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अच्छी ख़बर : एएमयू को ‘नैक’ ने दिया ए ग्रेड

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न्यूज डेस्क।Twocircles.net देश के प्रतिष्ठित अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय को राष्ट्रीय मूल्यांकन एवं प्रत्यायन परिषद (नैक) की समीक्षा में 3.24 के संचयी ग्रेड प्वाइंट...

Mortar hits Israeli kibbutz, kills Israeli woman

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By Xinhua, Gaza : An Israeli woman was killed and three wounded on Friday afternoon by a mortar shell fired by Gaza militants at an Israeli kibbutz near the border between Gaza Strip and Israel. An Israeli army spokesman told Israeli Radio Arabic service that Palestinian militants fired in the afternoon a mortar shell from Gaza at Kibbutz Kfar Azza, adding that a woman there was killed and three men wounded.

Women’s groups urge centre to address grievances of rape victims

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) along with its Delhi wing Saturday urged the central government to address the grievances of rape victims with sensitivity. Several advocates, NGO workers and the members of the NCW and the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) held a seminar to discuss the guidelines approved by the Delhi High Court a few months back to tackle sexual offences with more sensitivity. Girija Vyas, chairperson of NCW, pointed out that there is lack of sensitivity in the country towards sexually assaulted women and children.

Rape victim seeks president’s permission for mercy killing

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Patna: A rape victim in Bihar has asked President Pranab Mukherjee for permission for mercy killing, saying she has been denied justice for nearly...

Telangana CM for action against onscreen violence against women

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Hyderabad : Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao Thursday asked the state police chief to consider taking action against films and television serials portraying...

Ramadan 1437: Farzana Khan

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By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net “I don’t have any memory of my mother," says Farzana, wiping the sweat off her forehead with hands still wet from...

Woman researchers equally participate in a Seminar organized by Theological department of AMU

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By TCN News, Aligarh: Sunni Theological Society Department of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) organized a national level on the theme “Human values in world religions”...

Vigil in Harvard Square to mark Delhi rape and protest sexual violence

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By TCN News

Woman gets Rs.6.7 mn as maintenance

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By IANS, New Delhi : Granting anticipatory bail to an NRI husband involved in a matrimonial dispute, the Delhi High Court Thursday awarded Rs.6.7 million as maintenance to his wife. Justice Kailash Gambhir granted anticipatory bail to Ankur Sahni (name changed), a British national and a businessman, and directed him to pay the settlement amount to his wife Ritu (name changed) in three installments and file for mutual divorce.

The unapologetic Indian Muslim

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By Sabiha Farhat These are tough times for Muslims in India. But now that I look back and shed my ‘liberal’ prejudices – Muslims were...

Northeast women’s panels want 33 percent reservation

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By Raymond Kharmujai, IANS,

Dr Burney’s book on ‘How to Feed Your Kids: And Enjoy’ released

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By TCN News,

Women’s panel to probe forcible stripping by cops

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Friday said its has formed a committee to enquire into the alleged case of a woman being forced to strip in front of her son at a west Delhi police post last month. NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said: "I was shocked to hear of such police atrocity. We have formed a three-member enquiry committee which will probe into the circumstances leading to the incident and action taken by the authorities." The victim, a 30-year-old woman, approached the commission Friday.

Ramdev booked in Rajasthan, faces court case in Bihar

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Jaipur/Patna : Troubles seem to be mounting for Baba Ramdev for his remarks on Dalits and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with the yoga guru...

Strict curfew in Kashmir: Women march to ‘Pather Masjid’ foiled; 5 injured

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By Bilal Furqani, AIP Srinagar: Despite a strict security in Kashmir, scores of people including women and children tried to take a protest march to Pather Masjid today afternoon on the call given by Hurriyat (G). Dozens of women demonstrators, led by the Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chief Asiya Andrabi, defied the strict security lockdown in the Srinagar and staged a noisy anti-India rally. The women later dispersed after police tried to block the rally.

African delegates expecting high from women’s summit

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By Xinhua, Hanoi : Women are still victims of poverty and disparity, First Lady of Burkina Faso said here Thursday at the opening of the pre-summit ministerial roundtable of the Global Summit of Women. The Summit, which is to kick off later Thursday, gathered over 900 businesswomen, professionals and government leaders from around the world to talk about women's development and other issues.

Widows will be protected, given justice: Supreme Court

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By IANS,

Women activists urge president not to sign sexual crime ordinance

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By IANS, New Delhi: Some women's organisations Saturday urged the president not to sign the ordinance on criminal law amendments passed by the union cabinet to deal with sexual crimes.

