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World junior women’s squash: Hong Kong upset India

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By IANS, Chennai : Top seeds Egypt and Hong Kong will contest the team championship final in the World junior women's squash tournament here Saturday. Egypt were stretched by a fighting United States (No.5) before they came through 2-1 while sixth seeded Hong Kong pulled off a dramatic 2-1 win against second seeds India in two pulsating semi-finals Friday. The Indians, save Dipika Pallikal, their No.1 player, were rather disappointing and squandered a 1-0 lead to make exit.

India rejects Albania’s demand for Mother Teresa’s remains

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By IANS, New Delhi: India has rejected Albania's demand for Mother Teresa's remains, saying she was an Indian citizen - a decision widely welcomed in this country where the Nobel prize winner spent her life tending to the poor and needy. An external affairs ministry official told IANS Tuesday that Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and there was no question of returning her remains. It was reacting to a demand by Albania, the country where she was born on Aug 26, 1910, "Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen. There is nothing more to be said," the official said.

Media and Gender

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By Faheem Muhammed M.P Mass media is one of the most potent institutions which determines how an individual perceives gender and gender discourse. Through its...

Webby Award for video on Indian woman

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By IANS, New York : "In Silence: Maternal Mortality in India," a video about the life and death of an Indian mother, has won a Webby People's Voice Award, Human Rights Watch said. The story of Kiran Yadav, a 25-year-old who bled to death while delivering her third child, was produced by Human Rights Watch with Magnum photojournalist Susan Meiselas.

25-year-old woman raped in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped inside a car here, police said Saturday. "The victim met the accused at a discotheque in Chanakyapuri Wednesday night after which they both had liquor. The accused introduced himself as Raj to the victim. He offered to drop the victim at her home in Safdarjung Enclave area," a police officer said.

खाप पंचायत हुए निष्क्रिय, क्योंकि अब भाजपा नेता हैं सक्रिय!

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net लड़कियों के पहनावे या उनके जीने के तरीक़ों को लेकर अब तक विभिन्न खाप पंचायतों के तुग़लकी फ़रमान सामने आते रहे...

Study finds evidence of centuries-old brawl over women

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By IANS, Washington : Brawling over women is as old as history, settled with fisticuffs or a verbal spat, but our ferocious ancestors brutally maimed or killed rivals for them. For instance, a mass grave unearthed by a Durham University team indicates that primitive men did their rivals to death to possess their women. The research focused on 34 skeletons found buried in Talheim, in Germany's south-west. Genetic evidence from their teeth suggested they were massacred in a tribal clash around 5000 BC.

8 women die in Chhattisgarh after botched up sterilisation surgery

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Raipur : Eight women have died in Bilaspur district after undergoing surgery for sterilisation at a government camp organised Saturday at the district hospital,...

जहांगीरपुरी के निवासियों का नफ़रत की राजनीति को करारा जवाब

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विशेष संवाददाता ।Twocircles.net दिल्ली के जहांगीरपुरी इलाके में एक हफ्ते पहले हनुमान जयंती की शोभा यात्रा के दौरान हुई हिंसा के बाद रविवार को हिंदू...

Violence against women and religion

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By Asghar Ali Engineer, Religion is believed to be divine. It is divine in more than one sense. Firstly it is divine in the sense that its teachings are motivated by purest of intentions; secondly it is divine as its teachings are transcendent as religion exhort us to transcend what is to, what it should be in society as well as in our personal conduct. But soon after birth of religion it gets mixed up with customs and traditions already existing in society on one hand, and, on the other, powerful interests, often very negation of its teachings, begin to control it.

Irom Sharmila, youth from war zones to join global peace fest

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Chandigarh : Manipur's Irom Chanu Sharmila and other civil rights activists, as well as youth from war-ravaged countries like Syria, Afghanistan and Libya, will...

Woman stabbed to death in Maharashtra train

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Mumbai: A woman commuter was stabbed to death inside the luggage coach of a moving train in Maharashtra early Saturday, officials said. The woman, identified...

Shaheen Bagh activists call for diaspora action to support Indian Muslims against genocide

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Activists in the panel stated the need for the global community to not only remember Shaheen Bagh but also to take action before...

Ramadan1433: Learning

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By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net You are never too young to start learning, a mother teaches her daughter in Jama Masjid, Delhi. Link: TCN Ramadan 1433window.onload =...

Women’s panel to probe case of indebted farmers selling women

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday said it was sending a team to probe the "awful and unbelievable" reports that debt-ridden farmers in Uttar Pradesh's drought-hit Bundelkhand region were selling off their women to survive. "It is awful and unbelievable that it still happens in the country and that too in Uttar Pradesh where the chief minister is a woman," NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas told IANS. "We are sending a team to find out the details and have asked for the report within 24 hours," she said.

