Women's rights activists have issued impassioned pleas for both state and societal commitment to address gender disparities effectively.soc...

India 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 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 was elected by acclamation to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2022...

Many Indians believe that there are millions of illegal Bangladeshis living in India and their number is growing. This belief has been nurt...

The crescendo for gender parity is gradually and undoubtedly building up, but a lot more action is urgently needed on the ground.

Bangladesh appointed its first woman as Supreme Court judge and public university vice-chancellor under the Sheikh Hasina government.

Noting that gender inequality was having a serious impact on economic development, Venkaiah said focus should be on gender empowerment to e...

The vision of NWP is to enable and encourage social, political and economic empowerment of women in all strata of the society.

President Pranab Mukherjee said as he made a strong pitch for reviving the Constitution amendment Bill to give 33% reservation to women in ...

India 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 ...

Praising Hasina for her "single-minded focus" on economic development, he said, a firm foundation is being laid for Bangladesh's economic p...

Mukherjee handed over to Hamid recordings of transmissions made by All India Radio and Doordarshan during the Liberation War of 1971.

Coir industry is a women-oriented industry and production and processing of coir yarn and products is practised in the households of Kerala...

The initiative would be rolled out to 150 factories in India, Bangladesh, China and Central America over the next five years.

Rahul Gandhi's keen interest in rural development models took him to Bangladesh where he will get first-hand knowledge of the activities of...

SAARC countries should adopt gender-friendly lending system to aid in economic empowerment of women, says Renuka Chowdhury.