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50-year-old woman jumps to death from ninth floor

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By IANS, Ghaziabad : A 50-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide Monday by jumping from the ninth floor of her apartment building in Ghaziabad, the police said. According to the police, Kumud Prasad, the wife of Nand Kishore Prasad, a deputy chief labour commissioner, jumped from her flat in Amrapali Royal apartments in the Vasundhara area. According to her family, Kumud went out on the balcony of the flat in the morning. And about 10 minutes later, the apartment guards informed her husband that she was lying on the ground in a pool of blood.

Special units to tackle crimes against women proposed

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New Delhi : The central government Monday proposed to set up "Investigative Units on Crimes against Women" (IUCAW) in 20 percent of the districts...

Woman, child scheme not being properly implemented: Amartya

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Kolkata : Nobel laureate and Nalanda University chancellor Amartya Sen Monday said there were "shortcomings" in the implementation of the Integrated Child Development Services...

Girl dies after being thrown from Badal family’s bus; four arrested

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Moga/Chandigarh : The death of a 13-year-old Dalit girl on Thursday after she and her mother were allegedly pushed out of a speeding bus...

Jharkhand gets first woman Chief Justice

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By IANS Ranchi: Gyan Sudha Mishra, the first woman Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court, was Sunday sworn in by governor Syed Sibte Razi at the Raj Bhawan here. Mishra is the sixth Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court after the state was carved out from Bihar Nov 2000. Mishra was enrolled as lawyer in 1974 in Patna High Court. She was elevated to the post of judge in 1994 after which she was transferred to Rajasthan High Court. Her father, S.C. Mishra, was Chief Justice of Patna High Court.

Haryana Police to probe woman’s molestation complaint

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By IANS, Panchkula (Haryana) : After staging a sit-in for nearly 24 hours, a woman who complained of being molested by a senior police officer was Tuesday assured by the Haryana Police chief that her allegation would be looked into and the necessary corrective steps would be taken. Haryana Police chief Ranjeev Dalal finally met the woman Tuesday evening and listened to her grievance for over half-an-hour, an official said.

Wll balance right to equality, religious practice, SC on Sabarimala

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday said that it would balance the right to equality with the right to freedom of religion...

Creator of Bulli Bai app arrested from Assam: Delhi Police

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The report quoting sources said the man identified as Neeraj Bishnoi was the mastermind who allegedly created the app on the GitHub platform. TCN...

Chhath festival concludes peacefully in Bihar

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By IANS, Patna : Millions of people, mostly women, took a dip in rivers and ponds across Bihar and offered prayers to the rising sun early Wednesday to mark the end of the four-day long Chhath festival, which concluded peacefully. Devotees, attired in new colourful clothes, ended their 36-hour fast by offering prayers and floating lighted earthen lamps in water bodies. They sang folk songs and offered prayers to the sun god. A rare show of harmony was on display when people cutting across social barriers gathered to celebrate Chhath in villages and towns.

Women defy boycott call as Anantnag votes peacefully

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Anantnag : Defying the boycott call of the separatists, burqa-clad women in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag assembly constituency on Wednesday outnumbered men in this...

Women on Wings targets 1 mn rural jobs by 2018

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New Delhi : A social enterprise, Women on Wings targets to create one million jobs for women in rural India by 2018, an official...

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.

Death of three Tamil Nadu students shrouded in mystery

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

Woman who mothered 25 kids Nepal’s new ‘heroine’

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By IANS, Kathmandu: Unable to read or write and extremely poor, Santkumari Pariyar seems an unlike heroine. But the story of the village woman of uncertain age is making ripples in Nepal after a chance encounter led a filmmaker to train his camera on Santkumari and her family. It is a large family. Besides her husband Jitman, the couple have eight children. The size of the family would have been larger still had all the children survived. In her 27 years of marriage, a stoical Santkumari bore her husband 25 children, only eight of whom have survived.

Women less than 10 percent of India’s higer judiciary

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By Rana Ajit, IANS, New Delhi : Did you know the Supreme Court doesn't have a single woman judge? The Indian judiciary continues to turn a Nelson's eye to gender parity despite the government making a concerted bid to raise women's representation in parliament and state legislatures to 33 percent. As per official figures, the Supreme Court shares its dubious distinction with several high courts, including those of Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh.

Woman hangs herself in Assam police station

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Guwahati : A 39-year-old woman hanged herself inside a toilet at the Dispur police station in Assam's main city of Guwahati, police said on...

