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  2. Value-added taxation in India - Wikipedia

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    DVAT 2004 as amended by DVAT 2005 and DVAT Rules 2005 came into force w.e.f. 1 April.,2005. It repealed Delhi Sales Tax Act 1975, Delhi Sales Tax on Works Contract Act, 1999, Delhi Sales Tax on Transfer to Right to use Goods Act 2002 and Delhi Tax on Entry of Motors Vehicles into Local Areas Act 1994. [3]

  3. Dowry system in India - Wikipedia

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    The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 ("Domestic Violence Act") was passed in order to provide a civil law remedy for the protection of women from domestic violence in India. [6] The Domestic Violence Act encompasses all forms of physical, verbal, emotional, economic and sexual abuse and forms a subset of the anti-dowry laws ...

  4. One Hundred and Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of India

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    A total of 102 women parliamentarians are serving as of 2023. [14] On 20 September 2023, Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah informed during the discussion on the Women's Reservation Bill that census and the delimitation exercise will take place after the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. [15] [16] [17]

  5. Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

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    The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 [a] is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to protect women from domestic violence. The law came into force on 26 October 2006. The law came into force on 26 October 2006.

  6. Women's Reservation Bill, 2010 - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Reservation Bill or The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, 9 March 2010, is a bill passed in the Parliament of India which says to amend the Constitution of India to reserve 1/3 of all seats in the lower house of Parliament of India, the Lok Sabha, and in all state legislative assemblies for women. [1]

  7. Lady Doctors - Wikipedia

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    Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine is a book about six of India's first Indian female physicians in Western medicine. It was written by journalist, author and lawyer Kavitha Rao , and first published in 2021 by Westland Books in India, and in the UK by Jacaranda Books in 2023.

  8. Vanitha Mathil - Wikipedia

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    Vanitha Mathil ("Women's Wall") was a human chain formed on 1 January 2019 across the Indian state of Kerala to uphold gender equality and protest against gender discrimination. The wall was formed solely by women and extended for a distance of around 620 kilometres (390 miles) from Kasargod to Thiruvananthapuram .

  9. Vinaya - Wikipedia

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    Buddhism in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Thailand followed the Theravadin Vinaya, which has 227 rules [14] for bhikkhus and 311 [15] for bhikkhunis. As the nun's lineage died out in all areas of the Theravada school, traditionally women's roles as renunciates were limited to taking eight or ten Precepts: see women in Buddhism.