Bengal woman found living with father’s corpse

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Kolkata : A tribal woman in West Bengal's Burdwan district was found living with the decomposed body of her father, police said on Sunday. This...

प्रधानमंत्री जी, महिला सशक्तिकरण पर ज्ञान देने से पहले दिल्ली हिंसा में मुस्लिम महिलाओं...

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दिल्ली हिंसा के दौरान मुस्लिम महिलाओं के साथ हुईं हैं बेहद शर्मनाक हरकतें कपड़े फाड़ने से लेकर बलात्कार तक के आरोप, कई लड़कियां...

Girl murdered by youth in Andhra, rape suspected

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Karnataka High Court allows women to work in bars

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By IANS, Bangalore : The Karnataka High Court Wednesday allowed women to work in bars and pubs but with adequate security, thus quashing the state government ban on their working at such places where liquor is served. Justice D.V. Shylendra Kumar said the rule 9 of the Karnataka Excise Act 1965 that prohibits women from serving liquor at public places was "unconstitutional" and therefore "unenforceable".

शहीद पत्रकार दानिश सिद्दीकी को पुलित्जर पुरस्कार

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net अमेरिका के सबसे बड़े पुलित्जर पुरस्कार 2022 के विजेताओं की घोषणा सोमवार को कर दी गई। इस वर्ष चार भारतीय पत्रकारों को...

Triple talaq, polygamy not integral to Islamic practices, SC told

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New Delhi : The Union government on Friday told the Supreme Court that 'triple talaq', 'nikaah halaal' and polygamy as practised by the Muslims...

4 mentally ill women die mysteriously in Chennai

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By IANS, Chennai : The bodies of four destitute female patients, who died mysteriously within hours of each other in a mental health institution here Friday, have been sent for postmortem examination, a senior health official told IANS. "The four women - Rosaline, 43, Mehanji, 32, Muthu Selvi, 48 and Rajammaal, 52 - were our patients for a considerable amount of time. They had a long history of several complications.

Will write to Centre to probe alleged CNG scam: Gopal Rai

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New Delhi : Delhi's Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Monday said he will write to the central government to probe the "CNG scam" alleged...

IAF women officers scale new heights, summit Mt. Kamet

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By IANS, New Delhi : Women officers of the Indian Air Force (IAF) are scaling heights...literally, in preparation to summit Mt.Everest next year. Young Flight Lieutenant Nivedita Choudhary and Squadron Leader Nirupama, who are members of the all-women IAF officers' Everest expedition, have just returned after scaling the 7,557-metre Mt. Kamet and 7,354-metre Mt.Abi Gamin respectively in Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand, close to the border with China.

Indian rape laws must be of global standards: Amnesty

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By IANS, New Delhi: Amnesty International wants Indian rape laws to meet the highest international standards. And it does not favour death penalty or chemical castration.

Mangalore incident triggers war of words in women’s commission

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Mangalore pub assault has triggered a war of words within the National Commission for Women, as its chairperson Tuesday "nullified" a probe by a commission member into the attack on some young women. However, Nirmala Venkatesh, who conducted the probe, said her findings were impartial. After completing the probe into the Mangalore assault by a self-styled moral brigade, Venkatesh said that the pub lacked security and that women needed to safeguard themselves.

Voting begins in 89 constituencies in Karnataka

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By IANS, Bangalore : Voting began Saturday in 89 constituencies in 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first of the three-phase elections to the 224-member state assembly whose outcome has assumed national importance as it could be a pointer to the timing of parliamentary polls. Around 17.3 million voters, including 8.4 million women, are eligible to pick their representatives from over 950 candidates. There are 17 women contestants.

विधानसभा चुनाव का ऐलान, यूपी में इस दिन यहां पड़ेगी वोट

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स्पेशल डेस्क।Twocircles.net देश के पांच राज्यों मे होने वाले विधानसभा चुनाव के लिए चुनाव आयोग ने तारीखों का ऐलान कर दिया है। जिन राज्यों...

चित्रकूट : गेंगरेप के बाद दलित युवती ने कर ली थी आत्महत्या, अब...

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विशेष संवाददाता। चित्रकूट। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश में महिलाओं के साथ बलात्कार की बेहद शर्मनाक घटनाओं की श्रेणी हाथरस की तरह चित्रकूट में भी एक दिल...

Muslim women join hands to rehabilitate khaki terror victims in Hyderabad

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By TwoCircles.net news desk, Hyderabad: In a commendable move that will show light to the society which appeared almost indifferent to the acquittal of scores of Muslim youths in terror cases in Hyderabad, least to talk of their rehabilitation, the city Muslim women have come up extending their helping hand to the victim youths.

Polling begins in Assam

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Guwahati : The first phase of polling in Assam started at 7.00 a.m. on Monday for the 65 legislative assembly constituencies, officials said. People from...

