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By Kulsum Mustafa, TwoCircles.net Lucknow, October 28: 2009: Subhasani Ali, the firebrand CPI (M) leader is not known for mincing words. She talks direct and forcefully with a certain conviction that is both appealing and stimulating and display signs of a leader. True to her party ideals, the lady makes sure that her public addresses generate a mass appeal. She has over the years brought out the common man’s point of view strongly. She did the same at Hindustan Samagam-2009 -UP-Dasha aur Disha ‘(UP’s present situation and its future.) on October 27 in Lucknow.

Dubai: An Indian nanny in Dubai has been accused of strangling an 11-month-old baby girl to death with her scarf as she was denied...

Thiruvananthapuram : Amidst the pandemonium that broke out in the Kerala assembly on Friday, a Congress legislator alleged that he was bitten by Jameela...

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By TwoCircles.net news desk New Delhi: Justice still hesitates to come near certain people. Ruksana Begum of Hailakandi district in Assam is one such unlucky girl, who has been waiting for justice to come her way for more than two years.

New Delhi: BJP leader Maneka Gandhi Sunday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's comment on her son Varun...

Ranchi : At least 27 people have been arrested for beating five women to death near state capital Ranchi for allegedly practising witchcraft,...

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By IANS, Leicester : Indian origin woman Daksha Saujani, a tax official here, has been jailed for two years for siphoning off more than 116,000 pounds of the public's money into her family's bank accounts. The mother-of-three exploited her position of trust while managing a team at the Inland Revenue's family tax credit department. The crimes financed "a lifestyle she wasn't entitled to" and enabled her to send her youngest son to private school.

By IANS, New Delhi : There are no plans for raising new women's battalions or reserve battalions in the central armed police forces (CAPFs), parlaiment was informed Tuesday.

Mumbai : In a historic verdict, the Bombay High Court on Friday permitted the entry of women up to the restricted grave area...

Mexico City : A driver for the ride-hailing service Uber was arrested for raping and robbing a female passenger in Mexico City. The driver was...

By IANS, New Delhi: If one Muslim woman is allowed not to have her photograph on the voters' list, thousands of similar applications would be filed, the Supreme Court noted Monday and aked the petitioner to instead think of some workable solution to resolve the tangle. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice Deepak Verma and Justice B.S. Chauhan made the observation while hearing a lawsuit by Madurai resident Ajmal Khan, resenting the display of the photographs of Muslim women in the voters' list.

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New Delhi: A 24-year-old Mongolian woman has filed a complaint that she was molested by an official at the customs office here Thursday, police...

By IANS, New Delhi : The Lok Sabha was adjourned till Monday noon after MPs from the Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) noisily opposed the Women's Reservation Bill that seeks to reserve a third of seats for women in all legislatures. SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD president Lalu Prasad joined their party MPs in raising slogans as the speaker tried to continue the question hour amid the din.

New Delhi : A Delhi court has said that even a working wife is entitled to maintenance from her estranged husband irrespective of...

By IANS, London: A growing number of women are giving birth in their 50s, as more and more in vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinics relax rules on treating older patients.

By Priyanka Khanna, IANS, Araria/Supaul (Bihar) : For a woman whose eight-hour-old baby died a little while ago, Zafeda Khatum looks surprisingly unflustered. The 18-year-old maintains a stoic silence even as her family members clamour around to explain how she lost her first born to the ice cold waters of the Kosi river that unexpectedly entered her shanty in Araria district of Bihar.

Thiruvananthapuram: In matriarchal Kerala, Congress' Savithiri Lakshman continues to be the only woman party leader to win a Lok Sabha election ever in the...

By Bilal Ahmad Malik, The status and role of a Kashmiri woman have undergone tremendous changes during recent years. As a matter of fact, if...

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

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

By IANS, Kolkata: The body of a young woman, strangulated with a muffler, was found by a riverside in West Bengal Sunday, police said.

New Delhi : Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will attend the ninth annual meeting of women speakers of parliament in Switzerland Sep 4-5. The theme...

