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HC takes cognizance of Tihar women’s deplorable condition

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognizance of a letter sent by the Supreme Court's Justice Kurian Joseph...

More women in parliament will change face of Indian politics

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By Ranjana Kumari, IANS, In an inclusive democracy, political power is perhaps the strongest tool to eradicate all forms of inequality. The passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha has brought forward some interesting scenarios for the Indian polity. This struggle for political rights by women's groups has been the longest in the history of independent India as the proposed constitution amendment bill had been deferred several times by successive governments since 1996.

Court takes cognizance of cop’s assault on woman

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New Delhi : Taking note of the way a Delhi traffic policeman, since sacked, attacked a young woman when she refused to pay a...

30 days that bound a nation – in shame and concern

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By IANS, (One month after Dec 16 gang-rape)

Women devotees throng Kerala capital, cook rice on streets

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : An estimated three million women devotees from Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu converged on streets leading to the Attukal Bhagavathi temple here Tuesday and cooked rice offerings on thousands of firewood stoves for the goddess in one of the largest religious gatherings in southern India. The offering is made on the penultimate day of the 10-day-long Attukal Pongala festival, which is often referred to as the equivalent of the Sabarimala pilgrimage for women.

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

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

Hope women find courage through my books: Author Madhuri Banerjee

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By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi : Is it taboo for women to talk about sex, their hidden desires or having extra-marital affairs? No! It...

Women’s reservation leads government’s 100-day plan

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By IANS, New Delhi : President Pratibha Patil Thursday outlined the priorities of the new government for the next 100 days: - Early passage of the Women's Reservation Bill providing for one-third reservation to women in state legislatures and in parliament. - Constitutional amendment to provide 50 percent reservation for women in panchayats and urban local bodies. - Concerted effort to increase representation of women in central government jobs.

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.

Watch your diet, you multi-tasking women!

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(March 8 is International Women's Day) By Nivedita Sharma, IANS,

Women’s bill will impact caste struggle in India: Experts

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By IANS, New Delhi : By encouraging women's participation in politics, the historic bill to reserve 33 percent of seats for them in parliament and the legislatures will impact the country's political scenario, the patriarchal system and the caste struggle in rural India, experts say.

UP, Bihar, Rajasthan: Worst states for women, J&K catching up

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By Devanik Saha Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar are the worst states for women, an IndiaSpend analysis of social indicators and demographic data of Indian...

Compensation only after long battle by acid attack victim in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The state authorities of Assam have ordered compensation for the acid victims following an urgent appeal by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) for immediate intervention and financial assistance to a survivor of acid attack as per the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court of India in 2013.

Call special sitting on violence against women: Rajya Sabha member

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New Delhi : Rajya Sabha member T.N. Seema on Tuesday said a special sitting should be called to discuss the issue of violence against...

Organisations structured to keep women down: study

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By IANS, Sydney : Why there are so few women in top positions in companies may have more to do with their hierarchical structure rather than attitudes to women, a new study contends. The study, by Terry Fitzsimmons of the University of Queensland, has sought to understand gender inequality at workplaces and the barriers preventing women from obtaining top leadership positions. The challenges encountered by women rising through company hierarchies are not entirely explained by existing theories, which claim that inequality stems from social stereotypes and culture, Fitzsimmons said.

Hijab is my ornament: Mumbai corporator Afreen

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TCN Special Series on Women of Inspiration By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

Election not about promises: Kirron Kher

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Mumbai: Actress Kirron Kher, who is contesting the Lok Sabha election from Chandigarh on a BJP ticket, says it's time to deliver and not...

All women’s bank to open three branches in northeast India

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Agartala: The Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) -- India's first all-women bank -- will open three more branches in three capital cities of the northeastern...

Unhappy over portfolio allocation, Jammu and Kashmir minister ‘resigns’

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Jammu : Apparently dissatisfied with the portfolio allotted to him, Sajad Lone, a minister in the PDP-BJP ruling coalition in Jammu and Kashmir on...