Gaining education, 35 women plan to uplift their communities

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By Prantick Majumder, Jhadol (Rajasthan) : How do you help your backward community living in remote, virtually inaccessible villages to progress if most of them...

‘तीन तलाक देने वालों को सज़ा मिले’

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Fahmina Hussain, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली : मुस्लिम समाज में तलाक को लेकर हमेशा से बहस होता रहा है. एक बार फिर इस बहस को...

Many Sri Lankan women are harassed in public transport

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By IANS, Colombo : Many Sri Lankan women travelling in public transport face some form of "sexual harassment" mainly in the cosmopolitan areas, a media report quoting a research study said Sunday. According to the report, a study conducted by the Legal Aid Commission has "found that two out of every five women experienced some form of sexual harassment on buses and trains".

Three policemen examined in case against Irom Sharmila

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New Delhi : Three policemen were examined as prosecution witnesses in a court here on Friday in a case lodged against activist Irom Sharmila...

Muslims of Gujarat: The real picture

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net,

Women’s Day: March planned to Chouhan’s house Tuesday

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Prof Vimal Thorat delivers lecture on Dalit feminist writing at MIT

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‘Babasaheb Ambedkar instilled a consciousness in women who then resolved to have their children, especially daughters, educated’ By Umang Kumar for TwoCircles.net, Cambridge MA: Professor Vimal Thorat, current co-convener at the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) and former professor of Hindi at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on "Caste and Gender in Dalit feminist writing" on Thursday, May 21. The event was organized by the Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia.

Movement against rape should be taken to its logical conclusion: Kaneez Fatima

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

यूपी में दरोगा पर ही फरियादी से बलात्कार का आरोप

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश में रक्षक के ही भक्षक बनने की घटना सामने आई है। शाहजहांपुर के जलालाबाद पुलिस थाने में तैनात सब इंस्पेक्टर...

Conflict to peace via women: Helping distressed women in J&K

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Peace and conflict in Kashmir are linked to patriarchal interventions in Kashmir. “The women don’t have a slightest idea about it. They feel it...

Woman officer of Indian Army placed under arrest

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By IANS, Chandigarh : A woman officer of the Indian Army, facing a general court martial in Punjab's Zirakpur town on charges of accepting a bribe, has been placed under arrest by an army court, officials here said Tuesday. Major Dimple Singla, an officer in the Judge Advocate General's branch of the army, was arrested Monday.

Rajasthan youth refuses to marry minor, moves court

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By IANS, Jodhpur: An 18-year-old youth approached a court here against his parents, who he claimed were forcing him to marry a minor girl against his wish, police said Saturday.

Restless legs could trigger imminent orgasms in women

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By IANS, London : Restless legs and overactive bladder could trigger imminent orgasms in women, according to a study. Neuropsychiatrist Marcel Waldinger and his colleagues of Utrecht University and The Hague's HagaHospital studied 18 Dutch women with Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS). Their findings were recently published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Women affected by this rare and mysterious syndrome experience persistent genital sensations as if they are continuously on the verge of an orgasm.

Woman official in Punjab attempts suicide

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By IANS, Patiala : A woman revenue official in Punjab has been admitted to a hospital here after she attempted suicide in this town, 80 km from Chandigarh, police officials said Thursday. The woman, Jaspal Kaur, a 'Naib Tehsildar' in the revenue department, consumed some poisonous substance after paying obeisance at a gurudwara (Sikh shrine) here Wednesday. She was rushed to the Rajindra Medical college and hospital here where doctors said that her condition was now stable.

‘ट्रिपल तलाक़ का ख़त्म होना एक इंक़लाबी फ़ैसला है’ —शाईस्ता अम्बर

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ : ‘ट्रिपल तलाक़ का ख़त्म होना एक इंक़लाबी फ़ैसला है. इसके लिए हमने काफ़ी संघर्ष किया है. बहुत लम्बी लड़ाई...

क्यों क़ुबूल नहीं है मुस्लिम समाज को महिला क़ाज़ी…?

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net हम आज बदलते समाज के साथ अपनी अलग पहचान बनाने में मुसलसल लगे हैं. जिसमें अपने अधिकार और समानता को लेकर आए...

Five killed in Jammu gunbattle, four hostages rescued

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By IANS, Jammu : Security forces rescued three children and a woman, who were held hostage during a gunbattle in which three civilians, an army officer and a guerrilla were killed Wednesday in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir. The militants, holed up in a house in Chinore on the outskirts of this city, took six civilians hostage Wednesday morning. The police said they were trying to rescue the two remaining hostages before launching an assault on the guerrillas.

