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Human Rights

One Step Forward, Two Back – India’s Uneven Progress In Correcting Gender Imbalance

India’s sex ratio at birth – or the number of girl children born for every 1,000 boys born – has improved slightly over the last 10 years. But there are n...

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Gender

Women In Gangotri Are Building Their Own Road & Won’t Vote Unless Political Parties Help Them!

Women from villages all over Uttarakhand have been making their voices heard through Uttarakhand Mahila Manch, an all-woman organisation.According to a report by The Times ...

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Festivals

Where Time Stands Still: An Enchanting Film Festival in the Uttarakhand Himalayas

Tucked into the quiet folds of Satauli’s hills in Uttarakhand, the Himalayan Village Resort of Sonapani is beautiful, as many places in the mountains are: butterflies...

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Govt. Approves Inclusion of 15 New Castes in Central OBC List

The government on Wednesday approved inclusion of 15 new castes and modification in 13 other castes in the Central list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
The Union Cab...

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Dehradun Organisation Educates 1300 Street Children & Is Raising Funds For Their Winter Uniforms

The Aasraa trust was started in 2009 under a bridge in Dehradun, as a small facility to teach the children of slum dwellers. The founder of Aasraa, Shaila Brijnath, is an e...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Cry From The Mountains, With Echoes In The Cities

The story of Hindi poet Mangalesh Dabral, who was born in Tehri Garhwal in 1948 but for most of his career as a journalist lived and worked in Delhi, is the story of Uttara...

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JICA Organizes 8th Annual Workshop On Forestry And Natural Resource Management Projects In Sikkim

New Delhi/Gangtok, 2nd March, 2016: The 8th Annual Workshop on Forestry and Natural Resource Management Projects...

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Shikha Rastogi of iTV Network bags ‘World Women Leadership Award’

Shikha Rastogi, President and Group Head, Human Resources, of the iTV Network, has been awarded the “Exemplary Women Leadership Achievement Award” by the World ...

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India Drinks And Smokes Less Now

The preliminary findings from National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) released last week have given anti-tobacco campaigners a reason to smile. The survey has found that acr...

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Health

India Still Has A High Rate Of Malnutrition, Reveals New National Health Survey

Malnutrition in India is still high and the number of malnourished children in West Bengal is more than it was a decade back, according to the fourth National Family Health...

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