Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday urged both men and women to change their mindset towards women so as to ensure empowerment of women in its true perspective. The desired results could not be achieved by enactment of laws and formulating schemes unless there was a change in the mindset, said Hooda addressing the Northern Regional Conference of Chandigarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi and...
05:32 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Bhavnagar: Targeting Gujarat Governor Dr Kamla, Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the Women Empowerment Bill seeking 50 per cent reservation in the local bodies for women passed by the state Assembly had been denied assent. "Gujarat was the first state to have passed Women's Empowerment Bill in the assembly, but it has been denied assent by the Governor despite she being a woman," Modi said at a...
12:07 AM, Jan 26, 2012
On Board Special Aircraft: President Pratibha Patil on Saturday said the government was coordinating with all political parties to pave way for Women Reservation Bill, pending for consensus in Lok Sabha for over a year. The matter related to the bill came up for discussion at a meeting with a group of women parliamentarians in Mongolia, Patil told reporters on her way back to New Delhi after completing a week-long...
07:09 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Bhopal: World Bank (WB) Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, has invited the state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to World Bank's headquarters in Washington to share the experience of development schemes implemented for women and children in the state. Inviting Chouhan, WB has underlined its intention to expand engagement in a wide range of sectors in Madhya Pradesh, according to a letter written to the Chief Minister by Iweala. "The...
06:08 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Thiruvanathapuram: Women voters in Kerala hope the new elected government creates more opportunities like that in Kudumbashree. Kudumbashree was launched by the LDF government in 1998 as an anti-poverty drive built around three critical components, micro credit, entrepreneurship and empowerment. It has now evolved into one of Asia's largest women's movement with over 37 lakh women as members. Meenakshi amma and her daughter Anitha do not have any earning male...
10:11 AM, Apr 10, 2011
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10:45 AM, Mar 09, 2010
Women of substance stand up against the odds stacked against them. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 07, 2010
The Indian woman is celebrated today for being at par with her male counterpart. ...
02:46 PM, Jul 19, 2009
Women can plan finances well by using smart tips, organised planning. ...
11:12 AM, Mar 10, 2009
The Bihar-Jharkhand border was a virgin experiment bowl for Deepak Saha ...
04:59 PM, Feb 21, 2009
Women in Etamanoor, Kerala, can do anything, from driving auto-rickshaws to running hotels and even climbing coconut trees. ...
12:54 PM, Nov 12, 2006
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