Malaysian woman strikes yoga pose to win shopping vouchers
By IANS,
Kuala Lumpur : Striking a yoga pose has won Malaysian Adriana Zuleika Azmi shopping vouchers worth RM 5,000 ($1,432) that she can spend with award-winning television personality Aznil Nawawi.
A participant had to walk into a Ogawa firm outlet and take a picture with any of the Ogawa products.
She struck a yoga pose on the Ogawa ezShape machine to win the grand prize in a contest, NST Online said Monday.
It did not specify which of the asanas from yoga, the system of mental and physical rejuvenation that has its roots in India, was performed.
Congress, JD-U, Left to bring privilege motions against Irani
New Delhi : Seeking to put the Narendra Modi government on the defensive, the Congress and JD-U said on Saturday that they will bring...
More women reporting cases of sexual harassment: Maneka Gandhi
New Delhi : Women are coming forward in larger numbers to report cases of sexual harassment at the workplace, Minister of Women and Child...
Centre empowering women: Heptulla
New Delhi : Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla on Thursday said efforts were on to empower women from every section of society and economic...
जेएनयू में प्रवेश प्रक्रिया की जटिलता को लेकर उठ रहे गंभीर सवाल
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National Women’s Front celebrates International Women’s Day
By TCN News,
Calicut: Seminar, handbill distribution, public meets and poster campaigns marked the events on the occasion of the International Women’s Day (March 8) organised by the National Women’s Front (NWF).
These programmes were held across Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Rajasthan and West Bengal, Fareeda Hassan, national general secretary of NWF, said in a release.
Erasing tolerance? HAF’s changes can only be described as ahistorical edits to history books
The HAF and its allies may have PR machinery and hundreds of thousands of dollars in their war chest to selectively change textbooks, but...
Crime against women rises in Cuttack-Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar : Even though there is a marginal decrease in murder cases, crimes against women have gone up drastically in the Cuttack-Bhubaneswar twin cities...
NCW team to probe police torture of Bengal woman: BJP
Kolkata : A National Commission for Women (NCW) team will visit West Bengal to probe the alleged torture of a woman by police, state...
Police in Uttar Pradesh beat protesting Dalit women, call it ‘minimal force’
The police denied the allegations claiming the protesting women threw stones at them prompting them to use 'minimal force'.
Afnan Habib | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI — In...
Sushma Swaraj – an orator and a prominent face of BJP (Profile)
New Delhi : A top woman leader of the BJP and one of its best orators, Sushma Swaraj has blazed some records in her...
India recalls envoy to New Zealand after wife accused of assaulting staff
New Delhi/Wellington: India on Saturday asked its envoy in New Zealand to return following allegations that his wife assaulted a member of the domestic...
In Nanded, thousands participate in march for Muslim reservations
By TCN News
Muslim Aarakshan Sangharsh Kruti Samiti, an umbrella organisation of various political and religious groups, organised a ‘Million March’ in Nanded on...
Villagers planning another ‘sati’ temple in Raipur
By IANS,
Raipur : Villagers in Chhattisgarh's Raipur district are reportedly planning to construct a temple at the site where an elderly woman committed 'sati' by jumping onto her husband's funeral pyre, even as seven people have been held for the crime, police said Tuesday.
Police deployment has been increased to foil their plans, an official said. Dozens of people had Monday offered prayers at the site in Chechar village, 125 km from here, despite a a ban imposed by the police on the worship of the woman.
क्या महज़ राजनीति का मुद्दा है डेल्टा मेघवाल?
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
राजस्थान के नोखा शहर में एक प्रतिभाशाली लड़की को तंत्र की अमानवीयता के चलते अपनी जान से हाथ धोना पड़ा. डेल्टा...
Assam to raise task force to deal with crime against women
By IANS,
Guwahati: Assam will soon form a task force to deal with the rising crimes against women across the state.
Anxious and alienated: How communalism fuels mental health crisis among marginalized communities
Samiya Chopra, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: “I sometimes feel that my identity is the root cause of my lack of mental peace. Wearing a hijab, I often find...
