It calls on the leaders of the G7 and other countries to commit themselves, and to adopt and implement progressive legislative frameworks for gender equality.

Malavath Poorna the extraordinary mountaineer became the world’s first and youngest tribal woman to scale the four highest mountain peaks in the world. On Friday, she scaled Mt. Aconcagua, the highest mountain peak in the Southern and Western Hemisphere. Hailing from a poor tribal community, Her parents work as agricultural labourers in Nizamabad, Poorna has already […]

Women in Maharashtra’s Latur and Osmanabad districts have set a new example of empowerment. About 25 years ago, an earthquake had shattered the lives of people. Around 52 villages of the two districts suffered great damage. But the women of the region stood strong and took it as a challenge to restore their houses and in turn became […]

Saudi Arabia, considered one of the most repressive countries in the world for women, is picking up pace in resorting to progressive reforms. Winds of change are finally blowing in the Arabian Kingdom, too. As per reports by the BBC, for the first time, the country held a women’s cycling race on Tuesday, April 10. […]

Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) has set up Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) intermediate colleges at 26 locations in Andhra Pradesh. The aim is to minimise the number of class X dropouts, especially girls. The classes will begin from this academic year, right after the intermediate board approves these colleges.  G Srinivas, IAS, state project director at SSA, […]

The Mahakal Temple in Ujjain recently denied entry to a former national volleyball player over her attire. Arunima Sinha is also the first amputee to scale Mt Everest. Her tweet about the incident to the PMO and CMO sparked a discussion in the administrative machinery. The minister then apologised to Arunima. She now has an open invitation to visit the […]

Congratulations to G R Radhika, for scaling Mount Elbrus and becoming the first Indian woman to do so. Radhika Additional Superintendent of Police, Chittoor District scaled the highest mountain in Russia and in Europe and the tenth most prominent peak in the world, Mount Elbrus, on September 8. She has been receiving accolades from all over […]

Conquering Mounts is probably the last thing a 9-year-old would dream. But Dhanshree Mehta has achieved this feat and created history. She scaled Mt Elbrus, one of the Seven Summits on 17 June 2017, 1:30 (Russian time). And with this, she has now become the youngest mountaineer from India to reach the summit. India not only cheered on […]

Recently India Together (an electronic newsmagazine covering public affairs, policy, and development in India) published a story on Group of Women in a small village in Uttar Pradesh who taken up weaving ropes through discarded thread from looms and are helping their families to come out of poverty. Here are few key points about the […]

Known for summiting Mount Everest at the age of 48, Premlata Agarwal transpired impossible to a possible. At 50, she became the first Indian woman to conquer the top peaks of all the seven continents, popularly called the ‘Seven Summits’ after climbing Alaska’s McKinley Peak in May 2013. With this, she became the first Indian […]