PFI encourages students with its “School Chalo” campaign

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By TCN News Bangalore: Muslims students have high drop-out rates, to plug-in this major source of educational backwardness Popular Front of India (PFI) organizes an annual “School Chalo” programme in which students from the weaker sections are given scholarships. In Karnataka, programme was conducted in various localities on June 5th and 6th this year.

Advocate Shahid Azmi: Son for two mothers

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By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net

Bangalore women prepare to take on molesters

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By Maitreyee Boruah, IANS, Bangalore : Ahead of International Woman's Day on March 8, women in India's tech capital have a lot to worry about, as young women are being abused and attacked on the grounds of wearing western attire by youth in broad daylight and in crowded places. Now, the women are getting together to confront the goons.

Man held for raping four-year-old girl in Rajasthan

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Jaipur : A 38-year-old man has been arrested for raping a four-year-old girl and dumping her in a serious condition behind some bushes in...

Mizoram woman found dead in Delhi

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New Delhi: A 24-year-old woman from Mizoram was found dead at her home here and the police are now hunting for her male partner,...

Ramadan 1435: Hijab

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By Shuchi Kapoor, TwoCircles.net A girl helps to tie the hijaab after their iftaar at the Thousand Lights Mosque, Chennai. Hijab, a piece of clothing...

Males are good at sniffing out infidelities

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By IANS, Washington : Straying women beware. The male is particularly good at sniffing out your infidelities, even though you may have fine-tuned the art of concealing your liasons. "Eighty percent of women's inferences about fidelity or infidelity were correct, but men were even better, accurate 94 per cent of the time," said Paul Andrews at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, who conducted the study with colleagues.

Assam’s two-child norm in draft policy ‘unnecessary’, ‘anti-women’

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Kolkata, (IANS): Assam's suggestion of implementing a two-child policy is not only "unnecessary" but is also "anti-women" and "anti-poor", says an expert. "Assam's total fertility...

How easy it is for women to get tickets in Lok Sabha polls?

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Mohammad Faisal, TwoCircles.net How easy it is for women to get tickets in Lok Sabha polls? At least it is not that easy in India’s...

Men, women approach charity differently

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By IANS, Sydney : Would you prefer to give money to someone needy in your neighbourhood or a needy person in a foreign country? If you're a man, you're more likely to give to the person closest to you, that is, the one in your neighbourhood, if you give at all. If you're a woman, you're more likely to give, and to give equal amounts to both groups, according to research by Texas A&M University marketing professor Karen Winterich and colleagues.

Girl pushed from Charminar by ‘boyfriend’ dies

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By IANS, Hyderabad: An 18-year-old girl who was injured after allegedly being pushed down from the historic Charminar by her 'boyfriend' died Friday, police said. Police said Sameera, a resident of Talabkutta neighbourhood in the old city, succumbed to her injuries Friday at the government-run Osmania General Hospital. Doctors said the girl had sustained head injuries and both her legs and a hand were fractured. Meanwhile, police have arrested Arshad, who had escaped after allegedly pushing the girl down from the first floor of the monument Thursday evening.

नीतिश राज में लाचार बिहार के पिछड़े व दलित

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: बिहार के पिछड़े, दलित और महादलित सूबे के मुख्यमंत्री नीतिश कुमार के बड़े वोट-बैंक रहे हैं. इन तबक़ों ने...

Delhi man, mother get life terms in dowry death case

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday upheld life sentences to a man and his mother for killing his wife for dowry. The court also regretted the stand of the girl's family, saying the case shows discrimination against the girl child still exists in Indian society.

Sania honoured with Padma Bhushan

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

Sheeba Sageer elected Kerala state president of National Women’s Front

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By TCN Staff Correspondent,

Over 1000 activists, concerned citizens call for immediate release of Hidme Markam, ending state...

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Human rights defender and environmental activist Hidme Markam has been in jail for over 40 days now. She was arrested on March 9 by...

Ramadan 1437: Nazreen Bano

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By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net “It’s my first roza today.” Nazreen tells me, but then quickly clarify that it is her first fast after getting married....