By IANS, Lucknow : Officials conducting raids to recover spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh had to leave the exercise midway when some women involved in the illegal business reportedly stripped off in front of them, officials said Thursday. Acting on a tip-off that several illicit liquor manufacturing units were running in Devidas village of Muzaffarnagar district, a 25 member team of the excise department went there to conduct raids Wednesday evening. However, a group of women began stripping before them.

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

Kolkata: The Missionaries of Charity on Tuesday saluted Sister Nirmala's life of service and dedication, recalling her role in taking the religious order forward "We...

By Shaheer Khan for TwoCircles.net Eminent Urdu writer Hamida Salim passed away on Sunday, August 16th at the age of 93 at her house in...

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

By IANS, Sydney : Women recovering from alcoholism are more likely to relapse as they reach midlife thanks to the pressures they face. "Alcohol inflicts more damage, more quickly on women than on men. For those who have already had a problem with the misuse of alcohol, relapsing can have dire consequences," said PhD researcher Janice Withnall of the University of Western Sydney (UWS) School of Education.

By IANS, Lucknow: The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT - A) administration Thursday said it will soon withdraw the fine and punishment on 19 senior girl students after they apologized for ragging junior girls. On Tuesday, 19 B. Tech final year girl students were fined for ragging newly admitted girls at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Allahabad. Besides a fine of Rs.50,000 each, the institute also withdrew the scholarship of the girls expelled from the hostel after the matter came to light.

By TCN News, New Delhi: The Railway Budget 2010 has just short of disappointment for the minorities as Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today in her second budget did not offer any new scheme to them except the announcement to raise special women railway security force preferably from minorities, SC/ST, OBC and economically backward classes. Presenting her second budget as Railway Minister in the UPA Government, Mamata Banerjee presented a populist railway budget with no hike in passenger fares and freight tariffs besides more than 100 new trains.

New Delhi : The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Friday brought in major changes in the deprivation points system which is used to help...

Thiruvananthapuram: As in the past, women outnumber men in the latest electoral rolls of Kerala released on Friday ahead in the May 16 assembly...

By अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली: निर्भया कांड के तीन साल पूरे हो चुके हैं. इन बीते तीन सालों में बलात्कार की घटनाएं और...

By IANS, New Delhi: As protests against the brutal rape of a five-year-old continue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said "vast improvement" was needed in the security accorded to women.

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Udaipur : Hindustan Zinc's project "Sakhi" has been empowering dozens of rural and tribal women in Rajasthan's Zawar region, near here, by teaching...

By IANS, Bangalore : The Karnataka High Court Friday allowed a woman to go with her Muslim husband as the state police sought more time to complete their probe into reports of non-Muslim women being lured by Muslim youth with the intention to convert them to Islam. "There is no 'love jihad' and I had gone with my boyfriend on my own," Siljaraj told reporters as she left the court premises with her lover whom she married. Earlier on Oct 21, the court had sent Siljaraj to her parents' custody for three weeks.

The Muslimah Network is a website dedicated to stories and commentary on Muslim women from an Islamic perspective. Started by the UAE-based writer/graphic designer...

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, New Delhi: Hundreds of Muslim women converged in Hyderabad on Friday to pray for the release of Maulana Muhammad Naseeruddin, his three sons and other Muslim youths who are languishing in different jails in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh for several years.

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi, who is also the Jadavpur University chancellor, Saturday cautioned Vice Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti for delaying action in the...

By IANS Kochi, July 11: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of three Catholic orthodox priests accused of sexually assaulting a woman...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the city government why it has exempted Sikh women pillion riders from wearing a helmet following...

By IANS, New Delhi : A court here Friday granted bail to three people accused of assaulting two Manipuri women. Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri...

By IANS, Washington : Women who project themselves as confident and ambitious in job interviews are perceived as highly competent but lacking in social skills. Women who present themselves as modest and cooperative, while well liked, are perceived as low on competence. However, confident and ambitious male candidates are viewed as both competent and likable and therefore are more likely to be hired as a manager than either confident or modest women.