Two Orissa women injured in acid attack

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: Two women in this Orissa capital were critically injured when a youth allegedly threw acid on them, police said. "Two girls, Rashmirekha Behera, 23, and Kainath Ali, 21, suffered serious burn injuries following the attack. We have detained the person. We are trying to establish the motive behind attack," Deputy Commissioner of Police Amitendranath Sinha said. The women were attacked while they were waiting for public transport near Imartidevi College here.

Rahbar Free Coaching Centre’s award ceremony held

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By TCN News, Patna: The 69th and 70th award ceremony of city-based Rahbar Free Coaching Centre (run by Bihar Anjuman) was held at Phulwari Sharif,...

Events, functions, launches mark International Women’s Day

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Bengal governor asks Jadavpur VC to act in molestation case

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Kolkata: West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi, who is also the Jadavpur University chancellor, Saturday cautioned Vice Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti for delaying action in the...

1,000 girls get school uniforms stitched by “Sakhi”

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Jaipur : All of them may not have been able to go to school but a good number of rural women in Rajasthan, who...

SC declines to take cognizance over Chhattisgarh deaths

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court Wednesday declined a plea urging the court to take cognizance of the death of 13 women due to...

Punjab to recruit 500 women constables

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By IANS, Phillaur : Punjab Police will soon recruit 500 women constables, the state police chief said Friday.

I’m against all fundamentalism, says Shabana Azmi

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Mumbai, (IANS): Veteran actress Shabana Azmi, who has often raised her voice against various issues, on Monday clarified her stance in backing the 'Not in...

Gender no bar: Himachal varsity gets first woman president

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By IANS, Shimla : Gender consideration played no part in her historic victory, asserted Shikha Chauhan, the first woman to be elected president of the students' union in Himachal Pradesh University (HPU). Shikha Chauhan of the Left-backed Student Federation of India (SFI) won the president's post of the Students' Central Association Thursday to become the first woman to be elected to the post in the 30-year history of the state university. Chauhan defeated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) candidate Amit Kumar by a margin of 47 votes.

Woman raped by Delhi Police constable

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a constable of Delhi Police's Crime Branch in Dwarka area of southwest Delhi earlier this week, police said Sunday. "The incident took place in Sector 16 of Dwarka when the victim's husband was not at home. Her husband had gone to Haryana. She complained that the constable was drunk at the time of the incident," a police officer said. When her husband returned, she told him about the incident after which they approached police Wednesday.

Growing intolerance in India is worrying: Shabana Azmi

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New Delhi : Veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Friday expressed support to those raising issues of intolerance in the country. She said "the growing...

AIMPLB must stop fooling people over Triple Talaq

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By Sheikh Khurshid Alam for Twocircles.net “Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense,...

Muslim women do not need the ‘support’ of BJP to raise their voice

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By Khushboo Khan for TwoCircles.net The Supreme Court verdict over triple talaq, following a long battle in court, has been debated across the country with...

Triple Talaq Bill passed in Lok Sabha, to be tabled in Rajya Sabha now

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TCN News The Lok Sabha passed the Triple Talaq Bill today, Thursday criminalizing the practise defeating the amendments proposed by the opposition parties. The bill...

Safety of women is highest priority: PM

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गुमनाम कबड्डी कोच इलियास की कहानी, जो समाज की अज्ञानता से जूझे मगर देश...

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Twocircles.net के लिए दरियापुर( मुकामां) से आसिफ इकबाल की रिपोर्ट पटना से करीब 90 किमी पूरब में गंगा नदी किनारे दरियापुर गांव बसा है। यहां...

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...

Programme for women to go green in Rajasthan

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New Delhi: Recognizing the importance of women's participation in governance, a non-governmental organisation has decided to develop a programme to encourage environmental initiatives in...

Virtual world abuzz on women’s bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : Debates and discussions on the historic women's reservation bill is buzzing the virtual world too. Manisha Ahlawat, who created a group "Reality Bites? Would the Women's Reservation Bill be implemented unbiased?" on popular social networking site Facebook, says: "Seeing more women in the position of power will definitely make more people respect women.

Mice show women can handle stress better

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By IANS, Sydney : Female mice engineered without a neurotransmitter in the lab, known to lower anxiety levels, were less stressed than their similarly configured male counterparts. Tim Karl, behavioural neuroscientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, explained that "pharmacological tests show that when you introduce NPY (neurotransmitter) to an animal in a stressful situation, its stress levels decrease." "Studies have shown that male mice created without NPY are more anxious than

Can ovulating women’s brain recognise potential sex partner?

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By IANS, Washington : Women's preferences for 'manly' men are influenced by their menstrual cycles. A new study by Kinsey Institute showed differences in brain activity as women considered masculinised and feminised male faces and whether the person was a potential sexual partner. Researchers identified regions of the brain that responded more strongly to masculine faces and demonstrated that differences between masculinised and feminised faces appeared strongest when the women were closer to ovulating.

