Gram panchayats boost own earnings, fund schools, flood control and digital accessIndian villages are achieving financial independence. Gram panchayats are boosting tax collections and using their own funds for schools, f...
24 Apr, 2026, 09.34 AM IST
Tracer survey on ITIs job outcome soon, to assess performance, identify issuesThe government will now track graduates from upgraded Industrial Training Institutes annually. This survey will measure job placements and ...
14 Apr, 2026, 12.29 AM IST
PM Internship Scheme: House Committee seeks swift actionA Parliamentary Standing Committee has urged the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to address challenges in the PM Internship Scheme, citing a ...
20 Mar, 2025, 12.24 AM IST
UK’s first baby born with genes from three persons in new IVF method; Details hereMitochondrial donation treatment (MDT), a technique utilized in this process, involves using tissue from healthy female donors' eggs to gen...
10 May, 2023, 05.59 PM IST
Indian female pilot, Captain Zoya Agarwal becomes 1st human being to get a place at SFO Aviation MuseumCaptain Zoya Agarwal, while talking to a news agency said that she is the only human being to have made it into the San Francisco Aviation ...
20 Aug, 2022, 12.12 PM IST
Female utilisation of AB PM-JAY services stood at 46.7 pc from October 2019 to Sep 2021: StudyApart from expanding and creating a network of almost 27,300 private and government hospitals, AB PM-JAY has also greatly contributed in sh...
08 Mar, 2022, 08.29 PM IST
Growth Gyaan: Tips on raising women’s participation in workforce, and how digitization may reduce inequalities in educationBesides, non-discriminatory practices at the workplace like pay and career progression are needed to help draw more females to join the lab...
30 Jan, 2021, 08.18 AM IST
Female passengers can avail ride pooling on Uber, Ola only with other lady commutersThese guidelines will provide a guiding framework to the state governments to consider issuing licences as well as regulating the business ...
28 Nov, 2020, 10.48 AM IST
More men book salon appointments post-Covid, hair and facial grooming take centre stageMen were more eager to shed their 'lockdown' looks than women.
07 Sep, 2020, 11.00 AM IST
50% India's working-age population out of labour force, says reportThe labour force participation rate stood at 49.8% in 2017-18, falling sharply from 55.9% in 2011-12.
04 Feb, 2019, 01.42 PM IST
Railways toilet policy: Low cost sanitary napkins, condoms to be sold at stationsThe policy said each facility was to have separate toilets for men, women and Divyangjans with provision of both Indian and Western style c...
26 May, 2018, 10.25 AM IST
Airports Authority of India to install sanitary pad kiosksThe first machine was installed at Indore Airport last October and since then several airports have got these machines.
18 Feb, 2018, 02.23 PM IST
90% of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao funds unutilised: Parliamentary panel75% of the funds for the One Stop Centre (OSC) -- a key initiative for survivors of sexual assault under the Nirbhaya scheme -- could not b...
21 Mar, 2017, 09.49 PM IST
Cupid's capacity utilisation is currently 70%: OP Garg, Chairman"First quarter is seasonally a soft quarter while Q4 is the strongest quarter," OP Garg said.
14 Jul, 2016, 04.30 PM IST
Coal India relaxes norms for Voluntary Retirement Scheme for womenIt will allow the sons to be posted at locations nearest to their homes instead of being employed at CIL's exploration and consultancy arm.
18 Sep, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Mining project payouts to go to women
Petro ministry had recently made 50% female ownership must for any cooking gas dealership in rural India.
04 Oct, 2010, 07.31 AM IST
- Paws with a cause
Anybody who has cats as pets would know that the term cat's-paw is an apt phrase.
06 Aug, 2009, 03.22 AM IST