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    Will the hijab row undo India’s youth demographic dividend?

    Girls and women negotiate multiple challenges in making choices or pursuing their interests, even when it comes to education. Muslim girls have moved forward...
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    E-governance

    There is a need to unclothe cash transfer programmes!

    It is pertinent to ask if a cash transfer allocation is good even if the scheme gets apportioned from the allocations required otherwise for...
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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh NGOs highlight human rights violations

    Bangladeshi human rights organisations have written to the UN human rights council to counsel the Bangladesh government to put an end to extrajudicial killings,...
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    Civil society

    The missing ‘worker’ in Budget 2022 and its implications

    Two popular words — ‘worker’ and ‘labourer’ were absent in the finance minister’s speech. This signifies a paternalistic approach to workers where workers are...
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    Agriculture

    Who feeds the world – small farmer or big business?

    A report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has come in for criticism for suggesting that policymakers should give greater attention to larger...
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    Health

    HIV AIDS: Fast-spreading variant doubles rate of immune system decline

    While the world continues to grapple with the various variants of COVID-19, new research points to the emergence of a new variant of the...
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    Climate change

    Everest’s South Col glacier is thinning 80-times faster, says new study

    Mount Everest is very much part of the earth we live in and is not spared by climate change. But a new study unveiled...
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    Afghanistan

    Duty calls to alleviate suffering in Afghanistan

    Imagine for a minute that you are in those conditions; you need to put food on the table for your starving children, it is...
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