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Govt to soon launch scheme to train adolescent girls for non-traditional jobs
A non-traditional career is generally defined as a certain role that has less than 25 per cent of a…
PTI
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Number of children in non-institutional care increased fourfold between 2021-22 and 2023-24: Govt
In the financial year 2021-22, 29,331 children were covered by non-institutional care. This number …
PTI
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Healthy timing, spacing between pregnancies crucial for women's health: MoS Patel
Adequately spaced pregnancies can significantly improve maternal and child health outcomes, Union M…
PTI
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‘Makeover’ plans for Humayun’s Tomb may include a fine-dine, café and elevators. Here’s why historians are horrified.
The Ministry of Culture has approved plans for a private company to renovate Humayun’s Tomb in Delh…
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Budget 2024: Can Lakhpati Didi Yojana’s reality inspire better focus on women?
A Lakhpati Didi is a rural woman whose annual household income exceeds Rs. 1 lakh.
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SC asks Centre to frame model policy on menstrual leave for women
How will the leave encourage more women to be part of the workforce, the court asked the petiti…
PTI
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Wealth of India's ten richest enough to fund school, higher education of every child for 25 years, reveals Oxfam study
The COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge rush for oxygen cylinders and insurance claims during the sec…
PTI
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Ministry of Women and Child Development and Akshara Centre launch a new ad that urges the audience to report child marriages at 1098
#JustAChild – an ad that wants you to report child marriages
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Women and Child Development Ministry's budget hiked by 16 per cent
The budget of the ministry's autonomous bodies - National Institute of Public Cooperation and Chil…
PTI
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Here's how Israeli soldiers were trained to greet the child hostages released by Hamas on Friday
Hamas freed at least 4 child hostages Friday, including a two-year-old. Here's how Israeli soldiers…
William Edwards,Joshua Zitser
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The world's most powerful men want women to have more babies
In the past two months, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping have all asked women to go fort…
Cheryl Teh
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Women in China aren't having kids. We asked 3 of them to tell us why.
"Let's face it, having a child is kind of like owning an investment with no guaranteed return for a…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank.
China is one of the most unaffordable places in the world to raise a child, ranking higher than the…
Matthew Loh
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Patriarch of Jerusalem offers himself up in exchange for child hostages held by Hamas: 'There is total willingness on my part'
Cardinal Pizzaballa offered to exchange himself for child hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. "Th…
Joshua Zitser
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Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with Ukraine
Russia's birthrates have been falling for decades, and the Ukraine war has made it worse.
Tom Porter
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India's health ministry releases fact sheet to guide vaccinators on counselling pregnant women about COVID-19 vaccination
"It is, therefore, advised that a pregnant woman should take COVID-19 vaccine," it said. S…
PTI
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Smriti Irani gets two portfolios – Women & Child Development and Textiles
The Narendra Modi government has duly rewarded its star performer Smriti Irani, by allocating her t…
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COVID-19 vaccines and women’s health: Dispelling myths on periods, pregnancy and breastfeeding
But like with everything unknown, there is a fair bit of hesitation in taking the shot, primari…
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Indian government is formulating a plan to help abandoned NRI wives get justice
It is a tale as old as time, or at least the past few decades anyway, Indian parents can’t help b…
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The Indian government is reportedly planning a 'gender equality' unit
The government is planning to set up the unit under Women and Child Development Ministry and its…