Tag: Women

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday released the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll manifesto, which has a special focus on the poor, youngsters, farmers and women. The prime minister handed over copies of the manifesto to the representatives of the four broad groups — Gareeb, Yuva, Annadata and ...

For all their stirring speeches while passing the women’s reservation bill in Parliament in September last year—454 for, two against—political parties across the board have gone back to their usual stinginess in fielding women candidates. As voters, women aren’t a homogeneous block.(HT FILE PHOTO) Nobody knows when the women’s ...

In the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19, eight per cent of the candidates will be women. This phase encompasses 102 seats, with a total of 1,625 candidates vying for victory. Among them, 1,491 are male candidates and 134 are female candidates, constituting 8% of the ...

Facebook has deleted a women-only group in Pakistan with more 300,000 members who used it to freely discuss taboo topics, its founder told AFP on Friday.Soul Sisters Pakistan, created in 2013, acted as a support group for women who shared information about sex, divorce, and domestic violence – issues ...

Facing an uphill battle in the Lok Sabha elections and struggling to win back voter confidence, the Congress Friday came out with its manifesto, announcing a raft of promises to woo the marginalised, such as lifting the 50% cap on quota for SCs, STs and OBCs in addition to ...

KOLKATA/COOCH BEHAR: PM Narendra Modi assured Thursday that the "culprits of Sandeshkhali will spend their entire lives in jail", while accusing Trinamool govt in Bengal of failing Sandeshkhali's women, who have accused local TMC leaders of sexual harassment.During a Lok Sabha campaign rally in Cooch Behar, Modi also accused ...

Ashok SharmaDuggar is the land of warriors, statesmen, intellectuals and social workers. Alongwith Dogra men, Dogra women – from low/ middle strata families and Royal families have also proved their mettle in every sphere and rose to the occasion as and when the times demanded. Many Dogra women have ...

The Indian women’s cricket team has been drawn in Group A for the upcoming 2024 Women’s T20 Asia Cup alongside arch rivals Pakistan.The eight-team Asia Cup will be played in Dambulla, Sri Lanka from July 19 to July 28 later in the year.The other two teams in Group A ...

Islamabad —  The leader of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban government has said it is determined to enforce the Islamic criminal justice system, including the public stoning of women for adultery."Our mission is to enforce sharia and Allah's Hudud ," said Hibatullah Akhundzada in an audio clip Taliban officials said was ...

Washington —  When Suriya Bibi was running for a seat earlier this year on the Khyber Pakhtunkwa provincial assembly, she faced numerous challenges beyond being a woman and hailing from a minority sect in Pakistan's remote district of Chitral. Another obstacle appeared when the Election Commission randomly assigned a ...