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Oxfam report says digital divide hurting women, unemployed & rural poor in India
December 7, 2022
For almost a decade, there has been a lot of noise at leading global forums about the growing menace of digital divide and with leaders of not only various countries but also of civil society groups and large corporations promising to take quick remedial actions to bridge this di...
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Cities & Climate change: Time to stop mindless urbanisation
December 6, 2022
In 1920, Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, was a small town that counted barely 20,000 people. Exactly 130 years later, in 2050, the city is expected to be the fourth largest in the world, with 35 million inhabitants, a number that will swell to over 83 milli...
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Belgium-India Relations: Exploring New Horizons
December 4, 2022
A relationship between two countries is like a coin. One side of the coin represents trade and economic relations and the other represents bilateral political and strategic ties. No relationship can be long-standing or develop deeper and broader, if one of the two sides of the co...
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Muslim women divided over Jama Masjid ban
December 3, 2022
Ultimately, the ban did not last even a day and it was rapidly withdrawn in face of escalating controversy across the country. On November 24, a notice was put up at the gates of the Jama Masjid, the largest mosque in India, saying that entrance of unmarried girls or group of gir...
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FATF red flags opioids fuelling global black money flows
December 2, 2022
In a new report, the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force, an international watchdog mandated to curb money laundering and other international financial crimes has said that organised crime has made fentanyl and other opioids as an easy way to not just expand their illicit bus...
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Zool: Fest of faith in Kashmir
November 30, 2022
Every April, the shrine of Hazrat Zain-ud-Din Wali, a renowned 15th century sufi saint, features a unique sight as thousands of people march the streets in Aishmuqam village of Anantnag district in Kashmir, carrying blazing torches, or zool. The group ascends a hillock in the vil...
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Nadav Lapid’s takedown of The Kashmir Files
November 29, 2022
All hell broke loose as soon as Israeli filmmaker and the head of jury at the 53rd International Film Festival of India Nadav Lapid called The Kashmir Files a ‘propaganda’ and a ‘vulgar movie’ that was not fit to be shown in the competitive section of a prestigious film f...
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IFF calls for withdrawal of revised draft on Digital Personal Data Protection
November 28, 2022
After it was forced to withdraw the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, which seeks to govern and safeguard the use of personal data, due to serious concerns of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communication and Information Technology, the Ministry of Electronics and Info...
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US-India airline ticket sales for Dec-Jan cross 2019 levels
November 25, 2022
In a sign of dramatic growth in air traffic between India and the United States this year, a report by Trevolution Group says that the sale of air tickets for US-India flights grew by close to 10 pc for December 2022 and January 2023, compared to the same period in 2019-20. Trevo...
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Covid-19 overhang to seriously cripple Next Gen leadership, warns Aarohan at Leadership seminar
November 24, 2022
Clear warning about the crippling impact of Covid-19 on the quality of the next generation of national leadership was one of the key takeaways of the 2nd National Summit on Leadership in Positivity & Awards 2022, that was recently organised by Movement of Positivity in New De...
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India’s Purnima Devi Barman among UNEP Champions of the Earth
November 23, 2022
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has named its 2022 Champions of the Earth, with five persons, including a conservationist, an enterprise, an economist, a women’s rights activist, and a wildlife biologist for their transformative action to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem...
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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, ec...
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