Meet Saba Haider: An Indian-Muslim woman running for DuPage county board election in US
Saba is the only candidate of Indian origin among 19 elected members from the state of Illinois. She came to the United States in...
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...
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.
हरिद्वार धर्म संसद में ऐलान ‘हिन्दू राष्ट्र ‘ बनाने के लिए 1857 से बड़ा...
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उत्तराखंड के हरिद्वार में हुई हिंदू धर्म की संसद में भड़काऊ भाषणों का एक वीडियो सामने आया है। जूना अखाड़े के महामंडलेश्वर यति...
Woman to get Rs.10 lakh for seeking toilet
Mumbai : A woman who demanded a toilet instead of jewellery from her father at her wedding will get Rs.10 lakh as reward, it...
Action plan for disabled women soon: Bengal panel
By IANS,
Kolkata : The West Bengal Women's Commission is planning to come out with a comprehensive action document with recommendations for bettering the lot of the physically challenged women in the state, its chief said Tuesday.
The commission is now preparing a blueprint before holding dialogue with policy makers, government officials and stakeholders on how to bring changes to the life of women with disabilities (WWD).
Five years after Ayesha Meera was gang raped and murdered family still waiting for...
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
Body of 21-year-old woman found in Delhi, rape suspected
New Delhi : The body of a 21-year-old woman, who went missing on Thursday, was found without any clothes on from a secluded...
In Kinnaur, she fights for women’s property rights
By Vishal Gulati, IANS,
Shimla : It's uphill task for social activist Rattan Manjari. The 57-year-old is leading a movement against patriarchal laws that bar women from inheriting property in Kinnaur as well as Lahaul and Spiti districts in Himachal Pradesh.
In these tribal dominated areas, traditionally women don't inherit the property of their parents or husbands.
Hillary Clinton hopes to see a woman president, but wouldn’t run again
By Arun Kumar, IANS,
Washington : Onetime rival of President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton says she hoped there would a woman US president in her lifetime but doubts she herself would run for America's top job again.
It was a "daunting" challenge for a woman to run for president, Clinton now secretary of state in Obama's cabinet told NBC's "Meet the Press" programme Sunday.
"It will take the right woman who can make the case and win the votes and get elected. I am certainly hoping it will happen in my lifetime."
Why women’s safety not in poll campaign, ask activists
New Delhi : Rights practitioners, lawyers and thought leaders Wednesday asked why was women's safety not of pivotal concern in the ongoing elections, and...
Kejriwal orders magisterial probe into Kenyan woman’s gang-rape
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape of a Kenyan woman here in a moving...
एक्सक्लुसिव : मुजफ्फरनगर से ही बिछड़े थे,मुजफ्फरनगर से ही जुड़ेंगे !
मस्जिद के दरवाजे किसानों के खोल देने से लेकर, मुस्लिम बहुल इलाकों में लंगर लगाने और राकेश टिकैत के अल्लाहू अकबर और हर -हर...
Class 11 girl raped by three classmates
By IANS,
Lucknow: A Class 11 girl was allegedly raped at gunpoint by three of her classmates in Uttar Pradesh\'s Baghpat district, police said Saturday. The suspects are absconding.
Residents of Hilwari village in Baghpat, some 400 km from here, held a series of protests, demanding the arrest of the boys.
The 16-year-old victim, who is a resident of Hilwari village in Baghpat, some 400 km from here, was abducted Friday by three boys of her class and raped at a secluded place.
Medical reports of the girl have confirmed rape, police added.
Badshah Khan’s hundred-year-old message of peace
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
"There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed 1,400 years ago by the Prophet all the time when he was in Mecca.” - Badshah Khan
Most MPs against women’s bill: Sharad Yadav
By George Joseph, IANS,
New Delhi : Continuing his opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav says that 90 percent of MPs are against the bill that seeks to set aside a third of all seats in India's legislatures for women.
"If there is no party whip, 90 percent of the MPs will oppose the bill, whether they are from the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) or the NDA (National Democratic Alliance), whether they are from backward classes or upper castes, whether they are male or women MPs," Yadav claimed in an interview.
