Topic: women in combat
Women in armed forces in focus, Army, Navy & IAF chiefs to review NDA infra for female cadets
Visit of service chief will come at a time SC orders allowing women to sit for NDA's entrance exam. As of February this year, 9,118 women officers were serving in Army, Navy & Air Force.
Will be eyes & ears of fleet, say Navy’s first woman air combatants to operate from warship
In an interview to ThePrint, Sub Lieutenants Riti Singh & Kumudini Tyagi said they are lucky to be making history as first woman air combatants to stay on warship and operate from its deck.
In a first, 2 woman Navy aviators will operate from warship, IAF trains woman pilot for Rafale
Indian Navy's Sub Lts Riti Singh & K. Tyagi will be deployed as helicopter ‘observers’ after training. The IAF, meanwhile, is training MiG-21 Bison pilot for Rafale.
‘Women sail with same efficiency’ — SC says yes to permanent commission for women in Navy
Supreme Court upholds 2015 verdict of Delhi High Court that said there was no convincing reason to exclude serving women officers from consideration for permanent commission.
Sex stereotypes no basis for denying equal opportunity to women in Army: What Supreme Court said
The Supreme Court granted women Army officers permanent commission and pulled up the government for discriminating based on gender. Read the full judgment here.
Women could be given command posts in Army if govt changes its mindset, says SC
Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said that two things were required to get rid of any form of gender discrimination in Army — administrative will and change in mindset.
Why do banks ban crypto trade? They lack KYC-AML checks, so it’s better to not deal at all
Banks, RazorPay, CCAvenue are doing indirectly what the RBI was prohibited from doing directly—ban crypto trade.
Bezos, Branson & Musk — Are billionaires popularising space travel or just on an ego trip?
Jeff Bezos will travel to the edge of space in his New Shepard aircraft — more than a week after billionaire Richard Branson defeated him in a fast developing space race.