Gandhi, Nehru inspired Malaysian woman entrepreneur

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By IANS, Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian woman entrepreneur G. Vimalah Nair attributes her early inspiration to portraits of Indian leaders, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru among others, put up at home by her grandfather. She has been through years of hardship since - to win the RM 30,000 ($9,300) Woman of the Year award 2008 Saturday. It is given annually by the Women's Institute of Management (WIM). Nair, 55, told the audience of the hardships she endured while young, being married off at 17, only to meet with tougher times.

Sania-Hingis win Guangzhou Open title

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Guangzhou: Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis outclassed the Chinese pair of Shilin Xu-Xiaodi You to claim the Guangzhou Open title on Saturday. The Indo-Swiss combination...

In MIT, a celebration of Faiz’s life and works

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By TCN News Cambridge, Massachusetts: A program to celebrate the life and works of one of Urdu’s greatest poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz attracted a room full of Faiz fans to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 27, 2010.

Death of Fathima Latheef a blatant case of discrimination and Islamophobia, say students

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By Daisy K, TwoCircles.net Just five months after Dr. Payal Tadvi, a medical student at Nair Hospital in Mumbai was driven to suicide due to...

AMU’s journal on women of marginalized communities released online

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By TCN News Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has revived its reputed women’s journal 'Women and Society' by an online relaunching on Thursday, July 9. The online...

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...

Rahul Gandhi targets Modi’s personal life

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Jammu: Targeting BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi's personal life, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday said Modi not once mentioned his wife's name...

Class 11 girl raped by three classmates

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

MESAS distributes study kits among 100 Mewat girls

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Delhi policeman facing trial for beating woman let off

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

Meet Mubeena Ramzan, the trailblazer in imparting women’s education and property rights

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By Sadaf Shabir, TwoCircles.net “In today’s world, if something goes wrong in our household, women are held responsible,” said Mubeena Ramzan, an iconic figure for...

Now, Jalpaiguri missionary school receives threat letter

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Kolkata: Even as police are yet to make any arrest into the gang rape of a nun in a convent in West Bengal's Ranaghat,...

यूपी में भाजपा की जीत के बीच कहाँ खड़े है मुसलमान !

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net देश के सबसे बड़े राज्य उत्तर प्रदेश में भारतीय जनता पार्टी चुनाव जीत गई है। संभवतः योगी आदित्यनाथ एक बार फिर...

Remembering Fatima Sheikh, the first Muslim teacher who laid the foundation of Dalit-Muslim unity

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Over the past few years, a number of political forums and parties have experimented with uniting Dalits and Muslims, given their...

One billion rising program held at Rajasthan town

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By TCN News, Tonk, Rajasthan: Tarraqi I foundation conducted one billion rising program for justice, violence day ("Sabki Yahi Aawaz Ho, Hinsa Mukt Samaj Ho") on Friday near Marjina Begum’s residence.

Shake hands with female teachers or face fine, Muslim boys told

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Geneva : Muslim school students in the Swiss canton of Basel cannot refuse to shake hands with their female teachers on religious grounds, otherwise...

Kriloskar Brothers’ all-women team creates national record

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Pune: Global fluid management company Kirloskar Brothers Friday said that its all-women Coimbatore plant entered the Limca Book of Records by assembling a pump...

Court denies bail to man who abandoned pregnant wife

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By IANS, New Delhi : For Amit Sharma, a zonal manager with a telecom company, abandoning his pregnant wife and posting his profile at a matrimonial website proved costly as he was denied anticipatory bail by a city court and sent to jail for 14 days. His wife Lata alleged that Sharma, who married her in January 2008, soon started harassing for not bringing sufficient dowry. A few months earlier, he abandoned her despite her being pregnant, following which she charged her husband with cruelty.

Lok Sabha adjourned again over women’s bill protests

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By IANS, New Delhi : Noisy protests against quotas for women in legislative bodies again forced adjournments of the Lok Sabha Tuesday with MPs of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) continuing their protests and slogan shouting. The Women's Reservation Bill led to three disruptions of the lower house after similar protests forced four adjournments Monday. When her repeated pleas fell on deaf ears, Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house till 4 p.m. after members reassembled at 2 p.m.

HC takes cognizance of Tihar women’s deplorable condition

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognizance of a letter sent by the Supreme Court's Justice Kurian Joseph...

Pakistan women must unite for their rights, says daily

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By IANS, Islamabad : Women in Pakistan must unite and "raise high the banner of their rights", said a Pakistani daily on International Women's Day Tuesday.

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.

Inquiry report on death of pregnant women by Thursday: Odisha minister

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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak on Monday said a committee probing the death of three pregnant women at a...

Only Muslim woman candidate in Manipur elections vows to fight against domestic violence

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The upcoming elections in Manipur are likely to be the most interesting one in years with Congress, historically the strongest party in the region,...

