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Portray women as strong MUMBAI, June 13: The portrayal of women in films has changed, but only superficially, noted actress Shabana Azmi has said......more ‘Saffron
alliance to MUMBAI, June 13: The Shiv Sena-BJP saffron combine in Maharashtra would exploit the simmering discontent among the ruling Democratic Front....more A woman on marriage acquires her husband’s domicile: HC JAIPUR, June 13: In a significant ruling, a division bench of the Rajasthan High Court has held that a woman on her marriage, whatever her domicile of ......more Muzaffar
Ali becomes NEW DELHI, June 13: Eminent filmmaker and poet Muzaffar Ali, known for his feature film ‘Umrao Jaan’ and several short films, has received the .....more |
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AIIMS challenges order NEW DELHI, June 13: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) today challenged in Delhi Hight Court its earlier order.....more Red
Fort being NEW DELHI, June 13: A few months ago, the vicinity of Red Fort was considered one of the most polluted and congested in the capital, but now ....more ULFA now has tear gas shells for hit-and-run ops JORHAT (ASSAM), June 13: ULFA has acquired a huge arsenal of tear gas which they plan to use during "hit and run" operations, police said here today. . ....more Nepal
opposition KATHMANDU, June 13: Main opposition Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) today demanded resignation of Prime Minister Girija ...more |
Portray women as strong people, says workshop MUMBAI, June 13: The portrayal of women in films has changed, but only superficially, noted actress Shabana Azmi has said. "The changes in portrayal of women in films has been merely cosmetic...That of a self-sacrificing lady picking up the gun for personal revenge", Azmi, a Member of Parliament, told a workshop on ‘portrayal of women in media’ held here yesterday. While the distinction between the heroine and vamp was fast disappearing, the female protagonist has been commodified and is being subjected to the male gaze, she added. The widely-attended workshop, initiated by the Maharashtra State Women’s Commission and cultural affairs, saw the participation of former Mumbai Mayor Nirmala Samant-Prabhavalkar, Femina Editor Sathya Saran, producer kavita ‘Udaan’ Chaudhary, IPS officer Meera Borwankar, Principal Secretary of Women and Child Welfare Suresh Kumar, journalist Bhaskar Rau and others. "Images speak volumes", Azmi said, but ironically, with the advent of colour in cinema, the portrayal of women has been in black-and-white. Arguing against the common accusation that cinema influenced real life and negative images left an impact on impressionable minds, the actress said that in that case, good images should encourage positive deeds. This did not hold true, she said. Hindi films, unfortunately, were still portraying women as traditional figures and are yet to show her as a decision-making figure, Azmi said. She also expressed her limitations while balancing the dual roles of an actor and a feminist. "My acting ambitions clash with my political beliefs, which gives rise to a moral dilemma whether i should portray roles defying my feminist views," she confessed. Azmi, however, spoke about the need for a person to impose self-regulation and self-censorship while projecting an image in the media. Kavita Choudhary, who produced and starred in the serial ‘Udaan’, that revolved around a conscientious lady police officer, said the media had betrayed women by projecting them in a type-cast mould. The concept of television soap operas started with classics like ‘Humlog’ and ‘Humrahi’, which had strong women characters. It has eventually deteriorated to portray women, who sit at home chatting and playing politics, she said. "They are either shown as schemers as opposed to their innocent husbands or as weaker human beings, who are self-sacrificing to an impossible extent", she rued. She advocated the need to show women as important figures, who did not have to depend on a hero to save them all the time. "There are no heroes in real life, nor are women so weak to depend on someone all the time," Chaudhary added. Ms Samant-Prabhavalkar asked the media to portray the right image of women to help them come out of ages of repression. (UNI) |
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‘Saffron alliance to take advantage of discontent in DF’ MUMBAI, June 13: The Shiv Sena-BJP saffron combine in Maharashtra would exploit the simmering discontent among the ruling Democratic Front (DF) coalition over various issues like Enron and separate statehood to Vidarbha, BJP national vice-president Gopinath Munde has said. ‘The infighting between the ruling DF has intensified in the last 2-3 months and as an opposition we will use the situation to our benefit’, Munde told reporters last night at the party office here. The DF Government will not complete its full term, the former Deputy Chief Minister claimed. However, he refused to set a deadline for the fall of Congress-NCP-led Government. The DF constituents have divergent views on issues like enron impasse, granting separate statehood to Vidarbha, scrapping of cotton monopoly procurement scheme and developmental schemes for dalits and tribals of the state, he said. ‘The smaller allies are everyday threatening to quit the Government’, he added. (PTI) |
