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Indian women's hockey team players made to sit on train floor, probe
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug.29 (ANI): Condemning the shocking incident of four Indian women hockey team players being made to sit on the floor of a train while returning home from the summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, women activists called on Minister of State for Sports and Youth
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Women activists welcome SC's verdict to allow termination of 24-week
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Jaipur/Kolkata, July 25 (ANI): Women activists on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court's verdict of allowing a rape victim to terminate her 24-week pregnancy, saying the decision has come as a major relief to those with abnormal foetuses.
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Activists slam AAP, demand probe into woman activist's suicide
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 20 (ANI): Demanding a through probe into the suicide of an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) woman activist, who had accused her party colleague of sexually harassing her, the women activists on Wednesday said this episode is shameful on part of the Arvind Kejriwal-led party which came a
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Women activists react angrily to rape, murder cases in Ahmednagar, Rohtak
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata/Mumbai/New Delhi, July 18 (ANI): Women's rights activist and lawyer Abha Singh on Monday said it was shocking to hear how a 14-year-old was gang raped and physically mutilated in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, saying that it reminded her of the brutal December 2012 Nirb
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Women activists welcome Maneka Gandhi's call for amending passports r
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi/Jaipur, July 17 (ANI): The women activists on Sunday hailed Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi's request to the Ministry of External Affairs to amend rules for issuing passports and not make father's name a mandatory requirement as a very positive initiati
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Women activists demand disciplinary action against officer for harassing M
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi/Jaipur, July 11 (ANI): The women activists on Monday called for disciplinary action against the immigration officer, who allegedly misbehaved with a Manipuri woman at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and said it is extremely shameful that educated people are involved i
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