SRK celebrates women’s power, calls them ‘leaders of future’

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By IANS, New Delhi: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has said women are the future and that "one needs to have women to have men", so they must be respected.

शर्मसार बिहार : महिलाओं पर बढ़ते हमले

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फहमीना हुसैन : TwoCircles.net बिहार के मुजफ्फरपुर में एक एनजीओ द्वारा संचालित बालिका गृह में लड़कियों के यौन शोषण की घटना का डरावना सच पूरी...

India’s first ‘women-IIT’ being set up in Maharashtra

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By IANS, Nagpur : Even as there is talk about starting new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and increasing the number of seats in the existing ones, a move is afoot to open the country's first all-women engineering and technology-oriented institute in Amravati, President Pratibha Patil's hometown in Maharashtra.

Two arrested in Beed of Maharashtra for rape and murder of Muslim minor girl...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Beed (Maharashtra): Four days after the rape and murder of a 14 year girl and her 57 years old mother, belonging...

Educating Muslim women in modern India: Problems and perspectives

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All-party meet crucial to women’s bill, says Congress

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By IANS, New Delhi: With the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government expected to face hurdles in the passage of the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha, the Congress said Thursday that April 5 all-party meeting on the bill was "crucial". "It's a crucial meeting. Let's wait for the outcome," Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said here.

Saina beats Yihan Wang to storm into All England semis

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Birmingham: Leading Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal got the better of China's former world champion Yihan Wang 21-19, 21-6 to march into the semifinals of...

Reform sexual assault laws, treatment of survivors: HRW

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Rajasthan gets NHRC notice over woman’s rape by policeman

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New Delhi : The NHRC has issued notice to the Rajasthan government over a report that said a police assistant sub-inspector allegedly raped...

No woman writer as good as me: V.S. Naipaul

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By IANS, London : Indian-origin author V.S. Naipaul has dismissed female authors as "unequal" to him and said women writers demonstrate a lack of ability.

Journey to NASA owes to AMU: Hashima Hasan

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TCN News Aligarh: For Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) alumna, Dr Hashima Hasan, Program/Discipline Scientist at the NASA, USA, the fascination with space science began when she...

No relief for Soni Sori: Brother-in-law, sister, picked up for interrogation

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter Delhi: Having barely recovered from a brutal attack on her face by assailants, Soni Sori, the human rights activist from Chattisgarh,...

More women than men in Kerala; few enter parliament

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By Sanu George, Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala has more women than men, but few women contest and even fewer reach parliament. Kerala has the highest gender electoral...

Woman official among two held for accepting bribe

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By IANS, Shimla: Two people, including a woman excise taxation officer, were arrested in Himachal Pradesh Saturday while accepting a bribe, police said. "Excise taxation officer Nirmal Kumari and her assistant Neeraj Kumar were caught red-handed Saturday by the Vigilance Bureau while accepting bribe in their office in Mandi town," Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhupinder Singh told reporters. He said they were arrested on a tip-off from a businessman. The Vigilance Bureau has registered 271 corruption cases against government officials from January 2008 to Jan 31, 2010.

Chinese urban women contribute one-third to family income

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By IANS, Beijing: Chinese women in urban areas on an average contribute about one-third to their family income, a survey has found.

Railway to raise women security force from minorities, backward classes

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The Railway Budget 2010 has just short of disappointment for the minorities as Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today in her second budget did not offer any new scheme to them except the announcement to raise special women railway security force preferably from minorities, SC/ST, OBC and economically backward classes. Presenting her second budget as Railway Minister in the UPA Government, Mamata Banerjee presented a populist railway budget with no hike in passenger fares and freight tariffs besides more than 100 new trains.

Ramadan 1437: Shah Mohammad Shadab

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By Asif Khan, TwoCircles.net “Men are absolutely useless.” For a moment, Shah Mohammad Shadab lost the patience in his voice. Working with underprivileged minorities for...

Nargis of Uttar Pradesh is world’s seven billionth baby

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Delhi woman kidnapped, molested in moving car

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New Delhi : A 30-year-old woman, working with a NGO, has alleged that she was kidnapped and molested by three people in a moving...

BJP showing fake love for Dalits, says BSP chief

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Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday accused the BJP of showing "fake love" for the Dalits. The BJP hit back,...

मौलाना आज़ाद फैलोशिप बंद होने से मुस्लिम बुद्धिजीवियों में निराशा का माहौल

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मोहम्मद ज़मीर हसन|twocircles.net “मैं हैदराबाद यूनिवर्सिटी में पढ़ रहा हूं। यह संभव हो पाया है मौलाना आज़ाद नेशनल फैलोशिप की वजह से। मेरी आर्थिक स्थिति...

