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Breakthrough India's Reframe summit calls for engagement with men and boys
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 4 (ANI/PRNewswire): Breakthrough India's three day Pan-Asia summit "Reframe" started a dialogue on raising awareness on concerns around accountability in the sphere of transforming masculinities and engaging men and boys to achieve gender equality.
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SC pulls up Nagaland govt, says important aspect of gender equality gettin
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Nagaland government over not responding to the request of the Election Commission in the state's urban local bodies and said that an important aspect of gender equality seems to be getting postponed.
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Pakistan needs to double its efforts for women's empowerment as its gender
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Islamabad [Pakistan], February 16 (ANI): The Pakistan government needs to double its effort for women's empowerment as the country's ranking on gender equality remains to be poor, indicating deep-seated patriarchy in the society that ensures persistent structural discrimination, according to
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Firstsource included in 2022 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 9 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Firstsource Solutions Limited (NSE: FSL, BSE: 532809), a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) services and an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, today announced its inclusion in the 2022 Bloomberg Gender-Equalit
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India Cannot have Atmanirbhar Bharat without Atmanirbhar Women and Girls:
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): "India cannot have an Atmanirbhar bharat without Atmanirbhar girls and women. India represents such a large population, it is the microcosm and the macrocosm of our achieving gender equality in the world.
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Tech Mahindra included in Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for third consec
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI/NewsVoir): Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions, today announced that it has been included in Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for the third consecutive year.
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LS MP S Venkatesan urges SBI to withdraw order stating women in 3-months g
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 29 (ANI): Lok Sabha MP Su Venkatesan on Saturday wrote a letter to the Chairman of the State Bank of India and urged him to withdraw its order which stated that women are "temporarily ineligible" for employment if they have a 3-month gestation period, on
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Chandigarh Welfare Trust, an NGO for well-being, holistic development of C
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], January 18 (ANI/PRNewswire): With the mission of creating a future full of opportunities, tolerance and social justice, with community well-being at its core, a first-of-its-kind NGO dedicated to development and welfare of the Chandigarh city-- Chandigarh Welf
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Uniform Civil Code draft must be published soon to end all confusion, says
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 8 (ANI): A day after the Central government's reply in Delhi High Court over the Uniform Civil Code, one of the petitioners Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay said that the government should soon publish a UCC draft to end all the confusion as it is a matter of civil liberty,
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Madurai transgender trains bulls for Jallikattu
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], December 29 (ANI): Spreading a message of gender equality, a brave transgender from Madurai is training six bulls for the upcoming Jallikattu festival in Tamil Nadu.
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Introduction of new medal events in Paris 2024, 1st step towards gender eq
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 26 (ANI): Reigning para-badminton world champion Manasi Joshi feels the introduction of women's singles SL3, women's singles SH6 category in the Paris Paralympics is a first step towards establishing gender equality in the Games.
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Indian climate action entrepreneur wins United Nations Women's Award for L
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 20 (ANI/PRNewswire): Divya Hegde from Udupi, coastal Karnataka, has won the UN Women's Award for Leadership Commitment at the 2021 Regional Asia-Pacific Women's Empowerment Principles Awards ceremony on November 18th, 2021.
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