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Meet Waseema Shaikh: A deputy collector from rural India

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Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Born and brought up in a small village called Joshi Sanghvi in Loha Taluka of Nanded District of Maharashtra, Waseema Shaikh struggled...

Documentary salutes Kerala woman’s heroic work

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By IANS,

Woman gives birth in exam hall

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By IANS, Patna : A woman in Bihar gave birth in the examination hall where she was appearing for her class 12 exams, an official...

Domestic violence very high in Asia-Pacific: UN report

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By IANS, New Delhi : Nearly half the population of women in the Asia-Pacific region have experienced physical and sexual violence at the hands of their partners, a report by UN Women claimed.

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.

Nawab Sikandar Begum’s Hajj memoir

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and for over fourteen hundred years a journey of a lifetime for millions of Muslims living in different corners of the world. These hajis returned to their homelands to tell a tale of physical and spiritual journey of extraordinary proportions. Hajj is obligatory for every Muslim man and woman who are able to undertake this journey. A large number of Muslim women from India made this pious trip but one of the first to write an account of her hajj journey was Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal.

The sorry state of Delhi’s women labourers

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By Prashant K. Nanda, IANS, New Delhi : They live and work in the capital, but the city's 200,000 women labourers - most of whom work at construction sites - along with their children are some of the worst sufferers when it comes to health indices. Nearly 48 percent of them got married before the legal age of 18, and 46 percent of the ones among them who were mothers also had their first baby before that age, says a new study carried out by voluntary organisation Mobile Creche.

NCW conducting study on honour killings

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) has commissioned a research study on honour killings in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath told parliament Friday. "A study has been commenced on honour killings in two states and the findings would be known after the completion of the study," Krishna Tirath told the Lok Sabha in a written reply. The government is in the final stages of preparing a bill on honour killings to curb the social menace.

The role of women in the Kashmir uprising

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By Bilal A. Malik for Twocircles.net Since 1947, women participation has been an inalienable element of Kashmir’s resistance movement. The courageous women of Kashmir stood...

Women’s empowerment key issue in Congress meet

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Spare the ruler but do not spoil the child

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By Shobha Shukla, CNS The nation is abuzz with the news of Rouvanjit Rawla, a class VIII student of Kolkata’s prestigious La Martiniere School for boys, who hanged himself four months ago, reportedly unable to bear the humiliation after he was caned by his school principal Sunirmal Chakroborty, and allegedly by some other teachers as well. What was his crime?

Iqra Hasan: A Century-Old Struggle and the Ascent of ‘Brave’ and Consistent Daughter

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Special Correspondent/ TwoCircles.net New Delhi: “I don’t comment on numbers, but it’s for sure that I got blessings of people who want me to represent them...

शहीद पत्रकार दानिश सिद्दीकी को पुलित्जर पुरस्कार

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net अमेरिका के सबसे बड़े पुलित्जर पुरस्कार 2022 के विजेताओं की घोषणा सोमवार को कर दी गई। इस वर्ष चार भारतीय पत्रकारों को...

Man in UP fined, asked to return ‘meher’ for giving Triple Talaq to his...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter A Panchayat in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district fined a man of Rs 2 lakh and asked him to return the ‘meher’...

Triple Talaq: Muslim Personal Law Board’s stand is un-Islamic

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By Syed Ubaidur Rahman The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has told the Supreme Court that Triple Talaq in a single sitting is not...

Noida police irresponsible, broke law: Women actvists

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By IANS,

Golf: Indian girls slip to ninth place

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Hong Kong: The Indian golf team of Gaurika Bishnoi, Ridhima Dilawari and Nishtha Madan ended the second day in tied ninth position at the...

Nitish recommends CBI probe into shelter home rapes

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BY IANS: Patna, July 26: Under pressure from opposition, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday recommended a CBI probe into the alleged rape of over...

यूपीः योगीराज में पूरा न्याय पाने को तरस रही है आधी आबादी

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TCN News लखनऊ। देश के प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी आज महिला दिवस पर अपन सोशल मीडिया अकाउंट देश की आधी आबादी यानि देश की महिलाओं को...

Non-violence needs women

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By Asma Asfour

BJP’s P.C. Sorcar faces sexual harassment case

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Kolkata: P.C. Sorcar, famed magician and BJP candidate from West Bengal's Barasat, is facing a case of sexual harassment pending against him. Sorcar has been...

