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Future generations must know Emergency's dark deeds: Union Minister Dharmendra PradhanUnion Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has lauded NCERT's decision to include the Emergency period in Class IX textbooks. This move ai...- NCERT introduces section on Emergency in Class IX textbook for first time, flags it as 'Challenge to Democracy'For the first time, NCERT has introduced the Emergency of 1975-77 in a Class 9 textbook, labeling it a significant challenge to Indian demo...
- India's birth rate has fallen below replacement: Elon MuskIndia's birth rate has dropped below the replacement level. This trend is particularly noticeable among educated women. The nation's fertil...
- Elon Musk's tweet on India's falling birth rate goes viralElon Musk's comment on India's falling birth rate has gone viral. India's total fertility rate has now dropped below the replacement level....
- “Not Australia, but India rejected me for being a woman”: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw clarifies how gender bias led her to build Biocon in viral postBiocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw intervened and clarified after a viral post claimed that Australia denied her a master brewer role due t...
- Boss denied you a deserving salary hike despite good performance? Check your rights under new Labour CodePrivate sector employees in India face limited legal recourse against appraisal discrimination, especially when it's not gender-based. Whil...
- Can you be fired from job despite achieving your annual target? Know what the labour law saysMeeting annual targets doesn't guarantee job security in the private sector. Labour laws, particularly the Industrial Disputes Act, offer p...
- Women’s employment rate rises to 39% in 2025 from 22% in 2017: Mansukh MandaviyaFemale employment in India has seen a substantial rise, reaching 39 percent in 2025 from 22 percent in 2017. This growth reflects increased...
- 8 ways India’s Labour Codes can help build a modern, expanding, and increasingly diverse workforceBy streamlining the old laws, the government has signalled its intent to align India’s regulatory framework with the demands of a $5 trilli...
- Centre tells Supreme Court Sabarimala verdict was wrongly decidedThe Centre told the Supreme Court that Indian society treats women equally and places them on a higher pedestal. Solicitor General Tushar M...
- Constitution over tradition: Why ‘essential practices’ must not override individual rightsIndia's Supreme Court is embarking on an examination of religious traditions to determine their compliance with fundamental rights. Key cas...
- Challenging gender stereotypes: CJI Chandrachud cites years of him caring for ailing wifeChief Justice DY Chandrachud, in a lecture, addressed gender pay gap and homemaker's rights in India. He emphasized society's subjective al...
- Women's participation in Indian workforce low due to gender discrimination, says OxfamTo close the gap in women's labour participation, the Indian government would have to offer incentives for better pay, training, skills acq...
- Unemployment rate among Indian women more than double of men: StudyThe study also noted that increasing female participation in the labour force could increase the Indian GDP by 27 per cent.
- Its time to abolish 'triple talaq', says Venkaiah Naidu"Triple talaq is anti-constitutional, against law, against the principles of democracy and anti-civilisation. This kind of opinion is on th...
- Companies commit to equal pay pledgeThe average salary of women executive directors in India is 20% less than that of their male counterparts, according to a study for ET by P...
- G20 asked to lower tax for women, remove workplace biasIt suggested establishment of legal and policy frameworks to eliminate workplace discrimination, including gender-based wage gaps and occup...
- Elderly women face age discrimination, ageism, elder abuse and mistreatment: StudyAs per 2011 Census there were approx. 6.5 Lakh elderly women in Delhi (approximately 51 per cent of total elderly population of Delhi).
- Age no bar? Job seekers in India don’t think soIndian jobseekers feel more discriminated against than their counterparts in most other countries, with India ranking fifth among 28 countr...
- Two third of Indian workers discriminatedThe survery sought the view of approximately 70,000 jobseekers in 28 countries.
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