World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
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Santhal in spotlight
It was a movement that, in its own way, had shaken the foundations of the British Empire in India. One-hundred-and-fifty years later, three universities in India and abroad are commemorating the
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Canal clean up keeping Buddha awake
Clogged arteries are bad for health. Keeping that in mind, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front Government in West Bengal is using every procedure available to undo years of
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Weighing India's future
It's early in the morning in a small village in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh. The local anganwadi or daycare centre for pre-school children is buzzing with excitement. Children are waiting for
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Dancing in the rain
One often hears of the high prevalence of child labour in our country. Of the many reports I have read, perhaps the most disturbing was a report on the condition of children employed by zari
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Reds alert on Tribal Rights Bill
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) has given a call to observe November 18 as All-India Demands Day, to press the UPA Government to place the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of forests)
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Tomorrow, spare a thought for the girl child
A Nation Without Women, opens with a chilling sequence of a newborn girl child being drowned in a cauldron of milk. The film presents the stark reality of female infanticide in India, if allowed to
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Increased violence affects children most - UNICEF
United Nations Children's Fund calls upon all Sri Lankans to respect the rights of children and ensure their safety especially highlighting that children however should not pay a high price for
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Peeved residents oppose hazardous waste facility
Ashok Vihar residents have opposed the hazardous waste storage facility being constructed by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) and the Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation
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UNCEF says Sri Lankan children are still victimized by North East violence
The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that an increasing number of children have been victimized in "unrelenting" violence in Sri Lanka's North and East. UNICEF's representative in Sri
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Good news for tribal girls
The Orissa government has decided to open some high school for girl's, in the tribal dominated districts of Orissa. For the first phase, out of 12 blocks in Kandhamal district, nine blocks will have