Woman, paramour held for husband’s murder

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By IANS, New Delhi: A married woman and her paramour allegedly killed her alcoholic husband after he caught them together in their north Delhi shanty four days ago, police said Friday, adding the duo have been arrested. Kashmira and her paramour Amit allegedly stabbed an inebriated Mohinder Singh to death in their hut in Kishan Ganj area June 8. They hid the body in the house for over 30 hours and then threw it near a drain.

‘पाई पाई जोड़कर आगे की पढ़ाई जारी रखूंगी’

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Saba Yaseen for TwoCircles.net फ़ैज़ाबाद : 22 साल की आयशा की ख्वाहिश वकालत की पढ़ाई करके जज बनने की है, लेकिन देश में लॉ...

12 pregnant women die in Jodhpur hospital

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By IANS,

Thrown out of convocation ceremony attended by President, Kerala girl refuses gold medal

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter In an extremely controversial step, Rabeeha Abdurehim, a student from Kerala, was sent out of the hall in which President Ramnath...

Muslim women have no place in Assam state’s politics

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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Women protest outside police headquarters

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By IANS, New Delhi : About 150 women stated a noisy protest outside the Delhi Police headquarters here demanding more police presence on roads and fast-track courts to deal with rapists.

Parliament to discuss panel’s proposal on women’s quota

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By IANS, Agartala : The budget session, beginning Feb 22, would discuss the report of parliamentary standing committee on women reservation bill, Parliamentary Affairs Minister V. Narayanasamy said here Wednesday. The parliamentary panel headed by Jayanti Natarajan in its report to parliament in December last year held that reservation of 33 percent seats in parliament and state legislative assemblies was necessary to enhance the participation of women in decision-making process.

रोरी गांव से रिपोर्ट : गांव में गुस्सा , एक आवाज़ ! बेटी गरीब...

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विशेष संवाददाता।twocircles.net मोदीनगर थाना क्षेत्र के रोरी गांव में भीतर दाखिल होने से पहले ही इमरान का परिवार छप्पर डाल कर रहता है। इमरान मजदूरी...

Allocation for women and child development ministry slashed

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New Delhi : The allocation of the women and child development ministry has been slashed by 44 percent in the budget for 2015-16 presented...

You have strengthened our resolve to continue fighting: Press Release from Students of University...

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By TCN News Hyderabad: The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice condemns in the strongest terms the brutal physical and sexual assaults unleashed...

Give death to molestation bid accused: Bihar MLA

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Patna : An RJD legislator in Bihar on Wednesday demanded death penalty for those accused of fatally injuring his sister by throwing her out...

Mukherjee asks governors to work for women’s safety

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By IANS,

Somnath asks political parties to reserve seats for women

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By IANS, Kolkata : Voicing his support for the pending women's reservation bill, outgoing Lok Sabha Speaker Somanath Chatterjee Monday said all political parties in India should nominate women candidates to increase female participation in the higher representative organisations. "I don't understand why the political parties do not nominate 33 percent women candidates in the election," Chatterjee said at the Women Achievers Award programme organised by FICCI Ladies Organisation here.

First Zamira Begum Rahman memorial lecture held in Tezpur

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By TCN News Guwahati: The First Zamira Begum Rahman Memorial Lecture on the topic “Women Empowerment and Society” was delivered by Sarmistha Das, Assistant...

Fewer women at top due to glass ceiling: Women entrepreneurs

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By IANS, New Delhi : Although more and more women are joining the workforce in India, a glass ceiling is keeping them away from top positions, women entrepreneurs feel.

Odisha to increase quota for women in urban bodies

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Odisha will increase the quota for women in the state's urban local bodies to 50 percent from the existing 33 percent, an official said Friday.

Shanbaug rape accused was living a ‘normal’ life in a UP village

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Lucknow: The rape accused in the nurse Aruna Shanbaug case, Sohan Lal Bharti Valmiki, has been living in a Uttar Pradesh village for the...

Can I express without being judged as a Muslim, and a woman?

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By Sabrina Iqbal Sircar for TwoCircles.net I feel constrained at times. It's like I have to think a hundred times to speak...

Women and peace

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By Asghar Ali Engineer,

Eve teasing or crime against women?

