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Human Rights

Fighting Modern-Day Witch Hunts In India’s Remote Northeast

More than 2,000 people accused of being witches have been killed in Indiaover the last 15 years in poor, remote areas of the northeast.
The victims, nearly all of them...

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Gender

Women In India Are Now Legally Allowed To Be Head Of Their Households

India is slowly giving women the recognition they deserve.The Delhi high court ruled that the eldest female member of a family can now act as the legal head of household, a...

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Gender

Woman Can Be ‘Karta' Of A Family: Delhi High Court Gives Landmark Judgement

Every time someone mentions 'karta' in the context of an Indian family, you immediately think of a male member. That just changed in a landmark ruling by the Delhi High cou...

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Gender

Owning Property Empowers Women In Unique Ways”: An Interview With Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at ...

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Thought Factory

Of Gender Divide

Since the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the human rib on gender issues has not stopped tickling. Left no wiser since Biblical times, the issue remains burning and ...

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Sustainable Development

An Impossible Experiment Shows How Black Holes Might Burp Back Information

Physicists at Caltech have devised a way to coax information back from the so-far unknowable depths of a black hole. While it's an impossible scheme to implement experiment...

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Trending

Scaling 200+ & the Sixer

This piece by Dr Sandeep Goyal, in which he evaluates sixers, 200+ scores and their significance to broadcasters, marketers an...

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TV

So Much To Catch Up On Television Review

As 2015 has a few more weeks to go, the year?s showstopper still remains Life Ok?s prime property Mahakumbh. However, there are still some shows which cont...

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Environment

I Went Down The Rabbit Hole Of A Fake Climate Change-Themed Real Estate Firm

?We are a real estate company that will prevent you from losing money from global warming,? a?promotional video?for the company said. ?We will help you find property that w...

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Gender

Supreme Court Sets 2005 Cut-Off On Women Right To Ancestral Property

The court said the father would have had to be alive on September 9, 2005, if the daughter were to become a co-sharer with her male siblings. In a ruling that will restrict...

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