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Q. Modi did not had any relevant data on his women empowerment schemes. Is this just another political stunt, taking an alternative route of speaking at a national level. Asked by: Gautam
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03:53 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to women, saying they are ahead of men today while addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation in New Delhi. Addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation, Modi called for the need to integrate and financially empower women to achieve growth and make India a developed country. ...
02:56 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to women, saying they are ahead of men today while addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation in New Delhi. Calling for the need to integrate and financially empower women to achieve growth and make India a developed country, Modi said that they constitute 50 per cent of the country's population and India could become a developed nation only if the...
02:38 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to the women of the country saying women and mothers are supreme and are held in the highest regard in the country. Addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation, Modi said, "A mother's place is supreme in our culture and values. We call river Ganga our mother, India is also mother India. A mother's place and a woman's place in our...
12:57 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on February 15 promised to empower tribal governing bodies and improve women's representation in decision-making bodies in poll-bound Meghalaya. "We will empower self-governing bodies and work for greater say of women in administrative decision making as we believe that this will help Meghalaya get more benefits from Central schemes being implemented in the state," the Prime Minister told an election meeting at the Polo grounds here....
03:24 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Afghan models paraded down a candle-lined catwalk on Friday as men and women watched from the audience in a restaurant off a muddy street in Kabul. ...
01:39 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Congress president Sonia Gandhi in her speech on the last day of party Chintan Shivir in Jaipur focussed on empowerment of women and fight against corruption. Raking the Delhi gangrape incident, in which a 23-year-old girl was brutally raped and beaten up in a moving bus, Sonia said: "The barbaric gangrape in the national capital shook the entire country. The Delhi gangrape victim in many ways is a symbol of...
11:37 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Shaken by the brutal gangrape incident of Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday made a strong pitch for starting women empowerment from home. "Mothers should teach their boys how to respect women in their family and in the neighbourhood. Women empowerment should start from home," she was quoted as having said at the party's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur. ...
05:23 AM, Jan 19, 2013
She is the voice of customer, dream girl of Bollywood, corporate leader and even the face of power. From being confined to the home with the limited role in decision making, they are more visible. They lead home, they work and bring home salaries. They make their own choices. They even question the role they have been playing so far, altering the balance of power, both at home and the ...
03:50 PM, Jan 06, 2013
India could learn from Bangladesh in the way it is tackling crimes against women, including acid attacks, as well as making strides in women's empowerment, say women parliamentarians from the smaller neighbouring country. ...
11:10 AM, Dec 10, 2012
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
A management graduate is now acting as a Sarpanch in Rajasthan. ...
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