Protests against delayed pensions in Jharkhand as COVID relief for marginalized backfires

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22% of the SC and ST households together reported having old-age pensioners in the households, with 22% widow pensioners, and 4% disability pension holders,...

अजय राय की पत्नी ने कहा, मोदी-मुलायम डरे हुए थे मेरे पति से, ‘ऊपर’...

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net वाराणसी: पिंडरा से विधायक अजय राय ने लोकसभा चुनाव में मोदी के खिलाफ चुनाव लड़ा था. कल इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट ने उन पर रा.सु.का. की धारा हटा दी है. इसके साथ ही अजय राय की जमानत का रास्ता भी आसान होता दिख रहा है. लेकिन बेहद लोकल लगती यह खबर दरअसल पूर्वांचल की राजनीति की दिशा बदल सकती है. TwoCircles.net ने कल विधायक अजय राय की पत्नी रीता राय से बात की. पेश है वह बातचीत -

PG accommodation ‘block list’ for women students

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

Only five percent Indian women in senior corporate posts: Study

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New Delhi: Only five percent of working women in India make it to senior leadership positions in the corporate sector, compared to the global...

Media award for young woman journalist

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By IANS, New Delhi : Alifiya Khan, 24, has won the third Anupama Jayaraman Memorial journalism award for exposing loopholes in the country's healthcare system with a series of investigative articles. The award consists of a citation and a cash award of Rs.15,000. Khan, a Mumbai-based correspondent with the Hindustan Times, wrote on 12 state-run healthcare centres. "Primary Hell Centres" - one of her articles which helped Khan clinch the award - unveiled the condition of health centres where untrained Ayurvedic doctors carried out post mortems and used disposable needles on patients.

Fresh, young faces in Left list, Subhasini Ali fielded from Barrackpore

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Kolkata : Packing 26 new faces and nominating several young leaders, West Bengal's main opposition Left Front Wednesday announced its candidates list for the...

Woman private eye Lalli gets cracking again in new book

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(IANS Books) By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : "I've always known I'd be stuck with a corpse some day - possibly in the first week of October." Lalli, India's new woman private eye - in the manner of the classic 20th century detectives - finds her corpse and begins decoding the cryptic clues to the murder. Detective writer Kalpana Swaminathan, a surgeon by profession, casts her net of intrigue right from the word go in her latest whodunit, "The Monochrome Madonna", the third in the series, published this month.

Will set up world-class institutes for minorities, 40% reservation for women: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

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By TCN News The Ministry of Minority Affairs will establish “world class educational institutions to provide better traditional and modern education to students belonging...

Probe lodged into woman’s death in hospital during outage

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By IANS, New Delhi: A three-member team will probe a 74-year-old woman's death in a government hospital here last week when her life support device stopped working during a power cut, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said Wednesday. Sharda Gaur, who was admitted to the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, died Oct 11 after her life support system failed during power cut. "The committee will look into matter and will submit its report within seven days," said Kiran Walia.

Women groups traverse country to pitch for quota bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : They call the campaign "The Campaign Reservation Express". A group of 55 women - activists and those who have stood against social injustice - will return to the capital Sunday after a two-week journey across the country to garner support for women's reservation bill's passage. The group of women, hailing from different parts of the country, were divided into three "Karvans" that went on different routes across India from Jhansi in Madhya Pradesh May 20, spreading their message through public discussions, stage performances, poetry recitations and the like.

Woman hangs self in front of five-year-old son

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New Delhi: After an altercation with her husband, a 23-year-old woman hanged herself from a ceiling fan and asked her five-year-old son, the witness...

An eyewitness account of the Women’s March in Boston

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net “This is the biggest march I have seen,” said an old timer who seemed to be someone who have participated in lots...

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...

Women’s panel for slapping serious charges against Rathore

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By IANS, New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Tuesday appealed to the central and Haryana governments to slap serious charges against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. It also assured that civil damages will be filed after legal consultation. "We have asked the union home ministry and the Haryana government to slap serious charges - abetment to suicide, attempt to murder, conspiracy and destroying evidence - against Rathore," NCW chairperson Girija Vyas told reporters here.

Indian women’s hockey team wins HWL Round 2

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New Delhi: The Indian women's hockey team defeated Poland 3-1 in the final to emerge Hockey World League (HWL) Round 2 champions at the...

Will Britain’s powerful Zionist lobby forgive Sayeeda Warsi?

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By M Ghazali Khan, The first ever female Muslim Minister in the history of Britain, Sayeeda Warsi, has displayed extraordinary courage by resigning as a Foreign Office Minister over David Cameron Government’s “morally indefensible” stand on Israeli barbarism in Gaza.

‘Violence against woman seen as assertion of power’

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Indian woman rescued in Germany reaches Delhi

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New Delhi : Gurpreet, the Indian woman who was rescued from a refugee camp in Germany along with her eight-year-old daughter, reached New Delhi...