NHRC asks UP Police for report on woman’s gang rape

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New Delhi : The NHRC Tuesday sought a report from Uttar Pradesh Police following a media report that officials refused to file a complaint...

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...

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.

Kerala no better than Delhi with regards to sexual violence against women

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By Abdul Basith, TwoCircles.net,

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.

Congress leader wanted me to help scam accused: Sushma

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New Delhi : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said a senior Congress leader had pressed her hard to give diplomatic passport...

Meet on rising crime against women in Bengal Feb 23

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By IANS, Kolkata: Blaming West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government for the rise in rape cases in the state, a coordination body of Left-affiliated women's organisations...

Women’s empowerment by education has positive impact on future: President

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Panaji, (IANS): Women's empowerment through education will have a positive impact on our future generations, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday. He also called for...

Indian woman gets 8 yrs for forced prostitution in Malaysia

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By IANS, Kuala Lumpur : An Indian national has been convicted and sentenced for eight years for forcing a compatriot into prostitution after promising her a job as maid in this Malaysian capital. R. Punitha, herself a prostitute, pleaded guilty before Judge Mohammed Nasir Mordin. She screamed, cried and hit her head when the sentence was announced, the official Malaysian news agency Bernama reported. She was charged for exploiting S. Maruthambal, 33, through force and threats at a house here.

Violence against women is not a tenet of Islam

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By Naazish YarKhan, Listening to the radio one day, I was shocked to hear the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report on widespread occurrence of rape in Afghanistan. As a Muslim who knows that the core of her religion is about justice and mercy, I asked myself how the perpetrators of these acts could have strayed so far from the Muslim faith and from basic humane principles.

Indian woman gives birth to first child at 70

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By RIA Novosti, New Delhi : A woman from the northern Indian state of Haryana has given birth for the first time at the age of 70, the Times of India newspaper said on Monday. Rajo Devi and her 72-year-old husband, Bala Ram, had been married for 55 years, but she had been unable to conceive. The woman then underwent in-vitro fertilization treatment at a nearby fertility center and gave birth to a girl on November 28. "Both the mother and child are in good health," the doctor, Anurag Bishnoi, said.

कोई नहीं है भजनपुरा का फुरसा हाल लेने वाला…

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Anzar Bhajanpuri for TwoCircles.net बिहार के कोसी क्षेत्र की पहचान दुनिया भर में है. 2008 की कोसी त्रासदी ने यहां की कठिन ज़िन्दगी और संघर्ष...

“डोंट वांट ए मुस्लिम डिलीवरी पर्सन” !

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net बीते दिनों स्विगी ऐप पर हैदराबाद के एक ग्राहक द्वारा किया गया असामान्य सांप्रदायिक अनुरोध सोशल मीडिया पर खासा बवाल मचाए हुआ है।...

Men posing as policemen held for Delhi women’s gang rape in Goa

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Panaji : Five people, arrested for posing as policemen, have been charged with abducting, beating and sexually assaulting two young women tourists from Delhi...

Child’s rape: Delhi Police clueless about attacker

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New Delhi: It has been two days since a four-year-old girl was found raped in the national capital but Delhi Police are still clueless...

Hyderabad girl critical after attack by spurned lover

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Hyderabad, Feb 6 (IANS) A class 12 student was critically injured in an attack by a spurned lover on Wednesday, police said. The assailant was...

Men against violence-5: Men also face violence but…

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By Nasiruddin Haider Khan, Dhaka : Do the men also face violence within domestic sphere? I come across this question from my friends. They alleged, activists do not want to see violence faced by men in the home. Sometimes, they cite examples of men in abusive relationships. I also wanted to share this question with activists. I was afraid that I will be blamed politically incorrect if I ask this question to anyone from the women’s movement. I thought I will be branded with certain ideological terminology. But during Dhaka Consultation, I gathered courage and raised this question.

Northeast India to get ready-made garment units

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala: The Indian government plans to set up ready-made garment manufacturing units in each of the eight northeastern states which, among other...

Where is Rs.2,000 crore Nirbhaya Fund, AAP asks Centre

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New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday targeted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratice Alliance government at the Centre over women's safety,...

MESAS distributes study kits among 100 Mewat girls

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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...

