Molestation-accused JNU students union members quit
New Delhi: The president and joint secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) have resigned from their post, after being allegedly named...
Ramadan Special: Women Of All Faiths Attend ‘Iftar’ in Masjid in Aurangabad
By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net
Aurangabad (Maharashtra): “I stepped into the mosque for the first time. We were welcomed by the host with great love and...
More women than men in Kerala; few enter parliament
By Sanu George,
Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala has more women than men, but few women contest and even fewer reach parliament.
Kerala has the highest gender electoral...
Daughter wants death for rapist dad
By IANS
Amritsar: "My father should not be spared for his acts. He should be shot dead," was the impassioned plea of the college-going daughter of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. The father has allegedly been raping his daughter for the past eight years.
Speaking to reporters here Thursday, the 20-year-old said she wanted no mercy for her father. "Don't spare him. The police should shoot him dead," she said, speaking in Punjabi.
Omar Abdullah targets Mehbooba on Women’s Day
By IANS,
Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah lashed out at his rival Mehbooba Mufti for "playing petty politics" on women victims.
To mom with love: Lifestyle stores line up special Mother’s Day hampers
By IANS,
New Delhi : "Mother of mine you gave to me, all my life to do as I please..." As children gear up to pamper their mothers this Sunday, lifestyle and home decor stores are getting ready to cash in on the umbilical tie with an array of gifts.
The wares on offer for Mother's Day vary from designer coffee mugs, delicate silver bric-a-bracs, chandeliers with antique finish, ivory bathroom sets, fine-dining cutlery, upholstered chairs to designer 'kurtis', accessories and handbags.
महिलाओं को सशक्त करने की ओर एक अनोखा प्रयास
उषा राय
समय के साथ भारत तेज़ी से लैंगिक समानता की ओर बढ़ रहा है. यहां इसी परिप्रेक्ष्य में कुछ रोचक कहानियां मौजुद हैं, जो...
164 chit fund companies under probe for cheating
New Delhi : As many as 164 ponzi, or chit fund, companies are currently being probed by central agencies for duping customers across the...
Rape is fault of the victims, say half of women: survey
By IANS,
London : Half of women think that rape victims are to blame for the attack, a media report said Monday quoting a British study.
The poll of 1,000 adults found that 54 percent of women believe rape victims should be held accountable for their attack and women were more likely than men to blame victims, with those aged between 18 and 24 the most likely to judge, Daily Mail reported.
27 held for killing five women over alleged witchcraft
Ranchi : At least 27 people have been arrested for beating five women to death near state capital Ranchi for allegedly practising witchcraft,...
Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhgam mark Babri demolition anniversary with protests
By Newsdesk, TwoCircles.net
Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam organised protests and demonstrations throughout the state on Friday, December 6, marking the Babri Masjid demolition. The...
Woman killed in Pakistani firing on LoC
Srinagar: A woman was killed Saturday in firing by Pakistani soldiers on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police...
DMK, AIADMK to groom women of substance for elections
By IANS,
Chennai : Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK and main opposition AIADMK have sprung into action, now that the women's reservation bill is just a step away from being passed. Both parties have decided to groom their women cadres to fight elections.
The ruling DMK is planning to hold camps across the state to empower its women cadres.
मजबूत गवाही और तकनीकी साक्ष्य बने आज़म खान को सज़ा की वजह
स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। twocircles.net
समाजवादी पार्टी के नेता आज़म ख़ान की मुश्किलें एक बार फिर बढ़ गई है। 2019 के एक हेट स्पीच के मामले में...
Why I participated in the Yuva Hunkar rally
Text and photos by Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
The Yuva Hunkar rally, which took place in Delhi today, saw a sizeable participation from people from all...
Nine arrested for torturing Assam woman as ‘witch’
Guwahati : Nine people were arrested Wednesday in Assam's Sivasagar district for torturing a woman and branding her a 'witch', police said.
The incident took...