Height of plight: Hajjan Bibi govt girls school in Darbhanga

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, Patna: Belying the tall claims of Nitish Kumar government about Muslim welfare during the last four and half years of his regime, located in Muslim populated area in Darbhanga town, the Hajjan Bibi Soghra Hasan Memorial Girls High School gives you a clear picture of the plight of even government recognized minority schools in the state.

Parties flay Mulayam’s statement on gang rape

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Lucknow: The opposition on Wednesday lashed out at Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav for his statement that gang rape of a woman...

Five sleeping labourers crushed to death in Noida

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By IANS, Noida : Five sleeping labourers, including two women, were killed and two children injured when they were crushed under the wheels of a bus here at midnight Saturday. The victims were asleep near a crossing under the Sector-24 police station of Noida. According to Superintendent of Police City Mahesh Mishra, the driver of an Uttar Pradesh Roadways bus was trying to park his bus at 11.45 p.m. on the ground when he failed to spot the sleeping labourers.

Provide facilities to homeless, lactating women in Delhi: Court

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Friday directed the city government to provide food and medical facilities to homeless pregnant and lactating women...

Two Bengaluru school officials held for girl’s death

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Bengaluru: The chairman and director of a school in which a teenage girl was shot dead were arrested on Thursday for failing to comply...

Maoist woman leader arrested in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS, Lucknow : A woman wing commander of a Maoist group was arrested in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, police said Wednesday. "We received information about the movement of a Maoist group and laid a trap. About a dozen Maoists fled but the woman wing commander was arrested Tuesday night," Sonebhadra Superintendent of Police Ramkumar told IANS. Identified as Bitni alias Nirmala, she was the last woman Maoist leader at large in the district, which is about 300 km from here. Other four women commanders had been arrested earlier.

MP minister bats for UP government on Badaun, draws Congress’ ire

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New Delhi: Babulal Gaur, home minister in the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, Thursday came to the defence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh...

Woman, child killed in anti-Al Qaeda attack in Iraq: US military

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By DPA, Baghdad : The US military said Sunday an operation targeting gunmen from the Al Qaeda terrorist network in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul left four people dead, including a woman and a child. In the operation Saturday, Al Qaeda suspects riding in a vehicle refused to stop, after coalition troops fired warning shots, prompting the forces to engage them, a military statement said. The woman and the child, who were also in the vehicle, were killed in the engagement along with two gunmen.

500 Iraq-returned nurses interview for new jobs

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Thiruvananthapuram : More than 500 Kerala nurses, who lost their jobs and had to return from Iraq and Libya, appeared for an interview here...

अस्पताल की लापरवाही से यासीन की मौत, संगठनों ने लगाया सपा सरकार पर आरोप

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter लखनऊ: जमीनी विवाद में जिंदा जला दिए गए बाराबंकी स्थित हैदरगढ़ के मोहम्मद यासीन की लखनऊ के सिविल अस्पताल में इलाज के...

Robbing their peace and declaring them dacoits

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Unheard & Unspoken: Terror stories from Madhya Pradesh: Part 4 By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

First woman editor of The Hindu quits

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Chennai : Malini Parthasarathy, the first woman editor of The Hindu daily, put in her papers on Tuesday. The 138-year-old daily is one of the...

बुलडोजर से गिराया गया घर आफरीन फातिमा की अम्मी के नाम था दर्ज,अदालत में...

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net प्रयागराज के जावेद मोहम्मद को हिंसक विरोध प्रदर्शन करने की कथित साजिश के आरोप में गिरफ्तार करने के बाद आज उनके घर पर...

Killing of a minor Muslim girl in Bihar sparks allegations of ‘kidnapping & rape’

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The killing of the minor girl has caused uproar in the village with protest demonstrations taken out by local villagers and relatives of the...

अनदेखी : उप्र राज्य महिला आयोग में एक भी मुस्लिम महिला नहीं

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ , TwoCircles.net भारतीय जनता पार्टी भले मुस्लिम महिलाओ की हितैषी बनने का एलान करे और तलाक़ और हलाला जैसे मुद्दों लड़ाई लड़ने...

बीड़ी ही बना जीने का सहारा…

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निकहत प्रवीन भागलपुर (बिहार) : बड़ा बेटा उसके बग़ल में बैठा था और छोटे बेटे को गोद में लिए, सिर झुकाए वो लगातार बीड़ी बनाए...

Daughter of Nagpur Court peon becomes judge at the age of 25

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Nagpur: In a distinguished event that brought cheer to the face of a Nagpur Court peon, his daughter cracked the competitive...

SC orders UP Police to protect inter-religion couple

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday directed Uttar Pradesh Police to provide protection to a young couple belonging to different religions and who married...