Close to 6,000 poor patients treated free by IMRC in 12 days in three...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Kerala:The 7th annual India Health Initiative-2016, a program created by US-based NGO India Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) to...
Three Ramadans without Mohsin Shaikh, a mother recalls memories of her son
Sadiq Shaikh, Mubin Shaikh and Shabana Parveen
By A Mirsab, Twocircles.net,
Solapur (Maharashtra): Shabana Parveen, 53, a mother of twenty-eight years old Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh...
Woman with two kids killed on Bengal tracks
Kolkata:A woman and her two children were killed when they jumped before a speeding train in West Bengal's Howrah district Saturday, police said.
The accident...
On Ruchika’s 16th death anniversary, government says case to be re-probed
By IANS,
Chandigarh/Panchkula/New Delhi : As support built up for Ruchika Girhotra's case on her 16th death anniversary Tuesday and appeals grew for convicted former Haryana top cop S.P.S. Rathore to be slapped with more serious charges, the government said the molestation and suicide of the teenager would be reinvestigated.
Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said the molestation of Ruchika and her suicide three years later would be re-investigated and tried as a "model case" to demonstrate that nobody can "subvert the rule of law".
Lucknow woman’s family stages sit-in, demands CBI probe
Lucknow : The family of a Lucknow woman, who was murdered last week, Friday began an indefinite sit-in here, trashing police investigations and demanding...
Assam UPSC topper Fardina Adil says religion is often misused to obstruct women’s advancement
By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net,
Dalit woman held for CPI-M office trespass ‘attempts suicide’
Kannur (Kerala) : One of the two Dalit women held on charge of trespassing into the CPI-M office in Thalaserry was late Saturday night...
Women in Pakistani village vote for first time in 70 years
By IANS:
Lahore, July 25: Millions of registered voters are heading towards polling stations to cast their vote as Pakistan goes for its 11th general...
Himachal to provide bicycles to women labourers
Shimla : Himachal Pradesh will provide household items, including a bicycle, to women labourers and insure all workers enrolled under the state Building and...
Four get life sentence in Shakti Mills gang-rape case
Mumbai: A Mumbai court Friday awarded life sentences to four men convicted for gang-raping a 19-year-old call centre employee in the Shakti Mills Complex...
Woman kills two children, self in Tripura
By IANS,
Agartala : A woman poisoned her two teenaged children and then killed herself in Tripura, which is witnessing an increase in the number of suicides, police said Tuesday.
Laxmi Sarkar, 27, killed her two children and then committed suicide late Monday in Kalyanpur in west Tripura, a police spokesman said. She reportedly took the extreme step due to abject poverty.
In separate incidents, two middle-aged women also committed suicide in west Tripura allegedly due to poverty, police said.
UPA believed in work rather than empty talk: Manmohan Singh
Guwahati : Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said his UPA government had always believed in work rather than empty talk and the...
Vast improvement needed for women’s safety: Manmohan Singh
By IANS,
New Delhi: As protests against the brutal rape of a five-year-old continue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said "vast improvement" was needed in the security accorded to women.
Nand Ghar project launched by Vedanta, women and child ministry
New Delhi : Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi inaugurated the first "Nand Ghar" or modern anganwadi of the 4,000 her ministry plans...
Bulli Bai app case: Women activists hold protest in Kozhikkode, demand action from Kerala...
The protesting women said that the Hindu right-wing force's attacks to suppress Muslim women will be futile and will not prevent Muslim women...
Tamil Nadu Muslim groups to discuss utilization of govt schemes for Muslim women
By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: Various Muslim NGOs and social groups are going to meet in Chennai on November 21 to discuss ways to get most out of the schemes launched by state as well as central governments to improve socio-economic condition of Muslims particularly Muslim women.
Ramadan 1438: Kulsum
By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net
I did a funny thing on the day of my first roza, well according to me." Says Kulsum, 29, who...
Girl stabbed to death in Delhi
New Delhi : A 19-year-old girl died after being stabbed for objecting to a man who allegedly abused her on Thursday in central...
SC seeks response on women’s entry in mosques
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre, the Central Waqf Council and the All India Muslim...