IPS officer alleges harassment by senior
Gurgaon: Gurgaon's Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Bharti Arora has accused her boss, Navdeep Singh Virk, of harassment and mental torture and wrongly interfering...
AIUMB forms a council of Muftis to develop consensus on Triple Talaq issue
By TCN News
New Delhi: The executive body of All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB) met here on Monday to discuss the issue of...
Female scribes face misogyny and patriarchy, say women journalists
New Delhi : Women journalists, like men, should be judged on the basis of their stories rather than their gender in the male-dominated world...
Women protest outside police headquarters
By IANS,
New Delhi : About 150 women stated a noisy protest outside the Delhi Police headquarters here demanding more police presence on roads and fast-track courts to deal with rapists.
Bangladesh’s ninth parliament will have record 64 women
By IANS,
Dhaka : Bangladesh, where politics is dominated by two former prime ministers Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia, will see a record 64 women sitting in its ninth Jatiya Sangsad (national assembly).
For the first time, 19 women contesting for 23 parliamentary seats defeated their rivals by huge margins in the election that saw the Hasina-led alliance winning three-fourths of the 299 seats.
They will be joined by 45 women nominated to the assembly as per a provision in the constitution. Generally, they are from the ruling alliance, boosting their majority.
Nawazuddin’s new movie deals with controversial Halala law
Mumbai: After being a part of 68th Cannes International Film Festival, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui's “Miyan Kal Aana” production, directed by his younger brother Shamas...
Courts sentences minor’s rapist, murderer to death
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar: A court in Orissa's Ganjam district Monday sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering an eight year old girl three years ago, officials said.
District and Sessions Judge Raghubir Das handed down capital punishment to A. Chandraya, 43, after convicting him, in Berhampur town, some 180 km from here, public prosecutor H.K Pradhan said.
Chandraya, a resident of Dayapalli village in the district, accompanied the girl to a local community feast Dec 24, 2007 night, on her father's request.
Women commission rejects member’s report on Mangalore attack
By IANS,
New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Friday rejected its member Nirmala Venkatesh's report that blamed the Jan 24 attack on women in a Mangalore pub on the security of the establishment.
NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said the report lacked on three counts - no social activists or local advocates were included in the committee, none of the persons attacked were contacted or interviewed, it focussed on the licence issued to the bar owners that was not part of the probe - and was thus not acceptable.
Vitamins C, E, beta carotene fail to cut cancer risk among women
By IANS,
Washington : Women who take beta carotene or vitamin C or E or a combination of the supplements face a similar risk of cancer as women who do not take them, according to fresh data.
Studies have suggested that people whose diets are high in fruits and vegetables, and thus antioxidants, may have a lower risk of cancer.
Results from randomised trials that address the issue, however, have been inconsistent and have rarely supported that observation.
Ramadan 1436: Rain
Who hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby...
Extraordinary stories of ordinary women
TCN Special Series: Part 2 on Anwari Noor Jahan
By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,
Chhath festival concludes peacefully in Bihar
By IANS,
Patna : Millions of people, mostly women, took a dip in rivers and ponds across Bihar and offered prayers to the rising sun early Wednesday to mark the end of the four-day long Chhath festival, which concluded peacefully.
Devotees, attired in new colourful clothes, ended their 36-hour fast by offering prayers and floating lighted earthen lamps in water bodies. They sang folk songs and offered prayers to the sun god.
A rare show of harmony was on display when people cutting across social barriers gathered to celebrate Chhath in villages and towns.
19-year-old gang-raped, three arrested
New Delhi: A 19-year-old woman was allegedly raped by four men, of which three have been arrested, police officials said Wednesday.
One of the accused...
Pregnant women, newborns struggle to survive in flooded Bihar
By IANS,
Patna : The floods in Bihar have been a nightmare for pregnant women, with many dying during childbirth due to lack of medical care, and those who gave birth have little to rejoice as they have to share a tent with dozens of people. The state government has now announced a cash grant to each newborn.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced that each girl child born in relief camps would be given Rs.11,000 and a baby boy would get Rs.10,000.
