Society
Need to go slow on antibiotics to save lives
April 3, 2022
An alarming report published earlier this year in The Lancet, a medical journal, said that antimicrobial resistance was directly responsible for 1.27 million death and linked to about 4.95 million other deaths across the world in 2019. Antimicrobial resistance is when bacteria ca...
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Karnataka students forced to miss exam as SC defer...
March 26, 2022
With the Supreme Court rejecting petition by Karnataka students to take up their challenge of the Karnataka High Court order on Hijab ban, uncertainty clouds the future of several Muslim girl students in government-run schools in the southern state since they are bound to miss th...
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Glimmer of hope in dreary lives of prisoners
March 14, 2022
Govind Singh, a 39-year-old ex-prisoner finds himself acting as a role model for his fellow inmates with whom he was incarcerated. After serving his sentence for 10 years in a prison in Gurgaon, near Delhi, Govind is now a project manager in India Vision Foundation and is leadi...
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School educates students on transgender discrimina...
March 12, 2022
On March 10, Indradhanush, an initiative to make the transgender community part of the mainstream society was launched by Aarohan, an NGO working with underprivileged children in New Delhi, and M M Public School in Pitampura, north-west Delhi. The event was organised by the schoo...
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Slum residents in Ahmednagar move into new homes
March 8, 2022
As many as 33 families living in Sanjay Nagar, a slum located in Ahmednagar city in western Maharashtra, marked the International Women’s Day by celebrating ‘Grihapravesh’ into their new homes on March 8 as part of an ambitious project to provide safe, healthy, and attract...
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Anganwadi workers to continue protest despite offe...
February 25, 2022
On Thursday, the 25th day of protest by over 20,000 anganwadi (day care) workers, the Delhi government reached out to the protestors and offered them a carrot and a stick. While it marginally hiked their wages, it also issued a stern notice, warning the workers that if they faile...
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Delhi domestic workers move Delhi High Court for c...
February 20, 2022
A total of 471 domestic workers in Delhi have filed a writ petition in Delhi High Court seeking relief at par with that provided by the Delhi government to other informal sector workers like autorickshaw drivers and e-rickshaw drivers in the national capital. The workers, in thei...
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Hijab Row: Attack on Constitutional rights, say st...
February 18, 2022
Thursday marked 5th day that the hearing of petitions against the ban in Hijab in schools in Karnataka was heard in the Karnataka High Court. The petition was filed after the state government suddenly imposed a ban on sporting of Hijab in schools, even though this practice has be...
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Severe cold & poor facilities responsible for...
February 8, 2022
Delhi’s winters are famous for two things – neither of them very pleasant for the residents. One is the massive smog that envelopes the city’s already toxic atmosphere, pushing the particulate matter levels beyond scale. The other is the sharp dip in thermometres that is se...
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Most death sentences in India in 2021: National La...
February 2, 2022
In the year 2021, a total of 488 death sentences were handed out by various courts across India, the highest in 17 years, says a report by Project 39A. It was only in 2004, that more death sentences were awarded when a total of 563 capital punishments the outcome of trials, as pe...
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