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Minor gang-raped: Bihar women commission begins probe

Bihar State Women Commission has begun its probe into the alleged gang-rape of a minor girl in Madhepura district. The victim delivered a baby girl at Sadar hospital and became an unwed minor......

Nalanda lathicharge: 30 cops transferred, 3 suspended

Three days after cops lathicharged and assaulted women in Bihar's Nalandadistrict, all the 30 policemen from the Noor Sarai police station were transferred andthree were suspended including station......

Bihar tops states in domestic violence

Nearly 60 per cent of married women in Bihar are victims of domestic violence, the highest in India, according to a survey by the Union Health and Family Affairs Ministry.An alarming 59 per cent of......

NHRC to probe Bihar's missing children

A team of the National Human Rights Commission will visit Bihar in the second week of March to enquire about 150missing children and 581 missing women in the state.Official sources in the state......

NCW wants mandatory marriage registration

The National Commission for Women will prepare a draft bill for making marriage registration compulsory with the aim of fighting the social evil of child marriages."Making registration of marriage......

Phulkari empowers women in Punjab

Just a few years ago, Jasbir Kaur (45) of Thuha village in Patiala district could not have dreamt of becoming economically independent at the age of 40. Today, as skilled embroiderers, she and many......

More poor people in 8 Indian states than in all of Africa

Acute poverty prevails in eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together accounting for more poor people than in the 26 poorest African nations combined, a new......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

Per capita devt expenditure lowest in Bihar

The plan expenditure of the Bihar government led by Nitish Kumar has registered a steady rise with aaccelerated growth but the per capita development expenditure was the lowest among all states......

Highlights of the Interim Budget 2009-10

Presenting the interim Budget for 2009-10 in Lok Sabha, acting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee claimed in Parliament on Monday that every effort has been made to fulfil promises made to the......

Udit Narayan re-accepts his wife

Bollywood playback singer Udit Narayanhas re-accepted Ranjana Narayan as his wife, the Bihar Women's Commission said on Friday. Udit, accompanied by his lawyer Majid Menon, arrived from Mumbai......

'American films would make fun of India'

Five years ago scriptwriter Tracey Jackson went to Hollywood with a clipping from The New York Times, perhaps the first article to report on the call centres in India. The article talked about......

Udit Narayan wants compromise with first wife

Popular Bollywood playback singer Udit Narayan is keen on a compromise and settlement with Ranjana Narayan, a woman who claims to be his first wife. He has reportedly approached her and initiated a......

People speak for bihar womens commission

QNA

Q. Why the vote on the women\'s bill is important
: A. Women, the largest minority of India may get a delightful reason to celebrate on March 8, 2010, the centenary year of International Women's Day,...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/why-the-vote-on-the-womens-bill-is-important//answers/16683166

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Girls do district proud

Bag top three positions in Class XII exam conducted by PSEB Shivani Bhakoo Tribune News Service Ludhiana, May 18 Girls stole the limelight and came... ...

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130519/ldh1.htm

Life-saving drugs prices set to fall by up to 80 per cent

The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Women's Forum resolution was signed here Thursday. The resolution was jointly signed by Women and Child... ...

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Are the Police above the law or not?

Whether Democracy has usurped all our rights enshrined and guaranteed by the Constitution? Police at the scene after the Shoot-Out at Khwairamband... ...

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Traffick survivors changed law

In October 2006, a timid young woman in a bright blue sari named Kumkum Chettry, got up before a parliamentary committee in India, and described... ...

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130515/jsp/calcutta/story_16896939.jsp

In control of their lives

Poonam of Nangal Salagri village in Himachal Pradesh's Una district was barely 18 when she got married. With no idea of how to prevent pregnancy,... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/in-control-of-their-lives/article4711980.ece

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