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Fearless, forthright and feisty, IPS officer Roopa D Moudgil is no stranger to fame. Her 24-year career in the Indian Police Force (IPS) was not only...
According to data from Nasscom, women make up 36% of India’s tech workforce. However, their share in the workforce drops drastically as they start...
In the Interim Budget for 2024, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman advocated for vaccination for girls in the age group 9-14 years to prevent...
TW: Mention of death by suicide online Dushyant Dubey is Bengaluru’s superhero--the city’s friendly neighbourhood good Samaritan and a...
Fourteen years ago, at the age of 45, after her son had enrolled in college, Uma Mani finally found “the guts, the nerve, and the audacity” to...
Around 34% of women exit firms over work-life balance, while only 4% men do so, says a survey report curated by The Udaiti Foundation in collaboration...
Delhi was the top most polluted city in January among 254 cities in India, an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air has...
Spacetech company Skyroot Aerospace has launched the Kalpana Fellowship designed specifically for women in the space sector. The fellowship aims to...
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma launched the CM-ELEVATE programme last year with a focus on empowering, engaging, and employing the youth of...
Meet Nisha, a 19-year-old girl from a lower-middle-class family in Delhi studying to be a teacher. She has dreams and ambitions to pursue but life is...
Growing up in a family with strong agricultural roots, Sai Gole witnessed first-hand the challenges and risks associated with farming in a region like...
On Friday morning, the world woke up to the news of the death of actor-influencer Poonam Pandey at 32, from cervical cancer, as announced by her team...
Last week, 18-year-old chess player and International Master Divya Deshmukh, in an Instagram post, called out the sexist behaviour of the crowd at the...
Ashwathy NG, Annliya Deepak, and Maria CJ of St Paul’s CEHSS, a school in Kuriachira in Kerala’s Thrissur District, have spent the past year...
Presenting the Interim Budget for 2024 in the Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted that the government was working towards...
Toinali Chophi's search for a solution to severe acne problems led to the launch of Beauty Barn—a beauty and skincare platform that offers a...
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with thousands of beneficiaries of the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra via video conferencing. Union...
According to Women in India’s Startup Ecosystem Report (WISER), women accounted for 35% of the startup workforce in 2022. With careful introspection...
According to a 2023 report by Singapore-based creator tech company Animeta, over 3,500 brands and 5,000 creator partners in India are engaged in...
Raghunathan Narayanan, the co-founder of the Bengaluru-based Catalyst Group, has been instrumental in transforming the lives of farmers across seven...
Urvashi Butalia’s introduction to feminism came during her early childhood years, and from her mother, who taught her daughters how to circumvent...
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s An Uncommon Love–The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy, begins with a quote from Greek philosopher, Heraclitus...
Author Anita Nair’s latest book in the Inspector Gowda series, Hot Stage, is a fast-paced crime thriller like the earlier two books in the series,...
In Odisha’s temple town of Puri, a 160-year-old government school stands tall as a model of transformation. The Puri Zila School is one of the...
The end of a year may be the best time to introspect, look back on the hits and misses, and generally understand the period gone by. It’s also the...
Six months ago, Srishti* was laid off from her global function role in a multi-national company after being put on a Performance Improvement Plan...
After corporate stints in America Online and Asti Electronics, and going the entrepreneurial route by joining her aunt in her landscaping business,...
Startups in India have the potential to create two million new jobs for women by 2030 and drive gender equity in the ecosystem, says a report by ACT...
On Sunday, India lost the ICC Cricket World Cup final to Australia. It was surely a disappointment for millions of Indians who had hoped that their...
Recently, a video of actor Rashmika Mandanna surfaced on different social media platforms, showing her entering an elevator in a black yoga body suit,...
On October 1, the Kudumbashree Mission, one of the largest women’s self-help network groups in the country, launched an ambitious two-month campaign...
In 2013, when Abhilasha Bahuguna was living in New Delhi, she heard her landlady bargaining furiously with some Kashmiri pashmina sellers. This...
For over 250 years, Ayirur—a picturesque village on the banks of the holy river Pamba in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district—has been the centre of...
When Hema Sharma enrolled for an engineering degree in electronics and communication in the early 1990s in a college in Delhi, she was one among eight...
As I walk into the first standard classroom at the Shradhanjali Integrated School (SIS) to meet Jennifer Nisha, the class teacher, a little boy,...
In 2000, 62-year-old Lakshmi* was living with her husband, far away from her four children. She and her husband followed a set routine, almost like...
As a young girl growing up in Haryana, Neeru Yadav was inclined to take up hockey as a sport. However, her family was insistent that she focus on her...