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High court dismisses woman wrestler’s plea

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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.

Half-widowed at 23, Rafiqa Mushtaq fights government, in-laws to ensure property rights for her...

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In the third of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Rafiqa Mushtaq. ...

Death of a Delta: Part 2

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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...

Google lights candle ‘in memory of Delhi braveheart’

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By IANS, New Delhi: Google India has lit a white candle on its homepage as a tribute to the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim, who passed away following a 13-day fight for life.

Twocircles.net journalist Meena Kotwal wins IIMCAA Awards

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By TCN News In the 4th Edition of Connections 2020 by the IIMC Alumni Association, independent journalist Meena Kotwal was awarded the Indian Institute of...

Man gets life sentence for raping minor in Tripura

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Agartala: A tribal was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Tripura for raping a 13-year-old girl, police said here Friday. "Dhananjoy Reang raped...

Conflict to peace via women: Helping distressed women in J&K

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Peace and conflict in Kashmir are linked to patriarchal interventions in Kashmir. “The women don’t have a slightest idea about it. They feel it...

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.

NHRC notice to Kerala over Dalit student’s rape, murder

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New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday issued a notice to the Kerala government over the alleged rape and murder of...

Three girl students create ruckus at Indore college

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By IANS, Bhopal:At least three students of a girl's college in Indore were arrested Friday for misbehaving with their principal who fainted and had to be hospitalised, police said. The girls belong to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP - the Bharatiya Janata Party's student wing) to which those accused in the Professor Sabharwal murder case of Ujjain belonged.

Respect, protect women – celebs urge on International Women’s Day

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By IANS,

Kerala village launches dowry-free marriage websites

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By IANS, Nilambur (Kerala): A year back, residents of a Kerala village in Malappuram district took a pledge that they would neither ask for dowry in marriage nor give any. The villagers are now launching two websites on dowry-free marriages. These websites have been created by Nilambur village which has a population of 50,000, of which 40 percent are Muslims. The rest are Hindus and Christians.

Woman kills herself after poisoning her children

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By IANS, Agra : A woman poisoned her two children before hanging herself in this Uttar Pradesh town, police said Wednesday. Sanjeev Choudhary, a banker, reached home Tuesday evening to find his wife Sudheera hanging from the ceiling and his two children lying dead on the bed. Superintendent of Police B.P. Ashok said Sudheera, in her early 30s, had poisoned her children - two-year-old Bittoo and 11-year-old Akanksha. She then hit them on the head with a hammer to ensure they were dead.

Indian women’s delegation to visit Saudi Arabia

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By IANS,

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind awards four including Ram Puniyani for promoting communal harmony

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind conferred Sadbhavana Award upon four persons for their outstanding work in the field of communal...

Former civil servants demand action against Pragya Thakur over incendiary speech

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103 signatories of the Constitutional Conduct Group said that BJP MP Pragya Thakur has forfeited the ethical right to be a member of...

Government mum on allegations against Akbar

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New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The government on Wednesday continued to maintain silence on the allegations of sexual misconduct against Union Minister M.J. Akbar...

Bangladeshi woman whipped over 200 times, critical

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By IANS, Dhaka : A widow was whipped 202 times and a man 101 times following a fatwa by a religious leader for their alleged involvement in "anti-social activity" in a village in southeastern Bangladesh, prompting local protests and action by the police. Piara Begum, a widow of 40, and Mamun Miah, 25, were whipped before hundreds of people at Khaiyar in Comilla district Saturday night. The woman fell unconscious and was rushed to hospital. Doctors said she was critically injured and needed to be given intensive treatment.

Sania loses Birmingham tennis semifinal

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By IANS Birmingham: India's Sania Mirza blew a set advantage against Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova to go down 6-3, 0-6, 3-6 in the Aegon Classic tennis semifinal here Saturday. Sania, who had beaten Rybarikova in their only meeting before, was appearing in only her second semifinal of the year. She had reached the Pattaya Open final in February. The 22-year-old Hyderabadi, who played two matches Friday, recovered from a break down in the fourth game of the first set and then reeled off four games in a row for a 5-2 lead. She then comfortably served out the set in the ninth game.

