There are grants and govt schemes galore but keeping girls out of child marriage is still an unfinished fight in Rajasthan. ‘You cannot just give information about a scheme.’
State’s merger order for govt schools aims to foster equality & respect, improve gender balance and resource use, but experts fear girls dropping out. Commissioner to oversee implementation.
A wave of ambition has swept across the girls of Danapur after Khushboo expressed her desire, refusing to be yet another girl with educational certificates in the marriage market.
Over the past month, Islami Andolan Bangladesh workers have disrupted three inter-district girls’ football games, calling them ‘anti-Islamic’. But disruptions highlight larger issue.
Women born in 1960s with 5 years of schooling almost 100% literate, while figure was around 40% for 90s-born women, says working paper by US-based Center for Global Development.
Minister of state for education, Annapurna Devi, told parliament that dropout rate among girls has gone down, the sharpest of which has been at secondary level — a decline of nearly 5%.
Islamic Emirate spokesperson, health minister, deputy foreign minister among two dozen Taliban leaders sending daughters to schools in Pakistan and Qatar.
We are turning back decades of progress toward gender equality & putting girls at risk for adolescent pregnancy, early and forced marriage and violence.
Early ideas about development were rooted in the idea that economic growth, measured by GDP, would lift countries out of poverty. But this model was gender blind.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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