The first person to set foot on Mars is likely to be a woman, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. While Bridenstine did not identify a specific person, he said that women are at the forefront of the US space agency’s upcoming plans. Asked if a woman will go to the Moon for the first time, Bridenstine said “The answer is absolutely. In fact, it is likely to be a […]
Daughter: ‘A home without a daughter is like a body without soul.’ A mother experiences complete joy and pleasure when she delivers a daughter, and same goes for the father. I want to emphasize that the daughters are nurtured in a particular way and the mother loves and the father protects his daughter. However, the mindset and the belief that you give your daughter are going to take her forward […]
Expressing anguish over a BJP’s youth wing leader Yogesh Varshney’s comments offering a reward of Rs 11 lakh for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s head, Samajwadi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan on Wednesday said that the saffron party was keen on protecting cows but not women. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on the issue, the actress-turned politician said very aggressive steps have to be taken for protection of […]
I was very pleasantly surprised when at the beginning of this survey, nearly 50% of those who responded, wrote back on the need to increase awareness about women’s health issues. Surprise because I feel that is sure a step in the right direction. Nearly 11 years ago I remember, women’s health was an oft ignored issue and almost never spoken about. Women by the sheer nature of their positioning in […]
Paris: A crossbow in her hands and covered head-to-toe in a black Islamic headwear and robe that leaves only her eyes visible — that is the image now circulating of France`s most-wanted woman: Hayat Boumeddiene. The 26-year-old is the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three gunmen shot dead by police after three days of high drama in France. The photo — first published by Le Monde — […]
Marriage really is a beautiful thing. I used to think it was a bit pointless, just a piece of paper that allows you an extra tax cut. However, the more I thought about it, the more I learned to appreciate what marriage could be. Marriage gets a bad rap because most people are really bad at it. It’s not marriage’s fault. It’s the couples’ fault for being neither […]
LONDON: In a world’s first, a woman has successfully given birth to a baby from a transplanted womb. The donated womb came from the woman’s own mother, making it the first baby in the world born to a woman using the same womb from which she was herself born. The 36-year-old Swedish woman delivered a healthy baby boy weighing 1775g in September, 2014. Scientists announced the breakthrough in the British […]
BEIJING: A Chinese woman who married 26 times is now caught in a legal tangle. Her problem is not the marriage law, but the rules concerning the government’s family planning policy. The 40-year old woman from Shuyang county in Jiangsu province recently discovered she was made pregnant by a former husband. She then rid herself of the then husband and remarried the one who had made her pregnant. When she […]
Sufficient daily water intake is vital for virtually every function within our bodies yet fewer than one in five of us drinks enough. Read on to see the results of this experiment. Sarah Smith is a 42 year old mother of two young kids in the UK. She, like many others, openly admitted to not drinking the recommended 2 to 3 liters of water daily. She suffered from poor and […]
Just about a fortnight ago onlookers and morning walkers were surprised to see a long queue of teen girls and women at the Ahmedabad police headquarters early in the morning. Well, this was no protest rally; the surge was for free-of-cost arms training for women, to be followed by a self-defence programme under the Gujarat government’s initiative ‘Suraksha Setu’. The project is not just for women’s empowerment and to equip […]