NCW rules out sexual assault in mid-air scuffle

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) has ruled there was no sexual assault on an air hostess during a mid-air scuffle on board an Air India flight last month. The NCW report was submitted to Civil Aviation Minster Praful Patel and Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath Monday. The committee, headed by NCW member Wansuk Syiem, took nearly one and a half months for the probe.

Give Indian Muslim women more social space: Minority bodies

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By IANS,

American Muslim activist lauds Kuwaiti womens political engagement

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By Nawab Khan, KUNA, Brusels : A leading Muslim woman activist in the United States has underlined the important political role played by women in the Gulf countries particularly in Kuwait. "We believe that the Gulf is very important because it is a prosperous region of the world and secondly there are some women activism coming out, specifically from countries like Kuwait," Daisy Khan, Executive Director, American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) told KUNA in an interview in Brussels Tuesday. She noted that Kuwait is at the forefront of promoting a parliamentary system.

Indian medical journal focuses on Ramadan in its current issue

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By TCN News New Delhi: Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, has devoted its current issue to medical issues of Diabetic patients during the month of Ramadan.

Have empowered 12 lakh women in Amethi: Rahul

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

Four held in Delhi for gang-raping Assam woman

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New Delhi: Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested on charges of gang rape and sexual assault of a 30-year-old woman from Assam,...

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,...

Women on wheelchairs call for equitable rights for all

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By IANS,

कुर्सी बचाने की खातिर आगरा की प्रिंसिपल ने रच दी नफरत की झूठी कहानी,...

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विशेष संवाददाता। Twocircles.net आगरा की जिस प्रिंसिपल ने स्कूल में अल्पसंख्यक समाज के बच्चों का बहुमत होने पर खुद को धार्मिक उत्पीड़ित दिखाया था उसकी...

AMU’s vice chancellor promises women fair and equal opportunities

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Aligarh : AMU Vice Chancellor Lt. Gen. (retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah Friday said that the university will not tolerate any discrimination against women. He said...

Two young Swedish women marry in Agra

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By IANS, Agra : Two young Swedish women, who were living together in New Delhi for the past one year, married in traditional Hindu style at a temple here, a priest said. According to Baba Dharam Das, who conducted the marriage Saturday at a temple in Agra Cantonment, an autorickshaw driver brought the two women to the temple and persuaded him to get them married according to Vedic rites. The autorickshaw driver made arrangements for the marriage in which Sandra, who played the husband, put vermillion on the forehead of Sara, who played the wife's role.

Iran to produce special car for women

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By NNN-FNA, Tehran : Iran Khodro, the Middle-East's No. 1 car manufacturer, has unveiled a car specifically designed for women, with electronic parking sensors and a special jack making it easier to change a flat tire. The car's internal design will be especially geared towards women and its exterior will be painted in softer, "feminine" colors, Iran Khodro announced. An alarm system will warn drivers of flat tires and automatic transmission, navigation and entertainment systems will be installed in order to make the driving experience all the more pleasant.

Sania-Martina reach Guangzhou Open final

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Guangzhou: The Indo-Swiss tennis pairing of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis continued their winning run to reach yet another final when they made it...

Women play key role in Indian policy making: Meira Kumar

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By IANS, Bern: India has been at the vanguard of women's participation in both the legislature and the executive, said Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar here Saturday. India is among the first countries in the world to have a woman prime minister and today India's president is a woman, Meira Kumar said while addressing the sixth annual meeting of women.

Modi hails all-women IT centre as ‘glory of Saudi Arabia’

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Riyadh : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described an all-women IT centre set up by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) here as the “glory...

Permanent commissions for women: Notice issued to Indian Army chief

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh for not complying with its March 12 order to grant permanent commissions to women officers who had approached the court complaining of gender bias in the armed forces.

Bajrangi Bhaijan: How I learned to stop worrying and love Shri Raam

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By Shilpi Suneja for TwoCircles.net A few days before I watched the much hyped Bajrangi Bhaijan the Supreme Court of India upheld its...

Federation of Muslim Women’s Aid Societies formed in TN

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: The newly formed Federation of Muslim Women’s Aid Societies (FeMWAS) held its maiden function at Hotel Abu Palace in Chennai last week. The federation decided to launch public awareness campaign for Muslim Women’s Aid Society (MWAS), a government aided NGO in each district of Tamil Nadu.

