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Activists' corner UP Govt. after woman shot dead in police station
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Apr 18 (ANI): In a gruesome incident, a woman was shot dead by a man inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri, which has invited the wrath from women activists across the nation.
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Guna child marriage: Women activists call on Maneka Gandhi to safeguard ch
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr. 15 (ANI): Strongly condemning the incident where a Panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Guna passed a diktat of marrying a five-year-old girl off to an eight-year-old boy, social activist Brinda Adige on Saturday called on the Union Cabinet Minister for Wom
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Women activist seeks Salma Ansari's help to abolish Triple Talaq
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Apr. 9 (ANI): Urging the Vice-President Hamid Ansari's wife Salma Ansari to act like an ambassador in taking the word forward for abolition of triple talaq, Zakia Somen, co-founder of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), on Sunday said they want this
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Women activists support Maneka Gandhi's remark on Bollywood films
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi/Mumbai [India] Apr. 8 (ANI): Agreeing with Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi's remark on films posing as a threat to women, women activists on Saturday said that Indian cinema needs to be sensitive towards this issue as the young crowd picks things e
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Triple talaq: Women activists pull up AIMPLB for opposing PIL
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Mar. 31 (ANI): Expressing grave concern over triple talaq, the women activists on Friday slammed the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and said that women have been suffering because of the same.
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Women activist demands counselling for Hassan
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Mar 29 (ANI): Women activist Ranjana Kumari on Wednesday asserted that Congress leader M.M.Hassan should be sent for counselling under a medical practitioner who could enlighten the politician that there is nothing pure or impure in regard with menstruation.
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Bikaner rape case: Women activists demand stricter laws against rapist
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Gulbarga [Karnataka], Mar. 27 (ANI): Condemning the recent Bikaner rape case, women activists on Sunday demanded a stricter law against the perpetrators who commit such heinous crimes with women.
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Bikaner rape case: Women activist for action against school management
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Bikaner (Rajasthan) [India], Mar. 25 (ANI): Expressing grave concern over the sexual assault of a minor in Bikaner, women activist Brinda Adige on Saturday demanded that the accused must be booked under The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012 and the school managemen
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Issuing fatwa has become fashion: Women Commission
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 15 (ANI): Expressing displeasure over fatwa issued against singer Nahid Afrin by Muslim clerics in Assam, women activists on Wednesday said issuing fatwa has become a fashion, adding that it should be issued on something more meaningful.
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Kejriwal has failed to ensure women's safety: Women activists
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi/Kolkata, [India] Mar. 13 (ANI): Condemning the gang-rape in Delhi's Pandav Nagar area, where a woman from Nepal was allegedly molested by five men, the women activists on Monday said that the Delhi Government has failed to ensure the safety of women.
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Women activist backs Muslim girl trolled for singing Hindu devotional song
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru, (Karnataka) [India] Mar. 8 (ANI): Supporting Muslim girl Suhana Syeed who was trolled on the social media for singing a Hindu devotional song in a Kannada singing reality show, women activist Brinda Adige on Wednesday said the former is actually unifying different religions toget
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Women activists demand case be filed against Uma Bharti for Agra speech
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata/Nagpur, (West Bengal/Maharashtra) [India] Feb. 10 (ANI): Condemning Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti's speech at an Agra rally, women activists across the nation said it is a criminal offence and a suo moto criminal case should be filed against her.
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