‘For a woman’s safety, mindsets need changing’

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By Azera Parveen Rahman, IANS,

Ramadan 1438: Seher Iqbal

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By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net "I was outside India, as a student, for more than 5 years. I had been around a diverse set of...

Sushma calls attack on Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru ‘shameful’

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New Delhi : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday described as "shameful" an alleged attack and stripping of a Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru...

Over 32,000 cases of women’s rights violation in 2014-15

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New DelhiI More than 32,000 cases of violation of rights of women have been reported by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights...

A woman contesting polls for women’s cause

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By F. Ahmed, IANS, Bandipora, (Jammu and Kashmir) : Defying separatists' boycott call and militant threats, Gousia Bashir, the lone woman candidate in this north Kashmir constituency, says she is contesting the elections to highlight the problems of women and the poor. Bandipora, once a hotbed of militants, goes to the polls Nov 17 in the first of the seven-phase assembly elections. And Gousia is contesting against 21 other candidates, all men.

Court takes cognizance of cop’s assault on woman

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New Delhi : Taking note of the way a Delhi traffic policeman, since sacked, attacked a young woman when she refused to pay a...

हिन्दू कोड बिल पर चुप्पी साधकर भाजपा कर रही ट्रिपल तलाक की राजनीति

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अभय कुमार पिछले महीने पूर्वी उत्तर प्रदेश के सोनभद्र में भाजपा की एक बड़ी रैली से ख़िताब करते हुए पार्टी अध्यक्ष अमित शाह ने सपा,...

Losing political ground, can IUML rediscover itself?

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IUML National Meet gains significance as IUML rethinks their strategies to win Muslim hearts taking example out of their recently formed political counterparts

Disfigured but not defeated: Hajida, an acid attack survivor, ensured the culprit does not...

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Hajida and her mother Zareena were walking back home through the market, engaged in a light conversation when Subhan flung two...

Shinde urges introspection on low conviction rate

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Meghalaya governor rues crime against women

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By IANS, Shillong: Governor R.S. Mooshahary Saturday lamented the growing incidents of crime against women in Meghalaya.

Police hunt on for suspected woman bomber

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By Sahil Makkar, IANS, Jaipur : The police have launched a massive hunt for a woman who allegedly promised Rs.100,000 to a rickshaw puller to carry out the terror attacks that killed over 60 people. "We are looking for a woman, identified as Meena, who tried to lure a rickshaw puller, Vijay, to carry out the attacks," a police officer told IANS on the condition of anonymity. Vijay, a resident of Mumbai who suffered minor shrapnel injures, told the police that Meena lives near one of the blast sites. No further details of the woman's role in the bombings were available.

Army opens doors for women in military police

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New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) In a historic development, the Indian Army on Thursday started the process of recruiting women, three months after the...

19 years and counting: the tale of Naseema Begum’s wait for her missing husband

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In the second of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Naseema Dar. Tengpora...

21 Nepali women rescued, two traffickers held

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New Delhi : Twenty-one Nepali women, who were set to be sent to Dubai for the sex trade on the pretext of getting jobs,...

HRD ministry asks ICSE Council for report on Bangalore school rape

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New Delhi: Expressing concern about the incident that occurred in a Bangalore school, the human resource development ministry Tuesday wrote to the Council of...

Cops do not understand harassed women’s woes: Delhi minister

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World Archery: Indian women get bronze

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By IANS, Kolkata: The cadet compound women's team gave India a bronze medal on the penultimate day of the 11th Youth World Archery Championship at Ogden (Utah) in the US Saturday. The Indian troika of Prerna Bhagat, Nilam Kumari and Sairkonda Jayalakshmi downed Russian Federation 211 (28) - 211 (26) after the two combatants tied at the end of 24 arrows. In the three-arrow shoot off, India managed 28 points to Russia's 26. Two other Indian teams, cadet recurve men and cadet compound men, lost to superior opponents, Italy and the US, 199-215 and 207-229, respectively.

Federation of Muslim Women’s Aid Societies formed in TN

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By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: The newly formed Federation of Muslim Women’s Aid Societies (FeMWAS) held its maiden function at Hotel Abu Palace in Chennai last week. The federation decided to launch public awareness campaign for Muslim Women’s Aid Society (MWAS), a government aided NGO in each district of Tamil Nadu.

Rahul targets Modi on manifesto delay, women’s security

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Sirsa/New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Sunday launched a multi-pronged attack on the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, accusing them...