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By M. Hanif Lakdawala, Raisa Baig, 18, a student of Mass Media had to spend three hours at the police station in South Mumbai to lodge a complaint against a man who physically touched her intentionally when she was commuting to college by bus. When she was struggling with the molester, not a single fellow traveler came to her rescue and she had to fight it out single-handedly. This happened in a Muslim dominated area and the victim and culprit both were Muslims.

पलायन का प्रतीक बनी ज्योति पासवान के पिता का निधन

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न्यूज़ डेस्क ।Twocircles.net बिहार की जो लड़की अपने पिता को लॉकडाऊन के दौरान साइकिल पर बैठाकर सैकड़ो किमी की दूरी तय कर घर लेकर...

‘खुदाई खिदमतगार’ वाले फैसल खान और संत राघवेंद्र दास की दोस्ती की बहुत प्यारी...

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अभी सात आठ महीने पहले की बात है। हमारी सोशल मीडिया टीम के एक साथी ने बताया कि एक साधू महाराज आपका फ़ोन नंबर...

Women all decked up, keep fast on Karwa Chauth

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By IANS,

Muslim women beaten up in MP for allegedly carrying beef; uproar in Rajya Sabha

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: In yet another violence caused due to suspicion of possessing beef, two Muslim women were thrashed and abused by...

Rise from home-makers to nation-makers, Modi urges women

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New Delhi: BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday urged the women to graduate from being home-makers to becoming nation-makers as they have both...

Togolese women begin sex-strike for regime change

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By IANS, London: A group of Togolese women have commenced a week-long sex strike in an unusual attempt to oust the west African nation's president and end decades of family rule.

Amina loves her goats unconditionally

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By Abdul Basith MA, TwoCircles.net,

‘Middle class Muslim women still victims of bias’

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

This Ramadan (and forever) be a good wife

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After giving lessons to husbands, Asma is back with some instructions to wives. By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net, I drew a blank, as I began...

12-year-old tells Punjab, Haryana why girls are important

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By IANS, Chandigarh: She moves with a doll in her hands and looks like any other girl of her age. But 12-year-old Ishita Uppal's similarity with girls of her age ends there. The doll in Ishita's hands is symbolic of why girls are important in our society, especially in states like Punjab and Haryana -- which have the worst sex ratio in the country. Ishita has embarked on a 10,000 km journey by car to address various events against female foeticide, the killing of the unborn female child, in Punjab, Haryana and other states.

Woman murdered in West Bengal but police call it a suicide; family alleges political...

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By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net The death of a woman from an industrialist family in West Bengal’s Raniganj town has raised several doubts over the...

How the media reports on rape: January edition

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By Vanya Mehta for TwoCircles.net This article is part of a monthly series in which we will aggregate the media coverage on atrocities against women,...

Taslima Nasreen, Amitav Ghosh condole Mahasweta Devi’s death

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Kolkata : Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Thursday condoled the death of eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi and remembered the litterateur's support...

Widowed in Muzaffarnagar riots, 50-year-old Nimmi has given up on getting justice

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By Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net Nimmi lives in Muzaffarnagar’s Kidwai Nagar locality. Her real name could very well be Naeema, but she never went to...

Aamir supports fight against alcoholism among women

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By IANS,

Reform sexual assault laws, treatment of survivors: HRW

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By TCN News

Sania becomes top ranked doubles player with Charleston title

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Charleston (US): Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won their third successive doubles title together, securing the Family Circle Cup tennis title on Sunday, enabling...

Mamata takes over Bengal reins, walks history road

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By Anurag Dey and Sabyasachi Roy , IANS,

Workshops to raise voting awareness among women

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New Delhi: In a bid to raise the voting awareness among women, the Election Commission Saturday organised various camps, cultural programmes and workshops...

Interview: AIMPLB blind to concerns of oppressed Muslim women: Parveen Abidi

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By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,

Activists protest Muslim cleric’s sexist remark

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By IANS, New Delhi: Women activists Saturday staged a demonstration against a cleric who spoke against Muslim women's participation in politics. Around 30 activists, mostly from the Muslim community, as well as filmmaker Gauhar Raza and lyricist Javed Akhtar gathered at the Jantar Mantar observatory to protest comments made by Lucknow-based Muslim cleric Kalbe Jawad regarding women's reservation bill.

Dalit woman paraded naked in Punjab, one held

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By IANS, Batala (Punjab) : One person has been arrested for allegedly parading a Dalit woman naked in Punjab's Bhagwanpur village Aug 10, police said Monday. According to the police, the woman was allegedly paraded by her neighbours, who belong to an influential family. "They forcibly took me to their house and thrashed me. Then they tore my clothes and forced me to go round the village," the victim told reporters. The neighbours were angry as the victim's brother-in-law Gagandeep Singh was having an affair with a girl from the family.