Five women held for cheating
By IANS,
New Delhi : Five women and a man have been arrested here for allegedly cheating a number of men by taking money from them on the pretext of giving them membership in an exclusive 'friendship club', police said Wednesday.
Police said Sushil Kumar Bhamri, 42, was the kingpin of the racket, which he run from a rented accommodation in Karol Bagh. He had hired five women - all in their mid-20s - to run the 'friendship club'.
Seven mobile phones, four notebooks and seven debit cards were recovered from them.
Woman gives birth outside health centre, inquiry initiated
By IANS,
Lucknow : A 25-year-old woman gave birth to a still-born child outside a community health centre (CHC) in Uttar Pradesh after she was denied admission there. An inquiry has been initiated into the case.
Vidyawati was Tuesday night brought to the Gosaiganj CHC in Lucknow district in an advanced stage of pregnancy by her relatives.
However, the medical staff at the CHC allegedly refused to admit her.
Vidyawati subsequently gave birth to a still-born child in the gallery of CHC, officials added.
Irom Sharmila, youth from war zones to join global peace fest
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...
UNICEF report reveals 80,000 women die in India every year during childbirth
By KUNA,
New Delhi : A new report released by UNICEF (United Nations Childrens Fund) has revealed that almost 80,000 women die in India during childbirth every year due to malnutrition and lack of pre-natal medical facilities in villages and remote areas.
The startling revelations also indicate that 45 percent of the women are married before they turn 18, and that around one million infants die every year, of which 40 percent die in the first week itself.
वीडियो : सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फ़ैसले से तलाक़ का ख़ौफ़ कम हुआ है -हसीना...
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Muslim women need their own leadership: Naish Hasan
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Naish Hasan is the name of a woman who made a history and earned lot of criticism when her nikah was officiated by a Muslim lady. She refutes that was a popularity stunt. Rather, it was to show that women are eligible to conduct nikah. Talking to Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net, Hasan, who is founder member of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, calls for reform in Muslim law for women and also an alternative leadership for them.
Moms go online for seeking parenting advice
By IANS,
Washington: Moms are going online to consult one another and seek parenting advice, says a US study.
The way to a lady’s heart is through her stomach – if you’re a...
By Ernest Gill, DPA,
Hamburg : The way to a lady's heart is through her stomach - if you're a male chimpanzee seeking a mate. But you have to be patient and feed her lots of meat over a long period of time, according to new findings by German scientists.
Wild female chimpanzees copulate more frequently with males who share meat with them over long periods of time, according to a study led by German researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Munich.
UN body concerned about impact of Gaza violence on women
United Nations : The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Friday expressed its deep concern about the impact of the ongoing Gaza conflict on women's...
Suicide bomber kills seven in Iraq
By Xinhua,
Baghdad : A woman suicide bomber blew herself Monday at the entrance to the heavily-guarded Green Zone area of central Baghdad, killing at least seven people, an interior ministry source said.
More than a dozen people were also injured in the attack at one of the main entrances to the zone, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
"Our first reports said that five killed and 12 injured, including security members," the source said
Nirbhaya fund does not reach intended beneficiaries, SC told
New Delhi, (IANS) : The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that the Nirbhaya fund created to support measures for women's safety and empowerment...
BJP has highest MPs/MLAs with declared crime against women cases, says report
New Delhi (IANS): The BJP leads recognized political parties with the highest number of 12 lawmakers at the central and state levels who have...
Women journalists’ date with President Mukherjee
By IANS,
New Delhi : The women were in their best silks, the venue was the Rashtrapati Bhawan and the occasion was International Women's Day.
Three women to manage Pennagaram bypoll
By IANS,
Chennai: Three women bureaucrats will manage the March 27 byelection to the Pennagarm assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu.
Dharmapuri District Collector and District Electoral Officer P. Amudha, Returning Officer Maheswari Ravikumar and Deputy Suprintendent of Police Panchavarnam will be managing the byelection for the constituency, for which filing of nominations has started.
The run-up to the bypoll attracted attention when around 20,000 voters were ordered to be added to the electoral list just before the declaration of the byelection schedule.
