Daughters are no liability, the Supreme Court has said while dealing with a matter relating to the payment of maintenance to a woman by her father. The observation from a…
Read: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/number-of-girls-adopted-in-india-outstrips-boys/articleshow/92928031.cms Of the 2991 domestic ‘in-country’ adoption made between April 2021 and March 2022 as many as 1698 were girls. It is also corroborated from the data of CARA…
Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued detailed guidelines for ‘Mission Shakti’ scheme. The Government of India has launched ‘Mission Shakti’ – an integrated women empowerment programme as umbrella…
As per the annual Gender Gap Report 2022 of the World Economic Forum (WEF) released in Geneva India was ranked low at 135th place in terms of gender parity, despite…
The latest UN population report was released on Monday (11/07/2022). · Global life expectancy, which stood at 72.8 in 2019, “slowed down…due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic” and…
Recent months saw a rise in prices of oil, natural gas, and fertilizers, due to global developments, Green hydrogen is an emerging option that will help reduce India’s vulnerability to…
The Union Cabinet has extended the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY) scheme for another six months i.e., till September 2022 (Phase VI). The Phase-V of PM-GKAY scheme was…
As per the findings of latest National Family Health Survey – 5 (NFHS-5), the country’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) slipped below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman for…
The Supreme Court(SC) quashed two judgments of the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court which ruled that it will not amount to an offense of sexual assault under Section 7…
In an endeavor to make women independent and employment-ready, the National Commission for Women(NCW) has launched a country-wide capacity building and personality development program for women Undergraduate and Post graduate…
