By Arul Louis, United Nations : India must focus as a priority on ensuring that more women work in the formal sector as it continues with labour reforms, according to Ken Kang, the deputy director in International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
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By Bhavana Akella, Bengaluru : Anupama Shenoy, a former woman police officer in Karnataka, has entered politics to become a lawmaker and police politicians who make promises but don’t fulfil them. “I have entered politics, floated a party to contest ...
Read More »Ivanka Trump announces $150mn for female entrepreneurship in Latin America
Lima : White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump announced here a new initiative to allocate $150 million in seed money to facilitate access to capital for Latin American female entrepreneurs. “Today we launched 2X Americas, a new US initiative which ...
Read More »Mumbai-born Indo-Australian scientist develops microfactory to tackle e-waste hazard
Sydney : In a pioneering effort to tackle the growing mountains of e-waste, an IIT-trained Australian scientist of Indian origin at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) here has helped launch the world’s first microfactory that can transform electronic ...
Read More »Jayamma’s story: From victim to crusader for sex workers
By Mamta Aggarwal, Hyderabad : Jayamma Bhandari was orphaned at the age of three and spend her childhood in grim poverty. She was forced into the sex trade by her husband. But unlike other victims who are forced into the ...
Read More »When someone tries to shut you down, it tests your conviction: Swara Bhaskar
By Nivedita, New Delhi : She is frank, honest and fearless. Actress Swara Bhaskar believes in acknowledging the “good” as well as “not-so-good” realities of the film industry and says when someone tries to shut her down, is when she ...
Read More »How Sunita Williams is continuing her career in space
Washington : Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is now helping privately-held companies like Space X and Boeing to develop their new spacecraft systems, which will eventually provide round-trip crew transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS). After completing two missions ...
Read More »Respect for others was a ‘cultivated’ way of life in Lucknow
By Nivedita Singh, New Delhi : Mutual respect was a “consciously cultivated way of life” in Lucknow, and this “magic formula” helped the city and the Awadh region around it to prosper. Alas, this is not the case any more, ...
Read More »Breaking barriers: Moroccan women take a professional leap
By Jaideep Sarin, Dakhla (Morocco) : The stereotype of an African-Arab Muslim nation, where women are expected to be seen covered from head to toe and not given prominence in public and social life, is being broken by progressive Moroccan ...
Read More »British Council to felicitate 100 Indian women
By Nivedita, New Delhi : As many as 100 Indian women will be awarded the British Council’s 70th Anniversary Scholarships to mark the organisation’s 70th anniversary in India here on Saturday. It is the organisation’s largest investment in a scholarship ...
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