Ban weddings on reality TV: Women’s panel

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By IANS, New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) Saturday criticised weddings in reality television serials and said they should be banned. "There should be strict restrictions on such marriages. All media houses must come forward for this," NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said Saturday. "It should be banned". After actor Rakhi Sawant's engagement on a reality television show last year, late Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan's son Rahul is set to get married on the "Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega" show on NDTV Imagine channel late Saturday.

Muslim women are oppressed in India: says minority social activist

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By Alka Pande, CNS It is in India and neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, alone, where Muslim women are oppressed, rest of the Muslim dominated nations give equal status and rights to women. This is how the Muslim minorities feel in this Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. These Muslim minorities also feel that the government schemes do not reach them.

Jilted lover stabs woman in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi: A man stabbed his 20-year-old former girlfriend to death Monday near a bustling market here, police said. The jilted lover has been arrested.

Empower People: Rescuing girls from bride trafficking

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

Women’s group takes up case of ‘slow learning’ student

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By IANS,

19-year-old Maryam Siddiqui bags top spot in GenZ Leadership Olympiad

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: Nineteen-year-old Maryam Siddiqui, a first-year Bachelors in Architecture student of Jamia Millia Islamia, has brought laurels to the university...

Women’s quota bill unlikely in Lok Sabha this session

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By IANS, New Delhi:The government is unlikely to move the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha during the few remaining days of the budget session before parliament goes into recess around May 7, Congress sources said. They said the government had told political parties during its consultation with them on the bill last month that it would conduct another round of talks before moving the draft loegislation.

‘जामिया नगर की निर्भया’ को हर हाल में इंसाफ़ मिलना ही चाहिए

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net हमेशा सुर्खियों में रहने वाला दिल्ली का जामिया नगर एक बार फिर ग़मज़दा है. वजह इसी इलाक़े में रहने वाली एक...

Woman among four killed in Kashmir gun battle

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By IANS, Jammu : A woman, two security personnel and a militant were killed in a gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday, police said. A group of three militants ambushed a security patrol party in the Kashtigarh forest belt of Doda district in the morning. A policeman and an army trooper were killed in the attack. A fierce encounter broke out in the forest belt following a joint search operation by the police and the army. One of the militants was gunned down but two managed to escape, the police said.

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...

Let 2015 be a start to a future of ‘lasts’ rather than ‘half’ measures...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: After receiving the Nobel Peace prize with India’s Kailash Satyarthi, Pakistan’s young education activist Malala Yousafzai has written an open letter to the world leaders. In India, the campaigners have sent this letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Kuwaiti Committee to organise two regional confs. on women’s issues

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By NNN-KUNA, Abu Dhabi : The Kuwaiti Cabinet Committee on Women's Affairs plans to organise two regional conferences, one on the Arabian Gulf level and the other on the Arab level in December and February, advisor of the committee Dr. Ahmad Al-Bustan said on Friday. "The first conference will debate the issue of social security while the other will discuss the negative aspects of Arab communities," Al-Bustan told KUNA following the second conference of the Arab Women Organisation (AWO) which came to a close here on Thursday.

West Bengal tribal women allege police excesses, demand action

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By IANS, Kolkata : A group of tribal women in West Bengal has filed a complaint against police officers who, they alleged, tortured villagers during the probe into a landmine ambush of the chief minister's convoy Nov 2 in West Midnapore district. The women demanded stern punishment to the police officers. "We've received a written complaint from the tribal women who claimed they were tortured by police officers during the course of investigation. We're now looking into the matter," West Midnapore District Magistrate N.S Nigam told IANS Thursday.

Pass Women’s Reservation Bill: NHRC

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New Delhi : The National Human Right Commission (NHRC) Tuesday called for the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill to give them one-third seats...

Over half of Assam’s candidates haaven’t cleared class 12

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New Delhi : More than half of the candidates contesting first phase of Assam assembly elections have studied only up to class 12th, a...

President calls for renewed efforts towards women literacy

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Hyderabad : Expressing concern over the relatively lower rate of literacy among women in the country, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday called for renewed...

Jamia Professor receives RULA Award

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By Manzar Imam Professor (Dr) Tasneem Fatma, scientist and former Head of the Department of Bio-Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), New Delhi has been honoured...