Punish tipplers with brooms, says Bihar women’s panchayat
By Imran Khan
Patna: A women's panchayat in a Bihar village has ordered women to punish with brooms people found consuming and selling liquor, while...
‘For women, toilets more important than mobiles’
(March 8 is International Women's Day)
By Shahnawaz Akhtar, IANS,
British woman seeks truth about daughter’s death in India
By IANS,
London : A British woman is running from pillar to post to find the cause of her daughter's death days after she married her Indian boyfriend in India.
Sandy Hunter, 50, has just returned from India after securing guardianship of her daughter Charlotte Bending's son from a previous marriage.
Charlotte began a relationship with Jitendra Singh, from Kurukshetra in Haryana, who was living and working in Plymouth for the past six years.
Singh has a natural son, Gorkarak, while Nasrullah is the Charlotte's son from her earlier marriage to a person now said to be in custody.
Court fines NRI rape accused for frivolous plea
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Wednesday slapped a fine of Rs.100,000 on a non-resident Indian, accused of rape, for filing a "misleading" plea for quashing the charges against him.
Justice S. Muralidhar dismissed the plea of Neeraj Gulati and fined him for stating wrong facts in his plea.
According to the prosecution, Neeraj had raped his servant, a native of Jharkhand, in his Naraina home here February 15, 2007. A first information report confirming the sexual assault was filed Feb 19.
The way to a lady’s heart is through her stomach – if you’re a...
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.
Congress walkout over Chhattisgarh girls’ trafficking
By IANS,
Raipur: The opposition Congress staged a walkout Tuesday in the Chhattisgarh assembly, accusing the state's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of doing little to prevent trafficking of thousands of youth, mainly girls, from poor families to metros.
The house witnessed a heated debate when the government replied in the assembly it was doing its best to trace out an estimated 7,000 people missing in the state for many years.
Women’s bill is ‘historic step forward’, says PM
By IANS,
New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the women's reservation bill set to pass in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday was "a historic step forward" towards the emancipation of Indian women.
"This is a momentous development in the long journey of empowering our women," he said at the end of a lively debate on the bill that seeks to reserve a third of seats in parliament and state assemblies for women.
Provide facilities to homeless, lactating women in Delhi: Court
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Friday directed the city government to provide food and medical facilities to homeless pregnant and lactating women...
Gender Representation Declines: India Elects 74 Women MPs in 2024, Down from 78 in...
Sakshi Srivastava, TwoCircles.net
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, India elected 74 women MPs, down from 78 in 2019, indicating a decrease in women's representation....
UK elects first female Sikh MP
London, (IANS): Preet Gill has become the first female Sikh MP to be elected to the UK's Houses of Parliament as Thursday's general election results...
Kejriwal accuses BJP of failing to protect women
New Delhi : AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Sunday asked the people of Delhi to vote for his party and accused the BJP of failing...
Advani’s wife dies after heart attack; Leaders extend condolences
New Delhi : Kamla Advani, wife of veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani, died here on Wednesday following a heart attack.
She was taken to...
Gujarat High Court notice to IAS officer’s wife in US
Ahmedabad : The Gujarat High Court on Saturday issued notice to Shyamal Sharma, wife of suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma, to appear before it...
NHRC seeks report on six witchcraft killings in Odisha
Bhubaneswar : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued a notice to Odisha's Keonjhar district magistrate and superintendent of police to...
लावारिस लाशों का अंतिम संस्कार करने वाली पूजा शर्मा को अपनों ने ठुकरा दिया,...
पूनम मसीह/ TwoCircles.net
“अब मेरे मोहल्ले के लोग भी मुझसे बात नहीं करते हैं. मेरे दोस्तों ने मुझे छोड़ दिया है। लेकिन मैं अकेली खुश...
मां के बाद अब प्रोफेसर नबीला सादिक भी दुनिया छोड़ गई !
