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Daughter Of India wins Gold at 2022 Commonwealth Games

76 The Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has made the country proud yet again by winning India’s first Gold Medal at the ongoing 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom.  The 27-year-old lifted a total of 201kg in the 49kg weight class. The fact that the difference between her and silver medallist Marie Ranaivosoa of Mauritius was

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RULING NDA’S CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2022 – SMT.DROUPADI MURMU (FORMER GOVERNOR OF JHARKHAND)

18 A TRIBAL LEADER FROM ODISHA, SHE HAS BEEN NAMED AS THE RULING NDA’S CANDIDATE FOR THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN JULY 2022. THE DECISION WAS TAKEN AT THE  PARLIAMENTARY BOARD MEETING OF BHARTIYA JANTA PARTY HELD ON TUESDAY. ON BEING ELECTED, MURMU WOULD BECOME THE FIRST TRIBAL PRESIDENT, SECOND FEMALE PRESIDENT OF INDIA AND

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PROPERTY RIGHTS OF WOMEN

55 The progress of any society depends on its ability to protect and promote the rights and interests of its women. Property rights and other economic rights offered to women under different statutes in India are quite complex and the issue further gets perplexed after their marriage, since they become part of a new family.

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VISHAKA & ORS. V. STATE OF RAJASTHAN & ORS. ( AIR 1997 SC 3011)

373 VISHAKA V. STATE OF RAJASTHAN IS A LANDMARK JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED IN 1997 BY THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA. THIS CASE LED TO THE ENACTMENT OF CERTAIN GUIDELINES TO DEAL WITH CASES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACES. BHANWARI DEVI, A SOCIAL WORKER FROM RAJASTHAN, WAS BRUTALLY GANG-RAPED BY SIX GUJJAR MEN FOR STOPPING

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‘Back to Work’ Policy to be a significant step in empowering women

186 Women are super humans! They efficiently juggle between raising children, domestic duties, earning bread, and manage to do it all effortlessly. We witness women rising to top offices—take Leela Nair as CHRO of ULE and Geeta Gopinath as Chief Economist of the IMF examples—and also becoming the sarpanch in village panchayats.Although, the potential in

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ONGC GETS IT FIRST FEMALE CHAIRPERSON: ALKA MITTAL

277 Alka Mittal who has previously served as ONGC’s Director of Human Resources, has created history by becoming the first female interim chairman and managing director of ONGC. The position was previously filled by Subash Kumar, who recently retired on 31 December. Mittal is also the first woman to hold the post of a full-time

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