Anti-AFSPA campaigner Sharmila in Delhi, desires to meet Modi
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
Imphal: Anti-AFSPA campaigner Irom Chanu Sharmila is in Delhi in connection with a case filed by Delhi Police against her for holding hunger-strike at Jantar Mantar in the National Capital in 2006 for which she will be produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate at Patiala on May 28. She left Imphal on May 27 accompanied by two jail staff, one doctor, three nurses of Jawahar Lal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) and two personnel of Manipur Police.
Tallest Pakistani woman can stay on in Britain
By IANS,
London : British authorities have rejected an asylum bid by one of the world's tallest women - a Pakistani who claims her height makes her a target of abuse in her home country.
However, 7ft-2in tall Zainab Bibi will be allowed to stay on because the British home ministry is considering further claims from her lawyers, the Mail on Sunday reported.
Giriraj does it again: Remark on Sonia’s ‘white skin’ triggers outrage
New Delhi/Patna: Union Minister Giriraj Singh caused embarrassment to the government and triggered outrage on Wednesday with a racist remark about Congress president Sonia...
Archery World Cup: Indian men in final; women to play for bronze
By IANS,
Kolkata: Continuing the form that fetched them the men's recurve team gold in the World Cup Stage I, the Indian archers put the country in line for the yellow metal in the Stage II at Porec, Croatia Friday.
The troika of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia would take on the Russian Federation in the final Saturday.
The Indian women's recurve team, comprising Bombayla Devi, Rimil Buriuly and Dola Banerjee, made it to the bronze medal play off against Ukraine.
Women to play key role in Mizoram polls
By Sujit Chakraborty, IANS,
Aizawl : Women are set to play a major role in the Nov 29 assembly elections in Mizoram - the only state in India where women voters outnumber men.
Of the total of 611,124 voters eligible to exercise their franchise in next month's elections to the 40-seat Mizoram assembly, 308,884 are women and 302,240 men.
Women outnumbered men voters by 3,816 during the last assembly polls in 2003.
Women, religious minorities should be protected: Rajnath
New Delhi : Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday underlined the need for women, religious minorities and people belonging to the north-eastern region of India...
43 women go missing on Canadian highway in 30 years
By IANS,
London : Mystery surrounds one of the remotest stretches of highway in Canada after nearly 50 women have gone missing in past 30 years, it was reported here.
FIR against Misha Bharti for poll violation
Patna: An FIR was Thursday lodged against Misha Bharti who is contesting from Patliputra seat in Bihar for forcibly entering a polling booth and...
1,000 girls get school uniforms stitched by “Sakhi”
Jaipur : All of them may not have been able to go to school but a good number of rural women in Rajasthan, who...
Bengal police torture woman, BJP moves governor
Kolkata : The BJP Monday sought the intervention of West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi seeking the suspension of police personnel who allegedly tortured a...
SC pulls up home ministry for not acting promptly on rape videos
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday took to task the union home ministry for doing just nothing for 20 days on a complaint...
Western woman aid worker shot dead in Afghanistan
By DPA,
Kabul : Unknown gunmen killed a foreign woman when she was going to her office in the western part of the capital city Monday,
police said.
The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area following the shooting, said Zemarai Bashary, interior ministry spokesman.
Bashary declined to provide more information or identify the victim.
But a police official, who did not want to be named because he was not authorized to talk to news media, said the victim was from South
Africa and worked with an aid organization.
Ruchika case to be probed again as model case: Moily
By IANS,
New Delhi : The molestation and suicide of teenager Ruchika Girhotra will be re-investigated as a "model case" and the accused should be tried for abetment to suicide of a minor to demonstrate that nobody can "subvert the rule of law", Law Minister Veerappa Moily said Tuesday.
Notice to government, police on separate lock-ups for women
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments and the city police commissioner on a plea...
Empowering Rural Women: India’s Drone Pilots Pioneering Agricultural Innovation
Suhail Bhat, TwoCircles.net
Gurugram (Haryana): On a Monday morning in Manesar, a village in Gurugram district, Haryana, a group of four women attentively follows instructions from...
A conversation with GN Saibaba’s wife AS Vasantha Kumari
In a conversation with TwoCircles.net, the wife of jailed scholar-activist GN Saibaba AS Vasantha Kumari talks about his new book, the situation of prisoners...
UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo visiting Imphal on April 28
By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,
Another woman raped in Delhi taxi, driver arrested
New Delhi : A 32-year-old working woman who hired a cab from a Delhi Metro station was raped at a secluded spot by the...
Sadhvi Pragya on hunger strike, demands Kumbh visit
Bhopal: Sadhvi Pragya, who was given a clean chit in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case by the National Investigation Agency, on Monday began a...
Singapore premier urges couples to have more babies
By DPA,
Singapore: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Saturday called on couples to have more children as the city-state's birth rate slipped to its lowest level in 2009.
"Despite all our efforts, we are producing far too few babies," Lee said in a message marking Sunday's start of the lunar Year of the Tiger.
"Last year, we were short of at least 10,000 babies just to replace ourselves," he added.
Lee especially urged ethnic Chinese to dismiss their superstitions against children born in a Year of the Tiger.
Saudi Arabia appoints woman to lead Ebola fight
Riyadh : Saudi Arabia has appointed a woman, Tamara Tayeb, to lead the country's fight against the Ebola virus disease, media reported Friday.
Deputy Commander...
NHRC notice to Telangana government over child labourers
New Delhi: The NHRC has sought a report from the Telangana government on the rehabilitation of around 220 children who were recently rescued from...
UAE’s first woman athlete in Olympic Games arrives in Beijing
By NNN-WAM,
Beijing : Determined to win, the first woman athlete of the UAE participating in the Olympic Games, Sheikha Maitha bint Mohammed has arrived in the Chinese capital.
She is the only UAE athlete participating in the 67 kg category of taekwondo in the Beijing Olympiad.
Pachauri questioned in sexual harassment case
New Delhi : Noted environmentalist R.K. Pachauri, who faces charges of molestation and sexual harassment of a junior colleague at environment think-tank TERI,...
‘Introvert’ Chinese lady loses civil service race
By IANS,
Beijing: A 27-year-old Chinese woman, who was ranked among the top in a civil service test, was eliminated from the race because she was an "introvert".
Girl gangs with a noble cause
By Anjali Singh, CNS
There is no power like girl power. This can’t ring more true when it comes to empowering young adolescent girls in rural India.
What began as self help girl group, a unique concept taken up by UNICEF Lucknow, today is one of the most powerful tools young adolescent girls are using to protect themselves against exploitation and fight for their rights.
Called 'Kishori Sabhas' or 'Samuhs' these groups are so popular that they have even managed to do away with practices like child labor and child marriage in the villages.
How was this possible?
Madonna voted hardest working mother in new poll
By IANS,
London : Pop diva Madonna has been named the hardest working mother in showbiz topping a new poll ahead of Hollywood actresses Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow.
The pop superstar took home $110 million (75 million pounds) in 2008, putting herself at the forefront of high-earning women with children, reports contactmusic.com.
Madonna, who is mother to adopted toddler David Banda, 3, Rocco, 8 and 12-year-old Lourdes, took most of her money from her world tour as well as record sales and a string of endorsement deals.
Women activists protest detention of Asiya Andrabi
Srinagar, (IANS): Activists of women's separatist group 'Dukhtaran-e-Milat' (Daughters of Faith) on Tuesday protested against the detention of the group's chief, Asiya Andrabi, under...
Nominate 100 women achievers on Facebook
New Delhi : You can now nominate 100 women achievers who have contributed to community and nation building as a part of the...
Amid reports of violence, 20 percent polling in Bengal
Kolkata : Amid allegations of violence and voter intimidation, nearly 20 percent of polling was recorded in the first two hours in 31 constituencies...
Voting begins in 89 constituencies in Karnataka
By IANS,
Bangalore : Voting began Saturday in 89 constituencies in 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first of the three-phase elections to the 224-member state assembly whose outcome has assumed national importance as it could be a pointer to the timing of parliamentary polls.
Around 17.3 million voters, including 8.4 million women, are eligible to pick their representatives from over 950 candidates. There are 17 women contestants.
Jet Airways offers discount for women in March
By IANS,
Mumbai: Leading private carrier Jet Airways Monday announced special fares for all women passengers to commemorate International Women's Day.
"The special fares would be available till the month end to every group with at least one woman traveller that makes bookings on the airline's website," the airlines said in a statement.
"All such groups will enjoy a 10 percent discount on base domestic fares and a 5 percent discount on base international fares (excluding applicable taxes and surcharge)".
