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This super teacher is on a mission to transform the lives of children in...

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Kanchan Sharma, a retired lecturer, has been running a school for the slum children for over a decade now. Mubashir Naik and Irshad Hussain |...

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net जमीयत उलमा ए हिंद की एक टीम ने त्रिपुरा में हुए हिंसा के बाद वहां पहुंच एक फैक्ट रिपोर्ट तैयार किया है,...

Free education among women-specific budget initiatives in Kashmir

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Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday announced special budgetary initiatives for women that include school fee waiver up to Class 12,...

Triple talaq verdict a lesson for Muslim community on reforms: Former minister Salman Khurshid

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By Prashant Sood New Delhi, (IANS): The triple talaq bill is a step towards imposing a Uniform Civil Code and the judicial verdict on the...

Violence against women denounced in Argentina

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Buenos Aires : With a call to end all forms of violence against women, nearly 40,000 participants brought Argentina's 29th National Women's Conference to...

Mentally unstable woman jumps to death from AIIMS building

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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.

Muslim girl in Mumbai denied room on rent

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Mumbai : A 25-year old London-educated woman advertising professional was refused permission to hire a flat in Wadala, central Mumbai on grounds that she was a Muslim. Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister Eknath Khadse has ordered a probe into the incident here on Wednesday.

Congress again fails to send woman from Kerala to Lok Sabha

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

Justice Eqbal initiative: TN family courts to work on weekend also

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: For fast disposal of pending cases in Family Courts in Tamil Nadu, Chief Justice of Madras High Court Y.M. Eqbal has asked all six family courts in the state to work on Saturdays also besides weekdays. If necessary, the courts will function on Sundays as well. The courts will work accordingly from coming Saturday (10th July).

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर । Twocircles.net 14 सितंबर को उत्तर प्रदेश के हाथरस में जिस दलित लड़की की गैंगरेप के बाद ज़बान काट दी गई थी। आज उस लड़की की...

Women playing major role, says UAE minister

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By IANS/WAM, Dubai : Women are playing a major role in the UAE's development and there is a need to enhance their role in business as well, a minister said. Emirati women occupy 18 percent of the cabinet and 22.5 percent of the Federal National Council, the UAE parliament. There are 10 percent women in the diplomatic corps and 30 percent in top decision making positions in the government, Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, minister for foreign trade said Thursday.

Smoking brings young woman’s marriage to the brink

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

Lost in Terror: Voices of many women, penned by one

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By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi : Kashmir is on the boil; the "Azadi" chant reverberates from every corner; normal life is at a halt....

Woman gang raped, killed

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New Delhi: A 30-year-old woman, who was reported to be missing since Friday morning, was gang raped by her friend and his associates who...

Hyderabad woman to head American College of Chest Physicians

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By IANS, Washington : The American College of Chest Physicians has elected Dr Kalpalatha K Guntupalli, the only woman president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian origin, as its first Asian American woman president. Hyderabad-born Guntupalli is currently tenured full professor at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, considered one of the top 10 medical schools in the US, and also chief of pulmonary/critical care and sleep division at BCM. She will be inaugurated as the new president of the 75-year-old ACCP Nov 1 in San Diego.

Class 11 girl raped by three classmates

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By IANS, Lucknow: A Class 11 girl was allegedly raped at gunpoint by three of her classmates in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district, police said Saturday, adding that the suspects were absconding. Residents of Hilwari village in Baghpat, some 400 km from here, held a series of protests, demanding the arrest of the boys. The 16-year-old victim was abducted Friday by three boys of her class and raped at a secluded place. Medical reports of the girl have confirmed rape, police added.

Mamata slams Modi government over flood relief fund

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Kolkata : Lamenting the Centre's financial non-cooperation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday charged the Narendra Modi government with double standards...

Antony orders probe into woman army officer’s allegations

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By IANS, New Delhi/Chandigarh : Defence Minister A.K. Antony Wednesday ordered the Indian Army to probe allegations of "physical and mental torture" levelled by a woman captain against three senior male officers, even as the army said the investigations had begun. "The minister has taken a serious view of the matter and ordered that it be thoroughly investigated and a report presented to him," a defence ministry official said in New Delhi. In Chandigarh, a senior officer said the investigations had already begun.

Rebuked for using mobile phones, two girls commit suicide

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Agartala: Two teenaged girls committed suicide after their hostel superintendent and parents rebuked them for using mobile phones, police said here Saturday. Three class 10...