Hyderabad : The Telangana government has come forward to extend financial assistance to Syeda Salva Fatima, one of the few Muslim women to hold...

By IANS, United Nations : India has sought more representation of women in high decision-making positions at the UN saying greater participation of women in areas of conflict prevention was particularly necessary for lasting peace and security. "India attaches very high importance to ensuring concrete action in this area," said Hardeep Singh Puri, Permanent Representative of India to the UN during a Security Council debate Monday on "Women and Peace and Security".

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...

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

Thiruvananthapuram : All 46 Indian women nurses seized by Sunni insurgents in Iraq were freed Friday and will fly to Kerala Saturday morning, Chief...

Washington : A Sikh woman facing a trial for the murder of her husband's ex-wife in the US, recently left many stunned by accusing...

Lucknow: A 15-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree in a Uttar Pradesh village late Tuesday, police said Wednesday. The father of the...

By IANS, Toronto : Women count their calories when dining with men, but not so when eating with other women, says a new Canadian study. Research at Canada's McMaster University at Hamilton near Toronto has found that a woman dining with a man will gobble fewer calories than if she dines with another woman. Researcher Meredith Young says what a person chooses to eat at lunch or dinner is influenced by who they eat with and the gender make-up of the group, a university statement said Wednesday.

By Rajnish Singh New Delhi : Twentyone cases of sexual abuse of women, on an average, are reported in the capital every day, according...

New Delhi: On a day he filed his nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Saturday said that...

Mumbai: An FIR on Bollywood actress Preity Zinta's alleged molestation charge against her ex-boyfriend and business partner, industrialist Ness Wadia was registered Saturday, police...

By IANS, London : An Indian-origin hair specialist accused of groping women while giving them head massages has been jailed for three years in Britain. The Reading crown court also banned Praminder Mankoo for life from giving treatment without a witness present. He will also have to sign on to the Sex Offenders' List indefinitely. Mankoo had been charged with lewd acts with his clients on Sep 14. Mankoo ran a successful clinic in Thame, Oxfordshire. The instances of his lewd acts occurred between 2003 and 2007, but three of his victims came forward only recently to nail him.

By Alka Pande, CNS It is in India and neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, alone, where Muslim women are oppressed, rest of the Muslim dominated nations give equal status and rights to women. This is how the Muslim minorities feel in this Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. These Muslim minorities also feel that the government schemes do not reach them.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday named Smriti Irani as head of its women's cell as it announced chiefs of various party committees and reconstituted the central election committee. Heads of other cells are Dushyant Gautam for scheduled castes, Faggan Singh Kulaste for scheduled tribes, Tanvir Ahmed for minority affairs and Om Prakash Dhankar for farmers. Om Prakash Kohli will head the party's disciplinary committee. Anurag Thakur will head the party's youth wing.

Patna: A 75-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a 21-year-old man at a village in Bihar, police Sunday said. The incident took place Saturday night...

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.

By IANS, Islamabad : Burqa-clad women suicide bombers in Pakistan have posed a potent threat to the country as it grapples to deal with the Taliban.

Srinagar : While Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti described the student unrest at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) a "non-issue", the...

(Mother's Day is on May 8) By Shilpa Raina, IANS,

By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Anti-AFSPA campaigner Irom Chanu Sharmila is in Delhi in connection with a case filed by Delhi Police against her for holding hunger-strike at Jantar Mantar in the National Capital in 2006 for which she will be produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate at Patiala on May 28. She left Imphal on May 27 accompanied by two jail staff, one doctor, three nurses of Jawahar Lal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) and two personnel of Manipur Police.

New Delhi : Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday said she has formed no opinion on triple talaq as yet...

By Venkatachari Jagannathan, Chennai : J. Jayalalithaa, often described as the 'Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu', returned to power on Saturday - after a seven...