Women to attend Church of England meetings
By IANS,
London: Women clergy will attends bishops' meetings of the Church of England for the first time.
Muslim women are still not taken seriously: Farida Khanam
By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,
Farida Khanam is Associate Professor at the Department of Islamic Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Daughter of the well-known Islamic scholar, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, she has translated more than sixty of her father’s books into English, besides being the author of several books on Islam. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand for TwoCircles.net, she reflects on issues related to Islam, Muslim women and patriarchy.
More women personnel in Delhi Police now
New Delhi: Delhi Police has increased the number of women police personnel following the Dec 16, 2012, gang rape of a young woman in...
“Srinagar has become an open-air prison,” restrictions back to Kashmir capital after decades
After the spate of civilian killings in Kashmir, especially of members of the Kashmiri Pandit community and non-locals, the government has beefed security in...
Indian women’s show to kick off Edinburgh festival
By IANS,
London : An Indian cultural show, "Sakhian Ladies Night", will kick-start the Edinburgh Mela Festival in Leith Sunday.
Sakhian, which means "girls and their friends", is an evening dedicated to entertainment and food for women of all ages and cultural backgrounds - all for only five pounds ($10).
The evening's headline act will be the celebrated bhangra singer and songwriter Des-C. New to "Sakhian" this year is a musical drama, "Sapno ki Shaadi (Dream Wedding)" that depicts the saga of an Asian wedding.
Programme for women to go green in Rajasthan
New Delhi: Recognizing the importance of women's participation in governance, a non-governmental organisation has decided to develop a programme to encourage environmental initiatives in...
Parrikar hails all-girl NCC team that scaled Everest
New Delhi : Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh on Tuesday congratulated the NCC girl cadet team...
231 days and counting: Sanitation workers at LHMC decry illegal termination
Sanitation employees from Lady Hardinge's Medical College (LHMC) and other institutions held a protest outside the Delhi hospital director's home on June 28...
Women can be safe with technology usage: Lekhi
New Delhi : Is there anything called work-life balance? Are women respected enough in the society? Women are vulnerable to physical and mental exploitations...
First Indian woman skier to South Pole gets award
By IANS,
New Delhi : Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu, who became the first Indian woman to ski to the South Pole last year, will be given a Rs.5-lakh award by the Delhi government, an official statement said Thursday.
"The city Government will honour Reena Kaushal Dharmashaktu with an award of Rs.5 lakh (Rs.500,000) in a function to be organised in near future for her feat of skiing from the coast of Antarctica to the geographic South Pole," the statement said.
"The award is in recognition of her adventurous effort," it added.
BJP’s P.C. Sorcar faces sexual harassment case
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...
Women should occupy leadership positions: Sitharaman
Vijayawada : Women can improve their status in society only when they occupy leadership positions in all walks of life, Union Minister of State...
Allocation for women and child development ministry slashed
New Delhi : The allocation of the women and child development ministry has been slashed by 44 percent in the budget for 2015-16 presented...
Muslim girl from Telangana wins gold medal at National Boxing Championship
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Guwahati: Nikhat Zareen, a 19-year-old boxer from the Nizamabad District of Telangana brought more laurels to her state...
Ramadan 1437: Unsa Rehmani
By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net
Working at the ART Centre, an Anti-Retroviral Treatment Centre at Medical College run by Aligarh Muslim University for HIV positive patients,...
Table Tennis: AAI win girls title, PSPB in men and women’s finals
New Delhi : The Airports Authority of India dethroned Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) to win the youth girls team title in the...
‘Harassed for dowry’ woman jumps to death from Ghaziabad mall
By IANS,
Ghaziabad : A 23-year-old married woman jumped to death from the third floor of a mall on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border Wednesday afternoon, police said, suspecting it to be a "case of dowry-harassment" by her in-laws driving her to commit suicide.
Saraswati had gone to the East Delhi Mall (EDM) in Kaushambi Towers with her husband Dhirendra Kumar, a property dealer of Bhovapur locality in Ghaziabad.
BJP MLA brings up triple talaq issue in Gujarat Assembly
Gandhinagar, (IANS): Amid the ongoing nationwide debate over triple talaq, a BJP legislator on Friday moved a motion in the Gujarat Assembly advocating the...
Delhi girl sustains bullet injury mysteriously
By IANS,
New Delhi: A probe is on into how an eight-year-old girl received a bullet injury in her leg, police said Friday, adding her father was not able to give a credible account.
