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Reality Behind Male Rape Cases in India
“I am a survivor of child sexual abuse. I was raped by a male relative for 11 long years from the age of seven to 18”, said Harish Iyer, an equal rights activist who was named as one of the most...
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Death of Inmates in Tihar Jail
Asia’s Biggest Prison Tihar Jail, located in Tihar Village in Delhi NCR, is Asia’s largest prison complex system. It is perhaps the best-known prison in India and has housed some very prominent...
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Birds and their Fundamental Right To Live with Dignity
In a landmark judgment, the Delhi High Court has ruled that all birds have a fundamental right to “live with dignity” and cannot be caged for business or other purposes. It has stated clearly that...
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Amendments in the Child Labour Law: The Real Picture
News is doing rounds regarding the amendments of the present Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, which the centre has approved recently. The new amendment is made in the Child Labour...
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What is Kejriwal’s Gajendra Singh Kisan Sahayata Yojana?
Unnoticed by most, on 8 May 2015, the Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal announced a compensation scheme for farmers under the name ‘Gajendra Singh Kisan Sahayata Yojana’. The scheme offers...
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Amendments Proposed in Anti-smoking Law in India
According to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 12% of the world’s smokers are Indians. There are talks of the present anti-smoking law in India to be amended very soon. These are...
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India’s First Gay Matrimonial Advertisement
A Gay Marriage Advertisement A matrimonial advertisement seeking a same-sex partner for her son, placed by a 57-year-old woman, broke many conventions and taboos despite much disapproval from orthodox...
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Implications of Recent 5% Quota to Gujjars of Rajasthan
The Gujjar community has finally got the Rajasthan government to surrender to their demand for inclusion in the reservation quota. It took eight days of street agitation by the community led by Kirori...
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Top 8 Facts You Should Know About Aruna Shanbaug’s Assailant
The media called him the ‘forgotten rapist’ who stole 42 years of a woman’s life by sexually molesting her and rendering her a cripple when she was in her prime. Aruna Shanbaug’s tormentor, Sohanlal...
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Modi and His Mann Ki Baat
Narendra Modi is his own man and likewise he has positioned his role as a Prime Minister in an entirely new dimension – unseen and unheard of in this country. He must be credited with understanding and...
View ArticleShooting the Messenger: Attacks on Journalists in Recent Past
The recent case of Joginder Singh, a freelance journalist from Shahjahanpur, U.P., being burnt to death at the hands of Police, once again highlights the risk that journalists and reporters face in...
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Can Maharashtra’s New Anti-spitting Law Make a Difference?
The state government in Maharashtra approved a more stringent Anti-spitting law to take on this age-old but disgusting habit that seems to have become a fact of life in India. While a law against...
View ArticleSelf-defence and Its Importance for Women in India
Self-defence, especially for women, is of utmost importance in the kind of the world we live in today. Women, usually referred as the weaker sex, are considered easier targets. In a country like India...
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Delhi’s Per Capita Income Growth: An Analysis
Rise in Delhi’s Per Capita Income According to recent news reports, Delhi’s per capita income for the financial year 2014-15 went up from INR 2.12 lakh (recorded in the previous fiscal year) to about...
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Aam Aadmi Canteens in Delhi Soon
Based on the highly popular model of Amma Unavagam, meaning Mother’s Restaurant, launched by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, is also planning to...
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Decline of Foreign Women Tourists to India: Causes and Solutions
The tourism ministry of India is now focussing more on increasing the number of international tourists. The target is to increase the influx of foreign tourists by 12% every year so that by 2016, the...
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Monsoon Session of the Parliament Likely to be Stormy
The monsoon session of the Parliament, expected to last 21 days, is supposed to be a hard-hitting affair with several critical issues up for discussion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already asked...
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The New Age Indian Authors – Time for the West to take a Bow
India, a country that boasts of epics like the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, has been eclipsed by commercial fiction books written by western authors till very recently. However, the scenario of the...
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Should India abolish the death penalty?
This one has India divided right down the middle. The debate on whether to abolish the death penalty or not, has been raging in India and in several other countries for decades, as each nation tries...
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Delhi Metro: Etiquette for the commuters
As the morning bell tolls, you wake up with full energy; the energy to work hard in the office, the energy to deal with the stress of all the small and big things on the personal and professional...
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