Woman with son jumps before train, killed

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By IANS, Kolkata : A woman, along with her one-and-half-year-old son, committed suicide Tuesday by jumping before a train in West Bengal's Hoogly district allegedly following dowry demands from her in-laws, the police said. "Punam Sahu jumped in front of a passenger train along with her one-and-half-year-old son at Hoogly's Gobra Station Tuesday. She was being allegedly pressurised by her in-laws for dowry," a police official said. Sahu went to live at her parental house after her husband was detected with cancer a few months ago.

UP cop to woman: Who will rape you at your age?

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By IANS, Lucknow : A Dalit woman, who petitioned a senior Uttar Pradesh Police officer seeking registration of her rape complaint, was told that her's was not an age to be raped.

Ramadan 1435: Patience

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By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net Students wait patiently for the time to break fast at a school-organized iftar event at MWA School, Chennai. Link: Ramadan 1435: TCN serieswindow.onload...

Smoking brings young woman’s marriage to the brink

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By IANS, Nagpur : Addiction to smoking almost cost a young woman her two-year-old marriage. She has salvaged it for now by signing an affidavit that binds her to divorce without alimony if she takes a puff again. The woman's husband, a non-smoker, has brought his errant wife back from her parental home on the condition that she must not smoke again.

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.

Women banned from wearing mini-skirts to work

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By IANS, London: Women in Britain's offices have been banned from wearing mini-skirts to work, and people involved in "customer-facing roles" have been told to look more professional "in a way that shows respect to children and families". Around 400 staff in Southampton City Council's children's services department received a memo telling them they should dress respectfully and "carefully consider their work attire", the Daily Mail reported.

Woman ministry should intervene in ‘honour killing’ cases: Court

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New Delhi : A court here has asked the central women and child development ministry to intervene in the matter of "honour killing" so...

Muslim women education in Kerala: My mom and I, then and now

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By Aaliya Rushdi, TwoCircles.net,

Women’s education key to progress: Rabey Nadvi

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By RINA, Kairana: President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board Maulana Mohammad Rabey Hasani Nadvi said that if a woman is given education then, it will pave the way for the development and progress of the whole family. Similarly, if a woman is deprived of the education then, the whole family would plunge in the darkness of ignorance and superstition. Maulana Rabey Hasani Nadvi was giving away certificates of Khatm-e-Bukhari to the students of Jamia Ummul Momineen Aisha Siddiqua Lil Banat here yesterday.

Framing of charges ordered against man for assaulting northeastern woman

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New Delhi: A court has ordered the framing of charges against a man who was arrested for molesting and assaulting a woman from northeast...

Women’s panel demands Trinamool MP’s arrest for rape remarks

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New Delhi : Demanding the arrest of Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul for making derogatory remarks, the National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday said...

40 percent Delhi women faced sexual harassment in past year: Study

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New Delhi : Despite tougher laws enacted after the gruesome Nirbhaya gang-rape some three years ago, women in Delhi hardly feel safe, says a...

India’s first all-women’s party launched, to contest LS polls

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Mumbai, Jan 21 (IANS) India's first-ever all-women political party -- the National Women's Party (NWP) -- was launched on Monday in Mumbai and it...

Women in elections: Haryana continues discrimination

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By Jaideep Sarin , Chandigarh: Having a skewed sex ratio, one of the worst among Indian states, is not the only blot on Haryana. The...

Birbhum gang rape: Opposition flays Trinamool over SC directive

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Kolkata: The opposition Friday flayed the West Bengal government after the Supreme Court directed it to pay additional compensation of Rs.5 lakh to the...

Severest punishment for woman’s killers: Meghalaya home minister

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Shillong: Meghalaya Home Minister Roshan Warjri Thursday assured severest punishment to the GNLA rebels involved in the coldblooded murder of a tribal Garo woman...

शिक्षा पर बेहतर काम करने वाली सरकार चाहती है सहारनपुर की पहली बार मतदान...

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सिमरा अंसारी।Two circles.net उत्तर प्रदेश में पहले चरण के मतदान की भांति दूसरे चरण में भी लोगों में उत्साह व जोश देखने को...

AMU Women’s College celebrates its Founder’s Day

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

Khabar Lahariya: Making rural media a force for change

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By Rupesh Dutta, New Delhi : It was never easy for Meera Jato, 42, to confront her in-laws' taunts, deal with household hassles and start the country's first rural language weekly "Khabar Lahariya" (News Wave) run only by women. It has in its short existence carved out a clear niche for itself in the ever-expanding media space in India.