Instant reactions on Instant Triple Talaq Judgement: Lot argued and Least understood

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By Dr. Babli Parveen The recent verdict on Triple Talaq by the Honourable Supreme Court has created ripples in the society. It is discussed, debated,...

Indira Gandhi loved simple things: Shahnaz Husain

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By Shilpa Raina, IANS, New Delhi : A woman who liked simple things and was "in love with her country and grandchildren". That's how herbal beauty care queen Shahnaz Husain describes Indira Gandhi, the 'iron lady' of Indian politics. "Mrs Gandhi was a very beautiful woman; a person like her will never be born again. She had an electrifying presence. You just couldn't get over her personality," Husain told IANS in an interview over phone from London.

Remarkable increase in the number of women parliamentarians in this elections

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TCN News The general elections of 2019 seems to have set a precedence of sorts with a lot of things happening for the first time. This...

SC fumes over sex tests, female foeticide

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Kerala temple fire heartrending, shocking: Modi

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described the fire at Kerala temple that killed over 90 people as "heartrending and shocking"....

Four held for illegally selling Rs.700 mn property of actress

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By IANS, Chennai : Four people, including two women, have been jailed for allegedly selling a property worth over Rs.700 million and partly owned by actress-turned-politician Vijayashanti. They used forged papers to sell the property in the northwest suburbs of this city, the police said. The four were arrested Friday following a complaint from one of the owners of the property. All of them were sent to Puzhal prison after a court remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days, a police official said.

India contributes $ 1 mn to UN Women

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Western culture to blame for rapes: SP leader Abu Asim Azmi

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By IANS, Mumbai: Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi said Tuesday that Western culture had ruined Indian culture and led to increasing atrocities on women including rapes.

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...

Court rejects bail plea of AAP MLA held after worker’s suicide

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New Delhi : A court here on Monday dismissed the bail plea of AAP legislator Sharad Chauhan, who was arrested along with five others...

Two women thrown off train in Bihar, one dead

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Patna : In a shocking incident, a woman was killed and another seriously injured when some unidentified people threw them off a running train...

Global women’s summit held in Istanbul

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By IANS, Istanbul : A global summit for women was held in Istanbul for providing a platform to women to share "what works" in accelerating their economic advancement in society.

Indian women’s recurve archery team qualifies for Olympics

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Copenhagen : The Indian women's recurve archery team made a strong comeback to book a place in the 2016 Rio Olympics as the...

तस्वीरों में : जामिया में हिजाब के मुद्दे पर जुटी छात्राएं

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सिमरा अंसारी और सऊद आलम की रिपोर्ट जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया की छात्राओं ने परिसर के अंदर हिजाब प्रतिबंध को लेकर कर्नाटक उच्च न्यायालय के...

French woman found dead in Goa

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By IANS, Panaji : A French woman was found dead in a trailer parked near Vagator beach in Goa, while a man believed to be her companion was lying unconscious next to her, police said Monday. The trailer, equipped with modern amenities including a mini kitchen, was found parked near Vagator beach, 25 km from state capital Panaji, Sunday. Police suspect it could be a case of drug overdose.

Understand the world from the eyes of a woman: Ayesha Khatun

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By TCN News, Cambridge, Massachusetts: “Understand the world from the eyes of a woman” said Ayesha Khatun to an audience of over 60 people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 25, 2014. In the hour-long talk Ayesha Khatun had her audience in rapt attention as she shared stories from the ground, cracked jokes, and talked about her struggles working for some of the most marginalized people in India.

Muslim girl from Telangana wins gold medal at National Boxing Championship

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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...

Congress seeks new Odisha law for women’s safety

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : The Congress Thursday demanded a new legislation in Odisha to ensure safety and security to women and claimed that crimes against them were on the rise in the state.

Mother drowns baby in Bangladesh

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Dhaka: A housewife in Narail district of Bangladesh Friday drowned her one-and-half-year-old son following conjugal discord, media reports said. The incident took place in the...

Oman national held in Hyderabad for marrying minor girl

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Hyderabad:A 61-year-old Omani national was Saturday arrested for allegedly marrying two minor girls in the old city of Hyderabad within a week by paying...

Her Hijab no deterrent, this IAS officer determined to work for marginalised sector

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By Shafeeq Hudavi, TwoCircles.net, Kozhikode: It’s a long pending dream come true, not only for her but for the entire Muslim community in Kerala, especially the Muslim women. Atheela Abdulla goes to work wearing the Hijab. “There is an option to wear or not to wear it. I opted the choice of wearing it. As a civil servant, I am obliged to not raise such question and do justice to my duty and post,” Atheela says.

