August 23rd, 2008 - 9:31 pm ICT by IANS
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Mumbai, Aug 23 (IANS) The Indian Cricket board has decided to introduce a monthly pension scheme for retired international women cricketers. Those who have played ten or more Tests will receive Rs.15,000 ...
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August 21st, 2008 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS
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Karachi, Aug 21 (IANS) Pakistani squash officials were Thursday making desperate attempts to save an international women's tournament from falling victim to a couple of bombings in Wah that killed more than ...
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March 17th, 2008 - 10:49 am ICT by admin
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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) After the success of "Bitter Chocolate", a book on child abuse in India, journalist-turned-author Pinki Virani is now willing to try her hand at ...
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March 11th, 2008 - 2:55 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Mar 11 (ANI): US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has honoured Dr Begum Jan, a Pakistani woman, with the International Women of Courage Award.
Dr. Begum Jan is the Chairperson of ...
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March 9th, 2008 - 7:40 am ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Jerusalem, March 9 (Xinhua) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed that his country will achieve deterrence against terror groups as it had done against Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. "As we achieved ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 10:28 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Rani and Sunita will always remember this International Women's Day as the day they shared the dais with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Gulshan Kaur, wife of ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 10:03 pm ICT by admin
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Bhopal, March 8 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Saturday honoured two women for bravery and social service on the occasion of International Women's Day. The first Rani Avanti Bai ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 9:53 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, March 8 (IANS) On the occasion of the International Woman's Day, an all women-operated Air India flight left Chennai Saturday for Colombo. A press statement here said captain M. Deepa and ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 9:43 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Men will soon observe International Men's Day and would demand 33 percent reservation in the parliament, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury said ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 9:42 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Saturday said that it was one of his dreams to pass the women's reservation bill before his tenure ended. "I espouse the ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 8:43 pm ICT by admin
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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Prakashi Tomar and Chandro Tomar, septuagenarian shooters from a village in Uttar Pradesh, are looking beyond air and sport pistols as they aim for ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 8:04 pm ICT by admin
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Lucknow, March 8 (IANS) As many as 90,000 primary schools spread across the villages of Uttar Pradesh will soon have toilets for women, Chief Minister Mayawati announced at a special function here ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 7:48 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) She completed her master's degrees in public health from the US-based Johns Hopkins University and returned to her home district, Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, to serve tribal women ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 7:26 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, March 8 (IANS) Throughout the year, they lurk in the shadows of red light districts. Saturday was the day they came out in the open. Hundreds of commercial sex workers from ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 7:15 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Kathmandu, March 8 (Xinhua) Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has, in his International Women's Day message, urged women to take a defining role in politics and make the April 10 constituent ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 6:18 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Mar 8 (ANI): Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi today projected the Government's decision to waive off farmers' loans as a woman-friendly initiative.
Giving the 'Stree Shakti Puraskar' on International Women's ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 6:18 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi/ Mumbai, Mar 8 (ANI): Various women organizations gathered here today to urge government to shed apathy towards ensuring gender equity on International Women's Day (IWD).
"We are observing the day as ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 5:39 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The women's reservation bill will be introduced during the current budget session, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a delegation of women rights activists Saturday. The group, including ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 5:38 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Mar.8 (ANI): Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) condemned the re-arrest of Irom Sharmila, a recipient of the Kwangju Human Rights Award by the Manipur Police today afternoon for her ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 5:29 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Lauding the role of women scientists in the country, President Pratibha Patil Saturday said they have the instinct to create, to nurture and to work selflessly with ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 5:05 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Mar.8 (ANI): In a function marking the International Womens Day and the International Year of Sanitation, young adolescent girls and women from villages of Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 5:02 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Manila, March 8 (DPA) Hundreds of women activists Saturday marked the International Women's Day in the Philippine capital demanding the resignation of scandal-tainted President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The activists marched through the ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 3:05 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, March 8 (IANS) AIADMK chief J. Jayalalitha turned to poetry to urge for women's empowerment in her message on International Women's Day Saturday. Like her archrival M. Karaunanidhi of the DMK, ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 2:46 pm ICT by admin
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(Special, For Women's Day March 8)
By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, March 8 (IANS) Bollywood's leading ladies say they have never felt inferior to men and believe opportunities are increasing for women in the ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 2:20 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Mar 8 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate a two-day national conference on the contribution of women scientists in modern life on the International Women's Day (IWD), which is being ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 11:44 am ICT by admin
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DPA
Wellington, March 8 (DPA) In their drive for equality with men, New Zealand women have forgotten how to be ladies, the National Council of Women said Saturday. In a statement marking International ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 9:17 am ICT by admin
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DPA
Riga, March 8 (DPA) After an absence of more than a decade, a Soviet-era holiday has returned to the official calendar of a country that shuns its Soviet past. In many ways, ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 12:45 am ICT by admin
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Bhopal, March 7 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government Friday, on the eve of International Women's Day, issued orders to remit sentences of women prisoners, official sources said here. The order, issued by ...
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March 7th, 2008 - 9:49 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajnath Singh says since beauty is a gift of nature, it does not merit contests. Addressing a Virangana Sammelan organized by the BJP ...
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March 7th, 2008 - 9:41 pm ICT by admin
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Geneva, March 7 (DPA) Laws that discriminate against women still exist in almost every country in the world, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said Friday. Speaking on the ...
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