Besides Bilkis Bano, Congress MLC nominees include NS Boseraju, K Govindaraj, Vasant Kumar, Ivan D'Souza and Jagdev Guttedar. BJP has nominated CT Ravi, N. Ravi Kumar and MG Mule.
BJP & Congress have fallen short of the 33% target envisioned in women’s reservation law, with varying performance across states. Neither party nominated a single woman candidate in Bihar.
While BJP has patted itself on the back over women’s reservation bill, data shows its posts of power are mostly held by men. Leaders, however, insist ‘BJP has always stood for women’.
The recommendations for China by the UN were made alongside findings on Germany, Iceland, Sao Tome and Principe, Slovakia, Spain, Timor-Leste and Venezuela.
On Monday, the Congress unveiled ‘Na Nayaki’, a scheme meant to empower women. But women leaders say that the party has consistently sidelined women in favour of male leaders.
Researchers from Boston and Columbia universities studied Meghalaya's matrilineal tribes to find that women are more politically active than men when wealth passes from mother to daughter.
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
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