Society
Operation Blue Star: Black day in Indian history
June 8, 2022
On June 1, 1984, Operation Blue Star, launched by the Indian Army on orders by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, began. It ended on June 8, when the Army withdrew from the temple complex.
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Pride Hotels to mark Pride Month
June 3, 2022
June marks the Pride Month across the globe, highlighting the widespread discrimination that the LGBTQ+ communities face around the world. One of the key highlights of the month is the Pride Parade that is now ubiquitous around the world, though occurring on different dates, but ...
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75 pc of language learners in India under 30: Duol...
May 12, 2022
According to Duolingo, a popular language learning platform, learners in India are among the youngest and 75 pc of them are under the age of 30. Language learning in India, it seems, is primarily popular amongst the age group between 18 to 29, with fewer teenagers studying new la...
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Anganwadi workers in Delhi stage May Day protest f...
May 2, 2022
On May 1, over 500 anganwadi workers gathered at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest against the government by shouting slogans and demanding revision of wages along with pensions and provident fund. Prior to the protest at Jantar Mantar, the workers had planned a rally from Ma...
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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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