‘Need campaign through short films, documentaries again terrorism’

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Jaipur : Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that there was a need for a campaign through...

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

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

NIT development being highlighted as communal incident: Mehbooba

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

SC stays death sentence of two Dec 16 gang rape convicts

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Saturday stayed the execution of the death sentence of Mukesh and Pawan Gupta, two of the four convicts in...

Three Indians accused of pushing woman into prostitution

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Dubai : Three expatriate Indians have been accused of forcing a woman into the flesh trade on the pretext of giving her a job...

Bihar: Muslim community anxious after spurt in communal incidents

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https://twocircles.net/2023mar10/448581.html Observers noted that there is a deliberate attempt to tarnish the image of the Bihar government and instil a sense of insecurity and fear...

Only one woman among Modi’s new ministers

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New Delhi : Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, the only woman among the 21 members inducted into the Narendra Modi ministry Sunday, now takes to eight...

22-year-old gangraped by auto drivers

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by three auto rickshaw drivers in Sarai Kale Khan area of southeast Delhi Tuesday night, police said Wednesday. "The victim, a resident of Yamuna Vihar in northeast Delhi, had taken an auto from Civil Lines to her home. There were two other people in the auto rickshaw with the driver," said a senior police officer. "The accused took her to a deserted place where they raped her," the officer added. "The three men have been arrested," the officer said.

Dreams from Japan, in the bylanes of Okhla

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By Iqra Raza for Twocircles.net New Delhi: The rickshaw wheels lazily on the bumpy road making me jump every now and then. Dragging on,...

Tripura governor asks police to protect women

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Agartala : Tripura Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya has asked police and the state women's commission to take stern action against those who molested a...

जाट -मुस्लिम एकता का लिटमस टेस्ट है, पश्चिमी यूपी में पहले चरण का मतदान

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उत्तर प्रदेश में विधानसभा चुनावों के मद्देनजर कल 10 फरवरी को 58 विधानसभा सीटों पर वोट डाली जा रही है। यह...

US team visiting India to boost women’s numbers in ICT

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By IANS,

Women’s Day: Spicejet’s all-women crew flights, SRL Diagnostics awards 5

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New Delhi : On the occasion of International Women's Day on Sunday, budget carrier SpiceJet said it was operating 16 all-women crew flights across...

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...

CBI searches Teesta Setalvad’s premises in Mumbai

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Mumbai/New Delhi : The CBI on Tuesday searched four premises of social activist Teesta Setalvad and her publishing firm in Mumbai in connection...

My husband was treated like a dog: CRPF trooper’s widow

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Alappuzha (Kerala) : The wife of a CRPF trooper from Kerala who drowned in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday hit out at CRPF officials, accusing them...

Ex-MP to face trial for tampering with evidence

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New Delhi : Former parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh will be tried for destruction of evidence in a case pertaining to the torture and murder of...

Indonesian minister urges probe into May 1998 rapes

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By Xinhua, Jakarta : An Indonesian minister has delivered documents on the alleged May 1998 mass rape of mostly ethnic Chinese women to the Attorney General's Office (AGO), local press said Saturday. State Minister for Women's Empowerment Meutia Farida Swasono handed over the documents to Attorney General Hendarman Supandji on Friday. The documents contained results of research by psychology professor and women's activist Saparinah Sadli, major English daily The Jakarta Post reported.

We need to prioritise women’s security: Aamir Khan

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Hyderabad : Superstar Aamir Khan, who does his bit to bring social change in the country via his show "Satyamev Jayate", is disturbed over...

Visit not to pressurise Bengal government: Rights body

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By IANS,

Panel discussion on racial discrimination bats for improved laws, public education to tackle racism

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

After arrests, Kerala Police take to threatening students for protesting

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By Shafeeq Alingal Kozhikode: Wafa, a first year Sociology student here at Farook College, hardly expected that she would be under constant threats from police...

Woman pensioner donates Rs 50,000 for LPG to poor women: Modi

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New Delhi : Pitching for the government's 'Give It Up' campaign to voluntarily surrender cooking gas subsidy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday...

