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Muslim girl burnt alive in Bihar for ‘resisting sexual advances’, family alleges police inaction...

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By Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net  Bihar: A twenty-year-old girl Gulnaz Khatoon from Rasulpur Habib village in Bihar was allegedly burnt alive for resisting sexual harassment by...

Haryana sisters thrash molesters as passengers look on

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Rohtak (Haryana) : The Haryana Police is drawing flak for not being able to take any action after an incident of two sisters courageously...

South African women open guest house for 2010 World Cup

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By IANS, Phalaborwa (South Africa) : A group of 11 women in this town has opened a 4.5-million rand ($587,696) guest house, targeting visitors during the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup the country is hosting. The Sasavona Guesthouse in Lulekani, a few kilometres from the Kruger National Park in Phalaborwa in the northern province of Limpopo has been opened to tourists and visitors this week, but the real target is the World Cup tourists, BuaNews reported Saturday.

Parliament reluctant to pass women’s bill: Book

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By IANS,

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

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

This Ramzan, be a good husband: Say No to domestic abuse

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By Asma -Nama I know, it must sound odd to you. A woman giving a piece of advice to men? What’s more, asking them to...

BJP wants to give all powers to one man: Priyanka

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Rae Bareli: Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi Sunday sharpened her attack on BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, saying his party believed in giving...

Woman, child scheme not being properly implemented: Amartya

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Kolkata : Nobel laureate and Nalanda University chancellor Amartya Sen Monday said there were "shortcomings" in the implementation of the Integrated Child Development Services...

President congratulates Mary Kom, other medal winners

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New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday congratulated Indian pugilist M.C. Mary Kom and other athletes for winning medals at the 17th Asian Games being...

Police find ‘vital leads’ in Kerala nun’s murder

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Kottayam (Kerala) : Two days after a Kerala nun was found lying in a pool of blood in her room on Thursday, police claimed...

NGOs in Mumbai demand compensation for Pune victim’s family and a ban on Hindu...

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By TwoCircle.net Staff Reporter, Mumbai: A number of secular Non Government Organizations (NGOs) gathered together in Azad Maidan of Mumbai under the black banner to protest against disorderly killing of an innocent Muslim techie Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh in Hadapsar area of Pune by the activists of radical outfit Hindu Rashtra Sena. They demanded compensation of Rs. 15 lakhs for the family of killed techie along with a government job to one of the member of his family as Mohsin was the only bread winner for family, besides an immediate ban on Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS).

Couple’s fight on honeymoon ends in woman’s death

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By IANS, Shimlal: It was a honeymoon that apparently went sour and ended in a murder. A man has been arrested for allegedly killing his newly-wed wife by pushing her off a cliff during their honeymoon in Himachal Pradesh, police said Tuesday. The body of the victim, Simranjit Kaur, was recovered from a gorge in Shimla district early Tuesday, over a week after her death. Her husband Simranpal Singh Bhullar was arrested from Panchkula in Haryana Monday.

Khap panchayats check social evils, says Haryana CM

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

Malaysian Indian woman faces new hurdle to get child from husband

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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.

बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती की मां रामरती देवी का निधन

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश की पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री और बहुजन समाज पार्टी की अध्यक्ष मायावती की मां रामरती देवी का शनिवार शाम दिल्ली के एक...

Paes, Sania perfected the winning mantra

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By Veturi Srivatsa As suspected, the Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha Committee report punishing two franchises and their officials for their notoriety in the Indian...

Dalit man who married high-caste girl killed in TN

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Chennai : A 23-year-old Dalit man who married into the politically influential Thevar community was hacked to death in front of a large number...

‘Obamas are a typical juggling American family’

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By IANS, New Delhi : Whether it's nurturing a vegetable garden in the White House or tending to their children's needs amid all their work, the Obamas are like any other American family, juggling personal and professional lives, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer said here Friday. "The Obama family has been very positively received because they are like any other American family. Michelle Obama specially is an inspiration to all American women," Verveer said while interacting with reporters at the Indian Women Press Corps (IWPC) in the capital.