Don’t link triple Talaq with uniform civil code: Venkaiah
New Delhi : Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said the issue of ending triple Talaq practice should not be linked with uniform...
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JD(U) hints at softening of opposition to women’s bill
By IANS,
New Delhi : With the numbers favouring the passage of the women's reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha Monday, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), a prominent party opposing it, Sunday indicated a softening of its position.
JD-U chief whip in the Rajya Sabha Ali Anwar Ansari said the party will consider the opinion of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in support of the bill, which seeks to reserve 33 percent seats for women in parliament and state legislatures.
More than 52,000 pregnant Nigerian women die every year
By Xinhua,
Lagos : The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) has said more than 52,000 Nigerian women die every year from pregnancy-related complications, the Punch newspaper reported Monday.
Unsafe sex has become the second highest cause of death among people in one of the poorest countries of the world, the UNFPA said in a report titled Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights released Sunday.
Making democracy work when the roads don’t: Voting in Katlicherra, Hailakandi
By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net
Hailakandi: The first thing that strikes you about Hailakandi, Assam, is that given the condition of the roads in its neighbouring...
Job quota for destitute women Tamil Nadu police
By IANS,
Chennai : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday reserved 10 percent of jobs in the police for destitute women.
Women’s groups hail 50 percent women’s quota in panchayats
By IANS,
New Delhi : Women's rights groups Friday hailed the government's decision to increase the reservation for women in panchayats, or village councils, to 50 percent, saying the move will encourage women to have a greater say in local governance.
The reservation for women in the 252,000 panchayats across the country was earlier 33 percent.
Ranjana Kumari of NGO Women Power Connect said: "This move is an excellent example to show how a woman in a leadership position can bring about positive changes in the country's political infrastructure."
Dressing tips for men, women at work
New Delhi: In today's professional world, it's not just your hard work that matters but also the way you dress yourself. From avoiding running...
Namibia invites Indian women’s cooperative
By IANS,
Gandhinagar : Namibia has invited VimoSEWA, India's first insurance cooperative owned and run by women workers, to assist in the development of micro-insurance in the southern African nation.
Namibia's state-owned financial service authority, NAMFISA, and FIDES bank, a
microfinance institution, have invited VimoSEWA to set up the micro-insurance service in that country, said VimoSEWA chairperson Mirai Chatterjee.
The Namibian government has launched a programme to extend social security coverage
to its citizens.
BSP leader joins Delhi Congress
By IANS,
New Delhi : Terming the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) "turncoat", a prominent woman leader of the party Tuesday joined the Delhi unit of the Congress.
"I feel the BSP is a turncoat party and people in Delhi should not vote for such parties," president of the BSP's women's wing Vinod Kumari declared at a function at the Delhi Congress office.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) farmers wing vice-president also joined the Congress and vowed to make the party win the Nov 29 Delhi elections.
Irate women staff beat up Maharashtra official for harassment
By IANS,
Ratnagiri : A top district health official, accused of sexual harassment, was attacked, stripped and assaulted by some women colleagues, a government official said Thursday.
"The women, including at least two employees in the district health department office, stormed into the cabin of District Health Officer (DHO) Pradeep Savale shortly after lunch break," Ratnagiri Chief Executive Officer K.S. Shingare told IANS.
Women safe under Shariah laws: Muslim women activists
New Delhi: Several women activists and female members of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Thursday insisted that Muslim women are...
Breaking Barriers: Women don the entreprenuer’s cap
(March 8 is International Women's Day)
By Shweta Sharma,
New Delhi : Shravani Hagargi's parents gave her three options - continue with her studies, get married or do a regular 9-5 job. But her urge to do something for the uplifting her fellow women was stronger than her parents' command.
Will consider regional woman caucus idea, says Speaker
By IANS,
New Delhi : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Tuesday said she would consider suggestions by Pakistan's National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza that there should be a Women's Parliamentary Caucus in South Asia.
"I will look into it," Meira Kumar said on the sidelines of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) when asked about the suggestion made by her Pakistani counterpart.
Empowering women on Mother’s Day
New Delhi : On the occasion of Mother's Day, which falls on the second Sunday in May, mobile commerce platform Paytm will showcase artistic...
In Bajrang Muni’s prouncements, anti-Muslim hatred is rife
Mahant Bajrang Muni Udasin was arrested earlier in April 2022 for 'threatening to kidnap and rape Muslim women,' but was soon released on bail....