स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net
दूसरों की मदद को सदैव तैयार रहने वाली जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया की असिस्टेंट प्रोफेसर नबीला सादिक की मृत्यु से उनके छात्रों...
Muslim Women’s collective criticises AIMPLB’s stance on Triple Talaq
By TCN News
Bebaak collective, a reading, learning and sharing process initiated for Muslim women three years ago, has come out strongly against the...
Now, row over Maharashtra SP chief’s comments
Mumbai: A day after Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments on rape created a furore, his party's Maharashtra unit chief Abu Asim Azmi's...
Women form only a third of India’s internet population: Google
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...
In Rural Telangana, How a Dalit Women-Run Radio Station Is Changing Lives
Mohini Kapoor, TwoCircles.net
Hyderabad: Not long ago, in a corner of southern India where caste and gender boundaries still hold strong, the idea of Dalit women...
HRD ranks JNU, HCU among top four universities
New Delhi : Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad Central University, which recently faced controversies, have figured in top four rankings released by the union...
Where is Rs.2,000 crore Nirbhaya Fund, AAP asks Centre
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,...
UP announces free bus ride for women on Raksha Bandhan
Lucknow, (IANS): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday announced that women across the state will get free ride on all state-owned buses on...
Will write to Centre to probe alleged CNG scam: Gopal Rai
New Delhi : Delhi's Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Monday said he will write to the central government to probe the "CNG scam" alleged...
Delhi polls: Women candidates promise the moon on security
By Sreeparna Chakrabarty,
New Delhi : With women's security being such a big issue in the capital, women candidates in the Feb 7 Delhi assembly...
Decadal increase in separated women goes up to a million
By IANS,
New Delhi : The government Friday said the number of divorced and separated women in the country has gone up by nearly a...
Questions raised over Bihar Class 12 toppers; govt. to re-examine answer sheets
Patna : After questions were raised over the quality of Class 12 Science and Arts toppers this year in Bihar, the state government has...
Bihar village bans jeans, T-shirt for girls
By IANS,
Patna: After three of its girls went missing, a village in Bihar's Siwan district has barred girls from using mobile phones and wearing jeans and T-shirts, an official said Monday.
Hopes run high with women’s reservation bill
By IANS,
New Delhi : Homemakers, students, professionals, social activists -- many women are keeping their fingers crossed and hoping that the Women's Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33 percent of seats in legislatures for women, will get passed in the Rajya Sabha Monday.
"I am quite sure the women's reservation bill will be passed this time. The kind of support the bill has garnered is good and for a change political parties have left behind their differences to stand united on this subject," said Arusha Verma, a school teacher.
Woman, man die in Gujarat hospital fire
By IANS,
Ahmedabad: A pregnant woman and a man were killed when a fire broke out in a hospital here Saturday, an official said.
The fire broke out in the catheterization laboratory of the V.S. Municipal Hospital, where the woman was on a ventilator.
"The fire sparked off due to a short circuit in the cath lab. It soon spread to a nearby ward. Fire fighters were rushed to the spot," the official said.
"About 100 patients were shifted to other wards," he added.
Shock, anger in Kashmir after brutal murder of young woman
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...
Two boys held for raping 16-year-old
By IANS,
Lucknow: Two Class 11 boys have been arrested for allegedly raping their 16-year-old classmate at gunpoint in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh, police said Monday.
The two were nabbed late Sunday from Rajuaha forest area, about 400 km from Lucknow, police Inspector R.K. Singh told reporters.
The girl was abducted and raped Friday by three boys at a secluded place. The boys and the victim studied in the same class in Baraut town. The third accused is on the run.
No relief for Soni Sori: Brother-in-law, sister, picked up for interrogation
By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter
Delhi: Having barely recovered from a brutal attack on her face by assailants, Soni Sori, the human rights activist from Chattisgarh,...
BSF to deploy women troopers along borders
By IANS,
Agartala : Indian border guards will soon deploy women troopers in the northeast frontiers to deal with the trans-border crimes involving women, officials...