The sorry state of Delhi’s women labourers
By Prashant K. Nanda, IANS,
New Delhi : They live and work in the capital, but the city's 200,000 women labourers - most of whom work at construction sites - along with their children are some of the worst sufferers when it comes to health indices.
Nearly 48 percent of them got married before the legal age of 18, and 46 percent of the ones among them who were mothers also had their first baby before that age, says a new study carried out by voluntary organisation Mobile Creche.
Bhopal – Three decades of Struggle: Gas survivors begin indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar
The struggle for justice and adequate compensation continues even after three decades after the country’s first major industrial disaster
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi/Bhopal: Five women survivors of the ill-famous 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today began an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar here along with a thousand survivors and their children sitting in a dharna, demanding adequate compensation to the victims of the country’s worst industrial disaster.
Saudi Arabia to set up world’s largest women-only varsity
By IANS,
Dubai : The world's largest university exclusively for women is to come up in Saudi Arabia, with Saudi King Abdullah scheduled to lay the foundation stone.
The Riyadh Women's University will be the world's largest institute for higher studies when the project is completed in 2010.
The university will have 13 colleges and will cover an area of eight million square metres north of the Saudi capital.
Japan comfort women issue still causing violations: UNHCR
Geneva : UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Navi Pillay Wednesday expressed regret that Japan has failed to pursue a comprehensive, impartial, and...
क्या तीन तलाक़ के फौजदारी क़ानून से महिलाओं का भला होगा?
नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए
अगर बीमारी की जांच-पड़ताल ग़लत होगी तो दवा भी ग़लत दी जाएगी.
क्या सारे सामाजिक दु:खों का सिर्फ़-सिर्फ़ एक इलाज है कि...
TDP MP asks women to dress in ‘dignified manner’
New Delhi:A debate in the Lok Sabha on crime against women turned into a lesson on virtues of "dignified" dressing Thursday, when a TDP...
Women rights groups protest against R.K. Pachauri
New Delhi : Women's rights groups protested on Friday in front of the TERI office here, condemning R.K. Pachauri's "promotion" as the executive vice...
Saina loses to Xuerui in Malaysia Open semis
Kuala Lumpur: World No.1 shuttler Saina Nehwal went down 21-13, 17-21, 20-22 in her women's singles semifinal to reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui at...
Family of Kannauj ‘rape’ victim seek govt aid, demand punishment against accused
A minor girl was found severely beaten and lying unconscious near a government guesthouse in the Kannauj district of Uttar Pradesh on October...
Beating all odds, Jharkhand girl clears matriculation exam, inspires others
By Nityanand Shukla
Ranchi : This Jharkhand girl cycled 24 kilometres every day to and from her school. And today, Neelu Kumari has made her...
HC nixes triple talaq plea, says women entitled to equality
New Delhi, (IANS): The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea to direct the government to ensure that triple talaq must...
Manipuri women assault: Three more accused get bail
By IANS,
New Delhi : A court here Friday granted bail to three people accused of assaulting two Manipuri women.
Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri...
Saving girl child high priority: Maneka
New Delhi : Saving the girl child is high priority for the Indian government, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said Monday.
At a...
National mission for women’s empowerment to be launched
By IANS,
New Delhi : A national mission for empowerment of women will be launched to achieve convergence among women-centric programmes run at various levels, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said Monday.
Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, she said a token sum of Rs.10 million has been earmarked for the scheme for the current financial year.
"It is proposed that the mission will primarily oversee implementation of women centric programmes of the participating ministries, state government and panchayati raj institutions," the minister said.
SC to hear plea over woman lawyer’s manhandling by police
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will Wednesday hear a petition seeking transfer of investigation to the CBI in a case of assault and manhandling...
Apex court rejects women panel’s plea against rapist
By IANS,
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a suit by the National Commission for Women (NCW) challenging the Delhi High Court order setting free a rapist who had "redeemed himself" by clearing the civil service exam while in prison.
Stone cold after Kosi kills her newborn
By Priyanka Khanna, IANS,
Araria/Supaul (Bihar) : For a woman whose eight-hour-old baby died a little while ago, Zafeda Khatum looks surprisingly unflustered. The 18-year-old maintains a stoic silence even as her family members clamour around to explain how she lost her first born to the ice cold waters of the Kosi river that unexpectedly entered her shanty in Araria district of Bihar.
ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट : बिहार में स्नातक की डिग्री में लगते हैं छह और परास्नातक...
आसिफ इकबाल | Twocircles.net
बिहार के आरा की रहने वाली अपर्णा कुमारी की इच्छा दिल्ली के जेएनयू से पीएचडी कर प्रोफेसर बनने की है। लेकिन...
Women politicians make significant presence in Europe
By Xinhua,
Paris : Spain's first woman Defence Minister Carme Chacon, one of the nine female ministers in Spain's 17-member cabinet, attracted world attention when she showed up in April, pregnant for seven months, to inspect the troops.
The political world was even more surprised when Mara Carfagna, a former Italian showgirl who finished sixth in a Miss Italy contest, was appointed Italy's Minister of Equal Opportunities.
Why women take a detour from engineering
New York : Women who go to college intending to become engineers stay in the profession less often than men, as a result of...
Tamil Nadu’s blind community left in the dark without assistance for writing exams
For scores of visually impaired students from Tamil Nadu, writing exams amid the ongoing pandemic has been a tough ask, with no or minimal...
‘Gender discrimination leads to malnutrition in women’
By IANS,
Dhaka: Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has deplored gender discrimination in healthcare programmes pursued by South Asian nations, saying it leads to malnutrition and chronic diseases among women and children.
"Negligence of women's health puts huge impact on children even when they grow up," he said while participating in a dialogue entitled "Indo-Bangladesh Dialogue on Health and Education: Learning from Neighbours" here Saturday.
"It leads to high rate of maternal mortality and malnutrition, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases among women and children," he added.
Muslim liberals’ problematic noises on Karnataka anti-hijab row
To discuss whether the hijab is essential or not, whether all Muslims wear the hijab or not, whether those who wear it do it...
Women’s Day: Spicejet’s all-women crew flights, SRL Diagnostics awards 5
New Delhi : On the occasion of International Women's Day on Sunday, budget carrier SpiceJet said it was operating 16 all-women crew flights across...
CBI to take over case against Rathore
By IANS,
Panchkula/New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will take over "in a few days" the case against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, and is waiting for copies of fresh FIRs naming him for abetting the teen's suicide.
The Haryana Police Saturday said it won't act "hastily" to arrest Rathore, who has been booked on non-bailable charges. The police on Friday drew criticism from a Haryana court for delaying action in the molestation case, which is now being probed afresh with the suicide angle.
Schoolgirl moves court against teacher for humiliating her
New Delhi: A Class 5 girl has moved the Delhi High Court against her teacher for slapping and humiliating her in front of her...
Empower women with education to uplift Muslims: Dr. Asma Zehra
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Over three years, 70 pregnant women found HIV+ in Tripura
Agartala : About 70 pregnant women have tested HIV-positive in Tripura in the past three years, an official of the Tripura State AIDS Control...
वाह रे मोदी बजट! दलित-आदिवासियों का हक़ भी मार लिया!
Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net
प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी भले ही अरूण जेटली द्वारा पेश किए गए बजट को गांव, गरीब और किसान समर्थक बजट बता रहे...
Rajnath Singh launches mobile app for women safety
New Delhi : Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched a mobile-phone based application Thursday for the safety of women in the capital.
The app - Himmat...
Asifa Karamat Ali: Gold Medalist of Gujarat University
TCN series on Muslim women empowerment
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Woman raped by Delhi Police constable
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.
IBSA signs women’s resolution
By IANS,
New Delhi : The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Women's Forum resolution was signed here Thursday.
Jan Dhan, pension scheme to help women in big way: Modi
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and the pension scheme announced in the union...
Night shift for Madhya Pradesh women workers opposed
By IANS,
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh's decision to amend a law to allow women to work in factories up to 10 p.m. has been opposed by women groups alleging it will lead to their exploitation.
"The Madhya Pradesh government has Saturday issued a notification allowing women in factories to work from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.," an official said Monday adding that the notification has been issued in keeping with the Factories Act, 1948.