Women riders, activists welcome ‘helmets mandatory’ move
New Delhi : The Election Commission (EC) has given the transport department its go-ahead to make changes in the rules to make helmets mandatory...
Afghan lawmakers reject woman’s nomination for Supreme Court
Kabul : Afghanistan's parliament on Wednesday rejected the first nomination of a woman for the country's Supreme Court after she failed to win the...
More women reporting cases of sexual harassment: Maneka Gandhi
New Delhi : Women are coming forward in larger numbers to report cases of sexual harassment at the workplace, Minister of Women and Child...
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Campaign to make minority and SC/ST women legally aware
By Saiyed Danish, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Ashray Welfare and Charitable Society (AWCS) organized an event on legal awareness for women belonging to SC/ST and minority communities living near Pant Nagar and Nizamuddin in the community hall of Pant Nagar neighbourhood.
Women fight shame in flood-hit Bihar
By Imran Khan,
Supaul (Bihar) : Malti and Bhagwati Devi are just two of the thousands of people who have had to abandon their homes...
Women stopped from using road in Bangladesh town
By IANS,
Dhaka : For the last month, women in a Bangladesh town have been unable to use a road that has a mosque on it, but also the post office and several homes, thanks to a self-styled Muslim cleric who says their presence is illegal under Islamic law.
Retired soldier Abdus Sattar, who calls himself 'Pir', has been guarding the road in Chittagong's Pirojpur town with the help of a stick for the last month.
And the administration is yet to act against Sattar, The Daily Star said Tuesday.
A graffiti on Bara Masjid Road in Mathbaria says "women are forbidden on this road".
Niqab for Muslim women banned in Canadian province
By IANS,
Toronto : After France, Muslim women have been banned from wearing niqab in Canada's French-speaking Quebec province.
A bill tabled Wednesday will not allow government services to women wearing the niqab.
The bill comes after protests triggered by an Egyptian immigrant's refusal to remove her niqab in her French languages classes in Montreal, forcing the school and the provincial government to throw her out.
Chandigarh police question husband over woman’s murder
By IANS,
Chandigarh : The Chandigarh police Sunday evening started questioning a property dealer after his young wife was found murdered in their home here late Saturday night.
The questioning of Anuradha's husband, Baljinder Singh, started after the servant whom the police earlier suspected for the murder was found dead near Ropar town in Punjab, 40 km from here.
The police were looking for Vijay Kumar alias Nikku, a domestic help working for the couple for over five years, as he was missing from the home after the murder. His motorcycle was also missing.
SC asks Centre for panel report on women and family law
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to place before it the report on "Women and Law " by a...
Woman kills three daughters, attempts suicide
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 27-year-old woman killed her three daughters and attempted suicide by hanging herself from a tree on Monday...
Self-help groups help women overcome childhood sexual trauma
By IANS,
London : Women who have lived through the nightmare of sexual trauma in childhood can help one another overcome these memories by sharing their experiences.
One reason why such women don't talk about their trauma is the fear of being disbelieved. Some of them said that they tried to tell their story but nobody would listen to them.
Others recalled that although their counsellor or doctor gave them a patient hearing, there was still a vital something missing, namely the opportunity to talk to someone in a similar predicament.
68 percent Delhi women at risk of cardiovascular diseases
New Delhi : Over 68 percent of women above the age of 35 years in Delhi are at the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD),...
Make varsity campuses safe for women: Pallam Raju
By IANS,
Hyderabad: Union Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Monday asked the universities and colleges to make the campuses safe for women.
Who is Nabeela Syed, the Indian-American Muslim woman who made history in US midterm...
An Indian-American hijab-wearing Muslim woman has made history by becoming the youngest person to win the election for Illinois’ 51st Congressional District.
Afnan Habib...
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...
HC gives ex-minister Bharti two-day protection against arrest
New Delhi: In a relief to former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, booked in a domestic violence case on his wife's complaint, the Delhi...
4 reasons why there is no justification for bulldozer politics
Experts believe that demolishing houses of protestors is against the rule of law and deprives people of fundamental rights.
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NEW DELHI — Following...
Government is clearing a way for Uniform Civil Code through triple talaq : JUH
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Strongly condemning Central government’s affidavit filed before Supreme Court that opposes practice of triple talaq and polygamy, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind...
