Bhubaneswar: Women driving scooty and the car is not an unusual sight anymore on the roads of Odisha state. The government of Odisha has taken an initiative to encourage women to drive commercial vehicles and to break the male dominance in this area. Arun Bothra, CMD, Odisha State Road Transport Corporation has said, a team…
Bhubaneswar: Many women The way of clothing is a personal affair. The kind of clothes people want to wear depends upon their taste along with the surroundings, or social norms, culture and traditions. People tend to wear clothes as per the climatic condition of their country and later with time, it becomes the tradition. In…
Bhubaneswar: Government of Odisha has set up special booths for women. These booths are called pink booths which are established in the headquarters of each block to fascinate and encourage the women voters to participate in the Odisha Panchayat Polls, as informed SEC secretary Rabindra Sahu. As per the Reports, the speciality of the pink…
Bhubaneswar: Marriage is considered a pious institution in India. Now the central government has presented a bill in the Parliament – regarding the increase of age at marriage for girls from 18 to 21. The age at marriage for the boys was already 21 before, so it is kept unchanged. After the independence, the age…
Bhubaneshwar: Shell Foundation, a UK based charity and the UK Government in association with Moving Women Social Initiatives Foundation (MOWO) have launched ‘Moving Boundaries’, a campaign to encourage women to pick up driving skills and remove roadblocks within the ecosystem to increase their job prospects in transportation businesses including as taxi and e-rickshaw drivers or…
Bhubaneswar: In developing countries, 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force is women, while the investment in the sector is only about 7 per cent. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, if more funds are invested in women farmers the production in agriculture would be around 30 per cent and…
Dowry is a deep rooted dogma projecting the reflection of a complex society. It has been bolstered since ages by the name of tradition, culture, religion and mythology. Dowry, a social virus which has been systematically structured and consequently poisoned the lives and status of women in society disorder with the course of time ….
