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Meghalaya’s matrilineal tribe Khasis offer lessons in gender parity
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, economic and social independence and leadership in business or politics. […]
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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 cattle rearers come […]
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Breakthrough agenda at COP27 to accelerate decarbonisation
November 12, 2022
Governments of representing over half of global GDP have reached agreement on a 12-month action plan to help make clean technologies cheaper and more accessible everywhere. They launched a package of 25 new collaborative actions to be delivered by COP28 to speed up the decarbonisation under five key breakthroughs of power, road transport, steel, hydrogen […]
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Eliminating hunger by 2030 need not be a lost cause
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 and a record high inflation. Yet when the […]
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Amidst chaos in HQ, Twitter’s position in India ominous
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 richest person Elon […]
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Domestic travel deals by Thomas Cook India & SOTC
November 6, 2022
With the year-end travel season approaching rapidly, India’s largest travel firm, Thomas Cook India and its subsidiary, SOTC Travel have launched special holiday deals for Indians to discover and explore their own country’s iconic and diverse locales and experiences that compete with international favourites. According to a press statement, the packages under Enchanting India Holidays […]
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IntrCity SmartBus witnesses surge in festive travel in India
November 5, 2022
IntrCity SmartBus, one of the largest operators of tech-enabled fleet of inter-city buses, estimates that Inter-city mobility will cross pre-pandemic levels of 50 million daily travellers by the end of 2022. The company says it witnessed approximately 20-25 pc higher bookings during this festive season than the same timeline across functional travel & leisure travel. […]
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Political cartoons in India: Rich legacy, hazy future
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 most Indians connected with. When making […]
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Post-Diwali smog could envelope Delhi soon
October 27, 2022
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was quick to claim credit when the air quality index on Tuesday, the day after Diwali, reflected a reading of just over 300. While it was classified as very poor air quality, it was a significant drop of about 30 pc from the AQI readings of 2021, when the index […]
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Surprising things you didn’t know about Diwali
October 21, 2022
“So in Uttrakhand what we usually do, especially in Kumaon, as part of Diwali is that the children, after the festivities are done for the day of Mahalakshmi puja, form a group and go about door to door, asking for money, a tradition which is popularly called Bhairlo. They sing songs, they light bonfires using […]
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