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India Most Dangerous Country For Women, US In 10 Worst: Survey
India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released on Tuesday.
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Qatar Affiliate to Sell Airtel Stake For Rs 9,500 Crore
Three Pillars Pte Ltd has put up about 19.9 crore Airtel shares for sale in a price range of Rs 473-490 each.
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Forced To Work For 15 Hours Every Day, Labourers Freed After 7 Years From Rajasthan
Mumbai: Nearly 25 workers, including children, who worked 15 hour days for seven years, were rescued at the weekend at Baran in Rajasthan, in a rare crackdown on farms where forced labour is rampant. Campaigners said the workers were from a tribe in Madhya Pradesh and were given loans ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 20,000 before being taken to Rajasthan...
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Crackdown On Mumbai Street Vendors Sparks Row Over Public Spaces
Mumbai: A crackdown on street vendors in Mumbai after they were blamed for a stampede at a train station last month highlights the diminishing access to public spaces for the city’s poor and marginalised communities, activists said. A report on the rush-hour stampede during a monsoon downpour that killed 22 people, said vendors crowding a narrow ...
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Underpaid, Abused, Cheated: Death Brings Home Reality Of Indian Workers' Life In Gulf
Jagital, Telangana: On a hot, sleepy afternoon at Kalleda village in Telangana, Laxmi Malaya sat on the porch of her house where the body of her husband Chittam – a daily wage labourer in Dubai – was to be brought the next day. Chittam, 45, was the second migrant worker from the village to have died in Dubai in September and among the nearly 45...
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Brahmaputra Boat Clinic In Assam Goes Solar, Powering Up Rural Healthcare
Majuli, Assam: Sitting on her haunches, Ritumani Baruah watches the boat drop anchor and waits for its crew to set up a clinic on the shore. Twenty minutes later, she asks to see the dentist and is guided to the lower deck of the SB Nahor, a boat offering healthcare services that operates on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. She negotiates the gangp...
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Years After Father Sold Her, Arunachal Teen Tracks Him Down, Slaps Him
Biswanath: When she was a little over knee high, Badaik’s father took her on a trip. They walked through lush tea gardens, boarded a bus and reached “somewhere”. As she took in the sights, her father turned back and went home, leaving her at the doorstep of a “nice house”. He had sold her into slavery for Rs 500. Badaik grew up working a...
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How Social Media, New Laws Help Set India's Child Brides Free
MUMBAI: Campaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India. Kriti Bharti, founder of Saarthi Trust, has helped nullify more than 30 child marriages in Rajasthan, and recently used Facebook posts as evidence in court in a state where these marriages are often held secretly at night. “We have a law a...
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More Women Killed In Gender Violence Than Armed Conflicts In India: Expert
KUALA LUMPUR: Gender-based violence is emerging as one of the deadliest forms of violence in Asia and it has killed more women than armed conflicts in some parts of the region, an expert on conflict said on Friday, calling for more attention to the issue. Researcher Patrick Barron of the US-based non-profit The Asia Foundation said a two-year stu...
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Disasters Make 2.3 Million Indians Leave Their Homes Each Year: United Nations
London: About 14 million people are being made homeless on average each year as a result of sudden disasters such as floods and storms, new figures show. The risk of displacement could rise as populations swell and the impacts of climate change become more severe, said a report issued on Friday by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduct...
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India Most Dangerous Country For Women, US In 10 Worst: Survey
India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released on Tuesday.
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Qatar Affiliate to Sell Airtel Stake For Rs 9,500 Crore
Three Pillars Pte Ltd has put up about 19.9 crore Airtel shares for sale in a price range of Rs 473-490 each.
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Forced To Work For 15 Hours Every Day, Labourers Freed After 7 Years From Rajasthan
Mumbai: Nearly 25 workers, including children, who worked 15 hour days for seven years, were rescued at the weekend at Baran in Rajasthan, in a rare crackdown on farms where forced labour is rampant. Campaigners said the workers were from a tribe in Madhya Pradesh and were given loans ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 20,000 before being taken to Rajasthan...
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Crackdown On Mumbai Street Vendors Sparks Row Over Public Spaces
Mumbai: A crackdown on street vendors in Mumbai after they were blamed for a stampede at a train station last month highlights the diminishing access to public spaces for the city’s poor and marginalised communities, activists said. A report on the rush-hour stampede during a monsoon downpour that killed 22 people, said vendors crowding a narrow ...
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Underpaid, Abused, Cheated: Death Brings Home Reality Of Indian Workers' Life In Gulf
Jagital, Telangana: On a hot, sleepy afternoon at Kalleda village in Telangana, Laxmi Malaya sat on the porch of her house where the body of her husband Chittam – a daily wage labourer in Dubai – was to be brought the next day. Chittam, 45, was the second migrant worker from the village to have died in Dubai in September and among the nearly 45...
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Brahmaputra Boat Clinic In Assam Goes Solar, Powering Up Rural Healthcare
Majuli, Assam: Sitting on her haunches, Ritumani Baruah watches the boat drop anchor and waits for its crew to set up a clinic on the shore. Twenty minutes later, she asks to see the dentist and is guided to the lower deck of the SB Nahor, a boat offering healthcare services that operates on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. She negotiates the gangp...
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Years After Father Sold Her, Arunachal Teen Tracks Him Down, Slaps Him
Biswanath: When she was a little over knee high, Badaik’s father took her on a trip. They walked through lush tea gardens, boarded a bus and reached “somewhere”. As she took in the sights, her father turned back and went home, leaving her at the doorstep of a “nice house”. He had sold her into slavery for Rs 500. Badaik grew up working a...
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How Social Media, New Laws Help Set India's Child Brides Free
MUMBAI: Campaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India. Kriti Bharti, founder of Saarthi Trust, has helped nullify more than 30 child marriages in Rajasthan, and recently used Facebook posts as evidence in court in a state where these marriages are often held secretly at night. “We have a law a...
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More Women Killed In Gender Violence Than Armed Conflicts In India: Expert
KUALA LUMPUR: Gender-based violence is emerging as one of the deadliest forms of violence in Asia and it has killed more women than armed conflicts in some parts of the region, an expert on conflict said on Friday, calling for more attention to the issue. Researcher Patrick Barron of the US-based non-profit The Asia Foundation said a two-year stu...
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Disasters Make 2.3 Million Indians Leave Their Homes Each Year: United Nations
London: About 14 million people are being made homeless on average each year as a result of sudden disasters such as floods and storms, new figures show. The risk of displacement could rise as populations swell and the impacts of climate change become more severe, said a report issued on Friday by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduct...