Positive body image can help young women shed weight

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By IANS, Washington : a bit of dialogue and support can be more effective than exercise in helping women not only keep off the weight, but also stay smoke-free, a new study has found. "A lot of college women report smoking to keep their weight down. We think that by providing them with the tools to make them feel better about themselves, it alleviates some of those stressors," said Melissa Napolitano, clinical psychologist at Temple University, which carried out the study.

Anjuman-e-Islam felicitates Maharashtra topper Almas Sayed

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Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: The Allama Latifi Hall of Haji Saboo Siddiq College, Byculla, thronged with students, parents and teachers on Saturday. They have gathered there from different parts of Mumbai and its suburbs to felicitate Almas Sayed who stood first in all the nine higher secondary boards of Maharashtra.

Man, family get 10-year jail for demanding dowry

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By IANS, New Delhi : A city court Tuesday sentenced a man and his parents to 10 years in jail for demanding dowry from his wife who was forced to commit suicide in 2005. The court also slapped a fine of Rs.10,000 each on Shailender, his father Braham Singh and mother Santosh. "Keeping in view the fact and circumstances of the present case and having regard to the nature and gravity of the offence, I am of the considered opinion that the convicts do not deserve any leniency," Additional Sessions Judge Paramjit Singh said.

Women’s Super-G results at Sochi

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By IANS, Rosa Khutor: Following are the women's Super-G results at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Saturday: 1. Anna Fenninger, Austria, 1:25.52 2. Maria Hoefl-Riesch, Germany, 1:26.07 3....

From a Rickshaw Driver’s Daughter to Only Muslim Deputy Collector: Inspiring Journey of Madhya...

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Adnan Ali, TwoCircles.net On January 18, 2025, Ayesha Ansari’s life was transformed. The news that she had cracked the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission (MPPSC)...

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

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

Empowering Taste and Women Entrepreneurs: Doodhpathri’s Culinary Queens in J&K Redefine Tradition

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Mehar Zargar, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Amidst the picturesque scenery of Doodhpathri in Jammu Kashmir’s Budgam district, where lush meadows meet flowing streams, a remarkable story unfolds. Here,...

Rudd’s wife first foreign woman dignitary to lay wreath at India Gate

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By IANS, New Delhi : Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's wife Therese Rein laid a wreath at the India Gate memorial to the "unknown soldier" Thursday, becoming first foreign female dignitary not holding an office to do so, an official said here. "Both the prime minister (Kevin Rudd) and his wife laid a wreath at the memorial as is the tradition in Australia. Moreover, the name of an Australian nursing assistant is inscribed on the monument," said an official.

Tamil Nadu girl clears the path to become first doctor in her tribe

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While NEET has abetted several institutional murders of students hailing from the marginalized groups, 20-year-old student Sangavi from the Malasar tribal community in Coimbatore has...

Tihar has separate lock-ups for women, Delhi HC told

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court was Wednesday informed by the city government that there were separate lock-ups for women accused in Tihar...

Women’s bill will be passed as it is, says Moily

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By IANS, New Delhi: Ruling out the demand for quota within quota in the women's reservation bill, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Sunday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was totally committed to the bill and it would be passed in the Lok Sabha in its present form. "The Congress party... the UPA government is totally committed to this bill in the form it was passed by the Rajya Sabha," Moily told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate programme on the CNN-IBN news channel. The programme will be telecast Sunday night.

Chhattisgarh has 15,000 women Maoists: police chief

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By Sujeet Kumar, IANS, Raipur : About 15,000 armed women Maoists operate in Chhattisgarh and they form a significant chunk of the insurgents engaged in a bitter battle with the state machinery, says Director General of Police Vishawa Ranjan. "Some 30 percent of the total 50,000 armed rebels, or 15,000, are female insurgents, who actively participate in carrying out major strikes against civilians and police forces," Ranjan told IANS in an interview.

“Adverse political situation, militarization impacting Kashmiri women’s health”

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‘Impact of Conflict on Women in Kashmir’ report released By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net, Srinagar: “Rape, outrage of modesty and other forms of violence against women in the last 25 years have been used as a weapon of war in Kashmir,” and “61% of married women suffer from health disorders due to adverse political situation and militarization,” a report released here to mark February 23 as Women Resistance Day’ in Kashmir said on Monday.

Make women feel safe in Delhi: Ambika Soni

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By IANS,

Panel set up to study status of Indian women

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By IANS,

Tribal women protestors in Lalgarh teargassed

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By IANS, Lalgarh (West Bengal): A Trinamool Congress team, including two junior central ministers, visited this trouble-torn belt Tuesday and demanded the withdrawal of the ongoing security operations before police staged a baton charge and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse a group of agitating tribal women.