Gene exposes women with migraine to increased cardiac risk

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By IANS, Washington : Women with migraine seem to be at a greater risk of heart disease and stroke if they possess a certain gene, according to a new study. Researchers followed 25,001 white women for the occurrence of heart attacks and ischemic stroke. About 18 percent had a history of migraine while 40 percent with active migraine reported migraine with aura.

नसबंदी शिविर की लापरवाही में आम सवाल

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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.

Women’s role key in empowering the community: National Women’s Front

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By TCN News, Madurai (Tamil Nadu): “Women constitute around 50% of the population and hence their part in empowering the community is very essential. Our Prophet (PBUH) included women in all areas of community empowerment. Hence we also should follow this,” Ms. S. Fathima Gani, Tamil Nadu state president of National Women’s Front, the women’s wing of Popular Front of India.

Meet Kaneez Fatima, Karnataka’s Only Muslim Woman MLA

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net  Kaneez Fatima, the hijab-clad politician who won in the recent assembly elections in Karnataka is currently very popular with her videos...

Missing Voices: Rahul Gandhi’s Rally at Nuh Reveals Gender Gap in Political Engagement in...

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Musheera Ashraf, TwoCircles.net Nuh, Haryana: Amidst the sweltering 36-degree heat and towering buildings, the Nuh highway resonated with the pulsating beats of DJs and booming music....

Leaders, celebrities slam deadly Lahore blast

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Lahore/New Delhi : India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and a host of leaders and celebrities across the subcontinent took to...

Taking justice to women’s doorstep in Kerala

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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.

US serious to build partnership with Muslim communities: Farah Pandit

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: In her first visit to India today as United States Special Representative to Muslim Communities, Farah Pandit highlighted President Barack Obama’s vision to build partnerships with Muslim communities across the globe on the basis of mutual interest and mutual respect. She was holding a roundtable with Muslim journalists in New Delhi.

मोदी जी! क्या लड़कियां सिर्फ़ अचार बेचने के लिए हैं?

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net इन दिनों सोशल मीडिया पर पीएम नरेन्द्र मोदी का एक बयान पर काफी कुछ शेयर किया जा रहा है, जिसमें उन्होंने कहा...

Muslim women protest in Jaipur to demand ban on wine

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By TCN News,

Women lawmakers may be directly elected in Bangladesh

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By IANS, Dhaka : Women lawmakers in Bangladesh would be directly elected following an amendment to its Constitution, the Sheikh Hasina Government has announced. The change would facilitate holding of direct elections to seats reserved for women in the Jatiya Sangsad (national assembly) in the next parliamentary polls, Local Government and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam said Saturday. "We shall amend the constitution to allow women to come to the house through direct elections from the next parliamentary polls," The Daily Star quoted the minister as saying.

Jadavpur varsity sets up panel to probe ‘sanitary pad protest’

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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...

Villagers planning another ‘sati’ temple in Raipur

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By IANS, Raipur : Villagers in Chhattisgarh's Raipur district are reportedly planning to construct a temple at the site where an elderly woman committed 'sati' by jumping onto her husband's funeral pyre, even as seven people have been held for the crime, police said Tuesday. Police deployment has been increased to foil their plans, an official said. Dozens of people had Monday offered prayers at the site in Chechar village, 125 km from here, despite a a ban imposed by the police on the worship of the woman.

AIUMB forms a council of Muftis to develop consensus on Triple Talaq issue

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By TCN News New Delhi: The executive body of All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB) met here on Monday to discuss the issue of...

Women salary is secondary source of income: Survey

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By IANS,

More women are now heart specialists: India’s first woman cardiologist

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(World Heart Day is Sep 29) By Anjali Ojha, IANS,

Five get life for burning woman alive for dowry

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By IANS, Kolkata : A West Bengal court Friday sentenced five people to life imprisonment for burning a woman to death a decade ago. Rina Jaiswal, a resident of Golabari town of Howrah district, was burnt to death by her husband and in-laws for not fulfilling dowry demands. The Howrah court Friday found Rina's husband Deepak, her mother-in-law and three sisters-in-law guilty of murdering her and awarded them life terms. Police sources said Rina was married to Deepak in 1997.

