London: Manjula Sood, the India-origin Lord Mayor of Leicester, wants immediate action to help women in India and elsewhere in the developing world who were shunned because they were widows.

Sood released hundreds of multi-coloured balloons to highlight a campaign to raise awareness about the problem. The event was organised by the Loomba Trust for the first time in Leicester at the De Montfort University.

The event, organised as the International Widows Day, has so far been held at the Trafalgar Square, London. Sood, who was widowed in 1996, said,
Source : PTI