What's Buzzing This Week? - Mar 24, 2022

Here’s your dose of weekly news updates from us!

1. Ashleigh Barty, World Number 1 Tennis Player, announces retirement at the age of 25 years.

https://sports.ndtv.com/tennis/ashleigh-barty-womens-world-no-1-announces-retirement-from-tennis-at-age-of-25-2837688

2. Mumbai’s Jiya Rai, a 13 year old autistic girl, creates history by becoming the youngest and fastest female swimmer in the world to cover 29 Km in just 13 hours and 10 minutes.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/autistic-girl-13-makes-waves-across-palk-strait/articleshow/90362625.cms

3. Record breaking highest ever T20 International total of 213 runs scored by Bahrain women’s cricket team at GCC Women’s T20I Championship 2022.

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/bahrain-womens-cricket-team-highest-t20i-records-7831506/

4. A survey suggests that during the 2nd wave of pandemic, women were the worst hit by the job crisis.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/women-worst-hit-by-job-crisis-during-second-wave-of-pandemic/cid/1856991

5. India beat Bangladesh at ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022, keeping themselves in the reckoning for semifinals.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/womens-world-cup-2022-yastika-bhatia-sneh-rana-help-india-rout-bangladesh-by-110-runs-keep-semi-final-hopes-alive-101647936145871.html

6. ‘Arise’ program launched in partnership by WeWork India and StrongHer Ventures to help women entrepreneurs.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/entrepreneurship/wework-india-partners-with-strongher-ventures-to-help-women-entrepreneurs/articleshow/90369493.cms

7. Efforts for increasing the number of women in their workforce being scaled up by Amazon India.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/amazon-scales-up-efforts-to-increase-its-women-workforce-in-india-122032000692_1.html

8. Umeed Scheme’s soft loan and training helping 5 lakh women from Jammu and Kashmir in achieving economic freedom.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/5-lakh-jammu-and-kashmir-s-women-march-towards-economic-freedom-122032200025_1.html

9. SBI’s Ecowrap report states that out of every 3 life insurance policies, one is sold to a woman.

https://www.businesstoday.in/personal-finance/insurance/story/one-in-three-life-insurance-policies-in-india-sold-to-women-sbi-ecowrap-326796-2022-03-22

10. Promoting gender equality in their company, Britannia, aims to achieve having 50% women in their workforce by 2024.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/britannia-aims-50-per-cent-women-in-workforce-by-2024/articleshow/90288265.cms

11. A job portal for women ‘shejobs.in’ launched to help increase the participation of women in the workforce.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/job-portal-for-women-launched/article65241228.ece

12. Women entrepreneurs who transformed India, awarded by the NITI Aayog.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/niti-aayog-awards-women-entrepreneurs-that-transformed-india/articleshow/90381005.cms

13. PM Free Silai Machine Yojana 2022 launched by the government for helping women get financially independent.

https://www.india.com/business/centre-govt-scheme-pm-free-silai-machine-yojana-2022-women-can-now-get-free-sewing-machine-complete-details-here-5295798/

14. Akane Yamaguchi from Japan wins the 2022 All England Women’s Badminton Singles Championship.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/badminton/all-england-open-japans-akane-yamaguchi-claims-womens-singles-crown/articleshow/90339189.cms