Rural Women

The message from Nielsen's latest India Internet Report is that media planners need to get out of the reach game and get more creative to leverage the new type of audiences coming online

Reliance Jio and global mobile network operators' organisation GSMA on Tuesday announced the roll-out of their digital skills programme to train rural women in India.

'We wanted to do some work to make ourselves financially strong, but due to lack of guidance, things could not materialise

Women are also being involved in honey production, making solar energy equipment, online marketing, and training to make digital videos

In this pandemic, the fatality rate among women may be lesser, yet, they, as frontline workers and at home, became the victims of 'shadow pandemic'

A team of social scientists have penned a paper on how rural women can generate income for their families with the help of innovative and sustainable technologies

Airbnb will train SEWA members on home sharing, hospitality, quality standards and responsible hosting practices under the 'Hum Sab Ek' (We are One) initiative

Job situation improved in 12 months to June 2020, but deteriorated sharply in the latter half of the reference period due to lockdown

Last year, the tech major had started a small pilot for an accelerator programme for 10 women entrepreneurs in rural India across its Internet Saathi network

Central bank's decision to the raise the loan-to-value ratio is welcome relief for formal banking, but it does not address the issues faced by the most badly affected segments of our economy.

The lockdown has seen a sharp spike in the incidence of domestic violence, and Listen to Her, a crisp, seven-minute film, shot at Das's own home, mainly draws attention to it

Public health researchers fear that the real impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on India's demographics will become apparent only after nine months

Founder of the project, Pankaj Wadhwa, also one of the sponsors of the event, hopes that this exposure could end up being an "invaluable seed" sown in many other minds.

The survey found that around a third of the respondents had to borrow or sell assets to meet the post-pregnancy costs

Zeenath Zahara's second piece, 'College girls and our glamour boys!', stung men in particular

Women in villages and in tribal areas use only cash and most of them are outside the banking system

Women in the rural area are looking for reliable, trusted products and services, an Accenture Strategy study says