Odisha to probe rape cases within 60 days

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By IANS,

Acid attack ‘horrifying’ form of violence, says court

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New Delhi: A court here has sentenced a man to life in prison for throwing acid on his beloved, leading to her death. The...

US more in alignment with Islamic values than many Muslim states: Sheikh Aaidh Al-Qarni

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By Siraj Wahab A popular Saudi author and religious scholar has raised some questions about governmental and societal practices across the Arab world and asserts that the United States is more in alignment with many Islamic values than many countries represented as Muslim states. Sheikh Aaidh ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni, whose self-help book “Don’t Be Sad” sells briskly both in English and Arabic, made the remarks in two recent columns published in the pan-Arab mass-circulation Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.

Shabana gives ‘royal ditch’ to Muslim women; didn’t turn up at their national convention

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By Kulsum Mustafa for TwoCircles.net, Lucknow: Cine actor, former Member of Parliament, and one projected by the media as a strong supporter of women and human rights, Shabana Azmi gave a royal ditch to hundreds of Muslim women when she failed to honor her commitment to be the chief guest at the third national convention of Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) held in Lucknow on 11th October.

US landscape architects designing change for women in India

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By Arun Kumar, Washington : Their mantra is to strike a balance between the built and natural environments, but an American landscape architect is using...

Starving sisters rescued in Delhi to get financial help

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By IANS,

Research scholar molested in IIT-K

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Kolkata: A research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, was allegedly molested by a contractual sweeper while she was asleep in the...

Women’s group slams Goa government over liquor notification

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Panaji: The Goa government's decision to allow bars and retail liquor outlets to remain open until 4 a.m. was criticized Thursday by a leading...

हाथ फैलाकर जीना चाहते हैं या मेहनत कर अपना भाग्य अपने हाथों लिखना चाहते...

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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...

Women’s groups demand passage of women’s reservation bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : Different women's groups, demanding the passage of the women's reservation bill, staged a protest outside Parliament House Thursday.

BJP forms panel over atrocities on Dalit women in Kerala

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New Delhi : BJP president Amit Shah has set up a three-member committee to look into the incidents of atrocities against Dalit women in...

Sania honoured with Padma Bhushan

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New Delhi : Indian tennis star Sania Mirza was conferred with Padma Bhushan at a glittering investiture at Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Tuesday for...

Four women kidnapped from rescue home in Hyderabad

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By IANS, Hyderabad: Unidentified men attacked a rescue home and kidnapped four trafficked women at Ramanthapur area here early Saturday, police said.

Government plans women’s health campaign

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Indian government's premier agency for science communication, Vigyan Prasar, is planning to launch a nation-wide programme to educate women on health related issues.

Khudai Khidmatgar opens vocational centre for women of Mewat

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By TCN News Khudai Khidmatgar made an important contribution towards women empowerment in the region of Mewat, Haryana by starting a vocational centre on March...

Announcements by finance minister for lawmakers, women…

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By IANS, New Delhi : The following announcements were made by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha Friday during a discussion on the budget for the fiscal 2011-12:

Migrants linked to Cologne violence, assault on women

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Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been forced to modify her liberal stance towards refugees, after a spate of assaults on women during New...

एक्सीडेंट नही राहुल खान की हुई थी लिंचिंग, 2 गिरफ़्तार

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हरियाणा के पलवल में एक दर्दनाक लिंचिंग बहुत चर्चा में हैं। राहुल खान नाम के युवक को बेदर्दी से पीट-पीटकर मार दिया गया है।...

आशियाना टूट जाने के डर से सड़क पर आई हजारों महिलाएं , यह है...

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net नये साल की सुबह हल्द्वानी के मुस्लिम बहुल वनभूलपुरा इलाके के लोगों के लिए बैचेनी लेकर आई थी। वनभूलपुरा इलाके के...

