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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
TopicReservation for women

Topic: Reservation for women

2 men fought 100% quota for women in military nursing for years. Karnataka HC has now struck it down

Court says circumstances when ordinance was passed in 1943 warranted such a law but no such need exists. Ruling comes on back of petitions by two Hubli-based male nursing teachers.

Demand for equal pay, 50% quota in Parliament at Haryana’s first mahila mahapanchayat

Women at the mahapanchayat raised slogans against Modi govt, demanding a roll back of farm laws. They say the farmers’ protest helped women in Haryana to come out of their homes.

At 21, Parveen Kaur became Haryana’s youngest sarpanch, set up CCTV cameras & kids’ library

Earlier this month, Haryana CM tweeted in praise of Parveen Kaur, state’s youngest woman sarpanch, saying daughters of Haryana have incredible strength & determination to achieve their goals.

Will IITs’ move to add more seats for women help bridge gender gap in male-dominated engineering branches?

The IITs this year have added 779 more seats for women. A large chunk of these seats are in mechanical and civil engineering, branches traditionally considered male-dominated. Experts weigh in.

On Camera

After being toppled by Gen Z, Nepal’s old guard is now chasing the youth vote

Free internet, $10,000 cards, diaspora voting rights — Nepal’s parties are pitching big ideas ahead of polls. Will this election truly break the cycle?

FY23 chosen as new base for India’s GDP as it was 1st ‘normal economic year’ in a while—MoSPI secy

FY 2022-23 was the first normal economic year in recent years, said Saurabh Garg, Secretary of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, in an interview with ThePrint.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.