Maulana Azad University to offer UGC-NET coaching for minorities

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By TCN News The UGC-NET Coaching Centre at Maulana Azad National Urdu University will offer coaching classes for the UGC-NET exam scheduled to...

When saying ‘no’ empowered these women

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By Shilpa Raina, New Delhi : As a child-bride, activist Sampat Pal's mother-in-law sternly instructed her to have dinner only after everyone in the family had eaten. She agreed, but a part of her rebelled against this gender discrimination. And a day came when she could take it no more and ate before everyone else did. That very moment forever changed the course of life.

Kerala government gives three job options to returnee nurses

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Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government Tuesday offered three options to the 534 nurses who had to return from Iraq and Libya due to the conflict...

निम्मी की कहानी : मुजफ्फरनगर दंगे में विधवा हुई एक कमज़ोर औरत , जिसे...

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निम्मी अब मुजफ्फरनगर के किदवईनगर में रहती है। हो सकता है उसका नाम नईमा हो मगर स्कूल वो कभी गई नही और नईमा उसे...

Saudi women petition king for right to drive

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These women are legends in recorded music

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By IANS, New Delhi: They came from the bylanes of the courtesans' colonies in heartland India to become legends in the annals of recorded music. An exhibition, "Women on Record: Celebrating the Music of Women in the Early 20th Century", traces the history of women in Indian classical music and their involvement with the 78 rpm vinyl records through a series of collages, texts, archival prints and photographs of the women, their lives and their patrons.

Re-codify Muslim Personal Laws: Jamaat Islami’s women wing

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net, Malappuram: While calling upon Muslim women to come forward to effectively utilize the 50% reservation in local self government institutions, the women’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) today demanded re-codification of Muslim Personal Laws such that they cannot be misused.

Delhi Congress’ women’s wing protests

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New Delhi:Hundreds of female activists of the Delhi Mahila Congress protested at the BJP headquarters here against yoga guru Baba Ramdev for his recent...

TWC slams molestation of woman in public

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Agartala : The Tripura Women's Commission Friday severely condemned the assault on and molestation of a woman by a section of people in full...

Women’s panel to probe case of indebted farmers selling women

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday said it was sending a team to probe the "awful and unbelievable" reports that debt-ridden farmers in Uttar Pradesh's drought-hit Bundelkhand region were selling off their women to survive. "It is awful and unbelievable that it still happens in the country and that too in Uttar Pradesh where the chief minister is a woman," NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas told IANS. "We are sending a team to find out the details and have asked for the report within 24 hours," she said.

Government to name ‘snoopgate’ judge by May 16, BJP dismissive

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New Delhi/Shimla : The BJP and Congress Friday exchanged barbs on the 'snoopgate' controversy concerning the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat with union Law...

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...

Canadian women tourists robbed in Lucknow

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By IANS, Lucknow : Two Canadian women tourists were robbed in the Uttar Pradesh capital late Sunday night, police said. The incident took place in the central Hazratganj locality of the capital at around 11:30 p.m. when the tourists from Ottawa, Canada, were returning to their hotel in a cycle rickshaw. "According to the complainants, Gillian and Catherine, two motorcycle borne men intercepted them and snatched their purses," additional superintendent of police Paresh Pandey told IANS.

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...

Two women in new Maharashtra government

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By IANS, Mumbai : Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Fauzia Khan, a Muslim, and Congress party's Varsha Gaekwad, a Dalit, have found place in the new Maharashtra council of ministers sworn in Saturday. Both Fauzia, a Member of Legislative Council (the upper house) from Parbhani, and Gaekwad have been inducted as ministers of state. The convent-educated Fauzia is considered close to NCP chief and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.

Newspaper by rural Indian women wins UN literacy award

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By IANS, United Nations : A newspaper produced entirely by women in rural India is among the four winners of this year's Literacy Prizes awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). Khabar Lahariya, the fortnightly newspaper distributed to more than 20,000 readers in Uttar Pradesh, is entirely created and marketed by newly literate "low caste" women who are training as journalists in Chitrakoot and Banda districts.