Police lock up rape victim for semi-nude protest

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By IANS, Moga (Punjab) : A semi-nude protest here by a woman against Punjab police inaction in registering a case against some men who allegedly raped her has landed her in a lock-up. The victim took off her clothes on a busy crossing on the Ferozepore-Ludhiana highway here Monday and shouted that her pleas to the police for getting a rape case registered had fallen on deaf ears. The protest shocked people moving along the highway.

Tripura to give allowance to domestic workers, transgenders

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Agartala : The Left Front government in Tripura on Tuesday announced monthly allowances for female domestic workers, transgenders, leprosy and AIDS patients and...

‘Internet cycle carts’ to bring rural women online

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Mumbai : In an innovative move to educate rural women about the internet, Tata Trusts and Google India on Friday announced a special...

More women personnel in Delhi Police now

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New Delhi: Delhi Police has increased the number of women police personnel following the Dec 16, 2012, gang rape of a young woman in...

Sushma seeks support for women’s reservation bill

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New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party Wednesday said the 16th Lok Sabha should be the one which passes the much-delayed women's reservation bill. "A...

15th Lok Sabha has highest number of women MPs

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By IANS, New Delhi : A record 59 women MPs have been elected to the new Lok Sabha - the highest since independence, and 17 of them are less than 40 years. According to PRS Legislative Research, an organisation that aims to strengthen legislative debate, among the 59 women MPs in the 15th Lok Sabha, a majority - 23 - are from the Congress. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has 13 women members. Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of 13 women MPs to represent the most populous state. It is followed by West Bengal with seven.

Gaining education, 35 women plan to uplift their communities

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By Prantick Majumder, Jhadol (Rajasthan) : How do you help your backward community living in remote, virtually inaccessible villages to progress if most of them...

Dhaka to amend laws discriminatory to women: PM

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By IANS, Dhaka : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday said her government will, if necessary, amend or repeal laws that are harmful and discriminatory to women. She also pledged effective enforcement of the Women Development Policy formulated during her last tenure in 1997 to ensure socio-economic security and development of women, United News of Bangladesh reported. Her remarks came at the opening of the International Women's Day celebrations as activists pledged to focus on acid attacks on women.

AMU Women’s Club organizes Eid Milan programme

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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,...

Ensure no civilian is harmed: Mehbooba directs Kashmir police

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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday directed the state police to ensure that no civilian is harmed during crowd control,...

DMK calls for 33 percent reservation for women

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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.

उमराह पर जाने वाले हजरात मुंबई एयरपोर्ट पर हुए परेशान, बेहद असुविधाजनक है माहौल

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net मुम्बई इंटरनेशनल एयरपोर्ट पर उमराह के आजमीनों के साथ बेहद खराब सुलूक किए जाने का मामला सामने आया है। इस संबंध में...

हज 2022 : ‘हज मोबाइल एप’ से होगा आवेदन,तैयारी में जुटी सरकार

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net हज 2022 के ऑनलाइन आवेदन प्रक्रिया को 1 नवंबर से शुरू हो गई है। केंद्रीय अल्पसंख्यक मंत्री मुख्तार अब्बास नकवी ने मुंबई के हज...

Bihar woman says man harassed her via 750 mobile numbers

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Patna : A woman in Bihar here has claimed that a man called her from 750 mobile phone numbers in the last six years...

“No remorse, did right thing”: Bulli Bai app creator tells police

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Neeraj Bishnoi, 21, and a second-year BTech student from an institute in Bhopal was arrested by Delhi Police from Assam’s Jorhat district on...

‘Don’t take my daughter away’, cried the grief-stricken mother

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By Rajnish Singh, IANS,

In India, women bankers have broken glass ceiling

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(March 8 is International Women's Day) By Arvind Padmanabhan, IANS,

Majority of women unaware of rights: Study

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By IANS, New Delhi : Seventy percent of women in the national capital are unaware of constitutional and legal provisions made for them, a new study released Tuesday said.

AMU Women Badminton team wins North Zone Intervarsity Championship

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By TCN News,

Make varsity campuses safe for women: Pallam Raju

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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.