Allahabad HC denies alimony to divorced working woman
Lucknow : A lower court order directing payment of alimony to a divorced woman under the Domestic Violence Act has been set aside by...
The forgotten heroines of India from crypts of history
(March 8 is International Women's Day)
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,
3 women murdered in Goa raises fresh safety concerns
By IANS,
Panaji: Three women were found murdered with their bodies partially charred in separate incidents over the last three days in Goa, even as the police Tuesday brushed aside queries about the safety of women in the state.
Delhi needs woman chief minister: Meenakshi Lekhi
New Delhi : BJP parliamentarian Meenakshi Lekhi Wednesday said that only a "woman chief minister with administrative experience" can ensure the safety of women...
Seed companies involved in child labour in India, reveals study
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, a study has pointed out the grim realities on the use of...
Dec 16 gang rape verdict: Key points
The Delhi High Court Thursday upheld the death sentences to four convicts in the Delhi Dec 16, 2012 gang rape. Here are key points...
मुजफ्फरनगर दंगे के आरोपी भाजपा विद्यायक विक्रम सैनी को हुई थी 2 साल की...
स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net
मुजफ्फरनगर दंगे भड़काने के आरोप में अदालत द्वारा दोषी सिद्ध कर 2 वर्ष की सजायाफ्ता भाजपा नेता विक्रम सैनी की विधायकी चली...
‘We were promised rehabilitation,’ 40 families homeless after railway demolishes Ranchi slum
Nearly 40 families, most of whom Dalits and Adivasis, were rendered homeless after railways destroyed their basti on December 28 last month.
Aquilur Rahman...
HC notice on poor girl’s plea for free treatment
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments on a plea by a 13-year-old girl, suffering from...
SRK’s driver arrested for raping minor
Mumbai: A driver who works with superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Rajendrakumar Gautam has been arrested for allegedly raping a girl who works at former...
Ensure fair probe into St.Stephen’s incident: Centre to UGC
New Delhi : The HRD ministry on Saturday asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to look into the case of alleged sexual...
The untold story of Egyptian women’s rights
By Rasha Dewedar
In a report published last month on violent crimes committed against women in 2009, Karam Saber Ibrahim, Executive Director of The Land Center for Human Rights, a Cairo-based non-governmental organisation, spoke of a belief that some Egyptians continue to hold, that "women are fundamentally lacking.... They are not complete, because they are not men."
UAE gets its first woman judge
By IANS,
Abu Dhabi : The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has got its first woman judge with Khulood Ahmed Jawan Al Dhaheri being sworn in to the coveted post here.
Al Dhaheri was sworn in at a ceremony here Tuesday by Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE's minister for presidential affairs and chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judiciary Department, the official Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.
"The appointment of a woman judge is certainly a unique experience in the UAE," Sheikh Mansour said.
Will Najma Heptulla be ‘retired’ in New Year?
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Speculations are rife that Union Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla might be ‘retired’ in the New Year.
News website Scroll.in http://scroll.in/article/696681/Modi-likely-to-drop-Minority-Affairs-Minister-Najma-Heptulla-from-the-cabinet-next-year reported on Tuesday that the senior most minister in the Narendra Modi-led NDA government might be dropped from the council of ministers.
Rajiv Gandhi’s vision was to pass women’s bill in parliament: Sonia
By IANS,
New Delhi : Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Friday said the passage of the women's reservation bill in parliament would be the realisation of her late husband and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's vision to politically empower women.
Addressing a meeting of Congress office bearers and state party chiefs here, she said : "Women reservation bill ...when it comes to fruition, it would be the realisation of Rajiv Gandhi's vision to empower women politically."
The meeting was organised to finalise programmes for the party's 125th anniversary celebrations.
Girl gangs with a noble cause
By Anjali Singh, CNS
There is no power like girl power. This can’t ring more true when it comes to empowering young adolescent girls in rural India.
What began as self help girl group, a unique concept taken up by UNICEF Lucknow, today is one of the most powerful tools young adolescent girls are using to protect themselves against exploitation and fight for their rights.