Mystery over woman’s death in Ghaziabad

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By IANS, Ghaziabad : Police were Wednesday investigating the death of a former air hostess under mysterious circumstances at Ghaziabad. Some passers-by noticed Jaya Kaushik, a 26-year-old who earlier worked with Deccan airlines, lying critically injured near railway tracks at 11.30 p.m. Tuesday. They rushed her to a hospital where she succumbed to her injuries. Attending doctors said her left leg and right arm were found broken and there were multiple injuries in her abdomen.

Obama administration backs gay marriages in Supreme Court

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Washington: The Obama administration called state bans on same-sex marriage "incompatible with the constitution", as a brief was filed in the US Supreme Court...

CBI files charge-sheet against 13, rules out rape, murder in Shopian case

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By Agence India Press Srinagar: The CBI has filed a charge-sheet against 13 people including six doctors and lawyers for allegedly "fabricating" evidence in the aftermath of recovery of two bodies of women Nelofer and Asiya in Shopian in May this year. The CBI informed the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Monday that a charge-sheet had been filed before a Chief Judicial Magistrate against 13 people for allegedly creating false evidence and witnesses.

Women becoming more susceptible to heart diseases: Expert

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By IANS, New Delhi: Changing lifestyle, stress and a poor metabolic profile are making young and middle-aged women more susceptible to heart diseases, a cardiology expert said here Saturday.

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...

Delhi LS candidate booked for molestation

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New Delhi: A 55-year-old Lok Sabha candidate from Delhi has been booked for molesting and misbehaving with an on-duty woman traffic constable Thursday evening,...

Gang-rape case: Court rejects plea for hearing on alternate days

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By IANS,

Over three million women gather for Pongala festival

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram: Braving the rising mercury and smoke rising from their earthen kilns, more than three million women devotees cooked rice and jaggery as offering for the presiding deity of Attukal Bhagavathi temple here Sunday to celebrate the Pongala festival. The devotees carrying bricks, firewood, rice, jaggery and coconut waited to make an offering of cooked rice to the presiding deity, believed to be an incarnation of Kannaki, the central character of the Tamil epic "Silappathikaaram".

Ramadan 1438: Seher Iqbal

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By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net "I was outside India, as a student, for more than 5 years. I had been around a diverse set of...

Delhi gang-rape accused get defence lawyers

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By IANS, New Delhi: The five accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape who were presented in a Delhi court Thursday have got lawyers to defend them.

Woman gives birth outside health centre, inquiry initiated

Women

By IANS, Lucknow : A 25-year-old woman gave birth to a still-born child outside a community health centre (CHC) in Uttar Pradesh after she was denied admission there. An inquiry has been initiated into the case. Vidyawati was Tuesday night brought to the Gosaiganj CHC in Lucknow district in an advanced stage of pregnancy by her relatives. However, the medical staff at the CHC allegedly refused to admit her. Vidyawati subsequently gave birth to a still-born child in the gallery of CHC, officials added.

Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) in North East India

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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

~Youth Views~ Iranian women a force to be reckoned with

Women

By Talajeh Livani, CGNews, Iran's parliament convened last month for the first time since the April 2008 elections. The results of the parliamentary elections are in and all the votes have been counted. Surprisingly, or perhaps alarmingly, women now account for a mere 2.8 percent of this new conservative-dominated parliament. This is a decline from the already low 4.1 percent representation in the previous Iranian parliament.

Women’s quota bill on agenda: Meira Kumar

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By IANS,

Acid attack on Chandigarh woman for alleged affair

Women

By IANS, Chandigarh : A single mother in Chandigarh was Wednesday battling serious burn injuries after unidentified men threw acid on her for allegedly having an affair with her employer, police said. Nisha, 32, who is divorced and lives with her father, was attacked Tuesday night while she was going to the market on her scooter. "Some unknown persons chased Nisha, who was going towards a market on her scooter, in a Maruti car. After reaching close to her, they threw acid on her," a police official said.

Sex worker battles for her sisterhood

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By Kavita Bajeli-Datt, IANS, New Delhi : She has seen it all - police brutality, harassment and clients with no knowledge of condom use. Now Kala fights for herself and for the over 5,000 women in the sex trade in Bangalore - for security and better health. For this 28-year-old sex worker, who announced at a health conference here that she is HIV positive, the ignorance of one of her clients cost her dear.