Karnataka unveils mobile app for women’s safety

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Bengaluru, (IANS): Karnataka Chief Minster Siddaramaiah on Monday unveiled mobile app 'Suraksha' for the safety of women in the city. Launched by the Bengaluru police,...

SC to set up 3-judge bench to hear plea challenging Karnataka Hijab ban

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With exams scheduled in February, the petitioners contended that students may be permitted to appear in the exams wearing hijab. NEW DELHI — The Supreme...

Women farmers fighting for their rights and identity

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By Amit Dwivedi, "I am the first woman farmer in my block who started cultivation 15 years back," said 45 years old Aisha Begum Khatoon of Hridaypur village in Ambedkarnagar district. When she picked up the hoe for the first time, all the villagers rebuked her for treading on a man's domain. However, she decided to move forward, despite all odds, in order to look after her three daughters and one son.

Women commuters cheer as Rajya Sabha passes quota bill

Women

By IANS, Mumbai : Thousands of women commuters travelling in local trains Wednesday celebrated the first round of success of the Women's Reservation Bill by cheering and offering flowers to other travellers at a railway station in the suburbs. Armed with flowers, the women commuters and some others belonging to local self-help groups thronged the Ulhasnagar railway station early morning, a day after the Rajya Sabha passed the bill to reserve a third of seats in the legislatures for women.

मध्य प्रदेश में मुस्लिम महिलाओं की पिटाई, मायावती ने उठाए सवाल

Women

TCN News मध्य प्रदेश/दिल्ली : गौरक्षा के नाम कथित गौरक्षकों की गुंडागर्दी बढ़ती जा रही है. गुंडागर्दी का एक नज़ारा मध्य प्रदेश के मंदसौर रेलवे...

Irom Sharmila released from custody, resumes fast

Women

Guwahati : Human rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanua "who has been fasting since 2000 demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA),...

Congress accuses Odisha woman minister of abduction

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

Court permits minor rape victim to undergo abortion

Women

By IANS, Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court Monday allowed a minor rape victim's pregnancy to be terminated in Surendranagar district. Setting aside a sessions judge's order denying permission to the 13-year-old to abort, Justice Anant Dave said that abortion of a rape victim was not barred under law and was upheld by the Supreme Court. Justice Dave also stated that carrying the pregnancy to term would result in considerable physical and mental trauma to the minor.

A Jewish voice against the “burqa ban”

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By Joshua M. Z. Stanton Even as a Jew in New York, I know what it is like to be Muslim in France.

While studying abroad in the French city of Strasbourg in 2007, I decided to grow a bushy beard. Little did I know that in France only traditional Jewish and Muslim men don anything but the most finely trimmed moustache or goatee. Since I did not wear a yarmulke or other head covering, people who saw me on the street assumed that I was Muslim.

15 women organizations in Telangana demand release of all persons arrested for anti CAA-NRC-NPR...

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TCN News Telangana: More than 15 women’s organizations from Telangana on Friday strongly condemned the arrests of anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protestors by the Delhi Police and the...

Uber rape: SC sets aside order to re-examine witnesses

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Delhi High Court order permitting the recall and re-examination of 13 witnesses including...

Female scribes face misogyny and patriarchy, say women journalists

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New Delhi : Women journalists, like men, should be judged on the basis of their stories rather than their gender in the male-dominated world...

Ensure safety of women, NHRC asks states

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New Delhi : Concerned over recent crimes against women, the NHRC Friday asked all state governments to adopt measures ranging from constructing toilets to...

भारत में फ़्लू जैसी मामूली बीमारी से मर रही हैं गर्भवती महिलाएं

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net श्रीनगर/दिल्ली: भारत में संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ और यूनीसेफ के दिशानिर्देशों को आधार बनाकर मां और बच्चों की देखभाल करने के प्रयास हो...

Pregnant woman kills herself after tiff with husband

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By IANS, New Delhi: A pregnant woman allegedly committed suicide in Delhi early Monday after a spat with her husband, police said. Preeti's body was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in her residence in Sangam Vihar of south east Delhi around 6.30 a.m. by her husband Jitender, who informed the police. According to police, Preeti had an argument with her husband late Sunday evening after some dispute with her sister-in-law.

Muslims in Karnataka protest Hijab ban verdict by observing shutdown

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Muslim groups in the state are mulling to file a joint petition in the Supreme Court to challenge the High Court verdict which declared...

