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Get off your high horse: Abuse of horses in Indian...
October 12, 2021
As yet another wedding season begins in India, animal rights activist group, PETA, has created a mild storm on Twitter in India with its viral tweet against one particular practice that is widely prevalent in Indian weddings, but is cruel and is often lost behind the glamour and ...
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International Day of the Girl Child 2021: Pandemic...
October 11, 2021
Initiated in 1995 at Beijing’s World Conference on Women, the idea of International Day of the Girl Child was born due to the necessity of recognition and redressal of specific challenges faced by girls around the world, and uplift them in society through progress in their educ...
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Growing gender gap in STEM jobs in India
October 10, 2021
With the digital revolution rapidly gaining ground in India, driven by enormous investments in technology and a huge market of digitally-connected users, currently at 560 million consumers, the country is well on its way to possibly becoming one of the world leaders in science an...
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Dangerous silence around male sex abuse in India
October 4, 2021
In 2018, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a national public health agency of the United States, revealed that nearly a quarter (24.8 pc) of men in the US had experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime, and about one in four ...
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Child marriage rose 50 pc during pandemic: NCRB
October 1, 2021
Until 2019, life for Priya (name changed), a 14-year-old girl living with with her parents and an elder brother at Jal Vihar in South Delhi was no different to that of any 14-year-old belonging to low-income family. She was studying in the ninth grade in a near-by government-run ...
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Kolkata remains safest Indian city: NCRB data
September 29, 2021
For the third year running, West Bengal capital Kolkata retains its top spot in the ranking of safest large Indian cities as per the latest report released by the National Crime Records Bureau. The NCRB report, covered 19 cities across India, each with a population of over two mi...
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Student suicides on the rise in India
September 24, 2021
On September 15, a 17-year-old girl, the daughter of daily wage workers and who had dreams of attending medical school in Tamil Nadu aspirant, allegedly killed herself over fears of not being able to pass a crucial entrance exam to join a medical school. Alarmingly, it is the thi...
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Protestors against ‘Love jihad’ wreak war on i...
September 20, 2021
Ravinder Sharma, a boatman and tour guide at Yamuna Ghat, Delhi, met his wife Rani (earlier known as Noor) in 2013, when she came down from Mumbai with her family. After weeks of showing her nearby sights and hours spent together on the river, they fell in love, and Sharma laughs...
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Covid-19 vaccines: Delhi NGOs help transgenders ov...
September 17, 2021
For the first time since the pandemic hit India and especially after the deadly second wave earlier this year, that left the capital anxious and panicked as it struggled against a virus that left thousands dead every day, Tanvi, is feeling a bit relaxed. The...
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World Suicide Prevention Day 2021: 20 attempted su...
September 10, 2021
The numbers are frightening enough, even though they remain the tip of the iceberg. One in every five suicides in the world takes place in India. According to the World Health Organisation, over 700,000 deaths by suicide occurred in 2019 across the world. Data provided by the Nat...
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