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Gender

‘Same-Sex Attraction Is Ok’ – Health Ministry’s New Manual For Children All Over India

“Boys should understand that when a girl says ‘no’ it means no,” reads the manual that India’s Health Ministry is now handing out across the c...

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Health

What Policymakers Can Do About Healthcare In Rural India

In a recent article, I argued how increasing rural spending on schemes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA), skill development (STRIV...

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Sustainable Development

TFW The Radioactive Garbage From Your Lab Turns Out To Be A Potential Cancer Treatment

There's an old adage that one person's trash is another person's treasure. Take the case of a Canadian physics lab that realized the radioactive waste it had been stockpili...

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Human Rights

Y V Chandrachud Memorial Lecture: SC Judge Speaks About Women’s Rights, Dignity

Individual dignity is a priceless possession and cherished value for the collective. The dignity of an individual has many aspects like liberty, equality, constitutional fr...

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Hollywood

Stars Speak Up For Dogs In New Star-Studded PETA Video

Actors Tom Hardy, Casey Affleck, Priyanka Chopra, and Edie Falco are among the stars giving voice to local dogs in a new PETA video that encourages people to keep their ani...

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Human Rights

Equality’s Time Has Come

To understand the vehement opposition to 33 per cent women’s reservation in urban local bodies (ULBs) in Nagaland by male-dominated/all-male Naga tribal bodies, it is...

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Environment

On Top Of Everything Else, Climate Change Helps West Nile Disease To Spread

In case there weren't enough reasons to be freaked out about climate change, here's another one: a new study shows it can make it easier for West Nile disease to spread. Su...

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Human Rights

Around The World Women Struggle To Secure Land Rights, Own Less Than Twenty Percent

It’s 2017 and formal ownership of land for women still seems to be a distant dream, with women owning less than 20 percent of land in the world. This means that their...

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Health

Targeting Old Scourges

The reference in the Union Budget to new elimination targets for some major communicable diseases barely hints at the enormous burden carried by millions in India with tube...

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Human Rights

Chhattisgarh Forms State, District Level Human Rights Protection Panels

Facing criticism over alleged incidents of civil rights violations in insurgency-hit Bastar region, the Chhattisgarh government has constituted human rights protection comm...

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