Assam verdict shows how AIUDF got it wrong, paid the price for being complacent

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net The Assam state elections results have made it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party has decimated the incumbent Congress to...

Two arrested for tormenting Dalit woman

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Two men were arrested on charges of tonsuring a Dalit woman and parading her in an Orissa village for allegedly having an extra marital affair with her nephew, police said Saturday. The incident took place in Kashimpur village in Bhadrak district, 150 km from here, July 5 but came to light after her husband lodged a police complaint Thursday when the woman attempted suicide.

In #MeToo wake, Producers Guild of India to set up committee

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Mumbai, Oct 9 (IANS) The Producers Guild of India on Tuesday extended its support to the movement to call out and report sexual harassment...

Government for harsher punishment for throwing acid on women

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government Monday informed the Supreme Court it was willing to amend penal laws to provide for harsher punishment for throwing acid on women - a crime the apex court has described as "worse than murder". Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran told the bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan that unlike as in the normal penal laws, the government even wanted to put the onus on the person accused of throwing acid to prove his innocence.

Women bodies, activists condemn ‘witch’ killings in Assam

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By TCN Staff Reporter,

Scalpel Over Choice? How Hospitals in India Are Turning Childbirths Into Business

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Aditya Sharma, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: When 33-year-old Khushboo Jaiswal walked into a private hospital in Delhi, she was expecting a calm and natural childbirth filled...

AAP leader Ashutosh appears before NCW

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

Swine flu alert in northeast India, two women test positive

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Agartala/Aizawl/Imphal : The northeastern states have sounded a high alert to prevent the spread of swine flu in the bordering region even as two...

Don’t force badminton dress code: Women’s panel

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By IANS,

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

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

Two killed in Meghalaya police firing

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Shillong: A man and a woman were killed while five people were injured Wednesday when police opened fire to disperse a mob that attempted...

Government clampdown on protest over unfair budgetary allocations in education for SCs/STs

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Dalit women activists dragged inside police station, activists allege By TCN News, New Delhi: Over 30 dalit and adivasi students and activists were arrested on Thursday from Shastri Bhavan here when they demanded to meet Smriti Irani, the Union Minister of Human Resource Development, over unfair budgetary allocations in education of dalit and adivasi students.

UK party wants ban on burqa in public, Sharia outlawed

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London, (IANS): The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has announced that it will include a pledge in its general election manifesto to ban the burqa...

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

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

Creator of Bulli Bai app arrested from Assam: Delhi Police

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The report quoting sources said the man identified as Neeraj Bishnoi was the mastermind who allegedly created the app on the GitHub platform. TCN...

AsmaNama: Is Shehla Rashid Muslim? Muslim Discussions

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#Sarcasm#JNU#JNUSU#ShehlaRashid#Discussions#Muslim#Moslem#Kafir #Kanhaiyya#RohithVemula Dr.Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net, We Muslims, Moslems, Musalmans or Muhammedans are very interesting peoples. We have many nice habits. Like, we discuss...

SC fumes over sex tests, female foeticide

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By IANS,

Irom Sharmila tells court she wants to settle in life

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New Delhi : Human rights activist Irom Sharmila Wednesday told a court hearing a case of attempted suicide during her fast-unto-death at Jantar Mantar...

महिलाओं की इस दुर्दशा पर कब तक हम सिर्फ़ और सिर्फ़ घड़ियाली आंसू ही...

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दीप्ति कश्यप Two circles.net के लिए  बचपन से हमें सिखाया जाता है कि हमारा देश भिन्नता में भी एकता वाला देश है। कई दफ़े यह वाक्य सही...

Blow to gender equality as more believe women’s place at home

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By Venkata Vemuri, IANS, London : The shine's wearing off Super Moms. It's not just the men who say this, but a growing number of women too. Both are inclining to agree that a woman's place is more at home, wiping the sheen off the notion of gender equality in developed countries, a Cambridge survey says.

Taslima Nasreen’s Indian visa extended by a year

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Indian government on Tuesday extended the visa of self-exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen by another year. The 55-year-old, who is now...

