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Thursday, July 31, 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

Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.