Giving a voice to Orissa’s exploited tribal women

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By Arun Anand, IANS, Kandhamal (Orissa), Feb 24 (IANS) Reena Rana, a tribal woman in her 20s, is waiting for her five-year-old son to be returned to her. Her husband married another woman a few years ago and Reena had to leave his house. She is voiceless, like many other tribal women in Orissa's Kandhamal district who are victims of domestic violence. "I had a son and a daughter, but my daughter passed away. Then my husband forcibly took my son away. I want my son back and some financial support to live a life of dignity," wailed Reena.

60-year-old woman becomes mother in Bihar relief camp

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By IANS, Patna : A 60-year-old Dalit woman has given birth to a baby girl at a relief camp in flood hit Bihar. Chandan Devi gave birth Tuesday at a relief camp for flood victims in Udaikishanganj in Madhepura district, about 300 km from here. Both mother and child are healthy and doing well, the doctor looking after Chandan Devi said. "Everything is normal after the delivery," Anand Kumar Milan of a government hospital in Udaikishanganj told IANS. He said that it was a blessing that despite her age, she has become a mother for the first time.

#TCN10: Looking back at TwoCircles.net

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net “Are there enough news stories on Indian Muslims to do a daily news portal?” This was one of the first question that...

Mindset against women has to change: Women MPs

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(March 8 is International Women's Day) By Anjali Ojha, IANS,

Mauritius hiring only women from Indian subcontinent

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By IANS, Dhaka : Mauritius is phasing out male workers and hiring only women from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, a newspaper report here said Friday, quoting a local labour recruiting agent. The recruiting agent, who was not named, said the southern African island nation would not send back workers before their job contracts expire but it now has a policy of not hiring male workers from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. Bangladesh has been concerned at reports from Mauritius that the latter will send back 6,000 workers, employed mainly in its garment industry.

All-women police station opened in Dharamsala

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Dharamsala : After Shimla, this town in Himachal Pradesh Monday became the second in the state to have an all-women police station. Chief Minister Virbhadra...

Dr. Rahat Abrar’s book “Muslim Female Education: From Veils to Moon” released

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

Indian in Oman writes a family saga

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By IANS, Dubai : An expatriate Indian woman in Oman has written a new novel, a family saga set in India and Oman. Sunaina Serna Ahluwalia's "A Safe Harbour" is the story of two women, Afreen Luthra and her daughter Trishala. It is a modern-day suspense-cum family saga set in India and Oman, which is home to a large expatriate Indian community. India's Ambassador to Oman Anil Wadhwa launched the book at a function in Muscat where officials of the National Association for Cancer Awareness (NACA) and the ambassadors of Britain and Malaysia were present.

Life term for killing husband upheld

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday upheld the life sentence for a woman who had killed her husband in 1996 for marrying another girl. Asra Bano had strangled her husband to death in July 1996 after she came to know that he had secretly married another girl. According to the prosecution, Asra Bano had chopped off her husband Raju's private parts after killing him. She had then gone to the chamber of a public prosecutor in the Delhi High Court and confessed her crime.

Clergyman donates kidney to Muslim woman in Kerala

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Kochi : A clergyman in Kerala has donated his kidney to a Muslim woman who was suffering from kidney ailments for the last...

Ramadan 1438: Shaheena

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By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net "The word Ramzan itself gives me a sense of peace and relief. The feeling of Ramzan in the close-knit family...

Uber driver arrested for raping, robbing passenger in Mexico

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

Goa child lured with Rs.10 note, raped; UP man held

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Panaji: A native of Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for raping a minor girl, after luring her with a Rs.10 note, police said Monday. The...

सवालों के घेरे में बिहार की शराबबंदी

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter पटना - बिहार में 1 अप्रैल से शराब को लेकर राज्य सरकार की नयी नीति लागू हो गयी है. एक तरफ जहां...

Will consider regional woman caucus idea, says Speaker

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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.

Women should come forward for social reform: JIH Rajasthan chief

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A dai steps toward ensuring safe motherhood in Rajasthan

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Spat with minister: Haryana transfers woman police officer

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Chandigarh : The Haryana government transferred IPS officer Sangeeta Kalia on Saturday, a day after she refused to leave a meeting when Health and...