Homemakers without a home: women and displacement in Chars of Dhubri

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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.

NGOs seek higher funding to curb domestic violence

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women's right activists Tuesday came down heavily on the government for not allocating enough money for implementing the law against domestic violence.

Meet Falak Naaz, who braved poverty to make it to India’s U19 Women’s T-20...

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18-year-old Falak Naaz comes from a poor family in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. This did not stop her from dreaming to play for national...

British government seeks more ethnic minority women in public life

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By IANS, London : Minister for women and equalities Harriet Harman says Britain needs more Black, Asian and other minority ethnic women councillors after new data showed their numbers have fallen. Only 149 out of 19,617 elected councillors across England are minority ethnic women this year, compared with 164 in 2006. This represents less than one per cent of all councillors, although minority ethnic women make up more than five percent of the population. To fully reflect society the number of female minority ethnic councillors would have to rise nearer to 1,000.

Female scribes face misogyny and patriarchy, say women journalists

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New Delhi : Women journalists, like men, should be judged on the basis of their stories rather than their gender in the male-dominated world...

Young tribal woman inspires farming community to better livelihoods in Odisha

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By Chinmaya Dehury Koraput (Odisha): Raimati Ghiuria, a young tribal woman, not only proved to be a leader in conserving local traditional varieties of rice...

विधानसभा चुनाव का ऐलान, यूपी में इस दिन यहां पड़ेगी वोट

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स्पेशल डेस्क।Twocircles.net देश के पांच राज्यों मे होने वाले विधानसभा चुनाव के लिए चुनाव आयोग ने तारीखों का ऐलान कर दिया है। जिन राज्यों...

Five years after Ayesha Meera was gang raped and murdered family still waiting for...

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

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...

Meet Naziya & Shabrun, two Muslim nurses from Bihar awarded by President Murmu for...

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The young nurses believe that more Muslim girls across the country should opt for the nursing profession to serve society. Sami Ahmad | TwoCircles.net PATNA...

To wear or not to wear: Comments on purdah during a seminar draw ire...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kozhikode: A comment about Muslim women covering their faces with purdah by MES state president Fazal Gafoor has drawn the ire of other Muslim groups in the state with most of them saying that the statement was made eying publicity and nothing more.

Inheritance – why can’t tribal women have property rights?

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(March 8 is International Women's Day) By Vishal Gulati, IANS,

Former VC Hamid Ansari, Shashi Tharoor to speak at Reclaiming India conference on democratic...

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TCN News 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...

Unable to pay bribe, Dalit woman in Kerala denied treatment in government hospital

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Kasargod: A Dalit woman in Kasargod district of Kerala has alleged that she was denied treatment by government hospital...

Uber has no right to operate in India: Women activists

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New Delhi : Women activists Monday demanded a total ban on Uber cab across India, saying the company had lost the right to operate...

NHRC notice to Rajasthan over woman’s rape by policeman

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New Delhi: The NHRC has issued notice to the Rajasthan government over the alleged rape of a woman by a police constable and his...

No woman should die giving life: UNICEF

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Tehran, Jan 18, IRNA -- Every minute somewhere in the world a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth, and the women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth than those in developed countries. These facts are highlighted in UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children report on maternal and newborn health, a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) said on Sunday.

1,000 Pakistani women killed for honour in 2011

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By IANS, London : Nearly 1,000 women and girls in Pakistan were victims of honour killings during 2011, a human rights group said.

Gang-rape case: Defence lawyer again pulled up by court

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By IANS,

Three women charred to death in Chhattisgarh village

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Raipur, March 7 (IANS) A woman and her two daughters were charred to death in a Chhattisgarh village Saturday after fire broke out in their shanty while they were asleep, police said. The incident occurred in Kunjnagar village in Surguja district at around 4 a.m., police said. The three victims were identified as Rajkumari, 32, and her two daughters - Rekha, 12, and Jaya, 10.

Minor girl set on fire in Ghaziabad, dies in hospital

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By IANS Ghaziabad: A girl was beaten up and set on fire by four men, who accused her of having an affair, in Ghaziabad, police said Tuesday. She later succumbed to her injuries in hospital. The girl, Imrana Hakim (15) was at her house in the Tauri Tereh locality under Bhojpur police station of Ghaziabad, with her younger sister Monday. Her mother was working in the local fields while her father was out of town for some work, district police chief Akhil Kumar said.

