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Climate crisis is a gender issue, women face higher risks, less representationClimate change disproportionately impacts women, who are often excluded from decision-making despite their crucial roles in crisis response...
Reflects mindset: SC notice on Bar body's plea seeking probe into proof of periods asked from female workersThe Supreme Court has taken up a serious matter concerning female sanitation workers at Maharishi Dayanand University. They were allegedly ...
Analysing the new labour codes: Impact on employee work hours, leave and overtimeThe Labour Codes replace over 30 central legislations to simplify and modernise labour laws in India, with an emphasis on ease of doing bus...
Kolkata doc murder: FAIMA suggests interim measures to protect doctors who suffer 'inhumane' treatment, moves intervention application in SCKolkata doctor rape case: FAIMA appealed to the Supreme Court for interim safety measures following a doctor’s rape and murder at RG Kar Ho...
Maharashtra government issues guidelines to ensure girls' safety in schools; makes CCTV mandatory in premisesMinister Mangal Prabhat Lodha directed the Mumbai Suburban District Collector to implement safety measures for women and children. Starting...
'Abuse every day': Indian female medics speak out after brutal murderSaving lives was the childhood dream for 28-year-old Indian doctor Radhika, but after the brutal rape and murder of a colleague her own saf...
Swearing-in ceremony of a coalition governmentIt was the fifth oath-taking ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt and was the largest. Besides Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader...
ET Startup Awards 2022: Solinas Integrity wins the Best on Campus categoryAfter two rounds of deliberations and voting, Solinas edged out ClaimBuddy, a Gurgaon-based Mediclaim support startup, in a close contest w...
PM Modi hails ASHA workers for ensuring healthy IndiaTaking to Twitter, Prime Minister said, "Delighted that the entire team of ASHA workers have been conferred the WHO Director-General's Glob...
India's one million all-women ASHA volunteers honoured by WHOAccredited Social Health Activists -- or ASHA volunteers -- are Indian government's affiliated health-care workers who are the first point ...
Ayushman Bharat health insurance: Who all it covers, how to applyAB-NHPS will have a defined benefit over of Rs 5 lakh per family per year on a family floater basis for secondary and tertiary care hospita...
BJP’s Mahila Morcha to launch campaign to reach out to women voters, keeping 2024 in mindSenior Mahila Morcha leaders, after thrashing out their year-long plans during their meetings with the party’s national organisation secret...
ET Evoke: Empowering women via employment boosts nation’s GDP & company’s profitability, says IMF HR bossKalpana Kochhar feels the pandemic threatens to roll back gains in women’s economic opportunities.
India’s 600,000 strong army of virus-hunting women goes on a two-day strikeAfter months of harassment, underpayment and lack of protection from infection, about 600,000 of the country’s one million Accredited Socia...
UP govt to launch programmes to attract women votersThe UP government’s latest initiative is the move to appoint ‘Banking Correspondent Sakhi’, or female banking agents, in all 5,8000 gram pa...
PPE pecking order leaves nurses, ward boys at riskComplaints pour in about facilities and safety gear for healthcare workers being dependent on hierarchy rather than on the extent to which ...
The neglect of girl child keeps Delhi's backyard, Mewat, most backwardWhy is Mewat in Haryana the worst performing district in India? It is just 80 km from Delhi, but ranks below some of the known backward dis...
World Economic Foum: Time to rebuild trust between people and corporates, says Hari S BhartiaBhartia is one of the co-chairs this year for WEF's Annual Meeting 2015, a five-day high profile global summit that would continue till Jan...
- Call centres asked to maintain database on contract staff
The government on Monday said the IT and BPO industry should maintain a database of all employees, including drivers and other contract sta...
- Pan-India job programmes don’t work, need local changes
According to the survey, just about 133 individuals of the every 1,000 in rural India aged 15 or more sought work in public works. And of t...