UN call to end violence against women in war

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By Xinhua, United Nations : The UN Security Council has said that systematic rape and other forms of sexual violence against women during armed conflicts can constitute war crimes and called on the international community for greater efforts to combat the "silent war". "Violence against women has reached unspeakable and pandemic proportions in some societies attempting to recover from conflict," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday while addressing a Security Council debate on sexual violence in armed conflict.

सरकार वाक़ई में महिलाओं के प्रति चिंतित है तो उनके बारे सोचे, जो पतियों...

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नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए पिछले दिनों हमारे मुल्क में यह माहौल बनाने की कोशि‍श की गई कि सभी मुसलमान महिलाएं तीन तलाक़ क़ानून के...

युवती की संदिग्ध मौत के बाद आगरा में बवाल, तनाव

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विशेष संवाददाता।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के आगरा में एक युवती की संदिग्ध मृत्यु के बाद दो समुदायों के बीच हिंसक झड़प हो उठीं। दोनों समुदाय...

Rajya Sabha passes women’s quota bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : After two days of bitter wrangling, the Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed the historic women's reservation bill giving 33 percent representation to women in parliament and state assemblies 186-1.

Raped Dalit woman struggles for justice in Orissa

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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.

Women’s commission demands strict punishment for rapists

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By IANS, New Delhi : Stringent punishment for rapists is essential to discourage such crimes, chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Girija Vyas said Monday.

Women devotees flood Kerala capital for festival

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By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : Spirals of smoke rose from hundreds of firewood stoves here Tuesday as an estimated three million women devotees from Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu converged on the path to the Attukal Bhagavathi temple and cooked rice offerings for the goddess. The offering is made on the penultimate day of the 10-day-long Attukal Pongala festival, which is often referred to as the equivalent of the Sabarimala pilgrimage for women. Attukal Bhagavathi is believed to be an incarnation of Kannaki, the central character of the Tamil epic "Silappathikaaram".

मदरसों के पक्ष में मायावती ने उठाई आवाज़

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net बसपा प्रमुख मायावती उत्तर प्रदेश में अपनी खोई हुई ज़मीन मुस्लिम वोटरों के जरिए तलाशने में लगीं हैं। पिछले कुछ समय से...

Communalizing Census misses India’s real crisis: female feticide

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By Masihuddin Sanjari for TwoCircles.net Religion based census data has recently been released by the central government of India sparking a debate along communal lines1...

BJP to seek NCW intervention in Jadavpur varsity case

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Kolkata : The BJP's Lok Sabha member Meenakshi Lekhi Sunday condemned the alleged sexual harassment of a Jadavpur University student and the subsequent police...

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Eradicating child marriage still doesn’t make the cut in...

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According to a report by Young Lives Research to Policy Centre based on the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, West Bengal tops the list...

No marriage? 23 Saudi women sue guardians

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Riyadh : Twenty-three Saudi women sued their parents last year for not letting them get married, a source at the National Society for Human...

Akkriti’s autopsy report hints she died of asphyxiation

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By IANS, New Delhi : Akkriti Bhatia, a Class 12 student of Modern School Vasant Vihar in the national capital, died of asphyxiation stemming from an asthma attack, according to the post mortem examination report, police said Friday. "The post mortem examination report hints Akkriti died of asphyxia. It seems to be a natural death but we are awaiting her viscera report and any conclusion can be reached only after going through the viscera report," a police officer told IANS.

This party picks ordinary yet extraordinary folks

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By Mayank Aggarwal, IANS, New Delhi : One look at its candidates and you know that the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party is trying hard to be a party "with a difference". For the Delhi polls, it claims to have fielded the city's lone woman auto driver, a house painter, the youngest male and female in the fray, and a man who has married his wife six times! For some of the party's 11 candidates for the Nov 29 polls to elect a 70-member assembly, this is the first brush with politics. What's more, most of them hail from ordinary backgrounds.