Women’s quota, nuclear liability – two hot potato bills in monsoon session

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By IANS, New Delhi: Two contentious pieces of legislation, on women's reservation and civil nuclear liability, are among 59 bills listed for consideration during the monsoon session of parliament beginning Monday. Parties opposed to the women's reservation bill are ready for battle in the Lok Sabha where it is to be tabled, while the Left and BJP said they will contest the nuclear bill tooth and nail.

Women activists now target Shiva temple in Maharashtra

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Pune : About 200 members of women's organisation Bhumata Ranragini Brigade (BRB) here on Monday left for Nashik city and resolved to enter the...

SC to hear Ramdev’s plea on clubbing of cases

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court will Friday hear a plea by yoga guru Baba Ramdev seeking the clubbing together of all cases against him...

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...

Infant Dalit girl killed, family attacked over drawing water

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By IANS, Bhopal : A Dalit woman was refused water from a handpump, her family beaten up by upper caste people and an infant daughter killed in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district, a police officer said Wednesday. The incident occurred Tuesday in Bhadroni village of Shivpuri district, where caste wars are not too uncommon. Saroj Jatav, 25, went to draw water from a handpump but was stopped by few upper caste people. Later, as she was on her way to the police station with her husband Nawal Singh and three-month-old child Aanchal, Saroj was stopped by the same people and beaten up.

Delhi Aanganwadi workers’ indefinite hunger strike enters 6th day as AAP govt evades holding...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: The indefinite hunger strike by Delhi State Aanganwadi Workers’ and Helpers’ Union entered its seventh day...

British woman sues NHS, says her IVF child doesn’t have her genes

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By Venkata Vemuri, IANS, London : In a case without equal in Britain, a woman who bore a child, conceived through artificial insemination, is suing the NHS for not being able to use her own eggs to prepare the embryo. Greta Mason of East Sussex gave birth to a male child, Jaden, conceived via IVF using an anonymous donor's egg from Spain and the sperm of her husband, Chris. The IVF wait-list of the NHS is quite long. The couple waited for six years for their turn, and by the time it finally came, Greta had turned 40. Her eggs were too old for conception, the NHS doctors told her.

In Kinnaur, she fights for women’s property rights

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By Vishal Gulati, IANS, Shimla : It's uphill task for social activist Rattan Manjari. The 57-year-old is leading a movement against patriarchal laws that bar women from inheriting property in Kinnaur as well as Lahaul and Spiti districts in Himachal Pradesh. In these tribal dominated areas, traditionally women don't inherit the property of their parents or husbands.

Tribal women in Jhargram protest against Maoist-led group

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By IANS, Kolkata: Coming out in protest for the first time, thousands of tribal women in Maoist-affected Jhargram in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Friday held a demonstration against a rebel-led tribal group for forcing them to join their agitations. The women also formed a committee to resist the alleged torture of them by members of the Peoples' Committee Against Police Atrocities' (PCAPA).

Two arrested for assaulting American woman in Chennai

Women

Chennai, June 2 (IANS) Two people were arrested for allegedly assaulting and molesting an American woman, the police said here Monday. According to official sources, Kelly Laurel Baker, 26, a US citizen complained that she had been kidnapped by two men, Jose Mathew, 43, and S. John, 35, from the bar of an upmarket hotel May 24. She was found waylaid with bruises a day later. Baker claimed she had a memory blackout following attempts to outrage her modesty and was robbed of an expensive digital camera and mobile phone, police sources said.

आम बजट : महिलाओं व बच्चों को क्यों भूल गई सरकार?

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली: देश में बजट को लेकर लंबी-लंबी बहसे चल रही हैं. लेकिन इस बहस में देश की आधी आबादी...

Woman raped, murdered in Rajasthan

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Jaipur: A man raped a woman and then killed her by throwing her into a water tank in Rajasthan Friday, police said. The criminal...

Ten women labourers drown in Rajasthan

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Jaipur : Ten women drowned when a boat they had boarded to cross a river capsized in Rajasthan Friday, police said. The mishap occurred in...

Iranian women on Facebook want to shun veil: Study

Women

London : Use of social media can influence attitudes and behaviours to a greater extent, even empower women too. According to a promising research,...

SC questions about custodial torture of key witness in Kathua rape case

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New Delhi, (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Jammu and Kashmir government on a plea alleging custodial torture of...

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...

More women in parliament will change face of Indian politics

Women

By Ranjana Kumari, IANS, In an inclusive democracy, political power is perhaps the strongest tool to eradicate all forms of inequality. The passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha has brought forward some interesting scenarios for the Indian polity. This struggle for political rights by women's groups has been the longest in the history of independent India as the proposed constitution amendment bill had been deferred several times by successive governments since 1996.