Chandigarh man gets death for sodomy, murder of 6-year-old
By IANS,
Chandigarh: A man, who sodomized and later murdered a six-year-old boy, was given the death sentence by a court here Friday.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Raj Rahul Garg had Tuesday held Pappu Paswan guilty in a case of sodomy and murder of the six-year-old boy.
The entire evidence in this case was completed in a single day during which statements of 12 witnesses were recorded and cross-examined.
The victim, who went missing Feb 13 this year, was last seen with Paswan, the witnesses told the court.
Parties flay Mulayam’s statement on gang rape
Lucknow: The opposition on Wednesday lashed out at Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav for his statement that gang rape of a woman...
Six held, three women rescued from prostitution in Goa
Panaji: Three women forced into prostitution were Saturday rescued and six people were arrested during a raid at a beauty salon in the Goa...
Four arrested for woman professor’s murder
By IANS,
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh police Thursday claimed to have solved the murder of a woman professor, in a Kanpur university campus, with the arrest of four people.
Mandavi Singh, an assistant professor at the Chandra Shekhar Azad Agriculture University, was shot dead on the campus Monday evening.
"Three of the arrested, Jitendra Rathore, Mohammad Mohsin and Sonu are petty criminals. Rathore shot Singh on her face when she resisted their attempt to snatch her gold chain," Superintendent of Police (Crime) O.P. Singh told IANS by phone.
जाट -मुस्लिम एकता का लिटमस टेस्ट है, पश्चिमी यूपी में पहले चरण का मतदान
उत्तर प्रदेश में विधानसभा चुनावों के मद्देनजर कल 10 फरवरी को 58 विधानसभा सीटों पर वोट डाली जा रही है। यह...
Women avoid politics fearing violence: Study
New Delhi : More than 60 percent of women in India, Pakistan and Nepal do not participate in politics due to fear of violence,...
Do genes control intolerance and anti-social behaviour?
By Nishant Arora
New Delhi: As Indian society grapples with the issue of intolerance and violence, genetic experts are opening up the hoary discussion on...
High court dismisses woman wrestler’s plea
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Monday dismissed the petition of a woman wrestler who challenged the selection criteria of the Wrestling Federation of India for the Commonwealth Games.
Justice S. Murlidhar, while dismissing the plea of Sonika Kaliraman, said: "Irrespective of past performances, the Federation is supposed to select players with good current performance."
Hearing the submissions of WFI, the court clarified that there is no "arbitrariness" on the part of the Federation in rejecting anyone's participation in the Games.
I am Bibi Khatoon from Godhra
Testimony of a mother of three sons who were acquitted in the Godhra train carnage case
By TCN News,
Probe lodged into woman’s death in hospital during outage
By IANS,
New Delhi: A three-member team will probe a 74-year-old woman's death in a government hospital here last week when her life support device stopped working during a power cut, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said Wednesday.
Sharda Gaur, who was admitted to the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, died Oct 11 after her life support system failed during power cut.
"The committee will look into matter and will submit its report within seven days," said Kiran Walia.
Teacher killed for eloping with woman
Lucknow : A school teacher was beaten to death by family members of a young woman with whom he eloped, police said on Wednesday.
The...
Bombay HC permits women inside Haji Ali dargah
Mumbai : In a historic verdict, the Bombay High Court on Friday permitted the entry of women up to the restricted grave area...
Misguided empowerment camouflaged as choices
By Zoya Khan for TwoCircles.net,
A lot has been said about the recent Vogue campaign which claims to empower women by having to make their own choices. Well I have something to say, and I will say it not because I have the choice to but because I have the option to. To exercise that option could be my choice. Most certainly it is not the case. Our choices are driven by the current market situation and are dependent on the dynamics and functioning of the markets. It is amidst this that the choices we make are heavily market-oriented.
Peruvian women protest gender violence, call for stringent law
By IANS,
Lima : Hundreds of women in this Peruvian capital staged a march demanding punishment to the perpetrators of violence against women and stringent law to curb the social scourge, EFE reported Wednesday.
About 200 women marched Tuesday in central Lima to demand that those who perpetrate sexual violence be punished and the state push for appropriate measures to curb it.
Meet on rising crime against women in Bengal Feb 23
By IANS,
Kolkata: Blaming West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government for the rise in rape cases in the state, a coordination body of Left-affiliated women's organisations...
