Tag: Women
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Long work hours may hike women’s diabetes risk by 70%
Women who work for 45 hours or more a week may be associated with nearly 70 per cent increased risk of diabetes.
July 4, 2018 -
Rahul targets Modi citing report listing India as most dangerous place for women
Leading the charge for the Congress, party president Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to share the report which listed India above Pakistan and war-torn nations such as Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan.
June 26, 2018 -
Goa: 9 tourists sent in judicial remand for ‘assaulting’ minor sister-brother duo
The accused started clicking pictures of the girl, who was sitting with his brother in a shack at Baga beach in North Goa.
May 31, 2018 -
Gender question in disaster management
When disasters occur to a certain degree or frequency, it is bound to drastically change the natural state of the community and its surroundings. In Nepal and many other least developed countries, there is evidence that marginalised populations, including women, face the most tragic losses and in many cases become the major targets of injustice. …
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May 22, 2018 -
NCRB preparing registry of crimes against women
A national registry of crimes against women is being prepared by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) with the help of records sourced from the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS ). This was disclosed at the national conference on “Gender Justice in Criminal Law” organised by the Bureau of Police Research and …
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May 21, 2018 -
Exercise may beat genetic predisposition to obesity in elderly women
As women age, exercise has been shown to improve muscle mass, balance and bone strength. It also invigorates brain cells.
May 19, 2018 -
Women through the lens of Mrinal Sen
Legendary filmmaker Mrinal Sen, who turns 95 on May 14, portrayed the double standards of patriarchy in most of his best remembered works.
May 12, 2018 -
Walking may help women conceive
Among overweight or obese women, walking at least 10 minutes at a time was associated with improvement in fecundability.
May 9, 2018 -
Easy to promise…
Calculatedly vague before a fawning audience was Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday when promising the FICCI ladies organisation at a function focused on gender parity that the armed services would be opening up more avenues to women in its officer cadres. There can be no disputing the nobility of her intentions ~ as the nation’s …
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May 9, 2018 -
‘In tune with the socio-political scenario’
Independent artist Sujatro Ghosh shared about his well-recognised ‘The Cow-mask Project’ campaign at The Bridge 2018
April 21, 2018 -
Women prefer verified profiles in life partner search
Finding a life partner online is more widely accepted now than it was in the early 2000s.
April 18, 2018 -
Majority believe crime against women hasn’t increased post Nirbhaya: Survey
In wake of the recent rape cases in India, only over a third of respondents in a survey feel that crime against women have increased post the 2012 Nirbhaya
April 17, 2018 -
Ruckus in Odisha Assembly over crimes against women
The Congress created a ruckus in the Odisha Assembly on Monday over the increasing number of crimes committed against women.
April 16, 2018 -
Must ensure safe conditions at workplace for women: Kovind
President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday said there was a need to “create conditions” for “more and more” women to come into the workforce.
April 5, 2018 -
‘Women must get adequate representation in legislatures’
Acknowledging the “significant” participation of women MPs in the proceedings of Rajya Sabha, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday asked all political parties to give adequate representation to women in legislatures. Delivering his farewell speech to members retiring from the upper house of Parliament, Naidu said women constituted only 11.7 per cent of the total …
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March 28, 2018 -
Attack on women scribes: SHO booked, sent to lines
Delhi Police on Monday registered an FIR against the station house officer of Delhi Cantt accused of molesting a woman journalist on 24 March. The SHO was sent to the lines, police said. A case under section 354 A (making sexually coloured remarks, shall be guilty of the offence of sexual harassment) of Indian Penal …
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March 27, 2018 -
Muslim women and mathematics
The drill is well known: every time the results of some sort of worldwide survey are released, women in the Muslim world are towards the bottom. Afghan women usually occupy the lowest rungs of political participation, women in Somalia and Sudan have the lowest access to healthcare facilities, women in Iraq and Syria are forced …
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March 16, 2018