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Bangladesh shuts universities, colleges indefinitely after protests turn deadly Bangladesh has announced the indefinite closure of all public and private universities following deadly protests by students against a government job quota system, resulting in at least six deaths and numerous injuries. The protests stem from a 30% ...
17 Jul, 2024, 11.22 AM ISTGender ratio improves at old IIMs as they take more female candidates Indian business schools are prioritizing gender diversity by admitting more women to their flagship programs, reflecting a broader trend in corporate India. Efforts to enhance classroom dynamics and prepare students for diverse workplaces are also u...
27 Jun, 2024, 11.55 PM ISTViolence in Kyrgyzstan: Why Indian and Pakistani students are being targeted in Bishkek The Indian embassy in the Central Asian country has advised Indian students in Bishkek to remain indoors for their safety. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has urged Indian students to maintain regular communication with the embassy for update...
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Young woman law graduate vs 4-time BJP MP in Bagalkot fuels excitement over "people's verdict" Samyukta Patil, a 30-year-old woman law graduate from the Congress party, is contesting the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka's Bagalkot for the first time. She is campaigning against a seasoned BJP MP, P C Gaddigoudar, who has been representing the ...
03 May, 2024, 12.04 PM ISTKarnataka: Law student presents garland made of free bus tickets to CM Siddaramaiah to express gratitude "Thanks to the Congress government's free travel initiative, which you implemented as Chief Minister. I have been able to pursue my law studies without any financial strain. Therefore, I kept all the free tickets and made this garland," ANI quoted ...
23 Apr, 2024, 10.07 AM ISTManipur on mute: Manipur is not warming up to polls. Who wins or loses is not going to change much Ahead of a two-phase Lok Sabha election in Manipur on April 19 and 26, the state’s calm exterior belies the unease brewing within. Less than two weeks before the Imphal Valley votes, the campaigning is eerily lacklustre as a Meitei radical group, A...
06 Apr, 2024, 10.21 PM ISTLay down national model for providing toilets to girl students consistent with their number in government-aided, residential schools: Supreme Court The top court had earlier warned the states, which had not submitted their response to the Centre on formulating a uniform national policy on menstrual hygiene for girls studying in schools, that it will take recourse to the "coercive arm of law" if...
06 Nov, 2023, 03.18 PM ISTThree molesters on bike kissed, disrobed, recorded my videos, alleges IIT-BHU student; Massive protest erupts Massive protests erupted at the Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU) campus following an alleged incident of molestation. A female student claimed she was molested by three unidentified men while taking a walk on campus....
03 Nov, 2023, 02.42 PM ISTThe Taliban have banned girls from school for 2 years. It's a worsening crisis for all Afghans The United Nations General Assembly is addressing the rights of Afghan women and children, particularly concerning the Taliban's ban on girls' education. The ban, which the Taliban justifies based on their interpretation of Islamic law, affects over...
18 Sep, 2023, 11.30 AM ISTA year ago, an Iranian woman's death sparked hijab protests. Now businesses are a new battleground Iran's theocracy aims to enforce mandatory headscarf use by targeting businesses, increasing the punishments for uncovered women and the businesses they frequent, and taking away women's access to social services, according to a new parliamentary bi...
10 Aug, 2023, 11.26 AM ISTEngineering student, husband held for faking kidnapping in Uttar Pradesh Indian police have announced that they have solved a case of kidnapping after the captors, a young couple, were discovered at Basti railway station. The couple had allegedly faked the woman’s kidnapping and demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh from her p...
08 Aug, 2023, 02.18 PM ISTHC judge laments "huge disparity" in legal profession, says only 15 % of practising lawyers are women The Delhi High Court Judge, Pratibha M Singh, pointed out the huge disparity in gender representation in the legal profession, with only 15% of practicing lawyers being women despite making up more than 50% of students in law schools. She attributed...
05 Aug, 2023, 02.54 PM ISTTrillions at stake as women disappear from India's workforce Between 2010 and 2020, the number of working women in India dropped from 26% to 19%, according to data compiled by World Bank. As infections surged, a bad situation turned dire: Economists in Mumbai estimate that female employment plummeted to 9% by...
02 Jun, 2022, 05.50 PM ISTAfter leak, religious rift over legal abortion on display National polls show that most Americans support abortion access. A Public Religion Research Institute survey from March found that a majority of religious groups believe it should be legal in most cases - with the exception of white evangelical Prot...
09 May, 2022, 08.28 AM IST'Travesty of justice', Muslim Personal Law Board moves SC against HC verdict on hijab The board has moved the top court along with two other petitioners namely, Munisa Bushra and Jaleesa Sultana Yaseen. The plea said the high court judgment, while dismissing the petitions, has proceeded with erroneous reasons to address the issue.
28 Mar, 2022, 12.17 PM ISTUK chef Asma Khan jots down her ammu's recipes, pays homage to home-cooking that defies patriarchal stereotypes in new book 'Ammu: Indian Home-Cooking to Nourish the Soul', to be released on Thursday is a collection of childhood recipes.
14 Mar, 2022, 04.45 PM ISTBJP promises free scooters for female college students, Rs 100cr start-up fund in Manipur manifesto "Free scooty will be given to all meritorious college-going girls to empower the women of the state," Nadda said, quoting the manifesto.
17 Feb, 2022, 05.51 PM ISTKim Kardashian finally clears bar law exam at her fourth attempt, says it 'wasn’t easy' The reality TV star said she was 'proud of the woman' she had become.
14 Dec, 2021, 06.11 PM ISTSC asks NTA to rectify injustice met to disabled student, whose answer sheet was taken away in NEET The top court said individual injustices originating in a wrongful denial of rights and entitlements prescribed under the law cannot be sent into oblivion on the ground that these are a necessary consequence of a competitive examination.
23 Nov, 2021, 09.30 PM ISTTaliban-run Kabul municipality to female workers: Stay home On Sunday, just over a dozen women staged a protest outside the ministry, holding up signs calling for the participation of women in public life. "A society in which women are not active is (sic) dead society," one sign read.
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