PM confident of women’s quota bill passage

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By IANS, New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday stressed his government's commitment to political empowerment of women and said India was moving towards 33 percent reservation for women in the parliament and state legislatures. "We are moving towards providing one third reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures," Manmohan Singh said at a leadership summit for women here.

A letter to a friend who is getting married

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By PA Abdullah My Dear Friend Assalamo alaikum wa rahmatullah!

Shock, anger in Kashmir after brutal murder of young woman

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In a case of unprecedented brutality in Kashmir, a 45-year-old man killed a 30-year-old woman in Budgam by chopping off her head, slicing...

I faced no specific challenges because of my community or my gender: AAP Hyderabad...

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By SM Fasiullah, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: Women’s under representation in political sphere is inextricably linked with their low and inferior status in the Indian society....

Woman kills lover in head-on crash, court told

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By DPA, Wellington : A 37-year-old New Zealand woman drove her car 13 km with her lover hanging onto the bonnet, before deliberately staging a head-on crash to kill him, a court was told Monday. Cindy Marcia Fairburn denied during trial in the New Plymouth district court having murdered Darren Paul Maxwell, 42, in August by crashing into an oncoming sports utility vehicle the driver of which was seriously injured in the incident.

तस्वीरों में : समय से पहले बाढ़ जैसे हालात, फंसे लोग ,बहे जानवर

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बिजनोर : उत्तराखंड में हो रही कई दिन से तेज़ बारिश के चलते गंगा किनारे के कई जनपदों में बाढ़ के हालात पैदा हो...

Here, blue stands for women’s empowerment

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By Rupesh Dutta, Alwar (Rajasthan) : The colour blue stands for women's empowerment here in Rajasthan, a sign that they have been pulled out of...

Zanani Masjid in Aurangabad: An inspiration to Muslim women to reclaim their space in...

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Zanani Masjid was built 350 years ago in the Mughal period. Many Muslim girls and women gather at Zanani Masjid to study the Quran...

Will, grit are key to achievement, say power women

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : They balanced homes and careers, often with great success. But breaking bastions and new grounds was not easy, say a cross-section of women who look back on their lives this International Women's Day. And what keeps them going? Determination, they chorus. "My message to the women is that if you have a goal then you have to let all the rest eddy around you - but you need not totally reject all that the Indian society forces on you," Anjolie Ela Menon, the 70-year-old artist, told IANS.

CBI consulting legal experts in Rathore case

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By IANS, New Delhi : After facing criticism for mishandling the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday said it was seeking legal opinion to include charges of abetment to suicide against former Haryana director general of police S.P.S. Rathore.

CPI (ML) demands CBI probe into Delhi school stampede

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The Delhi State Committee of the CPI (ML) today demanded a CBI enquiry into the Khajuri Khas government school stampede in which five girl students were killed on September 10, alleging that the state government was not bringing out the truth. The organization has also demanded resignation of Delhi education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely.

Only five percent Indian women in senior corporate posts: Study

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New Delhi: Only five percent of working women in India make it to senior leadership positions in the corporate sector, compared to the global...

‘Introvert’ Chinese lady loses civil service race

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By IANS, Beijing: A 27-year-old Chinese woman, who was ranked among the top in a civil service test, was eliminated from the race because she was an "introvert".

Can Gates of ijtihad be closed?

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By Asghar Ali Engineer, After the fatwa from Deoband (some of the Deobandis deny that fatwa was ever issued) that Muslim women cannot work with strangers from amongst the men and that in that case her earnings will be haram (prohibited) to her family, a debate is raging on the need for ijtihad (creative reinterpretation of law) and it is often suggested that gates of ijtihad were closed after sack of Baghdad in 1258 and that these gates be reopened.

इमाम साहब से दाढ़ी कटवाने के लिए कहती थी बीवी, बात न मानने पर...

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आकिल हुसैन।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के अलीगढ़ में एक अजीबोगरीब मामला सामने आया है। एक पत्नी ने अपने मौलवी इमाम पति के खिलाफ दाढ़ी नहीं...