Re-codify Muslim Personal Laws: Jamaat Islami’s women wing
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.
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दलित छात्रा डेल्टा मेघवाल की उनके कॉलेज परिसर में हुई विवादित मौत पर देश भर में चर्चा और चिंता है. कॉलेज-प्रशासन जहां इसे आत्महत्या...
Rashmi Shukla is Pune’s second woman police chief
Pune : Senior police officer and State Intelligence Department Commissioner Rashmi Shukla was appointed the new police commissioner of Pune on Thursday, official sources...
National Women’s Front celebrates International Women’s Day
By TCN News,
Calicut: Seminar, handbill distribution, public meets and poster campaigns marked the events on the occasion of the International Women’s Day (March 8) organised by the National Women’s Front (NWF).
These programmes were held across Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Rajasthan and West Bengal, Fareeda Hassan, national general secretary of NWF, said in a release.
Youth’s wishlist for Modi: Jobs, safety of women
New Delhi : The country's youth, which came out in large numbers on election day to vote, as the BJP led by Narendra Modi...
Delhi tops in sexual harassment cases in colleges
New Delhi : Delhi has the maximum number of complaints of sexual harassment in educational institutions, the government said on Wednesday.
Human Resource Development...
15th Lok Sabha has highest number of women MPs
By IANS,
New Delhi : A record 59 women MPs have been elected to the new Lok Sabha - the highest since independence, and 17 of them are less than 40 years.
According to PRS Legislative Research, an organisation that aims to strengthen legislative debate, among the 59 women MPs in the 15th Lok Sabha, a majority - 23 - are from the Congress. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has 13 women members.
Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of 13 women MPs to represent the most populous state. It is followed by West Bengal with seven.
SC allows Jamiat-e-Ulema to intervene in rights of Muslim women matter
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday permitted an intervention application by the Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind contending that Muslim personal law was protected by the...
Mentally unstable woman jumps to death from AIIMS building
By IANS,
New Delhi : A mentally unstable woman jumped to her death Thursday from the fifth floor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), hospital authorities said.
According to the AIIMS administration, 32-year-old Babita Goutam, a resident of Loni in Ghaziabad district on the outskirts of Delhi, jumped from the fifth floor of the main hospital building at around 12.30 p.m.
The hospital and police have informed the family.
Women most vulnerable to climate change, says UN report
By IANS,
New Delhi : Women, particularly those in poor countries, are among the most vulnerable to climate change, said a United Nations report released here Thursday.
"They (women) are among the most vulnerable to climate change, partly because in many countries they make up a larger share of the agricultural work force and partly because they tend to have access to fewer income-earning opportunities," the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) report said.
Five women students harassed for suspected Maoist links
By IANS,
Kolkata : Five women students of Jadavpur University claimed they were harassed by the police in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district for allegedly having Maoist links.
The incident took place at a house near the university where the five students - Debolina Chakrabarty, Jayeeta Das, Roopa Basu, Somdatta Mukherjee and Anwesha Sarkar - were running the Matangini Mahila Samity, a women's outfit working against land acquisition in Nandigram, Singur and other places in West Bengal.
NSE sends notice to companies without woman director
Chennai : India's leading stock exchange National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) on Wednesday said it has issued notice to 260 companies...
More girls studying, but 84% drop out after graduation
By Prachi Salve
While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before -- and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board...
Chhattisgarh woman jumps on husband’s pyre, people throng site
By IANS,
Raipur : A 71-year-old woman in a Chhattisgarh village jumped on her husband's funeral pyre and committed suicide, creating a sensation as hundreds thronged to view the place of the alleged 'sati', a banned Hindu custom, police said Sunday.
The incident took place late Saturday evening in Chechar village, in the interiors of Raipur district, some 125 km from here.
Police were informed about the alleged 'sati' late Saturday night and filed a First Information Report early Sunday after visiting the spot.
Out of Reach: The Quiet Ways India’s Digital Push Leaves Rural Women Behind
Musheera Ashraf, Twocircles.net
Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh: India’s digital story is often told through numbers. Millions of UPI transactions every minute. Seamless online services. Government schemes...
Kejriwal orders magisterial probe into Kenyan woman’s gang-rape
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape of a Kenyan woman here in a moving...
Do ‘liberal icons’ encourage identity politics among Muslims?
By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net
The ‘liberal icons’ are again preaching Muslims, especially women, about what is an acceptable form of dressing. This has...
