A meeting chaired by the Chief Minister of Assam State Himanta Biswa Sarma proposed to replace paper ballots with electronic voting machines in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation elections has been approved.
Indian women cricket captain Mithali Raj has become the first woman to appear in six World Cups. She is the only third cricketer overall to play six world cup after Sachin Tendulkar and Javed Miandad.
Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar has announced a new scheme for women, 'Haryana Matrushakti Udaymita Scheme', on International Women's Day, to provide financial support to women entrepreneurs.
The "Girl Shiksha Pravesh Utsav" campaign has been launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).