Dilip Ghosh on Friday threatened to "choke" a woman protester confronting the former West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief over inauguration of a newly-constructed road in Kharagpur.

The West Bengal Assembly on Wednesday (March 19, 2025) passed a Bill to allow women to work in bars. The West Bengal Finance Bill, 2025, was tabled by MoS Chandrima Bhattacharya in the Assembly.

The West Bengal State Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday permitting women to work in bars. Minister of State Chandrima Bhattacharya tabled the West Bengal Finance Bill, 2025 in the assembly.

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Wednesday’s Bill said the Bengal Excise Act, 1909 was being amended “to remove the prohibition on employment of women in ON category liquor shops as such provision is discriminatory.” ...

which includes key amendments to the Bengal Excise Act, 1909, most notably lifting the prohibition on women working in bars, a provision previously deemed discriminatory. The bill, tabled by ...

Housework is unbelievably boring. Time can always be better spent reading a book, staring out of the window, lying on the floor... Literally anything. But, does it count as work? Should it be paid for ...

A new book by historian Emily Callaci called Wages for Housework, tells the story of the group of feminists who created and drove this eponymous movement. The women who started the Wages for ...

which includes key amendments to the Bengal Excise Act, 1909, most notably lifting the prohibition on women working in bars, a provision previously deemed discriminatory. The bill, tabled by ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Women are carrying more of the housework burden than their male partners – especially when they have children – while men are ...

The HILDA project, which has been interviewing the same 17,000 people every year since 2001, also found men were generally more satisfied than women with the current division of unpaid housework.