Called 'Kishori Sabhas' or 'Samuhs' these groups are so popular that they have even managed to do away with practices like child labor and child marriage in the villages.
How was this possible?
Rajya Sabha defers voting on women’s bill
By IANS,
New Delhi: The Rayja Sabha Monday deferred voting on the Women's Reservation Bill after supporting opposition parties insisted on a debate before it is put to vote.
After repeated disruptions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called a meeting of political parties supporting the bill where the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said the proposed legislation should be discussed and then put to vote.
The bill seeks to reserve a third of all seats for women in parliament and state assemblies.
Kenyan authorities arrest three women over terror links
Nairobi: Kenyan authorities said that three women, suspected of being suicide bombers, were detained in the coastal city of Mombasa.
Mombasa County Commissioner Nelson Marwa...
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Eve teasing or crime against women?
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.
Normal life resumes as Kashmir shutdown lifted
By IANS,
Srinagar: Life limped back to normal in the Kashmir Valley Tuesday after eight days of a shutdown and violent protests, even as fresh violence left at least 20 people injured during demonstrations over the alleged rape and murder of two women.
Educational institutions, business establishments, government offices and banks resumed their work after remaining closed for the last eight days.
Japanese tourist found dead in Delhi hotel
By IANS,
New Delhi : A 55-year-old Japanese woman was found dead and her French husband unconscious in a central Delhi hotel Monday, the police said, suspecting a drug overdose may have caused the death.
According to the police, Agase Jean Marry called the hotel Suncity's reception desk around 9 a.m. asking them to arrange a doctor for his wife Okoru Odda, 50, who had collapsed.
"The hotel staff who went to check on the woman found both of them unconscious inside the room. Odda, they later found, was already dead," said an investigating police officer.
Crime Records also prove rise in atrocities against SC/ST in Kerala
By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net
Kozhikode: If statistics from National Crime Records Bureau are taken into consideration, it becomes clear Kerala has been...
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हमारे संवाददाता ने उत्तर प्रदेश के फतेहपुर सदर विधानसभा के लोगों से बात की और जानने की कोशिश की कि आगामी विधानसभा चुनाव में...
Television hosts assault woman during live show
By IANS/EFE,
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), April 10 (IANS/EFE) Three television hosts assaulted a woman presenter and pulled out her hair after she called them homosexuals during a live show broadcast on the national network.
Enrique Crespo, Ali David and Tommy "La Berny" Castillo attacked Venya Carolina on live television as she called them homosexuals, the Commission on Public Entertainment and Radiophony said in a statement Friday.
Logic of women’s reservation
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi
It is an unfortunate fact that in a democracy nothing is achievable without united agitations. This time again the Muslim social and political leadership in India is failing to unite strongly against a very genuine demand and clear hypocrisy against them in guise of women empowerment.
Muslim women beaten up in MP for allegedly carrying beef; uproar in Rajya Sabha
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...
Jhumpa Lahiri gets National Humanities Medal from Obama
By Arun Kumar
Washington : President Barack Obama presented the 2014 National Medals of Arts and Humanities to Pulitzer Prize winning Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri...
Woman held with live cartridges at Lucknow airport
By IANS,
Lucknow : A woman was held at the the Amausi airport here Monday after four live cartridges were found from her purse during pre-departure security checking, police said.
"Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel detected the .32 bore cartridges during the final security check and stopped her," inspector Prayag Singh of Sarojininagar told IANS.
The woman, Sarla Arora, however, said her husband, who had a valid arms licence, had left the cartridges in her purse by mistake, according to police.
Lalitha Kumaramangalam appointed new NCW chief
New Delhi : Lalitha Kumaramangalam has been appointed the new chairman of the National Commission for Women (NCW), Women and Child Development Minister Maneka...
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आजमगढ़(उत्तर प्रदेश): हमारे समाज में आज भी जब औरतें आजीविका के लिए घर से बाहर कदम रखती हैं तो उन्हें कड़ी चुनौतियों...
Among the first to die in Nice attack was Muslim woman
Nice : A middle-aged Muslim woman was among the first to be killed when a trucker mowed down 84 people here in a terror...