TRS women activists protest raw deal

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By IANS, Hyderabad : Angry at the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) for not fielding a single woman candidate for next month's state assembly elections, the party's women activists Saturday staged protests here by covering the face of the statue of 'Telangana Talli' (Mother Telangana) statue and tying its hands and legs. Raising slogans, the women activists demanded that justice be done to them through proper representation in the list of candidates for both the Lok Sabha and assembly elections.

Government to set up world class institutes for minorities: Naqvi

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New Delhi : Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday said that his ministry will establish world class educational...

Referees course for women starts

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New Delhi : The first All India Football Federation (AIFF) referees course for women was inaugurated here Monday by FIFA Development Officer for South...

Two released Japanese tourists depart Yemen

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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.

Punjab to recruit 500 women constables

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By IANS, Phillaur : Punjab Police will soon recruit 500 women constables, the state police chief said Friday.

President wishes all women on International Women’s Day

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New Delhi, (IANS): President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday extended his "best wishes" to all women of the world for International Women's Day, observed on...

Sixty percent of burn patients in Jammu are women

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Jammu : Women constitute sixty percent of those with burn injuries here, a study said here on Wednesday. The study -- Burns in Jammu: Retrospective...

Islam not against women solemnising marriage: Syeda Hameed

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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy, IANS, New Delhi : Islam does not prohibit a woman from solemnising a marriage and it was reflective of the "slow and steady" changes happening in Muslim society, says Syeda Hameed, an official who courted controversy by performing the marriage rituals of a couple. "As a religion, Islam does not prohibit a woman from solemnising marriage. We have to move forward. It is the need of the hour," Hameed, a member of the country's Planning Commission, told IANS in an interview.

Taiwan woman dismembers unfaithful husband

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By DPA, Taipei : Enraged by her husband's unfaithfulness, a Taiwan woman killed him Friday in front of their 10-year-old grandson and then dismembered his body, police said. Wu Ah-yin, 57, and her husband Chiang Tien-tsai, 55, were both pork sellers in Tucheng, near Taipei. The couple often quarrelled because Wu had a mistress and often stayed out late, Wang Jen-hong, spokesman for the Tucheng Police Bureau, told reporters.

Woman sets herself, infant ablaze

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By IANS, Bhopal : A woman set herself ablaze with her three-week-old daughter in her lap in Gunga village on the outskirts of the Madhya Pradesh capital, police said Monday. The child died. The mother survived. With the child in her lap, Inder Bai, 27, poured kerosene on herself and set herself afire late Sunday evening while her husband, Jagdish Ahirwar, 30, a labourer, was away at work. She is suspected to be mentally deranged, the officer in charge of the Gunga police station said.

Unusual kinships: Foreign women in Gandhi’s life

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Lijjat – Empowering women through papads for 50 years

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

A woman as Delhi Police commissioner?

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Indian women finish seventh in Hawke’s Bay Cup hockey

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Array Hastings (New Zealand): The Indian women's hockey team defeated Japan 3-2 in the seventh-eighth position classification match to secure the seventh spot in the...

‘Dangal’ experience changed my life: Kashmiri actor Zaira Wasim

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By Shamshad Ali New Delhi : Zaira Wasim, who was unknown a few months ago, has now become a household name in her native...

Women journalists take on PM on price rise

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women journalists cornered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the rising prices of food stuff during an interaction in the capital Friday. During the meet with members of the Indian Women's Press Corps at the Hotel Taj Palace here, one journalist pointed out that the prices of pulses, rice and flour was lower during the National Democratic Alliance government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. "I was told that the price of dal (pulses) has come down," Manmohan Singh responded, evoking titters in the all-female audience.

College Day celebrated at Women’s College in AMU

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By TCN News, Aligarh: The Women’s college of the Aligarh Muslim University celebrated its College Day today.

Men who want women to stay home earn more

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By IANS, Washington : Men holding the view that women should stay at home earn more than men who don't. But women with more egalitarian views don't take home much more than their traditional counterparts. Timothy Judge and Beth Livingston of University of Florida analysed data from a nationally representative study of men and women who were interviewed four times between 1979 and 2005. Some 12,686 people, aged between 14 and 22 at the beginning of the study, participated, even as 60 percent remained with the study.