Woman judges and Sharia

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By Asghar Ali Engineer, Recently two women judges have been appointed in Malaysia in the Sharia court but strangely enough their appointment is conditional on their not handling cases pertaining to marriage and divorce. They can handle other cases like the custody of children, maintenance, property, etc. The appointment of women judges is a welcome move but the conditionality attached seems strange.

Vast improvement needed for women’s safety: Manmohan Singh

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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.

Assam polls a fight between two opposing ideologies: Rahul

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Guwahati (Assam) : Terming the Assam assembly polls a "fight between two opposing ideologies", Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged the people...

Make Delhi safe for women, minister tells police

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By IANS, New Delhi : Delhi Police need to work towards making the national capital crime free and should ensure women's safety, Minister of State...

Unveiling the Truth: Women of Kashmir Break Silence on social media to confront molestation

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By Fahim Mattoo, TwoCircles.net The safety and protection of women in Jammu and Kashmir hang in the balance following the dissolution of the State Commission...

Family demands CBI probe into attacks on Meghalaya women’s activists

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Shillong, Dec 4 (IANS) The family members of two prominent women's rights activists, who were injured in a mob attack in Meghalaya, on Tuesday...

Maldives vows to eliminate violence against women

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Male : The Maldives government said on Wednesday it remains committed to eliminate violence against women. The government will continue to step up its efforts...

Training women to become future leaders

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By Richa Sharma, IANS, New Delhi : Even as the fate of the Women's Reservation Bill hangs in the balance, an activist group has already started training and motivating women to join mainstream politics. The Centre for Social Research (CSR), through a UN project called 'Enhancing the Role of Women in Strengthening Democracy', has selected 1,000 women from across India and is grooming them to contest elections.

All this happened because I embraced Islam: Hadiya

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Kozhikode (Kerala) (IANS): On her first visit to her home state Kerala after the Supreme Court upheld her marriage with Shafin Jahan, Hadiya on Saturday...

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...

Activists to form single women’s national forum

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

PG accommodation ‘block list’ for women students

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By Ankush Vats New Delhi : It's often been a murky tale of harassment for outstation women students of Delhi University year after year. But...

How Three Muslim Women of Northeast Delhi Were Caught In A Legal And Financial...

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By Arbab Ali, TwoCircles.net On her wedding day, Tabassum was issued an arrest warrant for missing a court hearing. The previous day, November 10, 2022,...

Verbal clashes in parliament panel meet on women’s bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : Political parties ranged for and against the contentious women's reservation bill in parliament clashed Tuesday at the first meeting of the standing committee on 33 percent quota for women in legislative bodies. The meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice, which is expected to evolve a consensus on the legislation, began on a belligerent note with the Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Devendra Prasad Yadav asserting his party's opposition to the bill.

Bihar minister’s husband booked for extortion

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Patna: A case has been lodged against the husband of a Bihar minister for allegedly trying to extort money from government officials and threatening...

Ramadan 1438: Kaneez Fatima

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By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net "I fast because it's an order from Allah, and because it is a part of my religion that is very...

Yusuf Mukati: Empowering the poor through a multi-utility resource centre

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net Aurangabad (Maharashtra): “Thodi si neki karle pyare …Allah ne mauka diya hai” (Do some good work dear …Almighty has given you...

UP announces free bus ride for women on Raksha Bandhan

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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...

Assamese woman gang-raped in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 21-year-old Assamese woman was raped here by two men who have been arrested, police said Sunday. One of the men...

Woman who sought to abort foetus suffers miscarriage

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By IANS, Mumbai : Niketa Mehta, the Mumbai housewife whose plea for aborting her 26-week-old foetus had been turned down by the Bombay High Court, has suffered a miscarriage. Her husband Haresh Mehta, 35, said Niketa, 34, had been admitted briefly to a clinic after complaints of severe abdominal pain and there was a miscarriage Tuesday. "I don't want to go into the details. She is very weak and she has been advised complete bed rest for a month," Haresh told IANS Thursday.

Responsibilities must be shared to prevent trafficking: NCW chief

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New Delhi: The state alone can't prevent trafficking and people must get together to fight the stigma associated with it at the grassroot level...