Women in science to be focus next Congress

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By IANS,

Eight-year-old girl raped in Ghaziabad

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Ghaziabad : An eight-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her landlord's son here on Wednesday -- but her parents came to know about...

Assam singer faces gender discrimination; barred from performance as she refused putting traditional chadar

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net, Guwahati: Even as several measures are being taken in minimizing the gender discrimination in the country, a female singer in Assam was barred from performing at a function, allegedly for not wearing a particular kind of dress.

Women voters outnumber men in five states, a union territory

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By IANS, New Delhi : In five Indian states and one union territory, women voters will play a crucial role in electing MPs for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as they outnumber their male counterparts, Election Commission statistics indicated Thursday. Incidentally, all these states fall either in southern or in northeastern India. "In states like Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Puducherry, the number of eligible women voters is more than the men electors," a poll panel press release said here.

मायावती से मुसलमानों का मोहभंग, उपचुनाव में नही मिला उनका वोट!

Women

By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ- लोकसभा चुनावों में 10 लोकसभा सीट जीतकर वापसी करने वाली उत्तर प्रदेश में मायावती के नेतृत्व वाली बहुजन समाज...

Book captures everyday art by rural Indian women

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By IANS, New Delhi : Pushpa is a sweeper at the international airport in Mumbai, sweating it out for eight hours a day to fend for her family of three. But when at home in a slum, the widow is an artist - she draws rice-flour "kalam", or sacred designs to welcome guests, outside her home in a narrow alley near Santa Cruz. Lalita, a Yadav housewife at Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan, is rooted to a culture where women have lived behind the veil for years. But she is bound to Pushpa by a thread of colours.

Show political will on women’s bill, CPI-M tells government

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government should show political will in passing the women's quota bill in the Lok Sabha, the Communist Party of India-Marxist said Tuesday, a day after an all-party meeting on the issue failed to reach a consensus. "The government should show political will," CPI-M MP Brinda Karat said on the government's decision to hold further discussion on the bill without setting a time frame. It did not say whether the meeting would be held before the house assembles April 15 after a three-week break.

Women candidates still stuck in ‘winability’ factor?

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By Sreeparna Chakravarty, New Delhi : Political parties have made a plethora of promises during the campaign for the 2014 general elections for the betterment...

Treat women with respect: President Mukherjee

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By IANS, New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee Monday stressed the need to bring about a change of mindset in the society so that women are treated with dignity and respect.

Hyderabad Siblings Launch India’s First All-Women Taxi Bike Service

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Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad: “It was while commuting to college that I began exploring ideas for safe travel for women after personally facing security issues....

Rapes and Crimes against Women in India

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Outraged South Asians protestoutside Indian High Commission By M Ghazali Khan, London: In a display of unity against unbridled series of rapes and other crimes against women in India, particularlyin Uttar Pradesh more than 400 people of various denominations have protested outside the Indian High Commission, 4 June. Protesters includedBritish Dalit organisations, women rights organisations, writers, poets and filmmakers.

Men against violence-3 : Violence strike at one’s heart

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By Nasiruddin Haider Khan, Dhaka : Why we talk so passionately about gender based violence? Why do we put so much energy on it? The big question is WHY? WHY?? WHY??? Answer lies on the impact of violence. Is not so?

Coming soon: Separate courts for rape victims

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By Kanu Sarda, IANS, New Delhi: Rape victims coming to a court to depose will not have to sit along with criminals facing trials as the Delhi High Court has proposed to set up separate courts for them. During a hearing on a rape case, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar said Wednesday, "We are proposing to have separate courts for rape victims and initially nine such courts will be set up and the district judge will look after it."

Gujarat’s Parsi woman seeks court help to worship

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By IANS, Gandhinagar: A Parsi woman married to a non-Parsi has sought the Gujarat High Court's intervention to avail the fundamental right to worship and to access the religious places of Parsis she was denied by her community after her marriage. The Public Interest Litigation (PIL), perhaps the first of its kind, was admitted in Ahmedabad Thursday. The petition was filed by Goolrokh Adi Contractor, now Goolrokh Mahipal Gupta, resident of Valsad, who married a non-Parsi in 1991.

Nurse murder: No takers for property of Congress legislators’ sister

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ट्रिपल तलाक़ : इस्लाम में क्या है?

