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Bangladesh women lose ground after quota reformBangladesh's 2024 student-led uprising was fuelled by a demand that coveted government jobs be awarded on merit, not through quotas. In 202...
ET World Leaders Forum 2026: Bihar eyes 4x growth, 10 million jobsBihar is scripting a development success story with an aggressive investment push. The state aims for industrial transformation and restora...
Mohammad Yunus: Professor's journey to becoming Bangladesh head via 'Banker to the Poor' NobelYunus, who started as a Professor at national and international Universities, earned the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for women's empowerment thr...
Pakistan's gender gap index hits rock bottom, second worst globallyWomen's rights activists have issued impassioned pleas for both state and societal commitment to address gender disparities effectively.soc...
India ranks 129th on Global Gender Gap index, Iceland on top: WEFIndia dropped to 129th place in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2024, while Iceland retained the top spot. India ranks f...
Bangladesh: Now for political successBangladesh is more than Pakistan's defeat, both as an army and as an idea. The idea that died was that a nation could be built on the basis...
India elected to 3 bodies of UN Economic and Social CouncilIndia was elected by acclamation to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2022...
View: A poor economy & climate of fear will ensure immigrants shun IndiaMany Indians believe that there are millions of illegal Bangladeshis living in India and their number is growing. This belief has been nurt...
ET Women's Forum: Why India needs her half a billion women to rise, and conquerThe crescendo for gender parity is gradually and undoubtedly building up, but a lot more action is urgently needed on the ground.
Bangladesh Army appoints first woman Major GeneralBangladesh appointed its first woman as Supreme Court judge and public university vice-chancellor under the Sheikh Hasina government.
Would pass women quota bill when we have majority in RS: M Venkaiah NaiduNoting that gender inequality was having a serious impact on economic development, Venkaiah said focus should be on gender empowerment to e...
PM to inaugurate 3-day National Women's Parliament tomorrowThe vision of NWP is to enable and encourage social, political and economic empowerment of women in all strata of the society.
How can there be empowerment of women without representation, says Pranab MukherjeePresident Pranab Mukherjee said as he made a strong pitch for reviving the Constitution amendment Bill to give 33% reservation to women in ...
India up five slots but still 130th on HDIIndia ranked a lowly 130 in the HDI even if up from last year's 135 in the list of 188 nations, thanks to higher life expectancy and gross ...
My vision of development matches with that of Sheikh Hasina: PM Narendra ModiPraising Hasina for her "single-minded focus" on economic development, he said, a firm foundation is being laid for Bangladesh's economic p...
Pranab Mukherjee meets Bangladesh President, hands over "historic" giftMukherjee handed over to Hamid recordings of transmissions made by All India Radio and Doordarshan during the Liberation War of 1971.
- India will earn Rs 1,000 crore foreign exchange by coir pith export
Coir industry is a women-oriented industry and production and processing of coir yarn and products is practised in the households of Kerala...
- Walmart training 60,000 women workers in India, China
The initiative would be rolled out to 150 factories in India, Bangladesh, China and Central America over the next five years.
- Rahul leaves for Bangladesh on five-day visit
Rahul Gandhi's keen interest in rural development models took him to Bangladesh where he will get first-hand knowledge of the activities of...
- Renuka for un-biased microfinance
SAARC countries should adopt gender-friendly lending system to aid in economic empowerment of women, says Renuka Chowdhury.