Modi says glad to see highest number of women in UP assembly
New Delhi, (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed happiness to see a new record of highest number of women MLAs elected to...
4 held for misbehaving with JNU girls, baton charge on campus
By IANS,
New Delhi: Violence broke out on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus late Sunday evening when four outsiders in an inebriated state were caught teasing women students and Delhi Police had to resort to baton charge and teargas to disperse the agitated students.
Centre proposes investigative units for crime against women
New Delhi : The central government has proposed to states the setting up of investigative units for crime against women (IUCAWs) on a 50:50...
Raped Dalit woman struggles for justice in Orissa
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar: A month after a Dalit woman in Orissa was allegedly gang raped by four men, including a former leader of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the police have arrested only one of the accused. Opposition parties claim that a minister is shielding them and are demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
A 24-year-old woman has accused politician Mahesh Agarwal and three other men of having raped her at Paikmal in Bargarh district, about 350 km from here, May 10.
Protests against TDP legislator for ‘manhandling’ woman officer
Hyderabad : Government employees in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday launched protests demanding the arrest of a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislator and his aides...
Teacher held for trying to molest student in Kashmir
Srinagar : A school teacher was arrested on Wednesday for attempting to molest a Class 6 girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police...
Indian parliament elects its first woman speaker, Meira Kumar
By IANS,
New Delhi : History was made in India Wednesday when diplomat-turned-politician Meira Kumar, 64, became the first woman speaker of the Lok Sabha - the lower house of parliament - with MPs cutting across party lines supporting the election of the Dalit leader.
The newly elected members of the 15th Lok Sabha watched in rapt attention as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani, who were engaged in a bitter war of words until a month ago, together led Meira Kumar to the podium.
Rehana Azmi – The inspiration of late Adv. Shahid Azmi
TCN series on Muslim women empowerment
On International Women's Day on 8th March, TCN is bringing great stories of Muslim women empowerment from different states of India -- Editor
Bengal youth beaten up for protesting women’s harassment dies
Kolkata : A 20-year-old college student, who slipped into coma after being beaten up for protesting harassment of women during an idol immersion procession...
Deeba Zafir- an academician, writer, thinker and activist
TCN Special Series on Women of Inspiration
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,
Sabrang Communications denies ‘motivated allegations’ by CBI
By TCN News,
Mumbai: Sabrang Communications and Publishing Pvt. Ltd. (SCPPL) has once again denied the CBI’s allegations of it having violated provisions of...
दलित-मुस्लिम महिलाओं के हक के लिए लड़ती कनीज़ फातिमा
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
आजमगढ़(उत्तर प्रदेश): हमारे समाज में आज भी जब औरतें आजीविका के लिए घर से बाहर कदम रखती हैं तो उन्हें कड़ी चुनौतियों...
Triple Talaq: Turning a mole hill into a mountain
By Moin Qazi for TwoCircles.net
O People, it is true that you have certain rights over your women, but they also have rights over...
Rape-tainted Meghalaya ex-policeman sent to prison
Shillong : A court in Meghalaya on Wednesday remanded a former police officer to 14 days' judicial custody for allegedly raping two teenaged girls...
No safety for women on Delhi roads: Supreme Court
By IANS,
New Delhi: Holding that there was no safety for women on Delhi's roads, the Supreme Court Court said Friday: "We are failing to treat women with dignity, equality and respect."
Rs.50 crore for making public transport safer for women
New Delhi : To make public transport safer for women, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday allocated Rs.50 crore to the road transport and highways...
Writer Kamala Das is dead
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : Poet and writer Kamala Das, well known for her works in both Malayalam and English, passed away in Pune early Sunday, family sources said. She was 75.
She was suffering from diabetes and was recently hospitalised with pneumonia. The end came in a private hospital.
Manmohan to meet Chile’s first woman president Tuesday
By IANS,
New Delhi : With his health improving by the day after a coronary bypass surgery seven weeks ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Chile's first woman president Michelle Bachelet here Tuesday.
