Walmart Foundation announces USD 1.2 mn grant to Transform Rural India
New Delhi: Walmart Foundation on Thursday announced a grant of USD 1.2 million (nearly Rs 10 crore) to the Transform Rural India Foundation to aid improving livelihoods of 15,000 women rural farmers in Uttar Pradesh by increasing their average base income.
Climate change hits women’s health harder. Activists want leaders to address it at COP28
NEW DELHI (AP) — Manju Devi suffered in pain for two months last year as she worked on a farm near Delhi, unable to break away from duties that sometimes had her standing for hours in the waist-deep water of a rice paddy, lifting heavy loads in intense heat and spraying pesticides and insecticides. When […]
Women’s reservation bill passage kindles hope but uncertainty in implementation raises concern
New Delhi: The passage of the women’s reservation bill has ignited hope among stakeholders about attaining gender equality in India’s political landscape, especially at the policy-making level, even as some raised concerns over its effectiveness given the uncertainty in the deadline for its implementation. The bill to reserve one-third of the seats in the Lok […]