Saudi Arabia to launch work-at-home programme for women

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Riyadh : Saudi Arabia will launch an updated work-at-home programme for women in a few weeks, while its portal will be introduced by the...

Woman promised job, raped in car

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By IANS, New Delhi : A job agent raped a 24-year-old married woman in his car after he took her to a desolate area in south Delhi on the pretext of providing her a job in a hospital reportedly owned by his uncle, police said Thursday. The victim told police that the accused identified as Mohit, 30, raped her in his car in the desolate area of Vasant Kunj Tuesday. She said he had promised her a job of a nurse in the hospital owned by his uncle in Khanpur area. He then asked her to come in his car to the hospital for the interview.

Attack on Soni Sori is an attempt to suppress the voice of voiceless: CLMC

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Condemning the attack on Adivasi activist Soni Sori, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC), a Hyderabad-based civil rights group has criticized...

Karnataka sets up helpline for women

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Dalit woman burnt alive in Madhya Pradesh

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By IANS, Bhopal : A Dalit woman, set on fire by two people in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district, died at a hospital in Gwalior Thursday, police said. The woman, Krantibai, was living with Raghuveer Gurjar in Padora village in the district after leaving her husband a few years ago. "Raghuveer Wednesday demanded some money from her for liquor. When Krantibai refused, he and his brother doused her with kerosene and set her on fire," Shivpuri Superintendent of Police Rajendra Prasad said.

‘Did I hit her? Did I abuse her? Then why the fuss?’ says BJP...

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Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Gorakhpur : A couple of days after a video surfaced in which BJP MLA from Gorakhpur(Sadar) Radha Mohan Das Aggrawal was shown shouting...

Study in coastal Karnataka finds Muslims at higher risk for diabetes

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By TCN News A study published in the latest issue of an international journal suggests that Muslims living in coastal Karnataka are at a higher risk of developing diabetes. The study conducted by a team of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and published in International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries surveyed people living in coastal Karnataka to estimate the prevalence of diabetes among adults aged 30 years and above.

LJP leader faces case for vulgar pictures of Irani

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Patna: A case was lodged against a Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader in Bihar's Samastipur district on Saturday for allegedly circulating vulgar pictures of...

Muslim panchayat bans use of cell-phones by girls

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10-year jail for ex-BSP MLA for raping maid

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Lucknow : Former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Purushottam Naresh Dwivedi was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a special CBI court on...

Woman chops off husband’s head

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By IANS, Kolkata : A woman allegedly chopped off her husband's head in a West Bengal village as part of tantra rituals, but police Wednesday said a love affair with another man was behind the murder. The incident took place at Nalhati village in Birbhum district. According to district sources, Ranga Mondal, 22, along with her three friends, hacked her husband Subrato's head with an axe at their residence Tuesday night as part of tantra practices.

Mulayam under fire for his rape remark

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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Friday came under heavy fire for his rape remark, made a day earlier at an election...

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Twocircles.net सीतापुर। बिखरे हुए बहुजन समाज को सामाजिक जागरूकता से संगठित करके ही मज़बूत बनाया जा सकता है। एक विशाल समाज जिसे हम बहुजन समाज...

Celebrating women’s power through extraordinary tales

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(March 8 is International Women's Day) A woman's ability to fight back is her biggest strength. As we will celebrate the many facets of women ahead of International Women's Day that falls March 8, the IANS book stack offers you extraordinary tales of triumph and memories. Take a look.

Meet Saba Haider: An Indian-Muslim woman running for DuPage county board election in US

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Saba is the only candidate of Indian origin among 19 elected members from the state of Illinois. She came to the United States in...

JD-U woman legislator resigns, to contest LS polls

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Patna : A woman legislator of Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United Monday resigned from the party and said she will to contest the Lok Sabha...

Girls fare better in maths in countries where women are more equal

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By DPA, Florence (Italy) : Girls are better than boys in reading, but they also can keep up with boys in mathematics when the genders are on a more equal footing in their native countries, according to research published in the Science journal. The data came to light on closer examination by Luigi Guiso of European University Institute in Florence of data of a Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study published in 2003. At the time, the maths and reading skills of more than 276,000 boys and girls aged 15 from 40 countries were compared.

Unfortunate that Trinamool abstained from vote: Left

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By IANS, Kolkata: West Bengal's ruling Left Front Tuesday criticised Trinamool Congress' decision to abstain from the voting process for the women's quota bill in the Rajya Sabha and termed its stand as "unfortunate". "It's extremely unfortunate that Trinamool Congress has decided to abstain from the voting to the women's quota bill today (Tuesday) in the Rajya Sabha," state Left Front chairman Biman Bose said at a press conference here.