Congress opposes Kashmir bill curtailing women’s rights

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By IANS, Jammu: The Congress has decided to oppose a bill moved earlier this week in the upper house of the state legislature depriving women of their citizenship rights if they marry non-permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir. "This piece of legislation will never be supported by the party within or outside of the legislature," said a senior Congress minister in the coalition government of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The Permanent Resident (Disqualification) Bill moved March 8 by Murtaza Khan of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Woman working in Congress office murdered: Kerala minister’s staff held

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By IANS, Malappuram (Kerala) : A staff member of a Congress minister in Kerala and his friend were arrested Tuesday over the murder of a...

बुलंदशहर मे गैंगरेप पीड़िता दलित युवती की मौत ,गांव में तनाव

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विशेष संवाददाता । Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के बुलंदशहर में एक बार फिर हाथरस जैसी घटना हुई है। यहां की एक दलित युवती की जलकर मौत...

“Women’s Day a chance to understand women’s struggles,” AMU celebrates International Women’s Day

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TCN News The International Women's Day (IWD) 2021 was observed to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political accomplishments of women with great ardour at...

‘Shadi Bureau’ of minority welfare launched in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: ‘Shadi Bureau (SB)’ of Minority Welfare Society (MWS) was launched by Muktar Hussain Ahmed Choudhury, former Additional Commissioner of Taxes, Government of Assam & President, MWS at the Murshidul Alom Memorial Hall in Dispur on Sunday at the Senior Women’s Meet hosted the Ladies’ Wing of the MSW.

MP minister bats for UP government on Badaun, draws Congress’ ire

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New Delhi: Babulal Gaur, home minister in the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, Thursday came to the defence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh...

NCW team to probe police torture of Bengal woman: BJP

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Kolkata : A National Commission for Women (NCW) team will visit West Bengal to probe the alleged torture of a woman by police, state...

Najma Heptullah gets her Calculations Right

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By Fawaz Shaheen, Ms. Najma Heptullah, the Minority Affairs Minister in Mr. Modi’s newly sworn in Cabinet, has shocked the public in her first public statement by saying that Muslims must not be called a minority in India since they are “so large in number”.

Mary Kom to be brand ambassador of north-east

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New Delhi/Agartala : The central government will appoint Olympic medallist boxer M.C. Mary Kom as the brand ambassador for north-east India to promote the...

RTI activist in trouble for asking too many questions

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By IANS, Agra : You could be asking for trouble by asking too many questions under the Right to Information Act. This was learnt the hard way by an activist here, who was told by the police that he was interfering in government work as he persisted with queries in the case of a woman kept in a protection home for seven years without being charged.

Women join ranks of computer gamers and branch out

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By DPA, Berlin : Computer gaming remains predominantly the realm of men. But a closer look at the culture reveals some surprising trends among female gamers. True, many women have no interest in gaming. Many of those who do tend toward games like the Sims, a blockbuster that focuses on social relationships.

Four hacked to death in Jharkhand for ‘practising witchcraft’

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Ranchi : Four members of a family, including two women, were hacked to death on suspicion of practising witchcraft in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharsawan district...

बर्बाद हो गया कानपुर का चमड़ा उद्योग, घट गए 8 लाख रोजगार

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश का कानपुर ज़िला देश में चमड़ा उद्योग का सबसे बड़ा केंद्र हैं। कानपुर शहर भारत के कुल चमड़े और चमड़े के...

‘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.

BJP reluctant to table women’s reservation bill: AIWC

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New Delhi : All India Women's Congress president Shobha Oza Monday said the BJP government was reluctant to table the women's reservation bill in...

PMO, LG not serious about women’s safety: Kejriwal

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Lt Governor Najeeb Jung of doing...

‘Women intend to quit jobs due to gender bias, harassment’

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New Delhi : Working women, especially those in the private sector, desire to quit their jobs for a number of reasons, including gender bias...

Two out of every three blind in India are women

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By IANS, New Delhi: Nearly two million people are blind in India but what is startling is that around 66 percent of them are women, government authorities and experts said Thursday, observed as the World Sight Day (WSD). This year, the focus was on gender and eye care. G.V.S Murthy, a professor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said that out of every three blind in the country, two are women and there is need to bring a gender equity while providing eye care.