Mulayam talking rubbish: Lalu

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Patna: Mulayam Singh Yadav is talking "rubbish", RJD chief Lalu Prasad said Friday, reacting to the Samajwadi Party chief terming as unfair the death...

रोरी गांव से रिपोर्ट : गांव में गुस्सा , एक आवाज़ ! बेटी गरीब...

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Irom Sharmila wishes to meet Modi over AFSPA

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Imphal : Activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, on a fast-unto-death since the past 10 years against alleged rights violations by security forces, wants to meet...

57 mn more men than women globally: UN report

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By IANS, New Delhi : There are 57 million more men than women globally, a UN report said.

Mehbooba Mufti to be the first women CM of J&K; calls for appointment of...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Ending the three-month speculation over the formation of new government in Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, President, Peoples Democratic...

Almost month after Dalit woman’s rape, accused surrenders

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

Girl denied permission to board Delhi Metro while wearing a Hijab

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Delhi: In what looks like a case of religious discrimination, a Muslim girl was denied entry into the...

40 women writers to address feminism, gender at Jaipur lit fest

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Promote ‘brother-sister’ spirit among students, Karnataka colleges told

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Sikh woman at 60 becomes Canada’s oldest mother

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By IANS, Toronto : A 60-year-old Sikh woman has become the oldest mother in Canada by giving birth to twin boys in Calgary city this week. Ranjit Hayer and her husband Jagir Hayer, who have been trying to have a baby for the past 40 years, finally became proud parents of the twins delivered Tuesday in a city hospital. After being rejected by Canadian doctors for in-vitro fertilization because of her old age, the woman had reportedly traveled to her native India get fertilized with a donated egg.

Kuwaiti Committee to organise two regional confs. on women’s issues

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By NNN-KUNA, Abu Dhabi : The Kuwaiti Cabinet Committee on Women's Affairs plans to organise two regional conferences, one on the Arabian Gulf level and the other on the Arab level in December and February, advisor of the committee Dr. Ahmad Al-Bustan said on Friday. "The first conference will debate the issue of social security while the other will discuss the negative aspects of Arab communities," Al-Bustan told KUNA following the second conference of the Arab Women Organisation (AWO) which came to a close here on Thursday.

Pakistani woman climbs world’s seven highest peaks

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Islamabad : Samina Baig became the first Pakistani woman to climb seven highest peaks in seven continents in under eight months, media reported Sunday. Baig,...

European, Asian stars vie for top honours at Women’s Indian Open

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By IANS, Gurgaon : Leading women golfers from Asia and Europe will tee along with India's best in the DLF Women's Indian Open starting at the DLF Golf and Country Club here Wednesday. The third edition of India' only Ladies Asian Golf Tour (LAGT) event will tee-off with the pro-am Tuesday while the three day main event will be played from Wednesday. The tournament offers $120,000 in prize purse. The format of the event will witness the cut being applied after two days with the top 50 golfers plus ties making it to the final round.

Woman has miscarriage as Bihar clinic declines old notes

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Patna : A Patna resident on Wednesday claimed that his unborn child died because a clinic refused to conduct an ultrasound on his wife...

Woman raped, murdered in Rajasthan

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Jaipur: A man raped a woman and then killed her by throwing her into a water tank in Rajasthan Friday, police said. The criminal...

Most MPs against women’s bill: Sharad Yadav

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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.

Principal expelled Ruchika, but not Rathore’s daughter

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By IANS, Chandigarh: A magisterial inquiry into the expulsion of Ruchika Girhotra from her school here has revealed that while the school authorities singled out the teen-aged molestation victim for action in 1990, no such step was taken against the daughter of her tormentor though she too defaulted in fee payment.

Hyderabad women group celebrates International Women’s Day

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Understand the world from the eyes of a woman: Ayesha Khatun

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By TCN News, Cambridge, Massachusetts: “Understand the world from the eyes of a woman” said Ayesha Khatun to an audience of over 60 people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 25, 2014. In the hour-long talk Ayesha Khatun had her audience in rapt attention as she shared stories from the ground, cracked jokes, and talked about her struggles working for some of the most marginalized people in India.

