A 23-year-old who was in a relationship with a married woman, 28, in West Bengal died by suicide on Thursday after her family caught him in the house and locked him up in a room, prompting his ...

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.” ...

The impact has been described as most severe for women in rural areas and low-income communities, including Sunderbans in West Bengal, where the effects of climate change are often amplified by ...

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 ...

If one is asked to name some legendary women in Indian cinema, heroines from the silent film and black and white eras to the present day are probably what they would think of. While women have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.