By Rohini Pande, Charity Troyer Moore and Jennifer Johnson While marginally more women work in India than in Pakistan (27 percent and 25 percent, respectively), Pakistans female labour-force participation rate is growing and Indias is…
By Swara Bhaskar I skulked home one afternoon from school in a particularly muggy hot Delhi summer month and spent the day cursing fate that I was born a girl. I was 14 years old,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government’s efforts towards the development of women “are unwavering”. “Saluting the accomplishments of all women on…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Global internet search giant Google on Tuesday marked the International Women’s Day with one of its special doodles featuring real women rather than animated characters. The International Women’s Day, celebrated…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Online marketplace Snapdeal and FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO) have signed an agreement to kick-start the Women Entrepreneurship (WE) in e-commerce initiative, a statement said here on Monday. “India is the…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Most Indian women feel that dowry is the most severe form of gender disparity when it comes to marriage, according to a survey conducted by online matrimony platform Shaadi.com for…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Women’s right to equal opportunities and a dignified life must be respected, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday on the eve of International Women’s Day. “On the occasion of International…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, March 7 (IANS) Twenty years is a long time to carry through the dream of passing at least the Class 10 examination, especially when life is a struggle just to make…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Working women, especially those in the private sector, desire to quit their jobs for a number of reasons, including gender bias and workplace harassment, according to a latest survey. “About…
New York, March 7 (IANS) Students in the US two to three times more often describe male professors as “brilliant” and “genius” than female professors, new research has found. “Male professors were described more often…
Patna, March 7 (IANS) Millions of schoolchildren in Bihar schools will soon be served ‘pulao’ once a week as part of their mid-day meals, officials said on Monday. “Pulao will be served once in a…
New York, March 7 (IANS) Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of e-mail, has died at the age of 74, media reports said. According to reports, Tomlinson died of an apparent…
Beirut, March 6 (IANS) Palestinian refugees in north Lebanon Tripoli held a sit-in on Saturday to protest the continuing reduction in medical and educational services. The services are supplied to the refugee camp of al-Beddawi…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Air India will commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8 by operating the longest all-women flight on its longest route on Sunday. The Delhi-San Francisco flight, which will cover 7,831…
Panaji, March 5 (IANS) Goa has emerged as one of the top three tourism destinations in the country preferred by women travellers, a poll conducted by Thomas Cook India has revealed. Of the 1,215…
Jerusalem, March 5 (IANS) Archaeologists discovered a 4,000 years old necropolis near the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, according to a media report. Located on the side of a hill, the site, called Khalet al-Jam’a, was…
Noida, March 5 (IANS) The Noida Authority plans to construct an old age home cum orphanage to take care of the elderly and orphaned children under the same roof with an allocation of Rs.300 crore,…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org on Friday announced grant funding of $8,00,000 to three Indian non-profit organisations to encourage and create more access and opportunity to people living with disabilities. The…
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) A small Mumbai firm has been granting fully-paid ‘period leave’ to all its women employees since 2010 for both medical and religious reasons. Currently, there is only one woman employee working…
Manila, March 4 (IANS) A Filipino man has transformed himself into a carbon copy of “Superman” after a series of 26 painful cosmetic surgeries, the media reported on Friday. “The most painful surgical procedure was…