Woman offers tongue to deity in Uttar Pradesh
By IANS,
Lucknow : A childless 27-year-old woman cut off her tongue in an Uttar Pradesh temple and offered it to the deity for getting a son, the police said Tuesday.
Meena Devi Monday evening visited the Bholebaba Siddheshwar Nath temple in Lahar Marg locality in Sitapur district, 90 km from here, and offered her tongue to the deity.
"She cut off her tongue with a sharp razor and offered it to the Shivling (the symbolic idol of Lord Shiva) at the temple," police inspector Santosh Dwivedi told IANS on telephone.
He said some devotees later rushed Devi to a hospital.
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...
Birth anniversary of Irom Sharmila observed with token hunger strike at Jantar Mantar
By TCN News,
New Delhi: A day long fast was organized here at Jantar Mantar on the call of Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign, Association of Protection of Civil Rights, Lok Raj Sangathan and Students Islamic Organisation of India to support Irom Sharmila and to demand repeal of AFSPA. Many people participated and observed the hunger strike.
AMU alumni band ‘ANTIM’ to release its composition of National Anthem on Republic Day
By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: A music band formed by the alumni of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come...
Safe, comfy and chatting away – women’s empowerment at PCO booths
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
New Delhi : Anjali Kher, 33, a small-time designer from Srinagar, keeps in touch with her family in the Kashmir Valley from the public telephone booth next to her home in Delhi.
"The booth remains open till midnight and I drop in almost every day after work to call my father and my brothers," Kher, who lives in Mayur Vihar, told IANS.
The public telephone - including the PCO (public call office) phone booths with STD facilities - in India has become a tool of empowerment for women in middle class India, particularly migrants.
Lalu tours Bihar with women’s quota views, finds few takers
By IANS,
Patna : The stakes are high and so is the scepticism. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has been touring Bihar to explain his strident opposition to the women's reservation bill but is finding that convincing people may not be that easy with some even dismissing his campaign as a political gimmick.
On Sunday, he visited his parliamentary constituency Chapra to detail his stance on the bill reserving 33 percent of all legislative seats for women. During a visit to rural Chapra, he said the bill would be passed only over his dead body.
Poor woman sells child for husband’s memorial service
By IANS,
Patna : A poor Hindu woman in Bihar sold her infant son to raise money to perform the 'shradh ceremony' (memorial service) of her husband. But she was arrested before she could hand over the child to a childless couple, a police official said Tuesday.
Parvati Devi (name changed)-- in her early 20s and a resident of Patwa Toli in Gaya town, about 100 km from here -- said she was forced to sell her 45-day-old son due to abject poverty.
रेलवे सिपाही ने चलती ट्रेन में किया रोज़ेदार महिला से बलात्कार
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
बिजनौर : नोएडा, मुज़फ्फ़रनगर के बाद अब बिजनौर में दिल दहला देने वाली घटना सामने आई है. ये घटना लखनऊ...
Demonstration against harassment of women in Mumbai
By TCN News,
Mumbai: To register their protest against harassment and humiliation of women by mischief mongers in the city, the youth wing of Movement for Human Welfare (MHW) organized a signature campaign and demonstration at Mumbai’s Andheri railway station on 28th June.
Notably, during the last few days some anti-social elements have been busy in harassment of pedestrian women in Mumbai specially at and around the Andheri railway station.
Bengal Muslim groups oppose doing away with triple talaq
Kolkata : A forum of Muslim organisations in West Bengal on Thursday opposed any interference by the government in matters of religious practices, including...
Taxi drivers pledge to make Delhi roads safer for women
New Delhi : Auto and taxi drivers on Thursday took pledge to make Delhi roads safer for women.
They took the pledge in this regard...
Sex worker battles for her sisterhood
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.
Kerala women can apply to be police sub-inspectors
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : There is good news for women in Kerala. They can now apply to become police sub-inspectors.
Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Saturday announced that as the first step towards revamping the Kerala Police Act, women can now apply directly to be a sub inspector.
"Kerala is a state where there are more women than men and the leadership qualities of women have been proved beyond doubt. Hence, we decided that women also can apply," Balakrishnan told reporters here.
Extraordinary stories of ordinary women
TCN Special Series: Part 1 on Nazma Phumdreimeiyum
By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,
India not a happy place for mothers: report
By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : At a time when the world celebrates Mother's Day, it turns out that India scores poorly among the middle-income countries when it comes to health care and well-being of mothers.