Reservation for weaker section to continue: Uma Bharti

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New Delhi : Union Minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday said that the apprehensions that reservations for the weaker sections of society would be slowly...

Kiran Bedi joins BJP, to give Delhi ‘all she has’

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New Delhi : Celebrated former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who parted ways with AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal around two years ago, Thursday joined the BJP, saying Delhi needs a stable and honest government.

बीड़ी ही बना जीने का सहारा…

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निकहत प्रवीन भागलपुर (बिहार) : बड़ा बेटा उसके बग़ल में बैठा था और छोटे बेटे को गोद में लिए, सिर झुकाए वो लगातार बीड़ी बनाए...

Awareness campaign for women empowerment in Madhya Pradesh

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By IANS, Bhopal : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has issued instructions to carry out a state-wide awareness campaign focused on schemes of women empowerment, official sources said Tuesday. Reviewing the progress of activities of Woman and Child Development Department Monday, the chief minister told senior officers including the principal secretary to undertake field tours to apprise themselves of the ground realities of the implementation of departmental schemes and announcements made at the "Mahila Panchayat".

Early Marriage, Tradition and Safety: Unraveling the Challenges for Muslim Girls in Education

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Iqra Fatma, TwoCircles.net Darbhanga (Bihar): Nusrat, a bright young woman from Muzaffarpur district in Bihar, always aspired to pursue higher education. After earning her bachelor's...

Woman gets relief from incontinence

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 48-year-old woman, suffering from continence, a condition characterised by involuntary loss of urine, for the last one year, has finally...

Woman wins 22-year property battle, but gets no land

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By Sugandha Pathak, IANS, New Delhi : It took 22 long years for a court to direct the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to return a plot to coal depot owner Darshna Rani. But six months after the verdict, the 75-year-old is still to get her due. "It's been almost six months since this judgment came in our favour, but getting the land is still a distant dream. I am sure they (the MCD authorities) will file an appeal in the high court. I don't know for how many more years this case will go on," said a visibly frustrated Vinod Kumar Batra, Rani's son.

Eight-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband

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By DPA, Riyadh : An eight-year-old Saudi girl got divorced from her 50-year-old husband after the marriage drew severe criticism, the girl's lawyer said Thursday. Abdullah al-Jeteily said that the court in Onayza city approved the divorce decree after several officials in the region talked with the husband. Two request by the girl's mother for a divorce were rejected before, and one judge ruled that the girl would be able to file for divorce herself only after she reaches puberty.

Woman killed in US operation in Afghanistan

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By DPA, Kabul : US-led troops killed a civilian woman and two militants in a clash in southern Afghanistan, while nine rebels including a senior commander and two policemen were killed in separate attacks, officials said Sunday. The woman was killed when coalition forces clashed with militants in Zabul province Thursday, US military said in a statement. One man and two women - all civilians - were wounded in the clash and taken to a military hospital for treatment, it said.

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...

Assam: SC provides relief to 50 lakh women; says panchayat certificate is proof of...

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net In a big relief to nearly 50 lakh women in Assam who were fearing deportation after their citizenship had been questioned,...

Canadian HIV man’s 20 sexual partners untraced

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By IANS, Toronto : Medical authorities in Canada have failed to trace 20 women who had unprotected sex with an HIV-infected man facing murder trial for causing death of two women by infection. Ugandan-born Johnson Aziga, 52, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1996, was warned to inform his sexual partners about his HIV condition. But he went on to have unprotected sex with numerous women, including the 13 who have been identified. Seven of these women have tested positive for HIV. Two of them have since died. Four women, who had sex with him, have not tested positive.

The Hunted in India

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By Vinay Bhat for TwoCircles.net

Two more join opposition to women’s quota bill

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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.

Raising legal age for marriage for women in India: Here’s why it’s bad news...

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While worry over early marriage is a start in the right direction, legislative action on the subject is equivalent to addressing symptoms rather...

Want justice not revenge: Bilkis Bano

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New Delhi, (IANS): Refusing to compare her case with the Nirbhaya gang-rape case where the apex court upheld death penalty for the convicts, Gujarat...

