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TopicNari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam

Topic: Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam

‘Vandan, daya ki patra, Shakti, Devi?’ Rajya Sabha MPs spar over women’s quota Bill name

The Women’s Reservation Bill was termed as ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Vidheyik’ by the Prime Minister at the start of the special session of Parliament Monday.

Nari Shakti: Lok Sabha passes women’s reservation Bill; 454 in favour, 2 against

The Centre tabled the long-awaited Bill in the Lok Sabha Tuesday, but has faced criticism for linking the Census and delimitation with it.

Issue that derailed women’s quota Bill in ’96 still stands—Indian feminism lacks diversity

Whether we liked Sharad Yadav’s ‘parkati mahila’ remark or not, it was an important moment of reckoning for the women’s movement in India.

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.