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Monday, November 10, 2025
TopicWomen empowerment

Topic: women empowerment

Haryana notifies Lado Lakshmi scheme, but criteria for Rs 2,100 aid far cry from BJP’s Sankalp Patra

Haryana notifies Lado Lakshmi scheme, but criteria for Rs 2,100 aid far cry from BJP's Sankalp Patra

Global gender gap narrows to 68.8% but full parity 123 yrs away, finds World Economic Forum report

WEF's Global Gender Gap Report 2025 shows Iceland remains global leader in gender equality for 16th consecutive yr at 92.6%. India among lowest-ranked countries in South Asia.

ADB highlights need for measuring women’s empowerment in agriculture sector

Prioritizing measurement can inform projects for gender equality and resource access in agriculture, the bank noted.

Adventure tourism is not accessible for women—sexual harassment, safety risks

A 2024 survey revealed that 29 per cent women are concerned about route security, another 29 per cent about physical comfort, and 19 per cent are anxious about sexual harassment.

After study flags gaps, Centre plans training to help women sarpanches escape ‘pati’s’ shadow

Study commissioned by ministry points at serious capacity gaps along with lack of infra & caste dynamics among others, posing hurdles for elected women representatives.

President Murmu visits Udgir, addresses beneficiaries of ‘Shasan Aplya Dari’ and ‘Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojna’

President highlights importance of women's empowerment and financial literacy.

Imprint of Kolkata rape-murder in I-Day speech, Modi pivots from Nari Shakti to putting ‘fear’ in rapists

Change in tone and tenor comes in backdrop of heinous crime at a Kolkata hospital. But, political commentators say that it's an instant crowd pleaser for a public baying for blood.

Nimrat Kaur to Ruma Devi—how women battled prejudice, power games and stormed the norms

Each of the stories in Anisha Motwani and Priyadarshini Narendra’s ‘She Storms The Norms’ shows the systemic, structural, and societal struggles faced by women.

How infant deaths in Attapadi led to ‘Karthumbi Umbrellas’, which won Modi’s praise in Mann ki Baat

An NGO launched the venture to employ women in making umbrellas after realising their financial security is key to handling the crisis. Now, it seeks support and more such initiatives.

3-cr Lakhpati Didis goal & rural houses ‘priority’, Shivraj takes stock as rural development minister

Former MP CM has already held slew of meetings since taking charge, says rural development, agriculture and farmer welfare ministries to immediately start work on 100-day plan.

On Camera

The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.