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Share In this year’s campus placements Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has ranked first in the choice of recruiters with unsurpassed salary offers. One of its graduate has got a record $350,000 (Rs 1.6 crore) offer from a global investment bank based in South East Asia and two more have been offered packages of over Rs 1 [...] Share After Rajya Sabha passed the historic Women’s reservation bill ensuring 33% reservation for women, the bill now goes to the Lok Sabha. There is no deadline, it depends on the government how much time it wants to take to travel from one House to the other. Parties like RJD, SP etc who are dead against the [...] Share The historic Women’s reservation bill ensuring 33% reservation has been passed by Rajya Sabha yesterday after lots of drama. Congress did not deter from its decision of putting the bill in the Rajya Sabha despite the threat of withdrawal of support from Samajwadi party and Rashtriya Janta Dal. The bill was passed by more than [...] Share Right now only 59 seats out of total 545 seats in Lok Sabha are represented by women. Women’s strength in the Lok Sabha has floated between 11 per cent and 3.5 per cent. This shows that the proportion of women in the legislatures did not replicate the gender equality preserved in the Constitution. Women’s strength [...] Share Women’s reservation bill is making headlines these days with Congress trying its best to get it passed in the Parliament on International Women’s Day. So what’s this bill all about? This blog tries to find out: Almost 100 countries ensure women representation in national legislative bodies through various kind of quota. Some 20 countries don’t have [...] Share According to a ‘Liveability Index’ released by CII on the basis of a survey Delhi won over metros like Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata; NCR towns Gurgaon, Noida and Faridabad; and even planned cities like Chandigarh to be voted the best city to live in. Delhi ranks first on parameters like population density, safety, transport, education, [...] Share Protect yourself against ‘Koobface worm’, ‘Clampi’, ‘URLzone’ and the ‘Zeus’ Trojans that get installed in your computer stealing your login ids and passwords. These Trojans continue to outwit network security experts around the world. They aim at social networking website and online banking users and transfer login ids and passwords to cyber criminals. ‘Koobface’, between August [...] Share Two tiger cubs were on Sunday found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Ranthambhore National Park (RNP) in Rajasthan. R N Mehrotra, the state chief wildlife warden, said”Carcasses of two male cubs were spotted near Taleda village located in the North of RNP along with two carcasses of goats”. The cause of their death was yet to [...] Share India on Sunday lost its last chance to remain in the Davis Cup with Somdev Devvarman’s defeat against Mikhail Youzhny as India lost the first round tie 2-3 to Russia. Russia has advanced to the quarter-finals while India would yet again struggle in the play-offs to re-enter the 16-team World Group. India was playing in the [...] Share Almost 100 countries ensure women representation in national legislative bodies through various kind of quota. Some 20 countries don’t have any such system at all, India being one of them. Hopefully India too will soon have a quota system to ensure a more gender-balanced national legislature. In the Asian region the average percentage of women in [...] |
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