The country is ranked 73 in the list of 77 nations rated for the "best place to be a mother", according to a report by child rights organisation 'Save the Children'.
What is more shocking in the 'State of the World's Mothers 2010' report is that India is rated much lower than a host of conflict-ridden African countries like Kenya and Congo.
It is women’s power that rules Kochi
By IANS,
Kochi : It is women's power that rules this port city of Kerala. With B. Sandhya Monday taking over as the new inspector general of police of the central range, women are ruling this commercial capital - from district collector to the mayor.
The Kochi Mayor is Mercy Williams, the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) chairperson is M.C. Josephine, and the Ernakulam district panchayat president is P.S. Shaila - all women.
Sandhya, asked for her reaction, said: "As a critical mass, if women are there, things can be pushed much faster."
Hijab ban forced many Muslim women in Karnataka to drop out of colleges: new...
The report by PUCL Karnataka elaborates the ways in which Muslim women students were denied their right to education by being forced to...
Swedish woman informed of her own death
Stockholm: A Swedish woman was informed by her insurance company that she had been dead for over a week following a mistake committed by...
Bengal rights panel seeks report on nun’s gang rape
Kolkata : Taking cognizance of the gang rape of a septuagenarian nun in Nadia district, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission has sought a...
‘Migrant’ women, children jailed in Assam, NCM writes to Home Ministry
By Md. Asim Khan
New Delhi : Concerned over the indiscriminate detentions of people in Assam on suspicion of being Bangladeshis or Myanmarese, the National...
Inquiry report on death of pregnant women by Thursday: Odisha minister
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak on Monday said a committee probing the death of three pregnant women at a...
Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati on Forbes powerful women list
By IANS,
New York : Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, PepsiCo chief executive Indra K. Nooyi and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw have been featured in the latest annual list of "100 Most Powerful Women" compiled by Forbes magazine.
Nooyi and Gandhi rank high up at third and twenty-first positions in the list, while Mayawati and Mazumdar-Shaw have been ranked fifty-ninth and ninety-ninth, respectively.
Karnataka BJP lawmaker sparks row with rape remark
Bengaluru: Karnataka's BJP lawmaker K.S. Eshwarappa on Saturday sparked a controversy with his remarks on rape incidents in the state. He later said his...
Teen girl refuses to marry merry man!
By IANS,
Patna : Chances are that Mohammed Abdul Hakim is now sober. And still single. A day ago he was dumped at the altar by the teenage bride-to-be for being a drunkard.
Kulsum Khatoon, a resident of Naharniya village in Madhubani district, Sunday refused to marry Hakim after she was informed that he was habitually drunk.
"Kulsum stunned villagers when a Muslim priest began to solemnize their wedding and she publicly declared that she would not marry Hakim," a local police official said.
Policemen threatened to rape women students, says fact finding team
Hyderabad : Policemen, who cracked down on students protesting at University of Hyderabad, threatened to rape the women students, revealed an independent fact finding...
Seminar on rights and duties of women in Islam organized at Aligarh
By TCN News,
Aligarh: Emphasising that the rights given by the Islam to women about 14 centuries ago are still not available to the non-Muslim women, Professor Shakeel Samdani from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Monday said, “Islam gives complete liberty to women and they are allowed to do every work within the limits of Sharia.”
Sharad Yadav’s suicide threat on women reservation condemnable: AIPWA
By TwoCircles.net News Desk
New Delhi: The All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) has strongly condemned the ‘suicide’ threat by JD (U) President Sharad Yadav against the Women's Reservation Bill.
AIPWA Joint Secretary Kavita Krishnan said that “this was not the first time Sharad Yadav had given vent to his anti-woman sentiments. In the past he had made disparaging and abusive statements about educated women, calling them 'parkati' and the like.”
Women healing Pakistan
By Ayeda Naqvi
Last week, six relief workers in Mansehra, a city in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), died after an attack on their office. In 2008, gunmen killed four staff members of another international aid agency. Charities and international aid organisations are under constant threat in Pakistan, particularly in the NWFP, yet a group of women continue their humanitarian efforts in the region, despite the risks.
Telangana CM congratulates Sania on becoming world No.1
Hyderabad : Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday congratulated tennis star Sania Mirza on becoming first Indian woman to claim the world...