Teenager held for raping mentally challenged Goa woman

Women

Panaji : A 16-year-old boy was on Tuesday held for allegedly raping a 21-year-old mentally challenged woman near here, police said. "The rape was committed...

34,000 women paramedics go missing after Pakistan floods

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By IANS, Islamabad : According to the UN, around 34,000 women paramedical workers have gone missing from the flood affected districts of Pakistan, a media report said Saturday.

डेल्टा मेघवाल को मिला न्याय, गुनाहगारों को उम्र कैद की सज़ा

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net 2016 में राजस्थान के बीकानेर के नोखा में हुए बहुचर्चित डेल्टा मेघवाल हत्याकांड को लेकर बीकानेर की पोक्सो कोर्ट ने बड़ा...

Old woman from India gets death sentence in Malaysia

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By TCN News,

Over 3,000 tribal women demonstrate in Madhya Pradesh

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By IANS, Bhopal : In an unprecedented expression of anger, about 3,000 tribal women Wednesday demonstrated in Barwani before the district collector and the superintendent of police.

Amina loves her goats unconditionally

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By Abdul Basith MA, TwoCircles.net,

Domestic violence kills 10 women a day in Brazil

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By IANS, Washington: Every day, at least 10 women are killed in domestic violence in Brazil, a government report said. The government-sponsored study, "Map of Violence 2010", found that 41,532 women were murdered in Brazil between 1997 and 2007. But it takes a high-profile incident - the case against a Brazilian footballer who is the prime suspect in the disappearance and murder of his former girlfriend - to bring attention to the problem, Women's Affairs Minister Nilcea Freire was quoted as saying by CNN.

Nasim Akhtor: Creating history as a woman mountaineer from North East

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By Munize Ali, TwoCircles.net, TCN Special Series: Part 3 on Nasim Akhtor

Kerala government floats new policy to empower women

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By IANS, Palakkad (Kerala) : The Kerala cabinet has approved the adoption of a new policy to ensure gender equality and prevent crime against women, Pinarayi Vijayan, state secretary of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said here Thursday. Vijayan, who is on a tour of the state, told reporters that the main objective of floating the new policy was to ensure social justice for women. "Our goals can be achieved because Kerala is far ahead of other parts of the country with regards to women's literacy and life expectancy," said Vijayan.

Archies, Barbies and glamourous morons

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By Zohra Javed for TwoCircles.net, Sometime back in a fashion show Bollywood star Katrina Kaif dressed up like Barbie and walked the ramp. That hit the front pages all over the country. And as if this was not enough, comparisons between Katrina and Aishwarya also started doing rounds and the reader was "informed" how the younger looking Katrina was more Barbie-like.

Bihar minister’s husband booked for extortion

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Patna: A case has been lodged against the husband of a Bihar minister for allegedly trying to extort money from government officials and threatening...

मदरसों के पक्ष में मायावती ने उठाई आवाज़

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net बसपा प्रमुख मायावती उत्तर प्रदेश में अपनी खोई हुई ज़मीन मुस्लिम वोटरों के जरिए तलाशने में लगीं हैं। पिछले कुछ समय से...

Non-violence needs women

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By Asma Asfour

Gang-rape case: Court rejects plea for hearing on alternate days

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‘Women empowerment comes from her own self’

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Women’s Manifesto organized Women’s Day 2015 at The Scholar School, Jamia Nagar here on March 14. Around 300 women from different states took part in this event which was organized under the patronage of Human Welfare Foundation.

American Muslim activist lauds Kuwaiti womens political engagement

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By Nawab Khan, KUNA, Brusels : A leading Muslim woman activist in the United States has underlined the important political role played by women in the Gulf countries particularly in Kuwait. "We believe that the Gulf is very important because it is a prosperous region of the world and secondly there are some women activism coming out, specifically from countries like Kuwait," Daisy Khan, Executive Director, American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) told KUNA in an interview in Brussels Tuesday. She noted that Kuwait is at the forefront of promoting a parliamentary system.

Right’s panel upbeat about women’s reservation bill

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By IANS, New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) Saturday expressed optimism over the passage of the women's reservation bill that will be tabled in parliament Monday and said it is a triumph of 14 years of struggle. "We are very happy that the 14-year long struggle of this bill has been finally acknowledged and given a momentum," NCW chairperson Girija Vyas told reporters.

All-women’s R-Day contingent leader hopes more of ilk will sign up

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By Anjali Ojha, New Delhi : As India prepares to showcase the 'woman power' of its armed forces, the officer leading the all-women's contingent of...