Mamata leads Trinamool rally to mark International Women’s Day

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Kolkata: Kickstarting her party's campaign for the coming Lok sabha polls, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Saturday led women leaders and candidates of her...

Immigrant Muslim woman to be the first hijab-wearing senator in Australian parliament

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Fatima Payman is an Afghan-Australian woman whose family fled Afghanistan in 1999 to settle in Australia. Basil Islam | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Labor Party candidate...

Woman arrested for poisoning two children

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By IANS, New Delhi: A woman, who survived a suicide attempt, has been arrested for poisoning her two children, police said Tuesday. Sonali Sachdev, 31, along with her husband Pramod, a Delhi Jal Board employee, poisoned their two children at their Tilak Nagar home in west Delhi March 20. She survived but her husband and the two children died in a city hospital. "She has been apprehended on the charge of attempting suicide and murder of her children whom she gave poison and then later consumed it (poison) herself," Deputy Commissioner of Police (west Delhi) Sharad Aggarwal said.

Obama administration backs gay marriages in Supreme Court

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

Srinagar-Imphal Save Sharmila Jan Karwan starts

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Samajwadi women wing chief joins BSP

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By IANS, Lucknow : The Samajwadi Party suffered a jolt Saturday when its national women's wing chief Ranjana Bajpai quit to join her party's sworn foe -- the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Attributing her decision to the "neglect of Brahmins in the Samajwadi Party", she pointedly accused Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh of having "completely hijacked the party". Her exit came within days of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's abrupt move to axe her as the candidate for the Sitapur Lok Sabha seat.

Women fight shame in flood-hit Bihar

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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 can’t be treated as chattel: SC strikes down adultery law

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New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) In another landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Thursday decriminalised adultery after striking down a British era law, Section...

Crime against women rises alarmingly in Assam

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By IANS, Guwahati : The Assam government Tuesday admitted that the number of dowry cases in the state have trebled in the past six years, while that of rape has nearly doubled, causing concern in the society traditionally known for respecting women. "We are seized of the disturbing statistics and have taken steps to reduce crime against women by setting up all-women police stations, besides opening a female counselling centre at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters here," state government spokesman Rockybul Hussain, who is the forest minister, said Tuesday.

Life in jail for woman for killing grandson

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New Delhi: A 62-year-old woman has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her minor grandson to take revenge on her daughter-in-law. Additional Sessions...

Empowering Rural Women

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From Shopian to Kathua: The never-ending tragedy of Kashmir and the eternal wait for...

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Introduction: In the collective memory of the Indian state, the rape of an eight-year-old has already been relegated to the back pages of newspapers,...

Sonia seeks passage of women’s quota bill, slams government

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New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday asked the government to pay attention to the passing of Women's Reservation Bill in parliament that...

Stringent punishment sought for stalking, acid attack

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) wants separate clauses on acid attacks and stalking of women in the the Indian Penal Code and stringent punishment for the crimes.

Concerned over violence against Dalits, women: Congress

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New Delhi : Expressing concern over what it said were growing incidents of violence against the Dalits, minorities and women in the country, the...

Woman alleges gang rape in Delhi

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New Delhi : A woman was allegedly gang raped by a doctor and his friend here, police said Sunday. The woman also claimed that the...

Growing number of 50-plus women giving birth

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

Why no arrest over nun’s gang rape, NCW asks Bengal

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Kolkata : The National Commission for Women (NCW) slammed the West Bengal administration on Saturday over its failure to arrest any of the culprits...

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Jammu and Kashmir’s women’s commission gets new chairperson

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By IANS, Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir government has nominated National Conference (NC) legislator Shamima Firdous as chairperson of the state women's commission, a post that was lying vacant for over seven years. The announcement was made by the government Wednesday. Despite persistent demands by various womens' groups, the post was not filled by successive governments since 2003, when the first chairperson of the commission Girja Dhar resigned. Firdous will have the status of a minister of state, an official release announcing her appointment said.

JNU increases grace marks for women, transgenders

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

No jeans for girls, says Mahapanchayat

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Barsana (Mathura): A Mahapanchayat held in a Uttar Pradesh town has ruled that girls should refrain from wearing jeans. The order was issued two days...

