Ayesha Fatima, First Muslim Woman IPS Officer for Telangana to Assume Charge Soon
New Age
Islam News Bureau
18 January 2024
· Ayesha Fatima, First Muslim Woman IPS Officer for Telangana to Assume Charge Soon
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Women In
Germany Earn 18% Less Than Men As Gender Pay Gap Persists
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Afghan
Women’s Migration Stories; Forced Expulsion and Starting Anew
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Record
Fines Levied In Iran for Hijab Violations
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Bilkis
Bano Case: 3 Convicts Seek More Time from SC To Surrender
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Ayesha Fatima, First Muslim Woman IPS Officer
For Telangana To Assume Charge Soon
Ayesha will
become the first Muslim woman to serve as an IPS officer in Telangana
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17th January 2024
Irfan Mohammed
Hyderabad: The Centre has allocated
additional 10 IPS officers to Telangana state. This development came following
an appeal made by chief minister Revanth Reddy to Union Home Minister Amit Shah
during their maiden meeting in New Delhi earlier this month.
Ayesha Fatima is among the new IPS
officials for Telangana. Ayesha is the 2022-batch Muslim woman from Madhya
Pradesh who secured 184th rank in the UPSC examination.
Ayesha pursued her education at
Vindhyachal School in Dewas, which falls in the Malwa region of the state, until
11th grade. She completed 12th grade at Model Public School. Her father,
Naziruddin Sheikh, is a government teacher, and her mother serves as a school
director.
Ayesha, the second daughter in her
family, excelled in competitive exams like JEE, becoming an electrical engineer
after graduating from SGSITS college, Indore in 2015.
Despite her engineering accomplishments,
Ayesha felt the urge to contribute to society and embarked on her UPSC journey
in 2019. After facing initial setbacks, she finally achieved long-awaited
success.
Ayesha Fatima will be the first Muslim
woman police official of IPS cadre for the state.
Notably, Telangana CM told Amit Shah
only 76 IPS officers were allotted to Telangana during the bifurcation of
Andhra Pradesh. The CM had requested the
Home Minister to sanction 29 additional IPS posts to the state in view of
creation of new districts and for supervision of various departments.
Source: siasat.com
https://www.siasat.com/first-muslim-woman-ips-officer-for-telangana-to-assume-charge-soon-2958615/
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Women In Germany Earn 18% Less Than Men
As Gender Pay Gap Persists
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January 18, 2024
BERLIN (Reuters) - Women in Germany
earned 18% less on average than men last year, due largely to a levelling-off
in earnings after having children and taking part-time work, the Federal
Statistics Office said on Thursday.
The data show that the gender pay gap in
Europe's biggest economy has remained unchanged since 2020. That is down from
23% when records started in 2006.
On an adjusted basis, the gender pay gap
for 2023 was 6%, said the office.
Women's earnings start to stagnate from
the age of 30 years, the average age for women to have their first child in
Germany, said the office, while men continue to earn more.
"This could be because women
interrupt their careers more frequently during their working lives for family
reasons and work part time," said the Office, adding that career
advancement and pay rises are therefore less frequent.
On average, women earned 20.84 euros per
hour, compared with 25.30 euros for men. However, at 7%, the gap is far
narrower in the former communist East compared with 19% in western Germany.
A study published on Wednesday showed
the number of women at the helm of Germany's top companies is shrinking.
Source: yahoo.com
https://news.yahoo.com/women-germany-earn-18-less-094742646.html
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Afghan women’s migration stories; forced
expulsion and starting anew
Fidel Rahmati
January 18, 2024
Migration is a common occurrence that
often results from poverty and insecurity, impacting people in different
countries. Afghanistan, a country plagued by prolonged conflicts, ranks third
globally in terms of refugee numbers. Over the past two years, Afghan migration
has significantly risen. This report shares the story of a girl who abandoned
her job, education, and university in pursuit of a better life, leaving
Afghanistan behind.
Sadaf, who is 22 years old, left
Afghanistan like thousands of others, six months after the return of the
Taliban in Afghanistan and the tightening of restrictions on women’s employment
and education. Sadaf was a seventh-semester journalism student and worked as a
reporter for a media outlet when the Taliban regime took control. As a
reporter, she closely monitored the restrictions on women.
Sadaf was born in Samangan province and
completed her primary education there as well. After gaining admission to Kabul
University’s journalism faculty, she spent three years of her university period
not in a dormitory but in the house of one of her relatives. She also worked as
a reporter for a private media outlet alongside her studies to support her
family financially.
She said, “Despite having more
responsibilities in my family, I also had the highest score in the journalism
faculty.” While taking care of her elderly parents and being part of a
twelve-member family, Sadaf entered Pakistan illegally following the return of
the Taliban regime and the illegal ban on the education and employment of
girls.
She hoped to be safe there and have her
immigration case pursued in host countries. However, she says that migration is
unpredictable, especially when difficulties arise.
Lack of knowledge of the Urdu language,
lack of housing, excessive rent for homes, experiencing life in a foreign
country, and loneliness were some of the initial challenges that introduced
Sadaf to the deeper layers of migration. However, this was just the beginning
of the journey.
