Kerala's state poverty eradication mission has a phenomenal organisation of women even by global perspective

NEW DELHI: A higher allocation for schemes benefiting women and children has been made in the interim budget. Besides, several new schemes have also been announced.

Widows in the age group of 18 to 40 will be given priority in admissions to Industrial Training Institutes (ITI). They will also be paid a monthly stipend of Rs. 500.

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Monday decided to provide a 50 per cent concession in bus fares to women above the age of 60 years in ordinary buses of Haryana Roadways, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced after chairing a meeting of his Cabinet.

Deputy Commissioner M K Baladevakrishna has urged all the officials to strive hard for the success of the 'Amritha' project which aims at distributing cattle to poor, widow, Devadasi and women in distress to provide them a source of income to sustain a living.

Chief Minister Pawank Chamling, who has led the march towards prosperity since he took over on December 12, 1994, says the beautiful state of Sikkim will soon be a developed state on the basis of its natural and human resources.

One night, in a country torn by a long and harrowing armed conflict, Liberian social worker Leymah Gbowee dreamt she gathered women together to pray for peace. Her dream was realized in 2003 at St Peters Lutheran Church in the country