UN body concerned about impact of Gaza violence on women

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United Nations : The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Friday expressed its deep concern about the impact of the ongoing Gaza conflict on women's...

Vani, Mehar in joint lead in women’s golf

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Bengaluru : Delhi's Vani Kapoor and defending champion Mehar Atwal scored two-over 74 and 75 respectively to share the lead in the second round...

Delhi woman arrested in Punjab for tearing off clothes

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By IANS, Bathinda (Punjab) : A woman was arrested here Tuesday after she tore off her clothes in front of the district police chief's office to press her demand for action on her complaint. The police registered a case of obscenity against Pinky, a Delhi resident, and arrested her. Pinky had earlier created a flutter outside the office of the district police chief, alleging that the police were not taking action on her complaint that her minor daughter Jyoti was being forcibly kept by a Bathinda resident.

Farhana Firdous: Triple medal winner in M.Sc and a dream to help the marginalised

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By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net If our mainstream media is to be believed, nothing good happens near or at the India-Bangladesh border. Every now and...

Tamil woman identified as Malaysian after 11 months’ detention

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By IANS, Kuala Lumpur : A Tamil woman has been identified as a Malaysian national by the country's human rights body after 11 months in detention, when she fell seriously ill. Rajeswary Murugiah, 22, was detained in October last year after she was found without an identity card and said she did not remember her ID number. She was lying unwell in detention till human rights watchdog Sukham took up her case and resolved it in a single day, The Star newspaper said Thursday.

Hyderabad girl critical after attack by spurned lover

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

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

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

Women over 50 not shying from marriage

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By IANS, New Delhi: A study by a matrimonial site shows that a considerable number of single, divorced and widowed women above the age of 50 are not shying away from marriage. According to Jeevansathi.com, Indian women are willing to marry even at the age of 50 and above. The study showed that 70 percent of the profiles on their site are posted by the individuals themselves, 10 percent by their relatives and 20 percent by friends.

UP: Women winning fewer elections, losing deposits in larger numbers

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By Rahul Mohan Sharma Poor, populous Uttar Pradesh was the first state to have a female Chief Minister -- Sucheta Kriplani from 1963 to 1967...

जेएनयू में प्रवेश प्रक्रिया की जटिलता को लेकर उठ रहे गंभीर सवाल

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आलोक राजपूत जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय (जेएनयू) विभिन्न राष्ट्रीय विवादों एवं गरमा-गरम बहसो का केंद्र बिंदु रहा हैं। हालांकि स्वयं जेएनयू के भीतर व्याप्त विभिन्न...

Unusual kinships: Foreign women in Gandhi’s life

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

Delhi records 40 cases of crimes against women every day

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By Rajnish Singh, New Delhi : The national capital records 40 cases of crimes against women every day and the highest among these are of...

BJP begins 10-day march over crimes against women in Bengal

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Kolkata : Days after three people were awarded the death penalty for gang-raping and murdering a college student in West Bengal's Kamduni, the BJP...

Two women rewarded, 2,000 jailed on Women’s Day

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By IANS,

IAF women officers on Himalayan cycling expedition

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Pathankot (Punjab) : An Indian Air Force all-women officers' team Sunday embarked on a month-long cycling expedition from here to Leh in Jammu and...

संडे स्पेशल : तो क्या भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर का सूरज अब डूब रहा...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net पिछले कुछ सालों में राजनीतिक सरगर्मियों में तेजी से उभर कर सामने आए और दुनियाभर का ध्यान आर्कषित करने वाले भीम आर्मी के...

Patna Muslims react to the Women’s Reservation Bill

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Patna: After much hue and cry, at last Rajya Sabha has passed the Women's Reservation Bill, one of the most controversial bill, on 9th March 2010. Though its advocates named it a historical step towards women empowerment and necessary for active political participation of women but its opponent termed it as biggest blunder in democratic India and an attempt to deprive Minority and backward classes people.

Loss, Survival and Denial of Justice: The Untold Lives of Delhi Riots Widows

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On the fifth anniversary of the 2020 Delhi riots, TwoCircles.net presents a compelling five-part series. This is the fourth story in that series. And...

Men against violence-4: Men engagement is the need of women’s movement

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This will add to women's movement By Nasiruddin Haider Khan,

Death of three Tamil Nadu students shrouded in mystery

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Chennai: The death of three girl students of a naturopathy college in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district is shrouded in mystery, with police registering a...

Bilkis Bano’s husband: ‘What can be worse than seeing your loved ones being killed?’