By IANS, New Delhi : A city court Tuesday sentenced a man and his parents to 10 years in jail for demanding dowry from his wife who was forced to commit suicide in 2005. The court also slapped a fine of Rs.10,000 each on Shailender, his father Braham Singh and mother Santosh. "Keeping in view the fact and circumstances of the present case and having regard to the nature and gravity of the offence, I am of the considered opinion that the convicts do not deserve any leniency," Additional Sessions Judge Paramjit Singh said.

By Gaurav Sharma, New Delhi : Women in Delhi are being wooed by political parties like never before, with their safety becoming an important issue...

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By IANS, Bhopal : A Dalit woman was refused water from a handpump, her family beaten up by upper caste people and an infant daughter killed in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district, a police officer said Wednesday. The incident occurred Tuesday in Bhadroni village of Shivpuri district, where caste wars are not too uncommon. Saroj Jatav, 25, went to draw water from a handpump but was stopped by few upper caste people. Later, as she was on her way to the police station with her husband Nawal Singh and three-month-old child Aanchal, Saroj was stopped by the same people and beaten up.

By IANS, Mumbai : Now women have an added reason to travel alone! Leading Indian hotels are offering exclusive wings, separate floors and specialised services to protect and pamper them - a new concept in the country. The ITC hotel chain, for instance, has Eva Floors - floors dedicated to women where men are simply not allowed. "Since security is the prime concern, we bar men from entering this floor. The lifts don't stop at the floor unless you swipe the lift board with your room key card," says Dhunji Kavarna, general manager at Mumbai's ITC Maratha.

By IANS, Lucknow : In order to make rural women of Uttar Pradesh self-employed , a scientist body here has initiated a training project, officials said Monday. Scientists at the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow have launched a pilot project to train rural women for self employment. "CIMAP has undertaken a programme to train rural women in making herbal products like incense sticks, rose water and other products," said A.K. Singh, a CIMAP scientist. Initially, the programme was launched for villages in Lucknow and Barabanki districts.

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram: Censor board chief Sharmila Tagore Saturday inaugurated an exhibition titled "Women in Malayalam Cinema" as part of the ongoing 14th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). The exhibition is being held as part of an exercise to document the history of women in Malayalam cinema - in front of the camera as well as behind the scenes. Inaugurating the exhibition, Sharmila said that the Malayalam cinema industry has a great range of women characters starting from Rosy in 1928.

By IANS, New Delhi: Like other metros in the country, the national capital lacks people's participation in improvement of security for women, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Tuesday.

By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Kozhikode: With battle lines drawn for the upcoming assembly polls, campaigns of both the United Democratic Front and...

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said India "must respect as sacred the rights of women to equal opportunities and dignified living", as...

By IANS, New Delhi : Demanding immediate passage of the women's reservation bill, women rights groups and activists Wednesday took out a protest march here. Organised...

By Ashish Mishra Raipur : Arti Rawte, an 11-year-old tribal girl from Dhobni village of Maoist-hit Rajanandgaon district in Chhattisgarh, used to wake up at...

By IANS, New Delhi : A 40-year-old woman was allegedly raped by three men including a 65-year-old in Trilokpuri area of east Delhi, police said Saturday. "The senior citizen who is accused of rape is related to the victim's son-in-law. The victim's daughter had got married a year ago and at present is going through a marital discord with her husband. The victim had gone to the house of a relative of her daughter's in-laws," a police officer said.

By Minu Jain, IANS, New Delhi: India's politics took a decisive step towards change Tuesday with its upper house passing a historic bill giving one-third representation to women in parliament and state legislatures, crossing the biggest hurdle in the road towards political empowerment for women in the world's largest democracy.

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(International Women's Day is on March 8) By Nivedita, New Delhi : Why does women's empowerment find little space on the small screen? While there is...

New Delhi: Only one-third of the total Indian population with access to the internet are women, says a survey conducted by Google. The survey revealed...

By IANS/EFE, Rio de Janeiro : A woman is killed every two hours in Brazil and this average puts the country in 12th place among nations registering the most violent deaths of women, a study has said. Most of the victims are killed by relatives, husbands, boyfriends, former partners or men they rejected, the 2010 Map of Violence study said Tuesday. Forty percent of women killed in Brazil are between the ages of 18 and 30, and most cases are related to domestic violence, the report prepared by the independent Sangari Institute said.

