Women are worst hit by India’s unemployment crisis

Female workers are facing the brunt of India’s unemployment crisis. The number of women in paid work has dropped dramatically in recent years and they remain far more vulnerable to job insecurity than men. Female workers are bearing the brunt of India’s unemployment crisis. The labour force participation rate (LFPR) among women in the country, already one of the world’s lowest, …

Drone used in Sircilla for seed ball dispersal

If there is an award for the effort towards afforestation on Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao’s 66th birthday on Monday, Marut Drones will emerge as a strong contender for the same. The start-up company in drone technology applications, together with the Forest department, has attempted dispersal of 15,000 seed balls in the forests near Veernapally village of Rajanna Sircilla district in …

Menstruation does NOT make women impure … period!

Once again Menstruation – a physiological aspect of womanhood is making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. More than 60 college girls in a college in Gujarat were asked to leave their classes, queue up and remove their underpants to prove that they were not menstruating. This was done to establish charges levelled against the girls that they had …