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तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी इस्लाम और इस्लामिक देशों में ‘तलाक़’ कभी कोई मसला नहीं रहा. सच तो यह है कि हमारे देश में मुसलमानों की शिक्षा की...

Attitude toward women is changing: Activists

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New Delhi : There has been a change in the attitude towards women and on the gender issue, women activists said Thursday. "There is change,...

For women, a crash course in job skills

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By Fakir Balaji, IANS,

AMU alumni band ‘ANTIM’ to release its composition of National Anthem on Republic Day

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: A music band formed by the alumni of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come...

Ramadan 1439: Zainaba and Haroon

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By Poornima Marh, TwoCircles.net Zainaba Farzana is a dentist and her husband Haroon works for a medical instrument company in Saudi Arabia. They have two...

Key Ishrat Jahan documents missing: Rajnath

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New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that key documents related to the Ishrat Jahan case have gone missing from his ministry...

Women’s panel launches NRI cell

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By IANS, New Delhi : Faced with increasing cases of abandonment and divorce of women married to overseas Indians, the National Commission for Women (NCW) Thursday launched an NRI cell to deal with such complaints. The NRI cell will provide legal counselling to women deserted by their overseas husbands. It will also advise and give recommendations to the government on policies related to NRI marriages. Besides, the cell will also carry out awareness campaigns on the subject.

Indian-origin man charged with murdering woman

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Sydney: An Indian-origin man was Wednesday charged with the murder of a Singaporean student at a hotel in the Australian city of Brisbane. Senthill Kumar...

85 million women missing in India, China: UNDP

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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) At least 100 million (10 crore) women are missing in seven Asian countries, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said Monday. It said 85 million of them are from India and China. "While Asia and the Pacific can take pride in the regions' vibrant economic transformation in recent decades, this has not translated into progress on gender equality," a fresh UNDP report released on the occasion of International Women's Day said here.

Why are Sikh women exempted from wearing helmet: HC

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

Women’s car rally to create breast cancer awareness

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By IANS, New Delhi: Nearly 100 women, some of them survivors of breast cancer, will drive from Delhi to Jaipur April 2 to create awareness about the disease that kills over 40,000 women every year in India. "Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in cities and we hope this rally will spread awareness among people," Ramesh Sarin, founder chairperson of the Forum for Breast Cancer Protection, told IANS Tuesday.

Two injured in Agra clash

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Lucknow : Two people were injured when two groups clashed in Agra which prompted police reinforcements to control the situation, police said on Monday. The...

Women’s power at Sushma’s high tea

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New Delhi : With warm hugs and handshakes under a pleasant spring sun with some delectable eats to add the extra zest, prominent women...

SC pulls up Bengal for failure to protect rape victim’s rights

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New Delhi:The Supreme Court Friday said that West Bengal government failed to protect the fundamental rights of a village woman who was gang raped...

World Archery: Indian women get bronze

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By IANS, Kolkata: The cadet compound women's team gave India a bronze medal on the penultimate day of the 11th Youth World Archery Championship at Ogden (Utah) in the US Saturday. The Indian troika of Prerna Bhagat, Nilam Kumari and Sairkonda Jayalakshmi downed Russian Federation 211 (28) - 211 (26) after the two combatants tied at the end of 24 arrows. In the three-arrow shoot off, India managed 28 points to Russia's 26. Two other Indian teams, cadet recurve men and cadet compound men, lost to superior opponents, Italy and the US, 199-215 and 207-229, respectively.

Ramadan 1437: Noor Jehan

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By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net Noor Jehan came to Kanpur from Bombay as a young bride. Living a pampered life till then, she wasn’t as well...

Abducted Tripura girl rescued in Bihar

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Agartala: Bihar Police have rescued a 16-year-old girl kidnapped from Tripura and arrested her abductor, police said here Saturday. "A married young man kidnapped the...

For Her Majesty, a private piano recital from Condoleezza

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By IANS, London : What happens when the most powerful American woman meets the most powerful British woman? Music flows. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stopped over in London on her last political tour before she leaves office in January and met Queen Elizabeth in Buckingham Palace Monday ahead of her talks with the British government on terrorism issues, including the Mumbai strikes. Rice told the queen of a long-standing wish: to play the piano for Her Majesty in a private recital.

Crimes against women up in 2016

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By IANS: New Delhi, July 24: Number of crimes recorded against women went up in 2016 to more than 3.3 lakh (338,954) from 3.2 lakh...