Instead of lowering prices, BJP lawmaker Meenakshi Lekhi asks to pay taxes on Sanitary...
New Delhi (IANS): BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, who was part of a panel discussion on "Loss Fertility in Females" at the inaugural Menstrual Awareness...
These women mountain bikers are on a roll
By Vishal Gulati
Shimla : These women bikers are literally on a role as they prepare for the world's toughest off-road cycling event...
Women’s group protests in Kashmir over Assam, Myanmar
By IANS,
Srinagar : Activists of women's separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of Faith) in Jammu and Kashmir Friday staged a protest against alleged massacre of Muslims in Myanmar.
SC pulls up Bengal for failure to protect rape victim’s rights
New Delhi:The Supreme Court Friday said that West Bengal government failed to protect the fundamental rights of a village woman who was gang raped...
Punjab to allow sisters to tie rakhis to prisoner brothers
By IANS,
Chandigarh: Extending a special gesture to women whose brothers are spending time in jails across the state, the Punjab government Monday announced that sisters will be allowed to tie rakhis to their imprisoned brothers Wednesday.
Jails Minister Hira Singh Gabria said that special instructions were being issued to jail officials all over the state to allow women to tie rakhis to their brothers who are lodged in jails across the state.
The Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan, which symbolises the bond of love between brothers and sisters, falls Aug 5.
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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,
Winning Wimbledon was special feeling, says Sania
Hyderabad : Back home after clinching her first-ever women's doubles Grand Slam title, Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza said winning Wimbledon with Swiss partner...
This party picks ordinary yet extraordinary folks
By Mayank Aggarwal, IANS,
New Delhi : One look at its candidates and you know that the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party is trying hard to be a party "with a difference". For the Delhi polls, it claims to have fielded the city's lone woman auto driver, a house painter, the youngest male and female in the fray, and a man who has married his wife six times!
For some of the party's 11 candidates for the Nov 29 polls to elect a 70-member assembly, this is the first brush with politics. What's more, most of them hail from ordinary backgrounds.
Violence against women: Madhya Pradesh cuts sorry figure
By Sanjay Sharma, IANS,
Bhopal : Domestic violence has increased by five times in the last nine years, a shocking 1,217 gang rapes were reported in 1,300 days and maternal mortality is one of the highest in India - women in Madhya Pradesh don't have much to cheer about this International Women's Day Monday.
From 7,283 cases of domestic violence against women in 2001, the number went up by five times to 36,215 in 2009, according to police records.
SC asks Centre for panel report on women and family law
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to place before it the report on "Women and Law " by a...
Manipuri woman found dead in Delhi
New Delhi : A 20-year-old Manipuri woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her rented accommodation here Thursday, police said.
Aben Sofia was found...
Assam girl rape: Protest held outside Gurgaon police station
Gurgaon : People belonging to the north-eastern states on Friday staged a protest outside a police station here over inaction in an Assam girl's...
In Hailakandi, a father-son duo might hold edge over their rivals
By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net
Hailakandi: The district of Hailakandi, Assam, has been a hotspot of political activity in the past few weeks, and...
Sedition case against Amnesty International over Kashmir event in Bangalore
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Banglore: In a significant move, the Bangalore police on Monday filed an FIR against Amnesty International India, the global human...
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Maharashtra launches crime tracking system
Mumbai : On the occasion of the 70th Independence Day, Maharashtra launched the country's first comprehensive 'Crime Criminal Tracking Network System' through 42 cyber...
24-year-old woman found dead
By IANS,
New Delhi: A 24-year-old woman was Thursday found dead under mysterious circumstances in her rented house in south Delhi, police said.
Veerpal Kaur alias Nikki was found dead in her rented fourth floor accommodation in Kalkaji area after police broke open the doors, locked from outside.
The body, reportedly found semi-nude, has been sent for an autopsy.
Police said Kaur hailed from Moga in Punjab and worked as assistant project manager in an IT company in Okhla.
Ex-ACP’s son arrested for trying to abduct Afghan woman
New Delhi: A 28-year-old man, the son of a former senior Delhi police official, was arrested here for trying to abduct a married Afghan...