Pakistan: govt. striving for women’s empowerment, says MNA Farahnaz Isphahani

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By NNN-APP, Washington : The elected Pakistani government is firmly committed to women’s empowerment and taking a number of steps to realize their full participation in national development, Member National Assembly Farahnaz Isphahani said. Speaking at a reception she hosted at Pakistani Ambassador’s residence in honor of women ambassadors and wives of Washington-based diplomats from various countries, the parliamentarian said the government is particularly focused on realizing women’s access to education all over the country.

Woman burnt to death by in-laws for dowry, alleges family

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By IANS, New Delhi: A 28-year-old woman, married for seven years, was allegedly burnt to death Sunday by her in-laws in Delhi, police and her family said. Deepika Bajaj, who has a six-year-old daughter, called police before dying and told them that she had been set on fire by her husband and in-laws, an official said. "We received a call at around 8.30 in the morning when the deceased woman, Deepika Bajaj, called us before dying and told that she has been set on fire inside her home by her husband and in-laws," the police officer said.

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...

Announcements by finance minister for lawmakers, women…

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By IANS, New Delhi : The following announcements were made by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha Friday during a discussion on the budget for the fiscal 2011-12:

पिछले पांच साल से रूकी हुई है भाजपा की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष रेणु देवी की...

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बेतिया: देश के नेता हमेशा ही अपनी राजनीतिक उम्र लंबी करने की दुआएं मांगते हैं. तमाम तिकड़में...

Open letter to political parties to take up the issue of repealing AFSPA

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Civil Society groups and individuals, led by Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign (SSSC), and endorsed by several others have written an open letter to all the political parties to take up the issue of repealing The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA).

Book suspended officials as accused: Shopian probe report

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By IANS, Srinagar : The commission probing the rape and murder of two women in Shopian town in south Kashmir May 30 has recommended that the five officials suspended after the crime be booked as accused, Jammu and Kashmir Finance and Law Minister Abdul Rahim Rather said Friday.

Asia’s biggest naval academy designed by Chandigarh woman

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By IANS, Ezhimala (Kerala) : It is another feather in her cap. For Namita Singh, one of the leading architects in the country, it was a proud moment when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Thursday inaugurated the Indian Naval Academy, Asia's biggest, that she has designed. It was a project she bagged beating several architectural firms. Namita, 60, heads Satnam, Namita and Associates, a leading Chandigarh-based architecture firm and it was through a national tender in 1988 that her firm bagged the prestigious project to design the Indian Naval Academy in Kannur here.

Zero tolerance for crimes against women: President

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New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee Monday said the government will have a policy of "zero tolerance" for violence against women, and was committed...

Decadal increase in separated women goes up to a million

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By IANS, New Delhi : The government Friday said the number of divorced and separated women in the country has gone up by nearly a...

Rajnath Singh launches mobile app for women safety

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New Delhi : Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched a mobile-phone based application Thursday for the safety of women in the capital. The app - Himmat...

After youth, AAP to reach out to women

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New Delhi : After receiving an "overwhelming" response at the interaction with youth as part of its Delhi Dialogue Campaign, the AAP will reach...

Kiran Bedi joins BJP, to give Delhi ‘all she has’

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New Delhi : Celebrated former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who parted ways with AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal around two years ago, Thursday joined the BJP, saying Delhi needs a stable and honest government.

Meet Dr. Mubeena Ramzan, the first Kashmiri woman to feature among world’s 500 most...

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By Auqib Javeed, TwoCircles.net Dr Mubeena Ramzan of Kashmir created history earlier this month when she became the first Kashmiri woman to be enlisted among...

Ex-MP to face trial for tampering with evidence

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New Delhi : Former parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh will be tried for destruction of evidence in a case pertaining to the torture and murder of...

Why I participated in the Yuva Hunkar rally

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Text and photos by Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net The Yuva Hunkar rally, which took place in Delhi today, saw a sizeable participation from people from all...

Women officer collapses as minister ‘throws’ files at her

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By NNN-PTI, Nagpur, India : A woman officer of Zilla Parishad in Chimur fell unconscious and was admitted to a hospital after a heated argument with Maharashtra Minister of State for Forest rpt Forest Vijay Wadettiwar, who allegedly threw files at her. According to sources, Wadettiwar was presiding over an interview session of Aanganwadi Sevikas (assistants) in his constituency of Chimur, where both the Minister and the Zilla Parishad (ZP) Women and Child Welfare Committee chief, Subhadra Kotnake, entered into a heated argument on Sunday.

