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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicIndian women

Topic: Indian women

Women with more socially aware female friends bring up daughters better: World Bank study

Fatima Khan -
Study concludes that women with socially aware friends feed their daughters a more protein-rich diet and give them fewer household chores.

On National Safe Motherhood Day, a look at 5 major pregnancy risks for Indian women

Rahiba R. Parveen -
ThePrint speaks to gynaecologists to look at major risks involved in pregnancy in India and how they can be prevented.

Bears having sex with women: Folklore or fact, it catches the fancy of rural India’s imagination

Radhika Govindrajan -
Anthropologist Radhika Govindrajan explores why tales of bears having sex with women tell us more than just about feminine expressions of desire, in her book 'Animal Intimacies'.

Why Haj 2019 will see twice as many Indian women travel without male guardians

Ifrah Mufti -
After Govt of India changed rules on Saudi lines, over 1,300 women travelled for Haj without a mehram in 2018. This number is set to double next year.

Despite wage increase, number of working women in India fell between 1983 & 2011, says study

Priyamvada Grover -
Since women are perceived  as secondary earners, their willingness to work is negatively affected by the rise in their husbands’ wages, the study says.

The survival rate of a baby girl in India falls when gold prices go up

Sonia Bhalotra -
Dowries impose a considerable tax on girls’ families. In South Asia it is estimated to be six times the average annual household income. 

Muslims’ enrolment in higher education rises by 37%, gender parity also improves

Nikhil Rampal -
Since 2013-14, there has been a steady increase in the number of Muslims in higher education, proportionate to the overall figure.

More younger, educated Indian women are giving birth at unsafe intervals

Vipul Vivek -
In India, spacing between births for women aged 15-29 years worsened from 25 months to 22.5 months over 10 years.

Being a woman is expensive, uncomfortable business. Indra Nooyi can’t fix it with Dorito chips

Harnidh Kaur -
Women have been taught to eat slowly, softly, in smaller bites - a construct of femininity designed to aid the creation of a fragile, waifish woman.
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Opinion

Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Syed Irfan Raza -
Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

SRK is more Johnny Depp than Depp

In India, pushing through a policy is easier than changing a culture. Period

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Economy

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Aneesa PA -
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

Defence

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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