Last Updated: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 14:18
It’s been more than a fortnight since the devastating flash floods hit Uttarakhand killing hundreds and displacing thousands.
Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 23:55
UN Women acting head and Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi Puri on Friday called on the international community to end discrimination against widows so they can live in dignity and fully participate in society.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013, 18:43
Hindu seers and Sanskrit scholars are set to gather in Varanasi on Monday to oppose the treatment meted out to widows and seek ways in which the plight of such women can be improved.
Last Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013, 16:27
Social organisation Sulabh International on Sunday launched a campaign demanding a bill for protection, welfare and maintenance of widows in the country.
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 16:41
The step to let widows take part in the Holi festivities this year has certainly given a new lease of life to them.
Last Updated: Monday, March 25, 2013, 17:48
The breaking of traditions by widows in Vrindavan who participated in four-day Holi celebrations with gulal and flowers has drawn criticism from a section of religious leaders here.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 19:17
Breaking the shackles of tradition, hundreds of widows would play Holi, the festival of colours, in the land of Lord Krishna this year.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 23:24
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will visit Vrindaban to see the welfare schemes run by Sulabh International for betterment of widows here, organisation`s founder Dr Bindeswar Pathak said on Wednesday.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 17:11
Sulabh International provided five ambulances to Vrindavan-based widow homes that house 250 widows.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 16:50
Sulabh has already promised to ensure adequate medical care of the widows, would hand over five equipped ambulances exclusively for them.
Last Updated: Monday, September 3, 2012, 21:22
The Supreme Court expressed unhappiness over the Uttar Pradesh government`s "failure" to fully constitute the state women`s commission to look into the pitiable condition of widows in Vrindavan.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 16:43
Sulabh International is an NGO promoting low-cost sanitation and hygiene.
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