Women fight shame in flood-hit Bihar
By Imran Khan,
Supaul (Bihar) : Malti and Bhagwati Devi are just two of the thousands of people who have had to abandon their homes...
Nun with headgear not allowed to write exam
Thiruvananthapuram: A nun who refused to remove her headgear was on Saturday not allowed to write the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) here.
Sister Seba...
Depressed over mother’s death, Gurgaon woman jumps from 15th floor
Gurgaon: Shocked at the death of her mother during treatment at a multi-specialty private hospital here, a 25-year-old woman Saturday committed suicide by jumping...
Women empowerment mission to begin work soon
By IANS,
New Delhi: The central directorate of the National Mission for Empowerment of Women will soon be operational, officials Monday said.
"The directorate will have four posts with a director of additional secretary level. The names will be forwarded to the cabinet for approval next week," a women and child development ministry official said, adding that the states had also been told to set up their resource centres soon.
An amount of Rs.35 lakh per year has been sanctioned for state centres, the official said.
Over 60,000 pregnant Pakistani women live in relief camps, says UN
By IANS,
Islamabad : There are 66,000 pregnant women living at the relief camps in Pakistan and many of them are likely to give birth in the next three months, the UN has said.
According to a UN report, 66,000 pregnant women live at the camps of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and most of these women are in the advance stage of pregnancy, Geo TV said Monday.
Officials are concerned for the welfare of these women as lack of facilities and very few trained medics at the camps might cause serious health problems.
Women Power? Watch out for Jaya, Maya and Mamata in LS Poll 2014
By Syed Ali Mujtaba,
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalithaa Jayaram, ex Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati and the Chief Ministers of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee are three key figures to watch out for the Lok Sabha election 2014.
Death of a Delta: Part 2
By A Mirsab and Afroz Alam for TwoCircles.net,
TwoCircles.net visited Nokha to investigate the story of Delta Meghwal. Within a couple of hours we...
Government not utilising Rs.2,000 crore Nirbhaya Fund, SC told
New Delhi: The Supreme Court was told Friday that the government was sitting on Rs.2,000 crore earmarked under the Nirbhaya Fund - meant to...
Women crime less in male-dominated societies!
New York: Feminists would take this with a grain of salt as a new study has found that rates of rape, sexual assault and...
Jaipur gang-rape victim shifted to Delhi hospital
By IANS,
Jaipur: An 11-year old gang-rape victim was shifted to AIIMS in Delhi Friday from a government hospital in Jaipur where she underwent over a dozen surgeries in five months, police said.
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.
Half of Delhi’s women voters turned out for polls
By IANS,
New Delhi : An elated Election Commission Saturday said that over 50 percent of women voters in the capital came out to cast their votes for the Lok Sabha polls, showing much more enthusiasm than in the last general elections.
"We were flooded with calls from women voters enquiring about the poll process and clearing doubts over their identity proof," Uday Baxi, joint chief electoral officer, told IANS.
UN creates unified organisation for women
By DPA,
New York: The UN General Assembly Friday took a major step by pulling together fragmented groups to establish a new entity aimed at intensifying efforts to meet the needs of women and girls worldwide.
The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known simply as UN Women, will merge four existing groups that have been working to improve the lives of women and girls.
Two sent to custody for raping two Tanzanian women
New Delhi: Two men arrested for raping two Tanzanian women here were sent to 14 days' judicial custody Saturday, police said.
Kunal Singh, 27, and...
For women, where there’s a bill, there’s a way
By Azera Rahman, IANS,
New Delhi: Perhaps one shouldn't expect too much too soon from the women's reservation bill - but besides changing the face of politics, it is bound to alter the gender dynamics of Indian society gradually, say experts.
Counsellor Sameer Parikh says quotas are sometimes required to initiate change. The women's reservation bill will surely have an impact on the mindset of Indian society although it will be a gradual process.
President, vice-president for more women in legislatures
New Delhi : Stressing the need for appropriate women representation in parliament and state assemblies, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said women's empowerment was...
Two more join opposition to women’s quota bill
By IANS,
New Delhi: After Sharad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav, another Yadav leader, Lalu Prasad, Tuesday added his opposition to the women's reservation bill, terming it as a conspiracy against regional parties to keep their leaders away from power.
Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh too termed the bill, which proposes to reserve 33 percent seats in parliament and the state legislatures for women, as a conspiracy against regional parties.
Interview: Manzoor Alam on Indian Muslim leadership
By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net
Manzoor Alam is the Chairman of the New Delhi-based Institute of Objective Studies, a Muslim social science research centre, and also the General-Secretary of the All India Milli Council. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he speaks about the Muslim leadership in contemporary India.
Q: What do you think the priorities of the Indian Muslim leadership should be today?
Thousands of Muslim women gather to enroll in self-help groups only to get abandoned...
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
Movement against rape should be taken to its logical conclusion: Kaneez Fatima
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
लखनऊ में भी शुरू हुआ’शाहीन बाग़’ जैसा विरोध, महिलाएं बोलीं, ‘जिएंगे भी यहीं और...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़, Twocircles.net
सुमैय्या राना 48 साल की हैं। वो देश के मशहूर शायर मनव्वर राना की बेटी है। सुमैय्या शुक्रवार दोपहर 4 बजे से...
Delhi Elections 2025: Women Voters Refuse to be Swayed by AAP-BJP’s Poll Winning Tactics,...
Mariyam Usmani, TwoCircles.net
Seema Sachdeva (59), a tenant in the P&T quarters near Windsor Place, the residence of Pravesh Verma, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
Ground Report: Struggle of Isolated Kelhadiya Village in East UP Where Tribals Drink Water...
Pawan Kumar Maurya, TwoCircles.net
Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh): Tribal villagers in the isolated hills of Kelhadiya, located about 130 km from Varanasi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary...
Farhana Firdous: Triple medal winner in M.Sc and a dream to help the marginalised
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net
If our mainstream media is to be believed, nothing good happens near or at the India-Bangladesh border. Every now and...
Drop all charges against Irom Sharmila: ICJ
New Delhi : The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Thursday urged the Manipur government to immediately drop all charges against rights activist Irom...
Namibia invites Indian women’s cooperative
By IANS,
Gandhinagar : Namibia has invited VimoSEWA, India's first insurance cooperative owned and run by women workers, to assist in the development of micro-insurance in the southern African nation.
Namibia's state-owned financial service authority, NAMFISA, and FIDES bank, a
microfinance institution, have invited VimoSEWA to set up the micro-insurance service in that country, said VimoSEWA chairperson Mirai Chatterjee.
The Namibian government has launched a programme to extend social security coverage
to its citizens.
ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट : मुस्तफाबाद में अरविंद केजरीवाल की शैक्षिक भेदभाव की असलियत दिखाता है...
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देश की राजधानी दिल्ली के उत्तर प्रदेश बॉर्डर पर एक बड़ा मुस्लिम बहुल इलाक़ा मुस्तफाबाद है। ये इलाक़ा ज़्यादातर...
Anam Munaf Vadgama, a role model for girls
TCN Special Series on Women of Inspiration
By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,
Viswa Bharati schoolgirl alleges rape, accused held
Kolkata: In yet another case of sexual assault in West Bengal's Visva Bharati University, a Class 12 girl has alleged repeated rape and blackmail...
सदफ़ ज़फ़र, जिनका मुस्लिम होना और सच दिखाना पड़ा महंगा
By मीना कोटवाल, TwoCircles.net
गरिकता संशोधन एक्ट यानी CAA के पास होने के बाद से ही देशभर में इसके खिलाफ़ प्रदर्शन किया जा रहा है....
दिल्ली: बस्तियों में बदतर ज़िन्दगी
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: इस शहर में जहां एक तरफ़ मेट्रो की रफ़्तार से भी तेज़ ज़िन्दगी भागती है, जहां बड़े-बड़े आलीशान मकान और कोठियां...
Scheme for saving and educating girls in 100 districts
New Delhi : India will launch a mega scheme for saving and educating the girl child in 100 districts of the country that have...
Deeba Zafir- an academician, writer, thinker and activist
TCN Special Series on Women of Inspiration
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,
Petition filed before Bombay HC to arrest Marathi daily’s chief editor for article defaming...
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
Mumbai: An activist has approached the Bombay High Court urging it to order for arrest of Chief Editor of Maharashtra Times...