By Bilal Furqani, AIP Srinagar: Despite a strict security in Kashmir, scores of people including women and children tried to take a protest march to Pather Masjid today afternoon on the call given by Hurriyat (G). Dozens of women demonstrators, led by the Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chief Asiya Andrabi, defied the strict security lockdown in the Srinagar and staged a noisy anti-India rally. The women later dispersed after police tried to block the rally.

By IANS, London : Sania Mirza's run in Wimbledon women's doubles ended when she and Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) went down 2-6, 3-6 to Russia's Alla Kudryavtseva and Monica Niculescu of Romania in the second round here Saturday. The 15th-seeded Indo-Taiwanese pair frittered away opportunities and could convert only one of their seven break points. They in return were broken four times in the 87-minute match.

By IANS, New Delhi : Third seed Sandra Zahlavova of Czech Republic overpowered Serbia's Bojana Jovanovski, 6-4, 6-3, to clinch the $50,000 women's ITF tournament at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association (DLTA) courts here Saturday. Bojana, 16, who put out the first and fifth seeds en route, had no answer to 23-year-old Sandra's aggressive play. The Czech found a chink in the Serb's armour, a weak forehand, and attacked it relentlessly, though both had problems with their serve to start with.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Muslim women are excluded from the mainstream of the society but it is also a fact that they are excluded from the mainstream of the Muslim society as well, said scholar and writer Asghar Ali Engineer at a seminar on Muslim Women: Issues of Exclusion held today at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.

By IANS, New Delhi: Following is the chequered history of the women's reservation bill moved in the Rajya Sabha Monday that seeks to reserve 33 percent seats for women in the country's legislatures: 1996 -- The Deve Gowda government introduces the women's reservation bill as 81st Constitutional Amendment Bill. 1998 -- The bill is re-introduced in the 12th Lok Sabha as the 84th Constitutional Amendment Bill by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government headed Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 1999 -- The NDA government re-introduces the bill in the 13th Lok Sabha.

Mumbai : Financial independence of women can help curtail violence against them by as much as 90 percent, National Commission for Women chairperson Lalitha...

By Ernest Gill, DPA, Hamburg : The way to a lady's heart is through her stomach - if you're a male chimpanzee seeking a mate. But you have to be patient and feed her lots of meat over a long period of time, according to new findings by German scientists. Wild female chimpanzees copulate more frequently with males who share meat with them over long periods of time, according to a study led by German researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Munich.

By IANS, Chennai : A 35-year-old Vietnamese woman was remanded to judicial custody Friday evening for possessing 3 kg of refined heroin worth over Rs.35 million, customs officials said. Identified as D. Thanthipay, the woman had arrived by a scheduled flight from Colombo and was on her way to Bangkok. Acting on a tip-off, officials inspected her luggage and found the contraband drugs in the false bottom of her luggage.

Agartala : A local court in Tripura on Wednesday sent to three days police custody a senior Tripura government official who was arrested a...

Islamabad: A teenaged girl was killed Saturday in an exchange of fire between Pakistani para-military troopers and India's Border Security Force (BSF) along the...

Thane: Activist lawyer Minakshi Jaiswal was brutally killed with her neck slit and two fingers cut off at her residence in Navi Mumbai, officials...

By TCN News New Delhi: Control Arms Foundation of India in collaboration with Multiple Action Research Group and India Habitat Centre successfully conducted...

New York : Five members of the United States women's national team have filed a complaint against United States Soccer, the sport's governing body...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Ira Singhal, the first differently abled woman to top the civil services examination advised the young students to keep...

By IANS, Srinagar : A woman politician who has survived at least five assassination attempts was among the 13 new ministers inducted in the Jammu and Kashmir government Saturday. With this, the strength of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's six-month-old coalition has gone up to 23. Governor N.N. Vohra administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers, who include seven from the National Conference, six from the Congress and one from junior coalition partner, the National Democratic Party.

