Society
Muslim women divided over Jama Masjid ban
December 3, 2022
Ultimately, the ban did not last even a day and it was rapidly withdrawn in face of escalating controversy across the country. On November 24, a notice was put up at the gates of the Jama Masjid, the largest mosque in India, saying that entrance of unmarried girls or group of gir...
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Covid-19 overhang to seriously cripple Next Gen le...
November 24, 2022
Clear warning about the crippling impact of Covid-19 on the quality of the next generation of national leadership was one of the key takeaways of the 2nd National Summit on Leadership in Positivity & Awards 2022, that was recently organised by Movement of Positivity in New De...
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Meghalaya’s matrilineal tribe Khasis offer lesso...
November 22, 2022
The 2022 Gender Gap Index, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) puts India at 135th position of 146 nations. Women continue to face an uphill battle for rights and survival in most parts of India, suffering from widespread discrimination in terms of nutrition, education, ec...
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Indian students continue to struggle with Covid-19...
November 15, 2022
Students around the world are still paying for the disruption to their education caused by the widespread closure of schools around the world as one country after another moved to prolonged lockdowns. In most countries, schools have reopened only in this academic year, after almo...
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Pushkar Mela hit by lumpy skin disease
November 14, 2022
Cattle trading is a key highlight of the colourful and vibrant fair Pushkar which is held annually in the holy month of Kartik in Pushkar town, in Rajasthan, around 150 km away from the state capital, Jaipur. The cattle fair is held on the dunes in Pushkar and to which dozens of ...
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Eliminating hunger by 2030 need not be a lost caus...
November 10, 2022
Findings in the latest report by Global Hunger Index on the situation of hunger worldwide should not have been a surprise most experts had been warning that hunger was becoming more widespread due to numerous factors like drop in harvests due to climate change, the Ukraine war an...
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Amidst chaos in HQ, Twitter’s position in India ...
November 7, 2022
Friday November 4 is a date that few Twitter employees are likely to ever forget. Most of them are doomed to spend their day or perhaps the entire weekend to see if they have a job to return to on Monday as yet another idiosyncratic policy implemented by the new boss, world’s r...
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Political cartoons in India: Rich legacy, hazy fut...
November 2, 2022
October 24 marked the 100th birth anniversary of renowned cartoonist R K Laxman, whose creation “The Common Man” in You Said It, a daily strip published in a leading newspaper of India, seemed to resonate with all Indians as it evoked the problems or issues of the day, that...
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On World Teachers’ Day, UNESCO rings alarm over ...
October 5, 2022
Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, has expressed grave concern over the severe shortage of teachers in schools which threatens the objective of achieving universal basic education by the year 2030, as...
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New trial in Glasgow University offers hope for Cr...
October 1, 2022
The recent decades have been characterised by spread of several lifestyle-related diseases as people around the world move to a more sedentary life, along with a deterioration in eating habits, moving towards fast food or junk foods, loaded with fats and calories and lacking basi...
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