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In 2008, a special CBI court in Mumbai sentenced to life imprisonment 11 men for the crime. Earlier this month, the Gujarat government released...

Woman software engineer goes missing in Noida

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Noida, Dec 21 (IANS) A 25-year-old woman software engineer of a multinational company has gone missing from here, as her father suspected she has been abducted by her former boy friend, the police said Sunday. According police inspector Dharmendra Chauhan, Shruti Lamba of Sector-30 Noida was in love with her former colleague Naeem, 31, a resident of Delhi. Her father Satish Kumar, a retired IAS officer, objected to the relationship and asked the daughter to resign from the company Shruti worked for earlier, Chauhan said.

तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ की रिहाई की मांग को लेकर जंतर -मंतर पर प्रदर्शन

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net दिल्ली के जंतर-मंतर में सोमवार को सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ और पूर्व आईपीएस अधिकारी आर बी श्रीकुमार की गिरफ्तारी के विरोध में विभिन्न...

Compensate the family of youth killed by cow vigilantes in Gujarat and immediately arrest...

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By TCN News, Vatva, Ahmedabad: A delegation of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) led by its National Vice President visited Vatva, Ahmedabad and met...

Trinamool legislator publicly apologises for comments about judges

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Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress legislator, who had sparked a controversy by making disparaging comments about judges a day back, publicly apologised on Saturday after...

Tripura gives women 50 percent quota in panchayat

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By IANS, Agartala: The Tripura assembly late Tuesday unanimously passed two bills enhancing reservation for women in three-tier panchayats (village councils) and urban local bodies from the existing 33 percent to 50 percent. Tripura Panchayat and Urban Development Minister Manik Dey last week moved the Tripura Panchayats (fifth amendment) Bill, 2010, and the Tripura Municipal (fourth amendment) Bill, 2010, in the ongoing session of the Tripura assembly.

Bihar woman sells 15-day-old to arrange for dowry

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Patna: In a shocking incident, an elderly woman allegedly sold her infant grandson for Rs.50,000 to arrange for dowry for her daughter's marriage in...

जेयूसीएस द्वारा योगी आदित्यनाथ की संसद सदस्यता खारिज़ करने की मांग उठाई गयी

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By TCN News, लखनऊ : पिछले दिनों भाजपा सांसद योगी आदित्यनाथ का विवादित वीडियो चर्चा में आया, जिसमें वे मुस्लिम लड़कियों को जबरन हिंदू बनाने की बात कर रहे हैं. उक्त वीडियो के बारे में जर्नलिस्ट्स यूनियन फॉर सिविल सोसाइटी(जेयूसीएस) के सदस्य डॉक्यूमेंट्री फिल्मकार शाहनवाज आलम, राजीव यादव व लक्ष्मण प्रसाद ने कहा है कि यह दलितों के हिंदूकरण, महिला हिंसा, सांप्रदायिकता और आतंकवाद की राजनीति पर केन्द्रित एक डॉक्यूमेंट्री फिल्म 'SAFFRON WAR’ का हिस्सा है, जिसे 2011 से ही कई फिल्म महोत्सवों व अकादमिक गोष्ठियों में दिखाया जाता रहा है.

यूपीपीसीएस के परिणाम में इस बार 26 मुसलमान, पहले से बेहतर है परफॉर्मेंस

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net हाल ही में उत्तर प्रदेश लोक सेवा आयोग ने पीसीएस 2021 का रिजल्ट घोषित कर दिया है, इस बार उत्तर प्रदेश को...

Junior NTR marrying a minor?

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By IANS, Hyderabad: The proposed marriage of popular Telugu film actor Junior NTR with a relative of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu has created a row with claims that the girl is minor. Shanti Prasad, a lawyer, Friday approached Machilipatnam Legal Services Authority claiming that Narne Lakshmi Pranati was a minor and thus her marriage would be illegal. The authority issued notices to Junior NTR, Naidu and the girl's father Narne Srinivas Rao, who owns Telugu news channel Studio N. The hearing was adjourned to Feb 24.

तलाक –एक आम औरत की बिसात ही क्या…?

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Fahmina Hussain, TwoCircles.net 31 साल की यास्मीन से निकाह के समय तो तीन बार ‘क़बूल है’ ज़रूर पूछा गया था, लेकिन जब शौहर ने उसे...

