women's Club held Eid Milan function hosted by Prof Shagufta Aleem at the Indira Gandhi Hall on 21st July,...
“Women are denied what they deserve,” NCW chairperson
By TCN News,
Hyderabad: The National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam on Tuesday said the problems of Muslim women were similar to those belonging to other communities in the country and that the issue was with the non-inclusion of women in various aspects of life.
Branded Witches, Beaten by Mobs, Burned Alive – In the Land of Goddesses, India’s...
Across India’s tribal villages, women continue to be hunted and killed as witches, while families watch in silence, fear or grief.
Poonam Masih, TwoCircles.net
Asansol (West...
Women candidates in Chhattisgarh put up tough fight
By IANS,
Raipur : The five women candidates fielded by Chhattisgrah's main parties - three by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and two by the Congress - are posing a stiff challenge to their male rivals for the Lok Sabha seats.
"The five women candidates of the BJP and Congress fold have been giving sleepless nights to their rivals. I can't say they are going to win easily but surely they have great chances," political analyst Vinod Singh told IANS.
Former VC Hamid Ansari, Shashi Tharoor to speak at Reclaiming India conference on democratic...
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Mohammad Hamid Ansari (Former Vice President of India), Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi (Historian and a Grandson of Mohandas Gandhi) and Rev Dr William Barber (Co-Chair...
ITBP’s first women raring to guard borders, fight insurgents
By Sahil Makkar, IANS,
Panchkula (Haryana) : They are strong, courageous and determined to prove that men aren't the only ones who can guard the border, fight insurgents in jungles, or take up duties at high altitudes.
They are the first batch of 209 women constables of the central paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) who Friday completed their 44-week-long rigorous training at a camp near here.
Mumbai Municipal commissioner issues circular to all hospitals to not ask Muslim women to...
Women said they have not problem showing face for security reasons, but sometimes security guards ask them to take off entire burqa or lose...
About 750 women personnel to guard Indo-Nepal border
By IANS,
Patna : India's paramilitary Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) will deploy about 750 women constables at the Indo-Nepal border soon to check human trafficking, smuggling and other illegal activities, an official said Friday.
"In a bid to strengthen security, about 750 women personnel of the SSB will guard the porous Indo-Nepal border from West Bengal to Bihar," SSB Inspector General Dilip Tandon said.