Mother Teresa to be canonised on September 4: Pope

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Vatican city: The Pope during consistory of cardinals on Tuesday announced September 4 as the date for Mother Teresa's canonisation, the media reported. After months...

14-year-old girl foils marriage attempt in Bengal

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Hakim Muhammed Abdur Razzack paid tribute at Jamia

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By TCN News, New Delhi: In order to commemorate the life and achievements of Hakim Muhammed Abdur Razzack, a Memorial Lecture was held at Jamia...

Implement Verma panel recommendations: IWPC

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New Delhi : Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC) Friday demanded the implementation of the Verma Commission recommendations following an alarming rise in rape cases...

Women salary is secondary source of income: Survey

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From cooking tips to charity: Meet the ‘vlogger family’ from Malappuram

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.Net Vlogging or video-blogging is nothing new in this modern age of technology. But there is an interesting vlogger family worth knowing...

Girl pushed from Charminar by ‘boyfriend’ dies

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

Global women leaders conference begins in Dubai

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By IANS/WAM, Dubai: Women leaders, ministers, academics and entrepreneurs have gathered in Dubai for the 16th Global Women Leaders Conference (Woibex).

Jharkhand woman kills a man, then hangs herself

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By IANS, Ranchi: A woman allegedly slit the throat of a man in a temple and then committed suicide following a financial dispute in a Jharkhand village, police said Wednesday. According to police, Pramila Devi, in her late thirties, murdered Kamlesh Ram who was praying in a temple in Sijua village of Dhanbad district. She then went home and hanged herself from a ceiling fan.

ट्रिपल तलाक़ –ये सवाल जाकर मोदी जी से पूछो!

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net रोहतास (बिहार) : आजकल अख़ाबर के पन्ने ‘ट्रिपल तलाक़’ के ख़बरों से भरे पड़े हैं. ‘फ़ोन पर पत्नी को तलाक़ दिया’,...

President, vice-president for more women in legislatures

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New Delhi : Stressing the need for appropriate women representation in parliament and state assemblies, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said women's empowerment was...

Malaysians gift Indian mother of seven home and warmth

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By IANS, Kuala Lumpur : Community leaders, a corporate group and newspaper readers in Malaysia have pooled in resources to help an Indian origin mother of seven who was thrown out of her house recently. As a Mothers' Day gesture, the donors arranged not only a home, but also rent for the dwelling, household goods and food for the family that was evicted for non-payment of rent a month ago.

Maharashtra launches crime tracking system

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Mumbai : On the occasion of the 70th Independence Day, Maharashtra launched the country's first comprehensive 'Crime Criminal Tracking Network System' through 42 cyber...

Silent revolution: more women elected in India than rest of world

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By IANS, New Delhi : Calling it a silent revolution in India, Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyer Wednesday said women represent close to 40 percent in local self-governance, going beyond the 33 percent seats reserved for them. Addressing the International Conference on Decentralisation, Local Power and Women’s Rights at Mexico city, Aiyer said that over a million of the 3.2 million elected representatives to the local self-government in India are women. Another 200,000 women representatives are in urban local bodies.

Rapist jailed for 30 years

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New Delhi: A court here has sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for repeatedly raping a woman by confining her for nine...

Rapes make country’s head hang in shame: Modi

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday the country's head hangs in shame whenever there is news about rape. "Our heads hang in shame...

Woman Detained For Spreading Rumor Online About New Quake

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By Bernama, Hefei : Police detained a woman on Tuesday in east China's Anhui Province for spreading a rumor online that a series of powerful earthquakes will jolt the province. The Provincial Department of Security monitored a posting on Monday from Baidu.com, a popular search portal, declaring Anhui was likely to be hit by a series of earthquakes at or above 7 on Richter scale, citing a forecast from the official website of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Need to create awareness about cancer of cervix: Doctors

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More women joined politics in 2008, says a global report

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United Nations, March 6 (Prensa Latina) The 143-member Inter-Parliamentarian Union Thursday said the number of women occupying seats in the legislative institutions worldwide reached record levels in 2008, with one out of every five elected members was woman. The Women in Parliament 2008 report released by the union said of the 12,879 seats in 66 parliaments in 54 countries last year, women occupied 2,656 seats, or 20.6 percent. In the past five years, 60 percent of the women legislators were re-elected, the report said.

Inspired village headman now focuses on nomadic tribes

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By Priyanka New Delhi : Sunil Jaglan, a Haryana village headman whose online drive for the girl child went viral on Twitter after...

