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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
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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
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Assam tea women workers bear the heaviest burdens: A double marginalization
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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
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India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
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India
SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
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2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
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