Reservation bill will be beacon for emancipation of women
By Amulya Ganguli, IANS,
The passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha is a momentous, heartwarming step not only for India, but is likely to be an inspirational trendsetter for women's empowerment in the entire region.
Although it is only the first step, the ripples from the smashing of a glass barrier are bound to be felt in virtually all areas of traditional male dominance. Like its democracy, therefore, India will also be a beacon in the matter of women's emancipation.
अजय राय की पत्नी ने कहा, मोदी-मुलायम डरे हुए थे मेरे पति से, ‘ऊपर’...
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
वाराणसी: पिंडरा से विधायक अजय राय ने लोकसभा चुनाव में मोदी के खिलाफ चुनाव लड़ा था. कल इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट ने उन पर रा.सु.का. की धारा हटा दी है. इसके साथ ही अजय राय की जमानत का रास्ता भी आसान होता दिख रहा है. लेकिन बेहद लोकल लगती यह खबर दरअसल पूर्वांचल की राजनीति की दिशा बदल सकती है. TwoCircles.net ने कल विधायक अजय राय की पत्नी रीता राय से बात की. पेश है वह बातचीत -
Uber rape: Indian woman withdraws US case
By Arun Kumar
Washington : An Indian woman executive who sued Uber after allegedly being raped by a driver for the cab-hailing service in...
Kerala women entrepreneurs to showcase success stories
Thiruvananthapuram : Around 2,000 Kerala women entrepreneurs will showcase at a summit in Kochi their achievements and the role played by Kerala State...
Husband’s retirement no ground for reducing alimony, rules SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled the retirement of a husband was no ground for reduction in the maintenance granted to a...
Activists, academics come out in support of activists Teesta & Javed
BY TCN News,
New Delhi: Activists and academics have come out in support of anti-communalism activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand, who...
The Veiled West
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi
The Muslim women veil issue in France is gradually taking an ugly shape across the world. The ‘extra’ liberal people possessed with Western life style even in the East count banning ‘burqa’ as women ‘liberation’ from ‘the dark age’ in tune with French president Nicolas Sarkozy, yet majority of Muslims across the globe consider it as direct attack on one’s freedom of living and religious practicing. It is nothing less than forceful conversion of Muslim women to the Western civilization, some argue.
Tamil Nadu’s rape survivors are minorities we don’t know about
Society neglects rape survivors, and those who have been to prison and juvenile homes. It’s this exclusion that makes these victims and survivors indulge...
क्यों क़ुबूल नहीं है मुस्लिम समाज को महिला क़ाज़ी…?
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
हम आज बदलते समाज के साथ अपनी अलग पहचान बनाने में मुसलसल लगे हैं. जिसमें अपने अधिकार और समानता को लेकर आए...
Sabrang Communications denies ‘motivated allegations’ by CBI
By TCN News,
Mumbai: Sabrang Communications and Publishing Pvt. Ltd. (SCPPL) has once again denied the CBI’s allegations of it having violated provisions of...
हाथ फैलाकर जीना चाहते हैं या मेहनत कर अपना भाग्य अपने हाथों लिखना चाहते...
सरस्वती अग्रवाल
उत्तराखण्ड : “व्यवसाय करने के लिए ज़्यादा पढ़ा-लिखा होना ज़रुरी नहीं है, बल्कि रुची होना ज़रुरी है.”
ये वाक्य है उत्तराखण्ड राज्य जनपद...
19-year-old gang-raped, three arrested
New Delhi: A 19-year-old woman was allegedly raped by four men, of which three have been arrested, police officials said Wednesday.
One of the accused...
Bleak outlook for women’s empowerment in Uttar Pradesh
By Bhoomika Joshi and Sanober Umar,
Gender equity and the status of women remain the hand-maiden of callous politics in India's largest state by population and 2014 has been deplorably stark. The 'Bahu lao, Beti Bachao' campaign in Uttar Pradesh is the latest feather in the BJP's cap of regressive and communal politics.
Woman shot at in Gurgaon, soldier held
Gurgaon : A 26-year-old soldier was on Friday arrested for shooting thrice at a woman teacher here after their break-up, police said.
Manjeet Singh,...