SC notice to Rajasthan on plea by tribal women

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Rajasthan's Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police on a petition by...

Badi Ammi: In memory of educationist Mrs.Fatima Anees

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By Asma Anjum Khan It seemed Badi Ammi was going to live forever. We were so used to her. The shore that tells you to traipse along...

Nurse raped in moving bus near Bengaluru

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Bengaluru: A 19-year-old nurse was raped in a moving bus here by its driver while the bus cleaner drove it, police said on Friday....

Website promotes female condoms for Women’s Day

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Muslim woman in Canada ordered to remove hijab in court

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Montreal : A Muslim woman in Canada, who was denied a court appearance because of her hijab, sought legal clarification on the rights of...

Women’s education key to progress: Rabey Nadvi

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

Ground Report: Struggle of Isolated Kelhadiya Village in East UP Where Tribals Drink Water...

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Pawan Kumar Maurya, TwoCircles.net Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh): Tribal villagers in the isolated hills of Kelhadiya, located about 130 km from Varanasi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary...

Dreams from Japan, in the bylanes of Okhla

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

Women’s group, citizens condemn Jamiat Ulema resolutions on women quota, education

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By TwoCircles.net News Desk, New Delhi: All India Progressive Women’s Association has condemned Jaimat Ulema-I-Hind for passing resolutions at its recent Deoband conclave against the interests of women. Some of the resolutions adopted at the congregation of the Jamiat Ulema in Deoband “strongly offend the principle of women’s equality” AIPWA said.

PM reiterates commitment for quotas for women

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By IANS, New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday reiterated his government's commitment to providing reservations for women in local bodies, state legislatures and parliament.

मुजफ्फरनगर दंगा: भाजपा के विद्यायक को 2 साल की सज़ा, बाकी का क्या होगा...

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विशेष संवाददाता। Two circles.net 2013 के मुजफ्फरनगर दंगे में एक समुदाय को भड़काने और बलवे करने के आरोपी भाजपा विधायक को अदालत से 2 साल...

Women, three daughters found dead in UP village

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Lucknow : A woman and her three daughters, including an infant, were found dead at their house in Mauranva village in Unnao district of...

Contribute to help rehabilitation of war widows: President

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New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday called upon the people to make voluntary contributions for the rehabilitation of war widows, disabled defence...

90-year-old woman murdered, house burgled in Ghaziabad

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By IANS, Ghaziabad : A 90-year-old woman was found murdered here and her house burgled , the police said Thursday. The incident occurred late Wednesday night in Shastri Nagar under Kavi Nagar police station of Ghaziabad. The murder and burglary, however, came to light Thursday morning when the woman's son-in-law returned from his morning walk, the police said.

Empowering Rural Women: India’s Drone Pilots Pioneering Agricultural Innovation

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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...

Row over Goa minister terming rape accused ‘naive’

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Panaji : Even as Goa Police continues to probe the alleged gang rape of two Delhi women tourists, a comment by state Tourism Minister...

Temple attack in Pakistan not because of faith: Reema Abbasi

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Kolkata: Asserting that Hindus were not persecuted in her country, Pakistani journalist-author Reema Abbasi on Saturday attributed land-grabbing rather faith behind attacks on temples...

Anandiben: Gujarat’s first woman CM, India’s 15th

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By Vinod Taksal, New Delhi : In Anandiben Patel, Gujarat has got its first woman chief minister and the country its 15th woman head of...

Woman caught smuggling heroin-stuffed buttons to Turkey

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By RIA Novosti, Dushanbe : Customs officials in Tajikistan detained a Filipino woman at Dushanbe airport Tuesday for attempting to smuggle more than three kilograms of heroin stuffed into fabric buttons to Turkey. "During an individual baggage search of passengers, customs authorities detained Milagros Nolasko, 48, who was attempting to smuggle some 3,300 grams of heroin on a flight from Dushanbe to Istanbul," a customs agent told RIA Novosti.

Indian-American Bhagwati Agrawal listed among CNN’s top ten heroes

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By Arun Kumar Washington : Indian-American Bhagwati Agrawal is listed among CNN's Top 10 Heroes of 2015, for bringing safe drinking water to more than...

Resilience and Identity: Refugee Women in India Navigate Challenges Through Intersectional Feminism

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Syed Muskan and Kulsoom Faiz, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: The intersectional feminist approach illuminates the myriad issues confronting migrant women globally. As per the latest report from...