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New poverty line: Rs 32 for rural India, Rs 47 for urban India

The latest report by Rangarajan committee has added almost 100 million more people to the list of poor The expert committee set up by the Planning Commission last year unde...

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Bollywood

‘Women Empowered In Support Of Sewa Day’ In Conversation With Vivek Oberoi

Some people talk the talk and others walk the walk. Vivek Oberoi, described as a Bollywood actor, social worker, adventure sports enthusiast, poet, pilot and dreamer, inspi...

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Sustainable Development

Land for ladies

Breaking the stereotype of rural women, 39-year-old Suresho Saini proudly drives a tractor to plough 1.6 hectares (ha) of agricultural land in Rahimpur village in Uttar Pra...

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Hollywood

Where Are the Women? A Look at Male-Dominated Fields

I had the pleasure of attending the S.H.E. Summit at the 92nd Street Y in New York on June 5th-6th. And normally, I wouldn’t be writing about something that happened ...

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Hollywood

Howard G. Buffett Supports Shakira's World Food Programme Campaign

Due to the overwhelming success of the campaign launched by Shakira and Activia, Howard G. Buffett, a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Ambassador Against Hunger si...

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Sustainable Development

A reporter’s notebook

Crime against women in Uttar Pradesh might have hit the headlines, but following two Khabar Lahariya journalists on a day’s work shows that little has changed over de...

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Hollywood

Madonna Pledges Support For Detroit Community Groups

Madonna has pledged funding for three Detroit community groups following her recent visit to the city. The Material Girl grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, and made a visit...

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Sustainable Development

Where the Girls Went, Where the Boys Came From

In the huge furor that followed the Badaun gang rapes and murders a month ago, cops were suspended and upper caste Yadav suspects arrested, some of whom confessed to the cr...

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Sustainable Development

Over one lakh suicides in India every year, report says

Over 1, 00,000 people commit suicides in India every year on an average. The number of suicides in the past decade has recorded an increase of 21.6 per cent, said a governm...

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Sustainable Development

These nine laws make Indian women less equal than men

A recent UN report studying India’s legal code lists all the ways laws officially support men over women. In Goa, a Hindu man can remarry if his previous wife does no...

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