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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicWomen's rights

Topic: Women's rights

Liberals don’t want Muslim women to demand rights in the Hindutva era. There’s no right time

As Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker-winning ‘Heart Lamp’ shows, Muslim women seeking justice are neither a figment of imagination, nor a part of some political conspiracy.

Muhammad Yunus wants women’s rights in Bangladesh. First rein in Islamic radicals

If Yunus wants Bangladeshi women to enjoy equal rights as men, running with the hare and hunting with the hounds won’t help.

India’s courts place conditions on women’s rights—can’t drink, trust men, get married

Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh of the Allahabad High Court recently ruled that a woman who was sexually assaulted 'invited trouble' by drinking alcohol with the accused.

Pakistan’s girls’ education summit is led by Malala. Propaganda against Taliban, say Afghans

Although Pakistan extended an invitation to its neighbour, Afghanistan declined to participate, reinforcing the ongoing tensions between the two countries.

Atul Subhash death is a weapon for men’s rights activists. They don’t care about men’s lives

A conversation around men’s loneliness would require real work and courage. It’s much easier for Indian men to vilify women than to build genuine networks of support.

What Hindu Succession Act says about women’s property rights & why a larger SC bench will look into it

A 2-judge Supreme Court bench noted that larger benches have differently interpreted Section 14 of 1956 Hindu Succession Act while emphasising the need for settling the question of law.

Activists celebrate as NMC junks ‘homophobic’ revisions to MBBS curriculum. ‘Pressure on govt works’

Revised forensic medicine curriculum had reinstated topics like classifying sodomy & lesbianism as 'unnatural sexual offences', and definition of virginity, defloration removed in 2022.

‘Closing ring of fire’ — outcry over Iraqi bill that may lower marriage age for girls to 9

Critics say bill will enshrine sectarianism in relationships, give power to clerics, and push Iraq toward religious patriarchy. A blow to women, children's rights, say rights groups.

Nimrat Kaur to Ruma Devi—how women battled prejudice, power games and stormed the norms

Each of the stories in Anisha Motwani and Priyadarshini Narendra’s ‘She Storms The Norms’ shows the systemic, structural, and societal struggles faced by women.

‘My heart beats for women’s issues’. Bilkis Bano’s lawyer Shobha Gupta is a woman on a mission

Gupta is one of 11 women lawyers designated senior advocates by SC earlier this year. Losing her father at an early age was a defining factor in the kind of lawyer has become.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Indian firm joins hands with US manufacturer to locally develop all-terrain vehicles for armed forces

Under joint venture, JSW Sarbloh Motors will indigenise and manufacture TX range ATVs in Chandigarh. The first India-assembled unit is expected by early 2026.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?