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70 killed in blast targeting evacuees from Aleppo
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Apr. 15 (ANI): At least 70 people, including women and children have been killed in a blast that occurred near a bus convoy evacuating residents from Shiite towns of Fua and Kefraya to Aleppo.
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Guna child marriage: Women activists call on Maneka Gandhi to safeguard ch
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr. 15 (ANI): Strongly condemning the incident where a Panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Guna passed a diktat of marrying a five-year-old girl off to an eight-year-old boy, social activist Brinda Adige on Saturday called on the Union Cabinet Minister for Wom
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Filmmaker flays Maneka's statement, says films teach what is right an
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], Apr. 8 (ANI): Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit on Saturday condemned Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi's statement that films have been promoting sexual violence against women.
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Women activists support Maneka Gandhi's remark on Bollywood films
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi/Mumbai [India] Apr. 8 (ANI): Agreeing with Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi's remark on films posing as a threat to women, women activists on Saturday said that Indian cinema needs to be sensitive towards this issue as the young crowd picks things e
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Maneka Gandhi blames movies for rising violence against women
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Apr. 8 (ANI): Blaming movies for the rising crime against women in the country, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has urged the film fraternity to portray women in a better light.
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Indian Army rescues civilians struck in Chang La pass
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Srinagar [India], Mar. 28 (ANI): The Indian Army troops has confirmed rescuing seventy-one tourists, including twenty-one women and children trapped at the Chang La Pass following an avalanche.
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WCD Ministry issues advisory against schemes floated in name of BBBP schem
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 21 (ANI): The Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has issued an advisory for Delhi residents that no personal details should be shared in the name of forms providing cash incentives under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme.
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Home shelters in Delhi: HC issues notice to AAP Govt.
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar.21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government over building of separate home shelters for women and children and asked it to reply on the same within four weeks.
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Govt. issues clarification regarding Aadhaar card requirements under ICDS
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 9 (ANI): There have been reports in the media regarding cash transfers under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme and making Aadhaar mandatory for benefits under the Women and Child Development Ministry's programme.
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Setting up of 'Women's Entrepreneurship Council' to be pose
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 4 (ANI): The Ministry of Women and Child Development has proposed the setting up of a Women's Entrepreneurship Council for taking up with the government the problems faced by businesswomen.
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Maharashtra civic polls: Pankaja Munde offers resignation
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Beed (Maharashtra) [India], Feb. 23 (ANI): Taking responsibility of the poor performance of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in her constituency, Parli, Maharashtra's Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde on Thursday offered to resign from her post.
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Maneka Gandhi promises to end commercialisation of Caesarean deliveries
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi[India], Feb.22 (ANI): A Mumbai-based woman's online petition has prompted women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi to take strict measures against "abnormally high rate" of C-section deliveries in India.
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