India International Science Fair: 15-year-old Jharkhand student develops jacket that helps the blind

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By Archana Rao New Delhi : Unlike most children of his age, Prithvi Raj isn’t interested in science experiments like baking soda volcanoes or balloon...

Hijab in Kerala: the transformation from ignorance to knowledge

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By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net, A few decades ago, if a Muslim woman from Malabar clad in a burqa had gone to Ernakulam, people would have looked at her astonished. Because, burqa or any such dress was unfamiliar in southern Kerala. But now, anyone can see women in burqa or girls wearing head-scarves walking through the busy streets of Ernakulam. Hijab is no more new in the work places, educational institutions and public functions in Kerala.

Meira Kumar may battle two ex-IAS officers

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By IANS, Patna : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, a former IFS officer, may face two retired IAS officers in the Lok Sabha polls at...

For first time, Saudi women work in slaughterhouses

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Mina : For the first time ever, 15 Saudi women are supervising the slaughtering of sheep, cattle and camels at Al- Moaissim Model Slaughterhouse, near Mina during this Haj season.

Take money and abort, Bihar panchayat tells raped girl, booked

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Patna : A case has been lodged against eight members of a panchayat, a village executive, in Bihar's Kishanganj district for asking a girl,...

Sania rues gender discrimination in sports

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Mumbai, (IANS): Decrying the widespread gender discrimination in society at large, Indian tennis star Sania Mirza rued the fact that the world of sports...

Assam waives entertainment tax on ‘Mary Kom’

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

Minor domestic worker found dead after allegedly raped by employer in Hyderabad, family demand...

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad: Being poor is akin to a crime as you are extremely vulnerable to exploitation. This is what happened in the...

Five sleeping labourers crushed to death in Noida

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By IANS, Noida : Five sleeping labourers, including two women, were killed and two children injured when they were crushed under the wheels of a bus here at midnight Saturday. The victims were asleep near a crossing under the Sector-24 police station of Noida. According to Superintendent of Police City Mahesh Mishra, the driver of an Uttar Pradesh Roadways bus was trying to park his bus at 11.45 p.m. on the ground when he failed to spot the sleeping labourers.

Women fast making inroads into male dominated professions

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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.

Musharraf slams Pakistan government over women’s rights

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Islamabad : Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said that the ones calling him dictator have deprived the women of their rights in...

A book on life’s struggles, of women, by women

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By IANS, New Delhi : A woman panchayat leader's fight against corruption, another illiterate panchayat leader's endeavour to make education a reality for her village - stories of struggle and commitment, drawn out of the lives of seven women panchayat leaders were put together in a book that was released Thursday. Titled "Sarpanch Sahib: Changing the face of India" the book has been compiled by well known authors Manju Kapur, Indira Maya Ganesh, Sonia Falerio, Kalpana Sharma, Tishani Doshi, Abhilasha Ojha and edited by Manjima Bhattacharjya.

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net कर्नाटक में हिजाब मामले पर कई दिनों से संग्राम जारी है। राज्य में आए दिन हिंदुत्ववादी छात्र कॉलेज और स्कूलों में उत्पात मचाते...

Woman power: Tribals stall eco-tourism project in Odisha

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AAP approaches police over derogatory remarks against Kejriwal’s daughter

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Ghaziabad: The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Ghaziabad unit Saturday lodged a complaint with the police here against a person who allegedly wrote derogatory remarks...

Appoint full-time women’s commission head, Brinda tells PM

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By IANS, New Delhi : Accusing the government of "indifference and neglect" of the National Commission for Women (NCW), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to appoint a full-time chairperson of the organisation. The CPI-M politburo member's demand came in the wake of its present chairperson Girija Vyas being elected as a Lok Sabha MP.

India’s first woman diplomat Muthamma dies at 85

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

Poll results prove women power, tweets Sushma Swaraj

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