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New Delhi, Mar 8 (JEN): With a view to tap the huge potential of women entrepreneurs in India, apex industry body ASSOCHAM has suggested the Government to link the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) with entrepreneurship development thereby making it more purposeful. more
India celebrates International Women's Day

New Delhi, Mar 8 (JEN): Amid a steep rise in concern over crimes against women including the danger of sexual assault, physical abuse, rape, molestation, domestic violence and gender bias at ...

Gender inequality is fundamentally a patriarchal power game: Survey

Kolkata, Mar 7 (JEN): Almost 1900 women across the nation responded to questions to the online survey titled 'Is It an Unequal World?' and the findings clearly underlined that women felt the ...

UN kicks off International Women’s Day celebrations

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): Despite great strides in the advancement of gender parity, women still lag behind men across an array of critical areas, from political representation and wage equalit ...

Women’s workplace equality may take decades: UN

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): Women earn on average 77 per cent of what men earn, the United Nations labour organization said on Friday, noting that “without targeted action, pay equity between w ...

Women farmers pillar of food security: UN

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): Ahead of International Women’s Day, United Nations food relief agencies gathered to remind the world that women farmers play a central role in achieving food and nut ...

UN sets equality targets for 2030

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): The past 20 years has seen haltering progress on women’s rights issues and, in some areas, outright stagnation and regression, the head of the United Nations entity ...

Germany makes available Rs 70 Lakh for NGO project on Women's Day

New Delhi, Mar 5 (JEN): Ambassador Michael Steiner will be celebrating International Women's Day at his residence here on Sunday with over 200 guests, mainly women from all walks of life.

UN envoy talks about eradicating sexual violence in Colombia

New York, Mar 5 (JEN): In eradicating sexual violence related to Colombia’s internal armed conflict, the main challenge now is translating resolve into tangible solutions in communities wh ...

Rajanth asks BBC, MEA and I&B to not air Nirbhaya documentary

New Delhi, Mar 4 (JEN): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said that he asked the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Informati ...