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Delhi rape case: DCW issues notice to Delhi police seeking detailed action
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): A day after a six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Ranjit Nagar, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal issued notice to Delhi police in this matter on Saturday.
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Odgers Berndtson organises roundtable dialogue of Women CHROs to discuss g
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI/NewsVoir): Odgers Berndtson, a leading international executive search firm, organised a round table dialogue of women Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) from prominent organisations to understand and discuss how gender diversity is adding value to their o
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Governments must also take concrete actions to level playing field for wom
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], March 9 (ANI): Noting that governments must take concrete actions to level the playing field for women, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund Gita Gopinath has said that in many regions of the world, a key obstacle to women's empowerment are outdated legal, reg
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National Commission for Women chief pays courtesy visit to Maharashtra Gov
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 20 (ANI): The Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Rekha Sharma paid a courtesy call to Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai on Tuesday.
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Urgent need to change laws to curb crimes against women: Uddhav Thackeray
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 28 (ANI): Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh visited Andhra Pradesh recently to get information about the 'Disha' Act, which provides for harsher punishments for crimes against women, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray told the state Assembly.
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Can't understand delay in hanging of Nirbhaya convicts: Swati Maliwal
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 18 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Tuesday said expressed dismay over the delay in the hanging of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case and said that she could not fathom the reasons for the delay.
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DCW chief issues summons to Police over assault on female students in JNU
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 6 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Monday issued summons to Police over alleged assault on female students inside Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus yesterday.
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Delhi loses two former women chief ministers in over a fortnight
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 7 (ANI): Delhi has had two women Chief Ministers and both of them passed away in about a fortnight of each other.
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Now, women allowed to work in underground mines
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): The Central Government on Monday decided to allow women to work in underground coal mines and also do night shifts in open cast or over ground mines, in a bid to bring about greater gender equality and generate more employment opportunities for women.
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Six years of 'Nirbhaya': DCW Chief urges PM Modi to ensure justice
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 16 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women Chief Swati Maliwal urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring perpetrators of the 2012 Delhi gang rape to justice, six years after the heinous incident took place.
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Arunachal woman files rape complaint before NCW
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb.15 (ANI): A woman from Arunachal Pradesh's West Siang District approached the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Thursday with a complaint that she had been gang-raped by three persons, allegedly including the name of incumbent state Chief Minister Pema Khandu, eig
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BJP has given four women CMs to India: Sushma tells Rahul Gandhi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], October 14 (ANI): Emerging strong against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's remark of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) being "anti-women", External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj has said that her party has given four women chief ministers to the country.
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