Women reservation bill won’t be passed soon: Kiran Bedi
By IANS,
New Delhi : Refusing to mince her words, former top cop Kiran Bedi Wednesday said she doesn't think the women's reservation bill will be passed anytime soon in parliament.
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...
‘Liberated’ women manual scavengers meet US ambassador
By Himanshu Vatsa, IANS,
New Delhi: It was a proud moment for the "liberated" women manual scavengers when they were received by US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer and his wife Sally at their Roosevelt House residence here.
The group of 100 women have left behind their ignominious job of manual scavenging - cleaning human excreta with the hands, an inhuman practice banned in India more than 16 years ago - and have been trained in tailoring, weaving and embroidery as a means of livelihood.
मध्य प्रदेश में मुस्लिम महिलाओं की पिटाई, मायावती ने उठाए सवाल
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मध्य प्रदेश/दिल्ली : गौरक्षा के नाम कथित गौरक्षकों की गुंडागर्दी बढ़ती जा रही है. गुंडागर्दी का एक नज़ारा मध्य प्रदेश के मंदसौर रेलवे...
Woman income tax official arrested for taking bribe
By IANS,
New Delhi : An assistant commissioner of income tax in Bangalore has been arrested for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs.200,000, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) statement said here Wednesday.
An income tax assessee had lodged a complaint with the CBI that the accused, K. Chandrika, had demanded a bribe of Rs.1 million for accepting income tax returns filed for the financial year 2005-06.
The CBI then registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and laid a trap.
Male power officials forced to wear bangles
By IANS,
Lucknow: Agitated over rampant power outages, Congress party workers led by a woman made electricity department officials in an Uttar Pradesh district wear bangles - a measure to shame men - police said Saturday.
"Nearly 50 Congress party workers, including its district president Tripti Awasthi, were booked today (Saturday) for making the government officials wear bangles to register their protest," Lakhimpur Kheri Superintendent of Police S.R.S. Aditya told IANS on telephone.
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.
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दिल्ली: ओखला से आम आदमी पार्टी के विधायक अमानतुल्लाह खान की बीवी साफ़िया खान ने TwoCircles.net के साथ बातचीत में अपने...
Rajya Sabha passes women’s quota bill
By IANS,
New Delhi : After two days of bitter wrangling, the Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed the historic women's reservation bill giving 33 percent representation to women in parliament and state assemblies 186-1.
There’s much sex in politics here
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram: Two cases, the Kozhikode ice cream sex case and the Suryanelli sex case have been frequently in the headlines in the state over the past decade and a half.
Decision soon on permanent commission for women in armed forces
By Ritu Sharma, IANS,
New Delhi : The defence ministry will shortly take a decision on granting the much-awaited permanent commission for women in the armed forces, a senior defence official said Wednesday.
The top brass of the armed forces have already agreed on opening up more avenues for women officers and granting them permanent commission in non-combatant branches.
Ghaziabad teacher arrested for sexually assaulting student
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad Police arrested a teacher for sexually assaulting a class XI student of a prestigious public school in Modinagar town here.
The police...
Close to 6,000 poor patients treated free by IMRC in 12 days in three...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Kerala:The 7th annual India Health Initiative-2016, a program created by US-based NGO India Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) to...
IAF women officers scale new heights, summit Mt. Kamet
By IANS,
New Delhi : Women officers of the Indian Air Force (IAF) are scaling heights...literally, in preparation to summit Mt.Everest next year.
Young Flight Lieutenant Nivedita Choudhary and Squadron Leader Nirupama, who are members of the all-women IAF officers' Everest expedition, have just returned after scaling the 7,557-metre Mt. Kamet and 7,354-metre Mt.Abi Gamin respectively in Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand, close to the border with China.
DMK names 173 candidates, including Jayalalithaa opponent
Chennai : The DMK on Wednesday named 173 candidates for the May 16 assembly elections, fielding Simla Muthu Chozhan against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister...
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...
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Women strip to prevent raids at illicit liquor dens
By IANS,
Lucknow : Officials conducting raids to recover spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh had to leave the exercise midway when some women involved in the illegal business reportedly stripped off in front of them, officials said Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off that several illicit liquor manufacturing units were running in Devidas village of Muzaffarnagar district, a 25 member team of the excise department went there to conduct raids Wednesday evening. However, a group of women began stripping before them.
