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Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker

It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.

Unnao accident witness claims murder bid on self

Awadhesh Singh says he was attacked by a truck the same way that the Unnao rape case survivor was attacked in July this year

Here today, gone tomorrow: Where is Nithyananda hiding?

Even as Nithyananda live streams his sermon, MEA says they have no information on him

MP’s ‘Padman’: Villager sets up sanitary pad manufacturing unit

His factory now employs 15 women who also raise awareness about menstrual hygiene

Assam gov’t makes sanitary napkins mandatory in factories

The decision was taken in the Assam cabinet meeting, chaired by CM Sarbananda Sonowal, to promote women’s hygiene

In Odisha’s Residential Schools For Tribal Girls, Education Comes At A Cost

Momita Batra (left) and Karma Mandali, both aged 14,...

UP’s dis-honourable dad kills daughter for loving the ‘wrong’ man

22-year-old woman killed over relationship with a man who belonged to the same caste in a crime curiously dubbed ‘honour’ killing

Sabarimala: Male devotee nurturing unholy thoughts is ‘unfit’ to visit Lord Ayyappa shrine

The Supreme Court last week, by 3:2 majority, decided...

Assam tea women workers bear the heaviest burdens: A double marginalization

Excerpts from Oxfam report “Addressing the Human Cost of...

India’s Microenterprises Can Spur Jobs, Gender Equity If They Scale Up: Study

Bengaluru: As India struggles with an unemployment crisis, its...

A Look into the Kerala Double POCSO-Suicide Case

The Congress and the BJP staged massive protests before...

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Partitioned minds, a Saffron Fatwa & Denial of Fair Opportunity: Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu

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