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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicMaternity Benefit Programme

Topic: Maternity Benefit Programme

Atypical family units equally deserving of protection of law, benefits — Full text of SC order

A SC bench ruled in favour of a nursing officer who was denied maternity leave for her biological child as she had taken time off to care for her husband’s two kids from a prior marriage.

About 649 million women have inadequate maternity protection. ILO has a message

Self-employed, migrants and informal workers – as well as adoptive and LGBTQI+ parents – are among those who miss out on maternity benefits.

Gender Budget Statement 2018: Small step for fund allocation, giant leap for lip service

While ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ will get more money than last year, the budget for all other major schemes including Ujjwala has been reduced.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.