Three arrested for gang-raping woman in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi: Three men have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping, drugging and raping a woman here last week, police said Tuesday. Two more accused were still on the run.

Rally for women’s quota bill Thursday

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By IANS, New Delhi: Women's groups across the country Tuesday announced that they would hold a rally in the capital Thursday, which would be attended by Communist leader Brinda Karat and actress Sharmila Tagore, to pressurise the government to pass the women's reservation bill. "Thousands of women from all corners of the country would participate in the rally which will commence at 11 a.m. from Jantar Mantar and proceed towards the Parliament House," said Annie Raja, general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).

Woman lawyer stabbed to death in court

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By IANS, Bangalore: An advocate allegedly stabbed a woman lawyer to death in the Karnataka High Court Thursday over a failed love affair, a police official said. Advocate Raju, 28, stabbed junior lawyer Naveena, 25, many times with a knife and then attempted to commit suicide by slitting his throat and consuming poison. He also attempted to stab himself in the stomach, Cubbon Park police sub-inspector Jagdish told IANS. By the time Naveena was rushed to a nearby hospital, she died. Raju was taken to a private hospital for emergency treatment and is under intensive care.

NGOs protest against Honour Killing of a Dalit Boy

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By TCN News, Puducherry: Periyar Viduthalai Kazagam, a Tamil Nadu based organization along with Puducherry unit of Khudai Khidmatgar jointly protest against the brutal honour...

Pakistani woman climbs world’s seven highest peaks

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

Sabarimala: All women face backlash, but the worst is being reserved for Dalit women

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net Several women tried to enter the Sabarimala temple in southern Kerala following the Supreme Court order allowing entry for all women...

Heptulla oldest, Irani youngest cabinet minister

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New Delhi : Najma Heptulla is the oldest member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers, while Smriti Irani is the youngest. The 74-year-old...

Woman held for abduction of six infants in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 26-year-old woman, who was unable to conceive and was allegedly harassed by her in-laws for it, was arrested along with her male accomplice for kidnapping six male children belonging to poor families in the capital, police said Monday. Ritu Kapoor, a college dropout, and her associate Mohammad Zia Ul, 30, were arrested Sunday. One of the boys who were abducted by them has been rescued, while the body of another was found a few days ago, police said.

Kerala mulls law to protect women

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Anti-trafficking Bill to be introduced in Parliament soon: Maneka Gandhi

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Chandigarh : Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the government will soon bring an anti-trafficking legislation in Parliament to...

टेलर नाज़िर से कपड़े सिलवाने आई थी सपना,भीड़ ने पीट डाला

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के बरेली में मुस्लिम युवक और युवती पर भीड़ द्वारा हमला करने का मामला सामने आया हैं। बरेली के एक...

Muslims in/of India: surrogate oppressors or colonizers?

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A Muslim woman deconstructs how dominant majoritarian narratives reconstruct Indian Muslim women as the perpetual Other. Misria Shaik Ali | TwoCircles.net This is an article, an...

First women navigators commissioned in Indian Navy

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By IANS, Kochi : Another glass ceiling was broken Friday as two women were commissioned into the Indian Navy as navigators in the flying branch, in a way also becoming the first women combatants in the armed forces. Sub Lieutenants Ambica Hooda of Haryana and Seema Rani Sharma of Uttar Pradesh were awarded their "Wing" at the passing out parade here.

Of Indian women changing with globalisation and time

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

Will Najma Heptulla be ‘retired’ in New Year?

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Speculations are rife that Union Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla might be ‘retired’ in the New Year. News website Scroll.in http://scroll.in/article/696681/Modi-likely-to-drop-Minority-Affairs-Minister-Najma-Heptulla-from-the-cabinet-next-year reported on Tuesday that the senior most minister in the Narendra Modi-led NDA government might be dropped from the council of ministers.

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

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

Shopian double murder being hushed up, alleges women’s group

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By IANS, New Delhi: "They make it a desolation and call it a peace" - with this line by a Kashmiri-American poet reflecting his thoughts on his state, a Delhi-based women's group sums up its report on the Shopian rape and murder of two women that triggered a massive furore in the Kashmir Valley this year. The Independent Women's Initiative for Justice (IWIJ) in its report released Thursday alleges that the Jammu and Kashmir government is involved in a major hush-up of the rape-murder of the two women in May this year.

