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Ahead of Women's Day, the national carrier Air India operated what it claimed to be the world's longest non-stop flight where the entire flight operations were handled by women, as part of International Women's Day celebrations. The flight, from Delhi to San Francisco, covered a distance of around 14,500 kilometers in around 17 hours. [119]
Khabar Lahariya (translation: News Wave [1]) is an Indian newspaper, published in various rural dialects of Hindi, including Bundeli, Avadhi and Bajjika dialects.The newspaper was started by Nirantar, a New Delhi–based non-government organisation which focuses on gender and education.
National Woman's Day, a predecessor of International Women's Day in the United States; National Women's Day, celebrated in South Africa on August 9; National Women's Day, celebrated in East Timor on November 3; The Combined Holidays of Women's Day and Children's Day, celebrated in Taiwan on April 4; Sepandārmazgān, "Women's Day" or "Nurses ...
The National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) is an annual day of observance held during the first week of February to acknowledge the accomplishments of female athletes, recognize the influence of sports participation for women and girls, and honor the progress and advocation for equality for women in sports.
The Babylonians invented the actual [clarification needed] seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun (dies Solis, "Sunday") a legal holiday centuries later. [2] In the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is treated as the first day of the week, but in many countries it is counted as the second day of the ...
The women rights movement efforts, states Young, have been impeded by the "growing intensity of Muslim separatist politics", the divergent positions of Indian Hindu women seeking separation of religion and women's rights, secular universal laws (uniform civil code) applicable irrespective of religion, while Indian Muslim community seeking to ...
National women's day in India is celebrated on 13 February every year, on the birthday of Sarojini Naidu she was born on 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad, India.Naidu was an active Indian independence movement leader and known for her literary works, particularly for her poems with the themes like patriotism, romanticism and lyric for which she is called "Nightingale of India"—(Bharat Kokila ...
Zenana (Persian: زنانه, "of the women" or "pertaining to women"; [1] Urdu: زنانہ; Bengali: জেনানা; Hindi: ज़नाना) is the part of a house belonging to a Muslim family in the Indian subcontinent, which is reserved for the women of the household. [2]