Society
Lok Sabha passes Anti-Trafficking Bill
August 10, 2018
According to the reports of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) India witnessed an increase in reported cases of human trafficking by almost 20 pc in 2016. Due to the vagueness in the definitions of the Bill, it might be misused and taken against victims.
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Deprived livelihood and lost identities
August 9, 2018
104 million indigenous people, out of 370 million around the world, live in India. They are the conservers of nature but still live with constant threat of losing their forest homes to drug trafficking, land-grab, illegal logging, mining and political pressure.
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Challenging times: from Blue Whale to Keke and the...
August 4, 2018
What began as a safe and fun activity to spread awareness about social causes with the famous ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, has gradually transformed into a matter of life and death. Various ‘games’ and seemingly harmless candy-eating challenges continue to put lives at risk.
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Still not in a space where our wildlife is safe
July 27, 2018
Poaching and man-animal conflicts in India are taking the lives of hundreds of animals every year. As numbers of extinct, endangered and threatened species are on a steady rise, there is need for stronger law enforcement and technology-led mechanisms for proactive actions.
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India aims to establish itself as a study destinat...
July 24, 2018
In order to boost the Indian education system the Centre has launched the “Study in India” campaign, to attract international students to pursue their higher education from Indian colleges and universities. Thousands of Indian students go abroad every year in order to get bet...
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Daily wage labourer donates land for midday in sch...
July 16, 2018
In a heart-warming gesture, a daily wage labourer is West Bengal donated a part of his land in order to provide a shelter to school students to have their midday meals.
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ReUnite – An app launched to track missing c...
July 11, 2018
Thousands of children go missing in India every year. According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, about 2, 50,000 children have been registered as missing from 2012 to 2017. Tracking those children and rescuing them has always been a challenging...
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Are stray dogs a major problem in India?
June 22, 2018
The Indian government has to come up with large scale interventions and organisations that can deal with the issue of stray dogs in India.
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Child labour in India
June 12, 2018
In its 16th year , the focus of World day against child labour is 'to improve safety and health of the children; but with a big group of them still working in hazardous conditions in India, and being robbed of education, it seems a long way to minimise and then eradicate child la...
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The deadly Nipah Virus
June 9, 2018
The spread of Nipah Virus in the south Indian state of Kerala has affected the activities in the state in a huge way. Schools and colleges remain shut and business too has been affected badly. People in the region are avoiding travel and due to this, state transport corporation o...
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