The stunning Sambalpuri saree is woven on a hand-linger and is well-known throughout India. It also mirrors a unique style of art known as baandha. Baandha depicts flora and fauna of the geometrical area that comprises delineated pictures of blossoms and...
Geetanjali Shree's 'Ret Samadhi', translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as 'Tomb of Sand', becomes the first Indian novel to win the International Booker...
The world of Turning Red is unabashedly women’s. Its central characters — all women and girls — overthrow the prescribed script of norms that robs women...
Indian culture in general isn’t too encouraging towards women when it comes to speaking up or sharing their opinion. This is one of the prime reasons why Dr....
Dabung Girl's comic books address difficult themes such as child protection as well as essential topics of encouraging girls to participate in sports and...
Afghanistan: Dozens of women who arrived at Kabul's international airport Friday to board domestic and international flights were told by Taliban they couldn't...
A sexual assault, visceral and violent, makes the victim determined to suffer it silently, in a society that prides itself on being ‘civilised’.
A press release issued by the Crime Branch said two of the rescued women, including the TV actress, are from Virar near Mumbai, while the third one hails from...
Cervical cancer involves the abnormal growth of cervical cells. The cervix is the lower end of the uterus at the top of the vagina.
To bring parity between girls and boys, the government is thinking of raising the age for women to marry to 21 years from 18 now, says PM Modi.
Education is a foundation stone for the empowerment of women and is the dominant tool to change women’s position in the world. Women education in India has...
A tribute to all the trailblazers spearheading various domains of the professional world on the occasion of International Women's Day.
Here are 8 women entrepreneurs from different walks of life who believed in themselves and took the plunge even when everyone around them thought they could...
Go on a tea tour in this little known tea estate located in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal
Are you a solo female traveller? Do you enjoy women-only group tours? Here is a list of women-run travel agencies who are ready to curate your trip and take...
A ScripBox study on investing trends among women finds that one in five women started investing during the pandemic, and planning for retirement and emergency...
A Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) complaint had been filed against filmmaker and actor Mahesh Manjrekar for portraying children in an...
Till now, Anganwadi workers were paid Rs 9,678 as honorarium and Rs 200 as communication allowance for maintaining mobile phones.
The ‘Haq’ campaign by the Fearless Collective founded by artist Shilo Shiv Suleman is extending solidarity to all Muslim women fighting for their right to...
Can public art in India, depicting admirable women from history and mythology, shed the male gaze?
Women have emerged as a major constituency in Uttar Pradesh and all parties are wooing them with gusto
Why does patriarchy, as upheld by men and women, insist that 'our' women must ultimately find their fulfilment through marriage and motherhood?
NCW (National Commission for Women) also asked Uttar Pradesh police to probe the veracity of a purported video, which shows hairstylist Jawed Habib spitting on...
According to the members' list of the parliamentary standing committee, led by senior BJP leader Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, available on the Rajya Sabha website, TMC...
Uttar Pradesh: The women in large numbers had turned up for the marathon in Jhansi and Lucknow on Sunday, under Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s...