कोरियाई छात्राओं से दुर्व्यवहार के आरोपी युवकों के विरुद्ध धार्मिक भावनाएं भड़काने का मुक़दमा...

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Mulayam fears an all-women parliament

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By IANS, Lucknow : Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Sunday said the women's reservation bill was an "international conspiracy" to weaken Indian democracy and said it would ultimately lead to an all-women parliament that would be "alarming" for the country. "The women's reservation bill will eventually weaken Indian democracy and it is really unfortunate that the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government at the centre was playing into the hands of those whose only intent was to break the backbone of Indian democracy," Mulayam Singh said at a press conference here.

Interview: Manzoor Alam on Indian Muslim leadership

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By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net Manzoor Alam is the Chairman of the New Delhi-based Institute of Objective Studies, a Muslim social science research centre, and also the General-Secretary of the All India Milli Council. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he speaks about the Muslim leadership in contemporary India. Q: What do you think the priorities of the Indian Muslim leadership should be today?

WhatsApp rape videos: Accused sent to one day police custody

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New Delhi: A court here on Wednesday remanded an accused arrested in connection with rape videos that were posted on phone messaging service WhatsApp...

Kerala different from rest of India in women’s health: study

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By IANS, Kochi : Women in Kerala have higher life expectancy, they have an upper edge in the state's sex ratio, are more prone to obesity and experience higher stress levels than men. A new study, therefore, says health problems faced by women in Kerala are different from those at the national level. The study titled 'Health of Women in Kerala: Current Status and Emerging Issues' was conducted by researchers attached to the Centre for Socio-economic and Environmental Studies (CSES) here and was distributed to the media Sunday.

The bizarre case of Aamil Parvez

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Booked for Ahmedabad bomb blasts while he was languishing in Indore Central Jail

Delhi to have special provisions for mentally ill women

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By IANS, New Delhi : Taking note of the shocking saga of former model Gitanjali Nagpal, the Delhi High Court Thursday directed the government to create separate wards for mentally ill women, especially the homeless, in state-run shelter homes. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna asked the government to set up special wards for the mentally ill in the state government-run Nirmal Chhaya shelter homes within three months.

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...

Saradha scam: Mamata demands arrest of union minister’s wife

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Kolkata: In an angry retaliation over the Saradha scam issue which has again grabbed the spotlight, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday wondered...

Women’s Pro Golf Tour 2013 moves to Chandigarh

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By IANS, Chandigarh: The fifth leg of the Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour (WPGT) 2013 is all set to get underway at the Chandigarh Golf Club from Wednesday.

Rape-tainted Meghalaya ex-policeman sent to prison

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Shillong : A court in Meghalaya on Wednesday remanded a former police officer to 14 days' judicial custody for allegedly raping two teenaged girls...

First tribal woman takes oath as Jharkhand governor

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Ranchi : Draupadi Murmu on Monday took oath as the ninth governor of Jharkhand, the first tribal woman to occupy the position in the...

उज़मा नाहिद वर्ल्ड ट्रेड सेंटर के इंटरनेशनल अवार्ड से सम्मानित

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter मुंबई : पिछले 25 सालों से मुस्लिम महिलाओं के बीच काम रहसामाजिक कार्यकर्ता उज़मा नाहिद को उनके महिला कल्याण और आर्थिक विकास...

Finally, wedding bells to ring for Kerala’s woman minister

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Thiruvananthapuram: Seven years after being engaged to her childhood friend Anil Kumar, P.K. Jayalekshmi, the lone woman minister in Kerrala's Congress-led United Democratic Front...

Woman’s burnt body found in Delhi house

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By IANS, New Delhi : The burnt body of a woman was found in her house here Monday, police said. Anju, a resident of Uttam Nagar in west Delhi, was found dead around 3 a.m., a police officer said. "We found the burnt body of a woman in the house. We are investigating the case and have apprehended her husband Ramu for questioning," the officer said.

Indian women win hockey Champions Challenge II

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By IANS, Kazan (Russia) : Rani Rampal scored four goals as Indian women crushed Belgium 6-3 to win the inaugural Champions Challenge II hockey tournament here Saturday. Rani, who emerged as the tournament's top scorer with eight goals, struck in the 17th, 38th, 44th and 54th minutes. Besides, Saba Anjum (20th min) and Thokchom Chanchan (49th min) scored a goal each. Skipper Valerie Vermeersch (40th, 52nd) and Boon Jill (55th) scored for Belgium.

Agra to host conference on women’s health

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Agra : A five-day conference of obstetricians and gynaecologists will be held here from January 13. More than 6,000 doctors will share and exchange ideas...