Bishop stirs trouble after he adopts 26-year-old

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By IANS, Kochi : A bishop in Kerala has stirred controversy by adopting a 26-year-old woman, prompting the archbishop of the area to hold an inquiry after priests in his diocese made a complaint. The issue of 58-year-old Kochi bishop John Thattumkal adopting a 26-year-old woman has been probed by the Archbishop Daniel Acharuparambil of the Verapoly Archdiocese near Kochi and the report has been sent to the Vatican.

Many under financial constraint as Delhi riot victims still wait for compensation

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About 2569 families in North East Delhi have filed claims for compensation. Of the 2,569 claims, 1,425 have been examined, while work on the...

More women are becoming primary migrants: book

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By NNN-PTI, New Delhi : Asian women are joining men in migrating to other countries, in many cases as principal bread winners, says a new book. In recent years there has been a significant rise in the number of female migrants, who sometimes come as primary breadwinners. The male-female ratio of international level on the whole is 52.5 per cent to 47.5 per cent, though its proportion in the developed countries is almost 50:50, says the book 'Striped Zebra, The Immigrant Psyche' by US-based Uday C. Naval and Soofia K.Hussain, published by Rupa.

Bengal woman tortured by cops threatens stir

Women

Kolkata : With no arrest yet made for the alleged torturing of a woman by a police team in West Bengal, the victim Wednesday...

Violence against women: Silence is violence

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Shoot out outside Ghaziabad college, girl student injured

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Ghaziabad : A girl student of IMS College in Ghaziabad was accidentally injured when a student shot at another student outside the college gate...

Housewife chefs: Delivering home food in star hotels

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By Azera Parveen Rahman, IANS,

Court observation on Muslim women’s photos valid, says community

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court's observation that Muslim women will have to lift their veils to be photographed for the electoral rolls is valid, members of the community say. A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma had made the observation while deliberating on a plea to prohibit display of photographs of burqa-clad Muslim women in the voters' list.

Now, all-women canteen at Jamia in Delhi

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New Delhi : Jamia Millia Islamia has got its first all women-run canteen as part of the efforts of a self-help group towards women...

Women celebrate the legacy of Bharati Roy Chaudhury

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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.

Kerala Govt women cell to facilitate poor girls for engineering courses

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

Winning Wimbledon was special feeling, says Sania

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Hyderabad : Back home after clinching her first-ever women's doubles Grand Slam title, Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza said winning Wimbledon with Swiss partner...

Single largest gathering of women at Kerala festival

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How two sisters’ commitment scripting Moradabad’s brass industry’s future

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Anushka Kogta and Namya Jain, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: “This work not only supports our family but also sustains the entire Uttar Pradesh,” claimed 52-year-old Rashida...

Nari Shakti Zindabad

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By Somnath Mukherji, I went for a quick visit to Nishtha’s day and night shelter for the children of the sex workers of Baruipur in South 24 Parganas. About 30 children are here during the day while 40 to 45 children spend the night here. The children, as in any other place were very lively and animated. Some of them recited poems while some danced to music from the mobile phones. Children come here for a few hours before they go to school and then again after school. Some teachers support them with academics as well games & music.

A conversation with Dr Audrey Truschke, the author of Aurangzeb: The life and legacy...

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By Misbahuddin Mirza for TwoCircles.net Over the ages, the fertile lands of India have constantly attracted wave after wave of peoples to migrate and settle...

Men, women divided on sharing housework

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By IANS, Sydney : Young men and women are divided over sharing housework and a woman's right to have an abortion, according to a survey. "It should come as no surprise that young women are more in favour of domestic democracy than the young men, while also being more supportive of a woman's right to have an abortion," said Chilla Bulbeck of University of Adelaide. The survey, conducted in 10 countries by Bulbeck and her team, looked at the attitudes of young men and women to a number of gender equality issues.

All India women karwan in support of WRB next month

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Anhad NGO and other civil groups will jointly launch an All India Women Karwan in support of Women Reservation Bill next month. Three caravans will be taken out on three different routes to cover as much part of the country as possible. They will be flagged off on May 20 simultaneously in Delhi, Mumbai and Bhubaneshwar.