NCW condemns Mamata government for crimes against women
Kolkata : Holding the Mamata Banerjee government's "lethargic attitude" as responsible for rise in crimes against women in West Bengal, National Commission for Women...
Small town girls log on to search for suitable boy
By Himanshu Dubey, IANS,
New Delhi: Nineteen-year-old Deeksha Batra wants a perfect partner. She has not left the "job" to her parents alone but has turned to matrimonial sites to look for the "perfect" man.
"Small town families are conservative; so they go for arranged marriages. But at times things go horribly wrong. I want to be sure and so I turned to matrimonial sites to find the perfect match," Batra said.
"Matrimonial sites are a better option any day," Batra, who lives in Faridabad, adjacent to the national capital, told IANS.
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...
Ramadan 1437: Shah Mohammad Shadab
By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net
“Men are absolutely useless.”
For a moment, Shah Mohammad Shadab lost the patience in his voice. Working with underprivileged minorities for...
Arab-American family slams United Airlines over discrimination
New York : An Arab-American family slammed United Airlines after its staff removed them from a flight in an incident that they claimed was...
Goa assembly congratulates state’s first woman HC judge
Panaji : The Goa legislative assembly Tuesday congratulated former district and sessions judge Anuja Prabhudessai for her elevation as Goa's first woman high court...
Anandiben: Gujarat’s first woman CM, India’s 15th
By Vinod Taksal,
New Delhi : In Anandiben Patel, Gujarat has got its first woman chief minister and the country its 15th woman head of...
8 women die in Chhattisgarh after botched up sterilisation surgery
Raipur : Eight women have died in Bilaspur district after undergoing surgery for sterilisation at a government camp organised Saturday at the district hospital,...
Woman gang raped inside UP police station, SHO nabbed
Lucknow: A woman was gang raped allegedly by four policemen inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh. The SHO was arrested Wednesday.
The incident took...
Ruchika’s friend, father join CBI investigation
By IANS,
Chandigarh: Teenaged molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra's friend and lone-eyewitness to the incident, Aradhana and her mother Madhu Prakash, the complainant in the case against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, Saturday joined the fresh investigations launched by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the nearly two-decade old case.
A CBI team from New Delhi quizzed Aradhana and her mother for several hours at their camp office here Saturday.
Aruna Shanbaug, comatose for 42 years, dies; outpouring of grief at funeral
By Quaid Najmi,
Mumbai : Nurse Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, who lay in coma for 42 years, the longest in world history, died here on Monday....
Women can’t be secured by curbing their freedom, says CJI
New Delhi : Chief Justice of India H.L.Dattu Wednesday said security of women, in the wake of spate of cases of sexual assaults, could...
Modernity a far cry for women on small screen
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.
Vidarbha widows on ‘Jagran yatra’ for separate statehood
By IANS,
Nagpur : Nearly 300 farmers' widows will set upon a two-day Jagran Yatra (awakening procession) in eastern Maharashtra to press for their demand of separate statehood for Vidarbha.
Vidarbha Farm Widows Assocation (VFWA) president Bebitai Bais Monday said that the 180-km march will start Jan 20 from Maoist-hit Kosara village in Yavatmal district and end the next day at Both-Bodan village in the same district, which has the highest number of farm widows.
The region is the epicentre of suicides by indebted farmers.
Homemakers without a home: women and displacement in Chars of Dhubri
By Parvin Sultana,
The lives of char dwellers are marked by persisting underdevelopment, systemic exclusion, and frequent displacement. However, its impact is manifold on the lives of women. This brings forth the need to take a gendered look at the process of dispossession.
AIMPLB questions media hype on ‘Talaq’ while ignoring women security
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net
Bhopal: Dr Asma Zehra, executive committee member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, (AIMPLB) addressed media persons...
Dowry charge against Jharkhand health minister
By IANS,
Ranchi : Jharkhand health minister Bhanu Pratap Sahi, who got married last week, has been accused by a woman he was engaged to last year of demanding dowry to marry her.
Shipra Singh, a resident of Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, alleged that Sahi, who had got engaged to her February 2007, did not marry her as her father was not able to arrange the dowry demanded by Sahi.
According to a report in a local newspaper, Shipra said Sahi had demanded Rs.5 million in cash and a luxury car from her family.
