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MP: College girls set up agro-waste startup in Ujjain
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
A group of girls have set up an agro-waste startup unit at a private college in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district where the agricultural wastes are utilised to prepare new products.
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Karnataka government plans to start short-term courses for girls on self-d
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said that the state government is mulling starting a short-term course in self-defence for girls along with yoga from the next academic year.
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JSP Foundation supports 5100+ girls and women for higher education and ski
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI/JSP Foundation): Expanding its ambit to provide financial assistance to more women and girls from weaker sections of society, JSP Foundation, the CSR wing of Jindal Steel & Power (JSP) today launched the second edition of the Yashasvi programme. Chairp
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Former Afghanistan women's basketball team captain calls Taliban universit
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Nilofar, who fled from Afghanistan after the Taliban came into power, said, "Unfortunately, Taliban said that women are not allowed to go to universities any and we saw that girls couldn't enter the Universities. It is almost one and a half years that scho
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"Targeted discrimination" UN slams Taliban's decision to suspend women fro
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
In a statement, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the UN and its humanitarian partners also urge the de facto authorities to reopen girls' schools beyond the sixth grade and end all measures preventing women and girls from participating fully in daily public life,
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Taliban university ban for women 'grave step backwards': UK PM Sunak
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday criticized the Taliban's decision to ban University education for girls, saying "denying them access to university is a grave step backwards."
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Taliban decision banning women from pursuing University education is an in
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Women's activists here said that the Taliban's decision banning women from pursuing university education is an injustice to them.
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EU condemns Taliban's decision to ban Afghan women from universities
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Higher Education of Afghanistan, which is ruled by the Taliban, prohibited girls from attending universities and other higher education institutions.
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A more pluralistic polity only way forward for Afghanistan: UN Special Rep
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is focusing on maintaining a dialogue with the Taliban in hope of a better future for Afghanistan, where everyone, women, men, girls, and boys, can live a life with dignity and equality, Otunbayeva said.
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US condemns Taliban's decision to ban women from universities, calls it "u
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price called education an "internationally recognized human right" and warned that the Taliban's "unacceptable stance" will have consequences for them.
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Taliban announces indefinite ban on university education for Afghan girls
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021 and imposed policies severely restricting basic rights--particularly those of women and girls, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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Kashmiri girls take up mushroom cultivation under NRLM scheme in J-K's Kul
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The budding entrepreneurs, registered with the UMEED scheme under NRLM, have got subsidy-based units of mushroom cultivation from the agriculture department of Kulgam.
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