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By IANS, New Delhi: A nine-year-old girl was raped by a 20-year-old man in the heart of the national capital, police said Saturday. No arrests have been made in the case so far. The incident took place in the servant's quarters at Kasturba Gandhi Marg near Connaught Place Friday, police said. "The incident took place Friday afternoon when the victim was alone in the servant's quarters. Neeraj Kumar, who lives in a servant's quarters in the nearby area, came and forced himself on the minor," a police officer said.

Panna (Madhya Pradesh) : In a callous act, Madhya Pradesh minister Kusum Mehdele, who has already courted controversy for her insensitive remarks on...

By Devanik Saha There was a 24 per cent rise in rural women accessing public healthcare between 2004 and 2014, according to a new report...

New Delhi : With woman power as the theme for this year's Republic Day parade, there was another feather in the cap when Captain...

By Xinhua, Baghdad : A group of unidentified gunmen killed five Iraqis on Saturday in a shooting attack, the U.S. military said. The incident took place near the U.S. Balad base north of Baghdad. The U.S. military said masked gunmen attacked the house belonging to the leader of the local Sunni Awakening Council group, an organization which stood up against al-Qaida terrorists with the back of the American and Iraqi troops. A pregnant woman escaped with an injury in the shooting, the military added.

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 25-year-old woman employee of a call centre was Wednesday evening found strangled to death in her hostel room in south Delhi, the police said. The victim, identified as Shalini Saxena, was found dead in her first-floor room of a private hostel in Gautam Nagar area of Hauz Khas, the police said. Saxena worked for a cell centre in Gurgaon. She hailed from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and was living in the hostel for the past one year.

New Delhi : The government is planning several initiatives to provide better facilities for working women so that they can perform to their full...

By IANS, New Delhi : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Monday criticised Governor Kamla Beniwal for not signing a legislation reserving 50 percent of all seats in local bodies to women.

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, The Shayara Bano case in Supreme Court has ignited a massive debate across the country over the existing Muslim personal laws....

By IANS, Bhopal : Ranjana Baghel, Madhya Pradesh's minister of state for women and child development and social justice, has been booked for allegedly slapping a tribal woman and issuing threats after the victim reportedly questioned her about non-fulfilment of promises regarding development and farm loan waivers, police said Saturday. Baghel allegedly slapped Ganga Bai Friday evening while campaigning for her husband, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate Mukam Singh Kirade, in village Palasi of Dhar district, 250 km from here.

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Lucknow : Police Monday used water cannons to disperse hundreds of BJP women supporters who wanted to march to the chief minister's office here...

By Eliana Gilad What does an Israeli neonatal intensive care unit and the biblical prophetess Miriam, sister of Moses - a figure equally respected by both Jews and Muslims - have in common? They both employed the conscious use of voice, rhythm and music as a means of natural healing in the face of calamity during times of change.

By A. Mirsab , TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Maharashtra state Minority Minister Mr. Arif Naseem Khan who was addressing a rally in Aurangabad city of Maharashtra hurled a full fleshed attack on BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during his speech and asked Muslims to vote for secular party Congress in greater number to beat Narendra Modi’s dream of ruling India.

Ghaziabad: Ghaziabad police Monday registered a criminal case against a person for posting derogatory remarks against former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's daughter and...

Kolkata : To tackle gender imbalance in the state, the West Bengal government has launched a campaign against female infanticide, which includes organising awareness...

Mumbai: Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, who has accused her ex-boyfriend and industrialist Ness Wadia of molesting her, Saturday said the intention behind the complaint...

By F. Ahmed, IANS, Bandipora, (Jammu and Kashmir) : Defying separatists' boycott call and militant threats, Gousia Bashir, the lone woman candidate in this north Kashmir constituency, says she is contesting the elections to highlight the problems of women and the poor. Bandipora, once a hotbed of militants, goes to the polls Nov 17 in the first of the seven-phase assembly elections. And Gousia is contesting against 21 other candidates, all men.