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Environment

Link Between Unseasonal Rains, Disasters & Climate Change: Is India Playing The Ostrich?

Soon after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in end-April, geologists based in Europe asserted that the tragedy was caused by climate change. These experts were of the ...

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Sustainable Development

When Women Step Out Of Indian Epics To Express Real Desires And Choices In Real Books

The Indian novel writing tradition is by and large a post colonial phenomenon. Right from one of the first novels in English written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to the ...

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Thought Factory

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...

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Sustainable Development

Government Keen To Operationalise Emergency Helpline For Women By 2017

Over two years after the Nirbhaya incident brought the focus on women safety, the government has kick-started the process to set up a single emergency response number acros...

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Bollywood

10 Bollywood celebrities with social causes

Ours is a country that lives on movies. Bollywood actors today have the entire country following their every move closely. With that kind of fan following and power, comes ...

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Thought Factory

Of Right Words And Persistent Images

‘Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, o...

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Health

How A Pack of Cards Helped Improve Maternal Health In Bihar

While India has been reporting a steady decline in its maternal mortality rate, the country still accounts for the largest number of maternal deaths in the world. In 2010, ...

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Sustainable Development

Only 180 Community Radio Stations Despite Financial Aid By Govt

Despite the scheme being almost a decade old and the government extending FINANCIAL assistance, the total number of operational community radio stations (CRS) in the countr...

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Environment

Govt Begins Giving Out Daily Air Quality Bulletin For 11 Cities

Exactly a month after launching the national Air Quality Index (AQI), which had its share of teething problems, the Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesda...

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Top 5

The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

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