President Pratibha Patil will host a state banquet and cultural programme for Bachelet Monday night, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Chile.
Over 32,000 cases of women’s rights violation in 2014-15
New DelhiI More than 32,000 cases of violation of rights of women have been reported by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights...
Verdict in Buddha Garden rape case likely Friday
By IANS,
New Delhi: A city court is likely to pronounce its verdict Friday on the sensational Buddha Jayanti Park gang rape case of 2003 involving four members of the President's Bodyguards as the accused.
Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria had reserved the order last week and is likely to pronounce it Friday.
According to the prosecution, the victim had gone with her friend Ashish to the park near the Rashtrapati Bhavan Oct 6, 2003 and was raped by Harpreet and Satendra while Kuldeep and Manish kept guard.
EU, UN pay tribute to Indian women
New Delhi : In many rural families in India, there is still a preference for investing in education for boys as compared to girls,...
Uber rape case: Prosecution completes recording of evidence
New Delhi: In just 17 days, the prosecution in the Uber rape case Saturday completed recording of evidence in a court here.
The prosecution, which...
Triple talaq bill will put Muslim women in trouble: Mamata
Kolkata, (IANS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday termed the triple talaq bill as "defective" and claimed that the impending legislation will put...
India needs uniform protocol for rape: Human Rights Watch
By IANS,
New York: Official responses to rapes in India are ad hoc and unpredictable and often "degrading and counter-productive", Human Rights Watch said Sunday.
Bihar: Meet Habiba Bukhari, Daughter Of An Imam And A Judicial Officer From Munger
Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net
Patna: Habiba Bukhari from Munger received on November 28, 2023, one of the most joyous pieces of news in her life: she...
Woman judge takes charge of Padmanabhaswamy temple
Thiruvananthapuram: K.P.Indira, the principal additional sessions judge here, Saturday took charge as the head of the administration of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple as directed...
हाथरस कांड में अदालत का फैसला, संदीप दोषी, तीन बरी
स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Two circles.net
उत्तर प्रदेश की राजनीति में भूचाल मचा देने वाले बहुचर्चित बुलगढी गांव वाले हाथरस कांड में आज फैसला आ गया है।...
A bus ride to remember victim of Dec 16 gang rape
New Delhi : Activists from Delhi's red light area and students Monday boarded a bus from Connaught Place and rode to Munirka in south...
Agra lawyers’ strike over advocate’s wife’s murder
Agra : Lawyers in this Uttar Pradesh city went on strike on Wednesday to protest the loot and murder of a colleague's wife and...
JNV molestation case: Three absconding teachers nabbed
Akola (Maharashtra): The Akola Police nabbed three absconding teachers in connection with the molestation of 55 teenaged schoolgirls of the centrally-managed Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,...
‘Denial of BC community certificate to converted Muslims deprival of fundamental rights’: Madras HC
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
Chennai: In an unprecedented judgement, Madras High Court has held that a Hindu backward class (BC) woman shall be considered...
Reservations and Muslims in Telugu States
By Shaik Amer Arafath for TwoCircles.net,
When our Constitution was framed, the framers made a special provision with intention to provide equal opportunity in the...
Bengaluru garment workers protest change in PF law
Bengaluru : About 15,000 women garment workers on Monday staged a massive demonstration on the outskirts of Bengaluru, protesting change in the Provident Fund...
Molested girl’s brother arrested for rape
By IANS,
New Delhi: The brother of a minor girl who was molested in a moving bus in central Delhi was arrested Monday for raping her, police said.
Reporting Rape: February edition
By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net
This article is part of a monthly series Reporting Rape in which we will aggregate the media coverage on atrocities against...
Equality still a far cry for Indian women, say activists
(International Women's Day is on March 8)
By Sreeparna Chakrabarty,
New Delhi : Despite several success stories, Indian women continue to be bogged down by...