Males are good at sniffing out infidelities
By IANS,
Washington : Straying women beware. The male is particularly good at sniffing out your infidelities, even though you may have fine-tuned the art of concealing your liasons.
"Eighty percent of women's inferences about fidelity or infidelity were correct, but men were even better, accurate 94 per cent of the time," said Paul Andrews at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, who conducted the study with colleagues.
Muslim couple in Bokaro, Jharkhand allege “custodial torture,” police refute allegations
A Muslim couple in Bokaro, Jharkhand has alleged that they were tortured by police while in custody over allegations of theft against them....
IAMC urges Modi government to ensure justice to Hathras rape victim
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President of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), Ahsan Khan condemned the recent Uttar Pradesh government’s mishandling of the Hathras rape case that...
Rohtak rape: Protests erupt after police apathy
Chandigarh: Protests erupted in Haryana's Rohtak town Sunday after details emerged of the barbaric manner in which a mentally-challenged Nepali woman was raped and...
Jaitley unveils schemes for women’s safety
New Delhi : Noting that women safety was a matter of concern, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday unveiled schemes to ensure their security in...
Muslim Women’s Forum of Azamgarh hosts Islamic Exhibition
By Salman Sultan, TwoCircles.net,
Azamgarh: Muslim Women’s Forum of Azamgarh hosted an Islamic Exhibition on 21st and 22nd May 2010. Islamic Educational & Research Organization (IERO), Allahabad through its girl volunteers exhibited models based on Quranic teachings.
Visitors walking past posters
Visitors walking past posters
Shabnum Wani: A Half widow who feels betrayed by both the Government and the...
In the last of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Shabnum Wani.
Bemina (Srinagar): On ...
World’s most lucrative women’s golf Tour to debut in China
By IANS,
Beijing : The world's most lucrative women's golf tour arrives in China this October. The inaugural Grand China Air Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) that features world No.2 Annika Sorenstam and the sixth-ranked Tseng Yani, will be held from October 24-26 at Hainan West Coast Golf Club in Haikou, the capital of the island province of Hainan.
The tournament featuring 63 of the world's best players will compete for $1.8 million.
India has fallen short in terms of gender equality in media: GMMP 2020 report
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2020 reveals the presence of women in Indian news media has declined over the past decade.
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Uttar Pradesh tops in crimes against women: minister
By IANS,
New Delhi : The national capital is second only to Uttar Pradesh in crime against women cases, Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury informed the Lok Sabha Friday.
Renuka Chowdhury, citing data provided by the National Commission for Women (NCW), said the total number of such cases in Delhi in 2008 stood at 724.
The NCW put the total number of cases, including rape, torture for dowry and harassment against women, in Uttar Pradesh at 2,381. It is the highest in the country in 2008.
Kolkata safe city for women: Bengal governor
Kolkata : West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi Thursday expressed satisfaction over the law and order situation in the state and called Kolkata a safe...
Najma Heptulla assumed charge as Minister for Minority Affairs
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Dr. Najma Heptulla assumed the office as a Minister of Minority Affairs on Tuesday afternoon.
India can be a superpower only by empowering women: Rahul
New Delhi: On the occasion of the International Women's Day, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Saturday India can never aspire to be a superpower...
India a tolerant country: Tasleema Nasreen
New Delhi : India is a tolerant country with a few intolerant people and it is time to focus not just on Hindu fundamentalists...
Courage, determination keep single mothers going
By Shilpa Raina, IANS,
New Delhi : They are moms as well as dads for their children. Despite facing innumerable difficulties, these single women have taken life head-on and borne the dual responsibility with dignity and determination.
For Kalpana Dhar, 50, separating from her husband was the only option especially after difference of opinion gave rise to regular arguments and confrontations.
"I took this step at a very late stage of my marriage. But I had to do this because of my only son. He was suffering and I had to take a stand," said Dhar, a banker.
Cabinet approves bill to prohibit commercial surrogacy
New Delhi : The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to the Surrogacy Regulation Bill, 2016, that seeks to prohibit "commercial surrogacy" and...
Delhi gang-rape accused get defence lawyers
By IANS,
New Delhi: The five accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape who were presented in a Delhi court Thursday have got lawyers to defend them.