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acquires her JAIPUR, June 13: In a significant ruling, a division bench of the Rajasthan High Court has held that a woman on her marriage, whatever her domicile of her origin might have been, acquired "domicile" of her "husband". Consequently, the division bench comprising Justice Arun Madan and Justice K S Rathore "dismissed" a special appeal petition moved by the state Government challenging a single bench judge verdict who had also taken similar view rejecting the Government plea contrary to this. The state Government had pleaded before the single judge that the petitioner woman Asha Devi originally belonging to Haryana, after her marriage, was merely residing with her husband in Rajasthan. As such she cannot be termed as "domicile" of this state and hence disallowed for interview to a training of woman health worker course in 1998, the Government had contended. Rejecting the state Government’s appeal petition recently, the division bench affirmed the single judge’s decision. The division bench observed that " having heard the learned counsels for the parties and perused the impunged judgement of the single judge, prima-facie, we do not find any merit in any of the contentions urged by the state Government". The court directed the state Government to comply with the single judge’s judgement in "letter and spirit". The single judge in the decision given on the case in April 1999 had allowed the petition moved by the woman who had challenged the state Government decision to debar her from the interview for the training. The judges has also directed the state Government to pay Rs 2000 as cost of the litigation and observed that " it would be appropriate for the state to make amends in admitting petitioner if not for the session in question ie 1998 but in the ensuing session of 1999 as she had already lost one year". Ms Asha Devi, prior to her marriage was a resident of neighbouring Haryana. She got married on May 13, 1989 to Sanwal Ram Diyma, a resident of village Ram Chandrapura in Alwar district and had been residing with him since then. She had challenged the state Health and Medical Department decision to "disallow" her from the interview for the training course for women health worker in 1998, on the plea that she lacked a domicile status of Rajasthan. The division bench noted that the conclusion drawn by the single judge bench was perfectly "legal" and deserved to be confirmed. The single judge bench had held that "though the petitioner originally belonged to Haryana but since she married to a domicile resident of Rajasthan and as per our Indian culture the wife is considered to be the domicile of the area where she is married and stays with her husband." Similarly, the court pointed out that " a certificate of residence is issued to a married woman in respect of the place where her husband is staying or residing alongwith her, and that being so, such married woman was considered as a domicile of her husband’s." "Obviously, because it becomes impossible for the wife to acquire during the subsistence of the marriage, a different domicile from that of her husband." the judges observed. "That being so, the domicile of the petitioner woman cannot not be any other than the domicile of her husband ie. Rajasthan", the court added.(UNI) |
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ULFA now has tear gas shells for hit-and-run ops JORHAT (ASSAM), June 13: ULFA has acquired a huge arsenal of tear gas which they plan to use during "hit and run" operations, police said here today. "After rocket launchers and mobile bunkers, the ULFA has now in its arsenal tear gas shells and this has come to light during interrogation of two ULFA militants who were arrested at teok last week", Jorhat Superintendent of Police G P Singh told reporters here. He said ULFA planned to use the tear gas during hit and run operation as it would give them enough time to flee from the attack site. "This latest tactics of the ULFA would give the police a difficult time as the banned outfit is reportedly using trucks with built-in bunkers to carry out the hit and run operations", he said. Meanwhile, police also recovered 100 gm of RDX and three bombs from slain ULFA cadres who were killed in an encounter with the police at Dholajan near Jorhat on June four. (PTI) |
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Nepal opposition demands Koirala’s resignation KATHMANDU, June 13: Main opposition Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) today demanded resignation of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala as a precondition to national consensus sought by ruling Nepali Congress in the wake of the June one palace massacre and ahead of a Parliament session. "A national consensus is quite impossible under the leadership of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala. He has proved to be a failure on all fronts. He will have to go," senior CPN (UML) leader Jhalanath Khanal told PTI in an exclusive interview. During the ongoing talks between the ruling party and CPN (UML), the latter has also demanded, among other things, a comprehensive programme for economic and social reforms and protection of the rights of Nepal’s diverse linguistic, religious and ethnic groups. However, the party’s main demand remains replacement of Koirala, which the Nepal Congress has not yet accepted, he said. Koirala had promised to bring about peace, good governance and fight against corruption and has failed on all fronts, he said. CPN (UML) had earlier put the Government in an embarrassing position when its leader and leader of opposition Madhav Kumar Nepal withdrew from the high-level committee, inquiring into the palace massacre on the grounds that it was set up by the king and not the cabinet as per the constitutional procedure. The ruling party is keen to avoid confrontation with the opposition during the forthcoming session of the Parliament and has initiated talks with all major opposition groups. According to ruling party sources, the Government is expected to recommend convening the monsoon session of the Parliament by the last week of June. The cabinet had earlier recommended June 25 to late king Birendra to summon the 20th session of Parliament. However, with the June one palace massacre, the whole process fell through. Khanal also launched a scathing attack on the Government for not taking proper steps in the aftermath of the massacre. "The Government did not take proper steps to bring the facts of the incident before the masses. It should have taken effective steps to protect the bodies of the slain members of the royal family, besides safeguarding evidence," he said adding "the administration brutally suppressed the popular protest against the killings." Six people were killed, several injured and hundreds detained as people spontaneously took to the streets protesting against the massacre. (PTI) |
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