
Women sweat it out to break into this male bastion
The Hindu
Candidates say either they are unwelcome or position of power eludes them
The number of women candidates contesting the Assembly election is hardly encouraging. The AIADMK is fielding 179 candidates of which 16 are women and the DMK, 11 out of 173 candidates. Only NTK has fielded 117 women, 50% of the 234 candidates. The AMMK has 16 women among 161 candidates.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