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

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

Women’s safety a major election issue in Delhi

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By Sushil Kumar, New Delhi : Women's safety tops the chart among the major issues confronting Delhi as it readies to vote for a new...

NHRC asks Delhi to pay molestation victim Rs.5 lakh

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Activists to form single women’s national forum

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By IANS, New Delhi : Denied land entitlements, fighting for their rights and at the receiving end of many blind social customs - women activists and others, in order to improve their living conditions, have decided to form a national forum for single women. Announcing the initiative at a press conference Tuesday, Ginny Shrivastava, an activist from Rajasthan, said the forum would be set up following a consultation that Oct 7-8 in the capital.

The controversy over Padmavati, and Bollywood’s soft war against Muslims

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By Misbahuddin Mirza for Twocircles.net Padmavati, a Bollywood movie being produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is the latest in a plethora of movies showing inter-religious...

After driving across India, Khasi woman eyes Mongol Rally

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By Raymond Kharmujai, Shillong : Driving a seven hp two-stroke engine for 4,110 km in 20 days is not an easy task, but Miatmon Sooting, a single mother to a seven-year-old, should be proud enough that she completed the race in an auto-rickshaw in 15 days. It's given her the confidence to eye the gruelling Mongol Rally.

South Kashmir girl receives 100% scholarship offer to pursue Mechanical Engg. in University of...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Eighteen-year-old Adeeba Tak from Shopian district in south Kashmir has brought laurels to the valley by securing admission in...

Fashion designer commits suicide in Noida

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By IANS, Noida : A 25-year-old fashion designer working with a garments export firm here committed suicide at his office premises Thursday, allegedly over a failed relationship, police said. Jishan, originally a resident of Bihar, was working as a fashion designer in a garments export house in Sector-10 of Noida. On Thursday around 9.30 a.m. he locked himself up in one of his company's rooms and hung himself from the ceiling fan, police said.

Disabled have divine ability, government scheme in Guinness records: Modi

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said physically challenged people have a "divine ability" and urged people to change the way...

Did Ishrat Jahan, one of the petitioners in Triple Talaq, lie about her divorce?

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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....

AMU nursing students light lamps for the spirit of nursing

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By TCN News, Aligarh: The environment filled with an enlightening breeze when the nurses of the School of Nursing, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) took oath at the Lamp Lighting & Oath taking Ceremony of the School.

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.

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

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

First women-only call centre opens in Saudi Arabia

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AMU library row: Students protest against ‘negative portrayal’ in media

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union and Women’s College Students’ Union today organised a protest today at the campus expressing their ‘shock and anger’ against what they termed as “negative portrayal” of AMU in certain sections of the media.

Women’s access to Haji Ali shrine: HC verdict on Tuesday

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Mumbai : The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce on Tuesday its much-awaited verdict on a petition challenging the ban on women to...

फेसबुक ने ‘मिल्लत टाइम्स ‘ का पेज किया डिलिट, प्रेस क्लब ऑफ इंडिया ने...

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जाकिर अली त्यागी फेसबुक ने बिना किसी आधिकारिक सूचना के मिल्लत टाइम्स का ऑफिशियल पेज सोमवार 13 दिसंबर 2021 को शाम 7:30 डिलीट कर...

Woman raped, minor girl molested in capital

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By IANS, New Delhi : A woman was allegedly raped after falling unconscious and a six-year-old girl was molested in two separate incidents of sex crimes in the capital, police said Friday. "A 24-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by Syed Saamir Ali, 28, resident of Bulandshahr, March 28. Ali and the woman had met at a mobile repairing shop in Nehru Pace a few days earlier and had become friends," a police official said. Ali had served the woman cold drinks laced with sedative March 28 and raped her when she became unconscious.

Banning Burqa is undemocratic. Muslim women groups protest in Mumbai

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No question of bulldozing women’s bill: Law Minister Veerappa Moily

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By Prashant Sood, IANS, New Delhi : The government has no intention of bulldozing the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha and will instead prefer talking to critics to sort out differences, Law Minister M. Veerapa Moily has said. "After all in a democracy (you) can't bulldoze. Talking is the real beauty of democracy," Moily told IANS in an exclusive interview, underscoring a change of heart on the part of the ruling coaliton that pushed through the proposed legislation in the Rajya Sabha March 9.