Voice for Kashmiri women’s rights raised in Delhi

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By TCN Staff Reporter,

Manipuri women assault case: Fifth accused granted bail

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By IANS, New Delhi : A court here Thursday granted bail to a man accused of assaulting two Manipuri women, saying four accused facing the...

“Your silence is killing us,” transgender persons rue govt apathy, demand horizontal reservations

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During a press conference, the community activists demanded that the Union Government establish a system for giving horizontal reservations for transgender people within the...

Shani temple allows women devotees

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Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) : In a historic decision, the famous Shani Shingnapur Temple Trust has decided to throw open its doors to women from Friday,...

Triple talaq should be covered under Domestic Violence Act: Muslim body

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New Delhi, (IANS): In a letter written to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday, a Muslim body has demanded that the triple talaq or...

MESAS distributes study kits among 100 Mewat girls

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Delhi policeman facing trial for beating woman let off

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New Delhi: A court here has let off a policeman, facing trial for beating a woman, saying he was doing duty in the vice...

Indian-origin mathematician honoured in Australia

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By Neena Bhandari, IANS, Sydney : Nalini Joshi, an Australian of Indian origin, has become only the third woman in mathematics to be elected to the prestigious Australian Academy of Sciences (AAS), founded in 1954 by Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. Joshi, head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, was made a fellow of AAS in recognition of her life-long achievements in the field of mathematics.

Arson attack on Dalits in Faridabad sees two children dead, parents critical

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Faridabad: Two children were burnt alive while their parents were reported to be critical when the house of a Dalit family in Haryana's Faridabad...

Woman offers tongue to deity in Uttar Pradesh

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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.

Twelve Years On Pink Autos Still Run Without Support in Ranchi

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Midhat Samra, TwoCircles Ranchi: Suman Devi watched me photograph the pink auto and said that people come here to click pictures because the bright colour fascinates...

Dec 16 gang-rape: Delhi HC verdict Thursday

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court will pronounce its verdict later Thursday on confirming the death sentence and appeals of four convicts in...

Girls allege sexual exploitation in north Gujarat college

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By IANS, Ahmedabad : As many as 23 girls studying in a training college in Mehsana district of north Gujarat have fled their hostel, complaining of sexual molestation by the institute's managing trustee. The students of the K.B. Dave Adhyapan Mandir, a co-education primary teachers' training college at Pilvai in Vijapur sub-district, 190 km from here, ran away from their hostel Saturday night and took shelter at the home of their college-mate Kinjal Patel in Sabarkantha district.

Ramadan1433: Ablution

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By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net

J&K Technical Education Board in a mess, students allege college lecturer of deliberately failing...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: In June, Mohammad Adnan Hilal, a student of a Srinagar-based polytechnic college, committed suicide after he found...

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind awards four including Ram Puniyani for promoting communal harmony

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind conferred Sadbhavana Award upon four persons for their outstanding work in the field of communal...

HIV positive woman’s last wish remains unfulfilled

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By IANS, Kolkata : The "last wish" of Mawii, a 22-year-old HIV positive patient from Mizoram, to die in the arms of her parents at home, remained unfulfilled as she died here while changing flights on way from Bangalore to Aizawl, sparking an argument between her friends and Air India. Mawii, a terminal patient, was under treatment at the Bowring hospital, Bangalore, and was flown to Kolkata Monday morning after she expressed her wish to die at her home.

India’s Muslims are finally breaking free of the mold

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There’s hope for India’s Muslims as they set new examples of excellence defying great odds By Aijaz Zaka Syed for TwoCircles.net

Pregnant grandmother commits suicide in West Bengal

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By IANS, Kolkata : A 35-year-old woman hanged herself to death in a West Bengal village after being allegedly humiliated by neighbours for being pregnant despite having grandchildren, police said Friday. The incident took place at Amai village in West Bengal's Dakshin Dinajpur district, about 400 km from here. “Chobi Kayal, 35, hanged herself to death at her Amai residence Thursday late night. She was five months pregnant,” a senior police officer at Banshibari police station said. He said Kayal has two married daughters. The elder daughter Sona has a one-year-old daughter.

Imam Ahmed Raza Conference for women in Madhubani

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By RINA Madhubani (Bihar): On the soil of Laharia Ganj, the first shift of a 2 -day conference of Aalmi Imam Ahmed Raza was organized under the supervision of Sunni Jamiat-e-Ulema Madhubani, particularly for women. In this conference a large number of women from various parts of the country participated, and the programme was presided by Syeda Razia Sultana (Darbhangvi).