Supaul (Bihar) [India] Feb 24 (ANI): A woman Block Development Officer (BDO) in Supaul, Bihar, has started a unique initiative. She is asking all Hindu couples, who are getting married in the district to take eight pehras instead of seven during the wedding ceremony.
New Delhi [India], Feb 23 (ANI): The Supreme Court to hear the writ petition filed by trans-woman Shanavi Ponnusamy, who alleged Air India, refused her a job due to her gender, on March 5.
Unnao (Uttar Pradesh)[India], February 23 (ANI): A woman was allegedly burnt to death by unidentified miscreants in Bara Sagwar area of Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district.
Jamnagar (Gujarat) [India], Feb 22 (ANI): Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi has created history by becoming the first Indian woman fighter pilot to fly solo.
Jamnagar (Gujarat) [India], Feb 21 (ANI): Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi has created history by becoming the first Indian woman fighter pilot to fly solo.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India] February 21 (ANI): An advocate was arrested in Hyderabad for allegedly stalking and harassing a woman he befriended on Facebook after she refused sexual advances made by him.
Dinajpur (West Bengal) [India], Feb. 20 (ANI): An 18-year-old intellectually disabled tribal woman was allegedly gang-raped in South Dinajpur's Kushmandi.
Washington D.C. [United States], Feb 20 (ANI): In a humanitarian gesture, two New York state troopers paid for a woman to fly to Florida and attend the funeral of a childhood friend who was killed in the school shooting last week.
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], Feb 18 (ANI): A 65-year-old woman and her 35-year-old daughter were allegedly forced to eat human excreta and their heads were tonsured by their neighbours on the suspicion of practising "witchcraft".
New Delhi [India], Feb.18 (ANI): Women and girls who get raped or molested need to be given justice on time or they will never believe anyone, person or institution, said a woman from Arunachal Pradesh, who has allegedly accused incumbent Chief Minister Pema Khandu and two others of raping h