A petition ‘Justice for Jashodaben’ floats in response to PM Modi’s triple talaq statement
By Siddhant Mohan and A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
Expressing Union government’s opposition to the practice of triple talaq in Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday...
Politicans playing dirty over displaced Bodos in BTAD: Promising Land Patta inside Forest
By Abdul Kalam Azad
Assam: This is election time in Assam and political parties are not leaving any stone unturned to get as much...
A state of intimidation: Sexual abuse and arrest of Godhra Muslim women
TCN investigates the case and digs out the unpublished inquiry report of National Commission for Women,
African delegates expecting high from women’s summit
By Xinhua,
Hanoi : Women are still victims of poverty and disparity, First Lady of Burkina Faso said here Thursday at the opening of the pre-summit ministerial roundtable of the Global Summit of Women.
The Summit, which is to kick off later Thursday, gathered over 900 businesswomen, professionals and government leaders from around the world to talk about women's development and other issues.
Ruchika’s family not cooperating, claims probe team chief
By IANS,
Panchkula (Haryana: The work of the special investigation team (SIT), probing criminal charges against former state police chief S.P.S. Rathore, is getting delayed as teenaged molestation victim Ruchika's family is not cooperating, the SIT chief said Sunday. Family members, however, dismissed the charge and questioned the team's efficiency.
Sonia Gandhi, Kochhar, Nooyi in Forbes 100 powerful women list
By IANS,
New York : Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, PepsiCo chief executive Indra Nooyi and ICICI Bank's new head Chanda Kochhar have been listed among the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes magazine.
All three of them have been ranked higher than US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the list, which has German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the top, followed by US Federal Deposit Insurance chairperson Sheila Bair.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairperson of Bangalore-based Biocon, is another Indian woman to make the list.
Women’s quota bill report may be tabled in parliament
By IANS,
New Delhi: The standing committee looking into a bill that seeks to set apart 33 percent legislative seats for women, may submit its report in the ongoing session of parliament, official sources said Wednesday.
Congress MP Jayanti Natarajan, who heads the reconstituted standing committee, is keen on early finalisation of the report but some members want more consultations, the sources said.
St.Stephen’s principal maligning my image: Molested student
By Ruwa Shah
New Delhi : Launching a scathing attack on St. Stephen's College principal Valson Thampu for "maligning her academic career", the research...
Woman who opposed violence against her sex killed in Nepal
By IANS,
Kathmandu : A human rights activist and radio journalist in Nepal's violence-hit southern plains who had raised her voice against violence against women was savagely hacked to death by a group of unidentified assailants at her own residence.
Uma Singh, a journalist with private radio station Radio Today and a member of Women Human Rights Defender Network in Dhanusha district in the Terai plains, was attacked at her residence in Janakpur town Sunday evening, the Network said in a statement Monday.
Sikh Woman elected city council member in US
Washington : A Sikh woman in the US was elected a city council member, first woman from the community to hold the post not...
Bahraini women demand abducted Nigerian girls’ release
Manama: Bahrain's women union Wednesday condemned the abduction of 300 Nigerian school girls by a terrorist group and called for an immediate release of...
Ensure safety of women passengers, court to DTC
By IANS,
New Delhi : In a major ruling in favour of thousands of women travelling in Delhi's buses, the Delhi High Court Friday called for an end to the "venomous practice" of "eve teasing" and told the state-run Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to take steps to ensure the safety of female passengers.
Justice Kailash Gambhir directed the DTC to file an affidavit spelling out the steps taken by the transport authority and what mechanism they propose to have in place to ensure complete safety of women in DTC and other buses.
Women activists now target Shiva temple in Maharashtra
Pune : About 200 members of women's organisation Bhumata Ranragini Brigade (BRB) here on Monday left for Nashik city and resolved to enter the...
‘Headscarf instils positive body image in British Muslim women’
London : British Muslim women who wear a hijab (headscarf) generally have a more positive body image, are less reliant on media messages about...