Although migration is usually not a
choice but a necessity, Sadaf, after finding a job in a packing workshop for
clothes and textiles, was able to send some of her earnings back to her family
in Samangan for the first time since her migration. She began to find some
satisfaction in her life in migration.
Sadaf says, “I was living in Pakistan,
completely satisfied with my job and earnings, until I heard in September 2023
that Pakistan was planning to deport illegal migrants.”
The process of forced deportation added
to the difficulties of Sadaf’s life in Pakistan, and she faced daily fear on
her way from home to work, making her way to the workshop herself. Sadef
recalls the behaviour of her coworkers at her workplace: “While I was the only
Afghan working in the clothing workshop, Pakistani citizens repeatedly tried to
expose me to the Pakistani police.”
She tells the story of an evening when
she was returning home tired, and suddenly, in such conditions, she encountered
this: “I was in a car, and I was just a few minutes away from home when
suddenly the Pakistani police got into the car and asked the driver if there
were Afghan passengers in this car.”
Sadaf says, “I had a full veil on, and
no trace of my face was visible until the danger passed, and I could relax.”
This is the paradox of life in migration: while fleeing from the constraints
and limitations of Afghanistan, in Pakistan, she enforces all these
restrictions on herself to stay safe.
Sadaf says that when the Pakistani
police left and she got out of the car to go home, she faced a very painful
scene: “I was on foot, and I was just a few steps away from home, but suddenly
the Pakistani police locked my house and sent me a message to leave Pakistan as
soon as possible.”
She was still waiting to see what would
happen to her immigration case, but at that time, she had to work, and
occasionally, she faced extremely unusual circumstances: “When I saw the door
of my room locked, I thought to myself that I had lost my job, I had lost the
university, and today, I was expelled from here, and I had to start life again
from scratch.”
Finally, on a sunny morning, Sadaf
headed for the Spin Boldak border with a suitcase containing all her
belongings, wanting to return to her family in Samangan.
Sadaf described crossing the border
between Pakistan and Afghanistan as a tragedy. According to her, “We moved with
eight thousand migrants from Pakistan towards the border. The Pakistani police
treated Afghan migrants very harshly.”
While recounting with her own eyes, she
said to the reporter, “The Pakistani police ruthlessly beat women and elderly
people, showing no mercy towards Afghans. They even insult Afghans with
derogatory and offensive names, calling them terrorists. It was the most
humiliating feeling I ever experienced in my life.”
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/afghan-womens-migration-stories-forced-expulsion-and-starting-anew/
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Record Fines Levied In Iran For Hijab
Violations
January 17, 2024
A member of the Iranian parliament’s
cultural commission announced a substantial fine of 240 million rials for the
violation of the hijab in Iran, a record high.
Amir-Hossein Bankipour said, “a fine of
30 million rials for the first-time violation” will be in place, however, the
gravity of the penalty is amplified for the second offense, as people “must now
face court proceedings, with a penalty of 240 million rials.”
Bankipour's statements have drawn
attention to the significant sum, equivalent to over two months' wages, nearly
500 US dollars, in Iran. The controversial proposal has ignited discussions
about the severity of the penalties and their potential economic implications
on women.
The legislator revealed that there were
differing opinions during the bill's formulation, with some suggesting the
immediate referral of individuals without a hijab to court, a proposal rejected
by the Judiciary Commission. Bankipour emphasized that, “for minor offenses
such as a woman not observing the hijab in public, the approved provision
stipulates a fine instead of a direct court appearance.”
The bill, officially titled
"Protection of Family Through Promotion of Hijab and Chastity
Culture," initially secured parliamentary approval in September. However,
it encountered an unexpected setback when the Guardian Council, holding
ultimate legislative authority, rejected it. The rejection cited formal
deficiencies and called for revisions to clarify ambiguous terms.
The development occurs against the
backdrop of protests triggered by the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in 2022. Mass
hijab rebellion has swept the country with increasing surveillance and
crackdowns failing to stem the tide.
Source: iranintl.com
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401178907
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Bilkis Bano case: 3 convicts seek more
time from SC to surrender
18th January 2024
New Delhi, Jan 18 (PTI) Three convicts
in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family
members during the 2002 riots in Gujarat moved the Supreme Court on Thursday
seeking extension of time to surrender.
The top court on January 8 had quashed
the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the
case, saying the orders were “stereotyped” and passed without application of
mind.
It had asked the convicts to surrender
before jail authorities in two weeks.
The matter seeking extension of time was
mentioned before a bench of Justices B V Nagarathana and Sanjay Karol on
Thursday which asked the Registry to place the plea before CJI.
“It is stated by three respondents that
applications have been filed for an extension of time to surrender and report
to jail. Since the bench has to be reconstituted, registry
to seek orders from CJI for reconstitution
of the bench since time expires on Sunday,” the bench said.
Source: siasat.com/
https://www.siasat.com/bilkis-bano-case-3-convicts-seek-more-time-from-sc-to-surrender-2958786/
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