Lifelong struggle against the caste system to create a life of dignity

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Sushma Andhare is well known today among Dalit/Ambedkarite movement. She is a professor and teaches sociology and political science. But that...

I am a threat only to those who believe in hatred: Teesta

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By Preetha Nair New Delhi : Amid all the legal troubles she and her husband Javed Anand face, human rights activist Teesta Setalvad is...

NCW chief for more contraceptive choices for women

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New Delhi : Women should be offered the entire bouquet of contraceptive choices available for family planning instead of just one method of sterilization,...

Deendar Anjuman: Damned by the Muslim community, haunted by the security agencies

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

तबाही : मुम्बई में झुग्गियों पर गिरी दीवार ,17 की दर्दनाक मौत

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net मुंबई में बारिश का कहर देखने को मिला हैं। भारी बारिश ने मुंबई को बेहाल कर दिया है। मुंबई के दो इलाकों...

Shabnam resigns from NIC protesting Udhav’s entry

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Eminent civil rights activist and Member, National Integration Council (NIC), Shabnam Hashmi has resigned from the NIC protesting against the entry into the council of Shiv Sena leader and son of Bal Thackerary, Udhav Thackeray. Hashmi, who heads ANHAD NGO, has called Udhav’s entry into NIC as “a cruel oxymoron.” In a her resignation letter to the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Hashmi expresses surprise over the inclusion by the Prime Minister of a person whose whole life is based on “divisive and hate politics.”

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

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Awareness campaign for women empowerment in Madhya Pradesh

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

18 castes to be included in ST category

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Ranchi: Jharkhand's Bhokta and Puran are among the 18 communities across India that are likely to be designated as Scheduled Tribes (STs) by the...

Woman cop freed by Maoists in Chhattisgarh

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By IANS, Raipur : A 23-year-old woman cop in Chhattisgarh, abducted by Maoists earlier this month, has been set free after a 'jan adalat' or people's court found her "innocent", police said Sunday. Constable Kiran Usendi was freed Saturday in the Pakhanjoor forest stretch of Kanker district in Bastar region after the Maoists public court ordered her release. "The lady police personnel was abducted when rebels attacked a police search team. The insurgents took her to their hideout and she was produced before the 'jan adalat' where she was found innocent," a police officer told IANS.

No relief for Soni Sori: Brother-in-law, sister, picked up for interrogation

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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,...

Himachal court says no to Ramdev holding yoga camps

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court Monday rejected a plea of yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Swabhiman Trust to permit it to hold "yog shivirs"...

Muslim Women’s Aid Society established in Kancheepuram

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net,

No country for women

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By Dr. Shah Alam Khan,

Rate of domestic violence high in Tripura: HC chief justice

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Agartala : Tripura High Court Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Gupta has expressed concern over the high rate of domestic violence, resultant deaths and cases...

Muslim women have no place in Assam state’s politics

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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Woman conceives after tubectomy at Uttar Pradesh hospital

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By IANS, Lucknow : The wife of a poor farmer of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh gave birth to twins earlier this week -- even after opting for a tubectomy operation in a government hospital following the birth of their third child last year. Although the farmer, not willing to be named, says he will make all possible efforts to bring up his five children, the state health department terms this to be a minor issue.

Manipur Muslim girls form union for empowerment

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Imphal (Manipur): The Manipur Muslim girl students have formed, perhaps first time in the history of the state, a union to wage a war on two fronts: to change Muslim socieity’s approach on higher education for Muslim girls and to demand state government reservation for Muslim women.

Allow women into Haji Ali dargah: Rights group

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Mumbai : The Bhumata Ranragini Brigade on Wednesday said it will launch an agitation so that women entry to the famed Haji Ali Dargah...

Muslim men come out in support to abolish Triple Talaq

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By TCN News New Delhi: A group of 225 Muslim men from across the country have come out in support of the...

Woman raped, minor girl molested in capital

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