Mumbai: Mumtaz M Kazi, Asia’s first woman diesel engine driver, broke into a male bastion 25 years ago. She has been driving different types of trains since she was 20 years old and has been an inspirational figure for millions of women in the country. On International Women’s Day, sheContinue Reading
Olivia Jackson On International Women’s Day, one statistic you may not hear much is that 83% of global women identify with a religious faith. Pew Research asked people in 84 countries how often they pray; in half of them, substantially more women than men say they pray on a dailyContinue Reading
President Pranab Mukherjee today urged that women should be given support to develop to their full potential, and enjoy the safety, dignity and unfettered equality that is ”their sacred right”. Extending warm greetings to the fairer sex in India and in all parts of the world, he noted in aContinue Reading
Thane: They wear uniforms, carry satchels and eagerly recite the alphabet in class, but the students here are different — this is a “school for grannies” near Mumbai. Deprived of an education as children, the women — most of whom are widows and aged between 60 and 90 — areContinue Reading
By: Fr Cedric Prakash SJ March 8th dawns every year! As the world observes International Women’s Day (IWD), there will be the usual round of cosmetic programmes, with speaker after speaker using the politically correct words and with the typically patronising attitude towards women. The sad and cruel reality is thatContinue Reading
Sr Lucy Kurien founded Maher to help the destituteContinue Reading
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New Delhi: The rights of women to equal opportunities and a dignified life must be respected and the nation has a collective responsibility for creating the ecosystem to ensure their safety and dignity in society, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday. In a message on the eve of International Women’sContinue Reading