Women Representation
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Lok Sabha may expand to 816 seats with 33% women's quota, Modi government to table bill
India | Mar 24, 2026, 01:54 PM ISTThe Central government is likely to introduce a bill to increase both the total number of Lok Sabha seats and the reservation for women in Lok Sabha. According to sources, the government is proposing to raise the current tally of 543 Lok Sabha seats to 816.
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Men outnumber women in media in India, Pakistan
World | Jun 23, 2015, 10:35 AM ISTBangkok: Although the presence of women in media has more than doubled in two decades, they constitute only 28.6 percent of the media workforce in Asia and the Pacific. Men outnumber women 4:1 in India
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Women representation in PM Modi ministry goes upto 8
National | Nov 09, 2014, 04:21 PM ISTNew Delhi: First time Uttar Pradesh MP Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti is the lone woman face in today's expansion of the Union Cabinet which took the total representation of the fairer sex to eight.47-year-old Jyoti is
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Women voters outnumber men, but no women's representation in Mizoram
India | Oct 23, 2013, 11:32 AM ISTAizawl: Women voters have been outnumbering male voters in Mizoram for the past few years, but paradoxically there are no women representatives in the state legislature for years together.According to the voters' lists published on
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Rahul Gandhi to ensure 50 pc representation to women in AICC
National | Jun 29, 2013, 08:20 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 29: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday vowed to ensure 50 per cent representation to women in AICC and other party wings as he held his first formal interaction with newly-appointed