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...

Ujjwal Nikam named prosecutor for Pune gang-rape trial

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By IANS, Mumbai : The Maharashtra government Friday appointed ace lawyer Ujjwal Nikam as the special public prosecutor in the trial of three men accused of gang-raping a married woman in Pune last week. Nikam would lead the prosecution in the case which will be tried in a fast track court, Home Minister R.R. Patil announced in the legislative assembly.

Women’s rights must be respected: President

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

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.

Gangubai ushered in women’s power in music: cultural fraternity

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By IANS, New Delhi/Bangalore : The cultural fraternity across the country mourned the death of legendary Hindustani classical singer Gangubai Hangal, saying her demise ended an era of women's power in traditional Indian music which had conventionally been a male bastion. Gangubai was an exponent of the Kirana gharana.

IAF approves women in combat roles

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By Gulshan Luthra, New Delhi : Induction of women officers in combat roles in the Indian Air Force (IAF) now seems possible. The IAF chief, Air...

Close to 6,000 poor patients treated free by IMRC in 12 days in three...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Kerala:The 7th annual India Health Initiative-2016, a program created by US-based NGO India Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) to...

Young women seek protection in Bangalore after attacks

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By IANS, Bangalore : A group of young women Monday asked Bangalore police to ensure security of women in India's tech hub, as at least six women, including a journalist, have been attacked in the last ten days. The young women, accompanied by members of Alternative Law Forum, submitted a memorandum to Shankar Bidari, the city police commissioner, over attacks on them for wearing western attire and allegedly not conforming to Indian culture and traditions.

Women all decked up, keep fast on Karwa Chauth

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No arrest yet in Dimapur lynching case; victim’s body reaches Assam

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Dimapur/Guwahati: The Nagaland government is yet to make any arrest in connection with Thursday's incident when a mob broke into Dimapur's high-security central jail...

SSSC condemns Irom Sharmila’s re-arrest

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign (SSSC) has condemned the re-arrest of Irom Sharmila. On 19th August, Imphal Court in its...

IMA works out plan to address tribal health issue

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Thiruvananthapuram: Taking a serious view of increasing infant deaths and malnutrition cases reported in Attappady, one of the largest tribal settlements in Kerala, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has drawn up a detailed action plan to find solution for various health issues with special focus on antenatal care of tribal women.

Teresa Rehman wins Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity

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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

महिलाओं की दुनिया का एक कड़वा सच

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net महिला दिवस हर साल की तरह आया और चला गया. खानापूर्ति के लिए महिलाओं पर जमकर भाषणबाज़ी की गई और सशक्तिकरण...

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).

Congress accuses Odisha woman minister of abduction

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Bhubaneswar : The opposition Congress in Odisha Monday accused a woman minister in the BJD government of abducting a person during the cooperative societies...

“We should record our history, our victory” Dalit poet Mercy Margaret

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Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Dalit literature that revolves around the struggles and lives of Dalits first emerged in the 1960s and has seen exponential growth since....

BJP’s claim of protecting Muslim women is fraudulent, Talaq Bill satisfies Hindutva forces: SDPI

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By TCN News New Delhi: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) condemned and opposed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s desperate attempts to pass...

Taxi drivers pledge to make Delhi roads safer for women

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New Delhi : Auto and taxi drivers on Thursday took pledge to make Delhi roads safer for women. They took the pledge in this regard...

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विशेष संवाददाता। Twocircles.net बिहार में हुए उपचुनाव के नतीजों में गोपालगंज के नतीजे बहुत अधिक चर्चा में है। यहां राजद चुनाव हार गई है, राजद...

Rajiv killing conspirators not to be free for now, kin dismayed

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New Delhi/Chennai: The Supreme Court Friday said that the seven conspirators in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination will not be released for now, a...

Mumbai: Girl Students Asked To Remove Hijab At The College Gate Introducing New Dress...

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By K K Ahmed / TwoCircles.net NG Acharya & DK Maratha College in Mumbai's Chembur area has been in the news from the last few...

‘Indian farm women work more but earn less’

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By Brij Khandelwal, IANS, Agra : Indian women work more but earn less than men, says an eminent agricultural economist. In his latest book he shows how women continue to get a raw deal despite putting in longer hours and work that is critically more important for the farm sector and the family.