Court moved for pensions to widows, poor women

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Indian-origin woman charged with murdering neighbour in Canada

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Toronto: An Indian-origin woman in Canada has been charged with murdering her neighbour in South Ottawa in Canada's Ontario province. Gurpreet Ronald, 34, accused of...

Indians among 30,000 nurses in Britain facing expulsion

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London: As many as 30,000 overseas nurses will be facing the axe under British Prime Minister David Cameron's new immigration laws. According to Cameron's new...

Women’s college AMU celebrates Founder’s Day

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By TCN News, Aligarh: Women’s College of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) celebrated its Founder’s Day, which is basically the wedding day of Sheikh Abdullah, pioneer of women’s education, and his wife Begum Waheed Jahan in 1902.

Women in contract jobs more likely to face sexual advances

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By IANS, Sydney : Women holding casual and contract jobs are 10 times more likely to face sexual advances than those in permanent positions, according to a study. The research by Anthony LaMontagne, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, examined the likelihood of sexual harassment in different types of employment. "Our study shows that 79 percent of those who experience unwanted sexual advances at work are women," he said.

Muslim women can opt out of triple talaq, AIMPLB tells SC

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New Delhi, (IANS): The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it has decided to issue an advisory...

Campaign for women’s reservation bill gains momentum

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By IANS, New Delhi : Barely five days after it was launched, the civil society movement to support the passage of the women's reservation bill has started gaining momentum. Nearly a hundred people have signed up the online petition to the president and scores of others have taken up the cause on the social networking site, Facebook.

Uttar Pradesh cop accused of rape

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By IANS, Lucknow : An Uttar Pradesh policeman has been booked for allegedly raping a woman in Shahjahanpur district, officials said Thursday. Tejpal Singh, posted at Tilhat police station of the district, is absconding after the woman accused him of raping her. "The woman has alleged that Singh lured her to his government quarter inside the police station premises when she went there to lodge a complaint Oct 15," Shahjahanpur district police Superintendent Ejil Arasan told IANS over phone. The woman said that Singh raped her and then tried to give her money, he added.

91-year-old woman takes on Kerala legislator

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Bangladeshi women voters outnumber men for first time

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By IANS, Dhaka : Bangladeshi women voters will for the first time outnumber men by more than 1.4 million, according to the new voters' roll with photographs prepared for the ninth parliamentary elections due Dec 29. The number of voters this time stands at 81,058,698. Of them, 41,236,149 are women and 39,822,549 men - the former outnumbering the latter by 1,413,600.

Kerala emerging as emulative model for Muslim women’s education, says E Ahmed

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kozhikode: Kerala has emerged as an emulative model in terms of the Muslim women’s education, IUML MP E Ahmed has said. Most of the educational institutions in the state have good number of women students with some of them leading with 75 per cent women representation, he added.

NHRC issues notice over Chhattisgarh deaths

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New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday asked the Chhattisgarh government to explain the deaths of 13 women in a state...

Woman sets herself ablaze over dowry harassment

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 20-year old woman, alleging harassment by her in-laws over dowry, committed suicide by setting herself afire here, police said Friday.

China launches Shenzhou-9 with first woman astronaut

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By IANS, Beijing: China launched its Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with the country's first female astronaut aboard Saturday.

Development of any society will come through collective efforts by men and women, says...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Development of any society would come through collective efforts by men and women to improve the quality of their lives, Rula Ghani, the First Lady of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, said here on Wednesday. “It is through relentless activism, dedication and blind courage that women could help change the mindsets of people,” Ghani said delivering her keynote address at a two-day SAARC conference on ‘Gender, Community and Violence: Changing Mindsets for Empowering the Women of South Asia’ here.

Trinamool student wing to ‘look into’ Kolkata college girl’s beating

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Kolkata : The student wing of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday said it would look into allegations of its members beating up...

Why women take a detour from engineering

Women

New York : Women who go to college intending to become engineers stay in the profession less often than men, as a result of...

दिल्ली पुलिस ने ‘शाहीन बाग़’ की महिलाओं को नहीं जाने दिया अमित शाह के...

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यूसुफ़ अंसारी, twocircles.net नई दिल्ली। दिल्ली पुलिस ने ‘शाहीन बाग़’ की हज़ारों महिला प्रदर्शनकारियों गृह मंत्री अमित शाह से मिलने उनके घर नहीं जाने दिया।...

Saina gets a bye in World Badminton Championships first round

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By IANS, New Delhi: India's world No.6 Saina Nehwal got a bye in the women's singles first round of the World Badminton Championships in Hyderabad August 10-16. For the sixth seed Saina it could be a smooth ride till the quarterfinals. In the third-round, she may face 10th seed Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva and if she overcomes her, she may run into second seeded Lin Wang of China in the quarterfinals.

