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Andhra gas leak: High level probe ordered as 121 women workers hospitalise
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Anakapalle (Andhra Pradesh) [India], August 3 (ANI): The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday ordered a high-level probe into the gas leak in a garment factory that left over a hundred hospitalised in the Anakapalle district.
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Experts recommend paternity leaves extension to reduce mothers' burden of
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): Extending paternity leaves to reduce the burden of raising children on mothers, incentivising employers and sensitisation of the corporate sector to employing more women workers were among the recommendations made by experts at the Final Law Review Consultat
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Andhra Pradesh: 178 women workers fall ill after gas leak at Vishakhapatna
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 3 (ANI): As many as 178 women workers on Friday fell ill following a gas leak at the laboratory in Atchutapuram of Andhra Pradesh's Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Industrial Minister Gudivada Amarnath informed.
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Women workers in UP won't work after 7 pm: Govt
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 29 (ANI): In order to provide a safe environment for women at the workplace, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday, in an order, stated that no female worker can be bound to do the night shift in factories across the state.
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Police file FIR against three after NCP women workers assaulted in Pune
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], May 17 (ANI): Pune Police on Tuesday filed FIR against three persons after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) women workers were allegedly assaulted by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers at a book launch event.
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UP Assembly election: 'Pravasi' women workers from different states pitchi
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 17 (ANI): As the first two phases of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election witnessed an increased percentage of women voters turning up to exercise their rights on the polling day, political parties are making all efforts to reach out to them and co
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2022 Assembly polls: Congress will fight for the rights of farmers, common
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 8 (ANI): Soon after the announcement of the schedule for the Assembly elections in five states, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday said that the Congress party will fight for the rights of youth, farmers, women, workers, traders and com
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Priyanka Gandhi's plans for women in UP: Girls' brigade, townhalls, 5 cr w
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 2 (ANI): Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, women top the agenda for Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi.
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Study: Direct deposit leads to 'digital empowerment' for women workers in
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 4 (ANI): A study led by economists at Yale University, giving greater digital control over their wages to women in India's Madhya Pradesh led them to enter the labour force and also liberalised their beliefs about working women.
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Direct deposit is 'digital empowerment' for women workers in India
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Connecticut [US], July 2 (ANI): During a new study, co-authored by Yale economists Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore, giving greater digital control over their wages to women in India's Madhya Pradesh led them to enter the labour force and also liberalised their beliefs about working wom
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Put gender equality at the heart of post-Covid-19 economic recovery: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Aug 22 (ANI): The coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately affecting women workers and governments should prioritise policies that offset the effects the crisis is having on their jobs, International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.
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One dead, 2 injured as boiler explodes in Lucknow chemical factory
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 20 (ANI): A labourer was killed and two women workers were injured after a boiler exploded at a chemical factory in Chinhat area on Friday, a police official said.
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