Asia’s biggest naval academy designed by Chandigarh woman
By IANS,
Ezhimala (Kerala) : It is another feather in her cap. For Namita Singh, one of the leading architects in the country, it was a proud moment when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Thursday inaugurated the Indian Naval Academy, Asia's biggest, that she has designed. It was a project she bagged beating several architectural firms.
Namita, 60, heads Satnam, Namita and Associates, a leading Chandigarh-based architecture firm and it was through a national tender in 1988 that her firm bagged the prestigious project to design the Indian Naval Academy in Kannur here.
Ramadan 1435: Elderly
By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net
Two eldery women sit on the stools to eat their iftaar at the Thousand Lights Mosque, Chennai. Respect for parents and...
Indian woman rescued in Germany reaches Delhi
New Delhi : Gurpreet, the Indian woman who was rescued from a refugee camp in Germany along with her eight-year-old daughter, reached New Delhi...
Women legislators’ conference resolves to build ‘Resurgent India’
New Delhi : The National Conference of Women Legislators on Sunday adopted a resolution to work for transparent, accountable and inclusive governance and to...
Hijab is no hurdle: Dream of bakery worker’s daughter takes wings
By Mohammed Shafeeq
Hyderabad, (IANS): "I want to become a pilot." When she instinctively answered a question at an event over a decade ago, the...
Goa woman says assaulted, chilli powder rubbed in private parts
Panaji: A woman in Goa has filed a police complaint saying she was beaten up and her private parts stuffed with chilli powder over...
SC gives government four weeks to respond on triple talaq, other issues
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday gave the central government four weeks' time to file its response on the right of Muslim women...
Sonia, Rahul condole death of Sister Nirmala
New Delhi : Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday condoled the death of Mother Teresa's successor Sister Nirmala.
Sister...
Tired of government neglect, Mumbra residents take to training their own youth for employment
By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net
Mumbra, a largely Muslim settlement on the outskirts of Mumbai, has a peculiar history; it largely came up after the 1992...
Shanbaug rape accused was living a ‘normal’ life in a UP village
Lucknow: The rape accused in the nurse Aruna Shanbaug case, Sohan Lal Bharti Valmiki, has been living in a Uttar Pradesh village for the...
Amidst Ruin, Humanity Reigns: Compassion and Solidarity Shine Through Wayanad Landslide Aftermath
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
Wayanad (Kerala): At around 2:40 a.m. on July 30, Feroz Khan received a phone call about the landslide in Wayanad. Residing...
President, vice-president for more women in legislatures
New Delhi : Stressing the need for appropriate women representation in parliament and state assemblies, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said women's empowerment was...
Illegal weapons recovered in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad: Illegal weapons have been recovered from an arms manufacturing factory in Ghaziabad, police said.
Police nabbed three people Friday midnight at Maharajpur check post...
Woman techie from Assam murdered in Bangalore
By IANS,
Bangalore: A 29-year-old software engineer working with Dell was Friday murdered at her flat in an upscale south Bangalore area, police said.
Harassed by cops, two girls drink poison; one dead
By IANS
Bhopal: A 13-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh died while her elder sister was battling for life Thursday after they consumed poison following harassment by two constables, who had allegedly clicked obscene photographs of one of them. A high-level probe has been ordered.
The incident took place in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district, about 350 km from here.
While the younger girl died Wednesday, the elder one is being treated at a hospital in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
The forgotten heroines of India from crypts of history
(March 8 is International Women's Day)
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
Asma Nama: P for Preaching; P for Practice?
Are Today’s Muslims Only Talking Toms?
By Dr Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net,
Whenever I read George Bernard Shaw saying, ‘Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst people’, it makes me angry. Be it the international scene or our closed communities, does Shaw metaphor stick to us (and stinks too?)
Admission for phase II coaching to start at MANUU-CSE Academy
By TCN News
Hyderabad: Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Civil Services Examination Academy for minority students & women has announced phase II coaching programme for Mains & Prelims. The programme is scheduled to start in August 2010. The notifications & applications will be available from June 15, 2010.