Woman gets relief from incontinence

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 48-year-old woman, suffering from continence, a condition characterised by involuntary loss of urine, for the last one year, has finally...

Othello-reciting Tamil rapist jailed in Britain

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By IANS, London : An Oxford University-educated Tamil banker who quoted from a Shakespeare play as he raped a woman has been sentenced to over three years of imprisonment by a British court. Paramasivan Sivasothy, an investment banker, recited lines from "Othello" to his terrified victim while raping her, Southwark Crown Court heard Friday. The woman managed to call the police while his back was turned and officers recorded Sivasothy as he carried out the "brutal, ugly and repugnant" attack, the prosecution said. A tape of the woman's ordeal was played in court.

Indian origin woman in Thailand’s richest list

Women

New York, July 11 (IANS) A 28-year-old Indian origin businesswoman has made it to the list of the 40 richest people in Thailand compiled by the Forbes magazine. Nishita Shah, managing director of diversified GP Group, and her family are ranked 19th with a net worth of $375 million. At 28, she is the youngest among the richest in the Southeast Asian country.

Pakistani woman climbs world’s seven highest peaks

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

SpiceJet operates all-women flights on Women’s Day

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By IANS, Mumbai : International Women's Day got off to a flying start Friday with private carrier SpiceJet's first flights of the day being operated by all-women crew, an official here said.

UPA believed in work rather than empty talk: Manmohan Singh

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Guwahati : Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said his UPA government had always believed in work rather than empty talk and the...

Empowering rural women to fight for their rights

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By Richa Sharma, IANS,

NDA willing to open doors to women

Women

By IANS, Khadakwasla (Maharashtra) : The National Defence Academy (NDA), that trains male cadets to eventually serve as officers in the Indian defence forces, has welcomed the idea of opening its doors to women. "If asked, the NDA is ready for training women cadets. After a decision is taken by the authorities we will need some time to build the necessary infrastructure," NDA commandant Air Marshal T.S.Randhawa told reporters on the sidelines of the passing out parade of the 114th course that also marked the 60th anniversary of the institution.

BSP MP’s daughter-in-law found dead

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Ghaziabad : BSP Rajya Sabha MP Narendra Kashyap's daughter-in-law was found dead here on Wednesday with a gunshot injury on her head, police said. Himani...

Attack on Malala: Islamic or un-Islamic?

Women

By Asghar Ali Engineer

Muslim women converge to pray for release of Maulana Naseeruddin

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, New Delhi: Hundreds of Muslim women converged in Hyderabad on Friday to pray for the release of Maulana Muhammad Naseeruddin, his three sons and other Muslim youths who are languishing in different jails in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh for several years.

Hijab ban forced many Muslim women in Karnataka to drop out of colleges: new...

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The report by PUCL Karnataka elaborates the ways in which Muslim women students were denied their right to education by being forced to...

3,000 women poll personnel in Bengal: Poll panel

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Kolkata : The Election Commission Friday said as many as 3,000 women poll personnel will be deployed in 575 polling booths in West Bengal. According...

Maulanas assaulted by women in Lucknow over talaq issue

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Lucknow: Three women manhandled maulanas and the staff of Madrasa Sultan-e-Madaris at Shameena Road in Lucknow on Tuesday afternoon. The women alleged that the maulanas had issued 'talaq' certificates against them.

For women, still long way to go, says Rosaiah

Women

Chennai : Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah on the eve of International Women's Day said it is still a long way to go before...

Google lights candle ‘in memory of Delhi braveheart’

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By IANS, New Delhi: Google India has lit a white candle on its homepage as a tribute to the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim, who passed away following a 13-day fight for life.

Elderly woman raped by youth in Bihar

Women

Patna: A 75-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a 21-year-old man at a village in Bihar, police Sunday said. The incident took place Saturday night...

Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan condemn arrest of rape survivor, youth activists

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TCN News Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) of Rajasthan has strongly condemned the arrest of a young survivor of gang-rape and two Jan Jagran Shakti...

Tarannum Firdous, the first Muslim girl from Siliguri to crack WBCS in her maiden...

Women

TCN News with inputs from Sadique Mumtaz “Hard work never goes in vain. One who continues working hard despite enduring pain and adverse conditions is destined...

Girl killed in Pakistan-India firing

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Islamabad: A teenaged girl was killed Saturday in an exchange of fire between Pakistani para-military troopers and India's Border Security Force (BSF) along the...

Male power officials forced to wear bangles

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By IANS, Lucknow: Agitated over rampant power outages, Congress party workers led by a woman made electricity department officials in an Uttar Pradesh district wear bangles - a measure to shame men - police said Saturday. "Nearly 50 Congress party workers, including its district president Tripti Awasthi, were booked today (Saturday) for making the government officials wear bangles to register their protest," Lakhimpur Kheri Superintendent of Police S.R.S. Aditya told IANS on telephone.