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Pregnant woman forced to walk 6 kms to hospital in flood-ravaged MP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Aug. 27 (ANI): In what could be a slap on the face of the civil society, a case of shocking apathy has come to fore, wherein a pregnant woman in Madhya Pradesh was forced to walk six kilometres through a waterlogged area to reach the hospital to deliver h
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HC verdict on Haji Ali a 'great satisfaction for women': UP'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug. 26 (ANI): Buoyed by the Bombay High Court's verdict that allowed women's entry in the inner sanctum of Haji Ali dargah, Uttar Pradesh's first woman qazi Dr. Hina Zaheer Naqvi on Friday said the verdict came as "a great satisfaction to
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SC issues notice to Centre on Muslim woman's plea seeking ban on trip
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 26 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Central Government on plea of a Muslim woman challenging the Constitutional validity of 'triple talaq' to end a marriage.
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SC to hear plea of Muslim woman seeking ban on triple talaq today
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 26 (ANI): The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the petition of a Muslim woman challenging the Constitutional validity of 'triple talaq' to end a marriage.
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Ex-NCW member Shafiq tells Centre to keep interest of surrogate mothers in
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug.25 (ANI):Former National Commission for Women (NCW) member and woman activist Shamina Shafiq on Thursday welcomed the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, and hoped that the proposed bill would keep the interest of surrogate mothers in mind before being passed as law.
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Minor mistakes cost a spot in Rio finals, says bronze medallist Sakshi Mal
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug.24 (ANI): Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik, who scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to clinch a medal in wrestling in the prestigious quadrennial event, on Wednesday admitted that her minor mistakes cost her spot in the finals of the freestyle 58kg event.
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Indore woman makes nation proud, breaks world record for longest drumming
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Indore, Aug 24 (ANI): Srishti Patidar, a 24-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh's Indore city, has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest drumming marathon after logging in a 31-hour session.
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Air Intelligence Unit recovers gold bars worth over Rs. 64 lakhs from woma
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug.22 (ANI): Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) officers on Monday confirmed that they had taken a woman passenger travelling from Dubai to New Delhi into their custody after they retrieved gold bars from her possession.
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PeeCee owes the success she achieved to herself
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 21 (ANI): Global icon Priyanka Chopra recently revealed that she was never a kind of a person, who had to be put in a box and shared her journey from "carefree teen persona" to her present "ambitious, goal-oriented woman".
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Teenage golfer Aditi Ashok ends impressive Rio campaign with 7-over 291
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug 20 (ANI): Indian teenage woman golfer Aditi Ashok capped off her impressive maiden appearance at the Rio Olympics with a five-over 76 in the fourth and final round in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
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Rio 2016: Golfer Aditi Ashok slips to tied-31st after round three
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug. 20 (ANI): It was a tricky third day for lone Indian woman golfer Aditi Ashok at the Rio Olympics as her overall position slipped to tied-31st in the women's individual stroke play here at Olympic Golf Course.
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Sporting fraternity hails PV Sindhu on her historic Olympic feat
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug.19 (ANI): The sporting fraternity has come in unison to congratulate India's badminton star PV Sindhu, who scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman athlete to hand her country an Olympic silver medal here in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on
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