‘Saying Islam gave rights to women 1400 years ago, won’t solve our problems’

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A National Study on Muslim Women’s Views on Reforms in Muslim Personal Law released. By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: “Constitutional rights...

Don’t link triple Talaq with uniform civil code: Venkaiah

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New Delhi : Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said the issue of ending triple Talaq practice should not be linked with uniform...

Men harassed by women want separate ministry for themselves

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Agra: A two-day national conference of men's rights activists representing more than 100 groups across India has demanded a separate ministry for men's welfare,...

Nine women in fray for first phase West Bengal polls

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By IANS, Kolkata : A total of 134 candidates, including nine women, remained in the fray Monday after withdrawal of nominations for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in 14 of the 42 seats in West Bengal. Of the 146 candidates who filed their papers, seven withdrew from the race Monday. The papers of five had been rejected during scrutiny Saturday. The first of the three-phase polling in West Bengal will be held April 30. Purulia constituency has the maximum number of candidates, 14. Ghatal and Bishnupur have the lowest number of seven contestants each.

No ‘fatwa’ against working women, says Deoband

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By IANS, Lucknow/New Delhi: Darul Uloom Deoband, India's foremost Islamic seminary, Wednesday denied it has asked Muslim women not to work along with men and said it only suggested that working women should dress "properly". "We had only given an opinion based on Sharia that women need to be properly covered in government and private offices," said Maulana Adnan Munshi, spokesman for the seminary in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. He denied a media report that the seminary was opposed to men and women working together.

Why polygamy should not be encouraged?

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Need to repeat and reassert that polygamy is only an option not a compulsion in Islam. By Dr Kouser Fathima First and foremost. Let it be...

Challenges remain for girls’ education in India: Shabistan Gaffar

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By Nivedita Khandekar, TwoCircles.net, The Indian sub-continent received a unique honour on Friday when Kailash Satyarthi, Indian child rights campaigner, and Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani child education activist, jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014. We take this occasion to review the Indian scenario vis-à-vis girl child education. Excerpts from an interview with Dr Shabistan Gaffar, who is the president of All India Confederation for Women’s Empowerment Through Education and was also the chair of Committee on Girls’ Education for the National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions:

Ban women working in casino, demands Goa Congress

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Panaji: The Goa Congress on Thursday demanded that women be stopped from working in the state's casinos, citing safety issues. Addressing a press conference at...

Mother’s Day With Munawwar Rana

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By Wasiullah Shaikh, TwoCircles.net, Wherever the word ‘Mother’ is mentioned in Urdu poetry events, there the name ‘Munawwar Rana’- a famous urdu poet of our time, will also be mentioned. Through his beautiful poetry (Shayeri), Munawwar Rana has brought whole universe into a single word ‘Mother’.

Wait for some more days for women’s bill: BJP women’s wing

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Panaji : The Narendra Modi-led government has been in power for only six months and should be given "some more days" to usher in...

NHRC notice to West Bengal over lack of water in girls school

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New Delhi, : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued a notice to the West Bengal government over the possibility of closure...

Two Indian women killed in UAE road accident

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By IANS, Dubai : Two Indians were killed and three were seriously injured when the car they were travelling in fell into a gorge near the border between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. Anoopa, 24, an engineer with a Dubai-based engineering firm and her domestic help Pushpa, 50, died in the accident that took place Saturday. According to reports, Anoopa's husband Shibu Varghese, who was driving, lost control of the vehicle in the Al Rouda area in Hatta.

First woman from India’s northeast conquers Everest

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Tribal woman killed in front of her children in Meghalaya

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Shillong : A 35-year-old tribal Garo woman was shot dead in front of her children in Meghalaya by members of an outlawed militant group...

Modi urged to safeguard women’s rights

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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...

Mirza-Hingis win 2015 Wimbledon women’s doubles title

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London: Sania Mirza combined with former world number one Martina Hingis late Saturday to win a thrilling women's doubles final in the 2015 edition...

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.