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45% Of Vellore's Urban Slum Children Stunted By Age 2, Finds Lancet Study
By age 7, more than 26 per cent of the children were classified 'thin' and 5.2 per cent classified 'overweight/obese', findings published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal show.
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"Surrounded By Police Like We Are Criminals": Kathputli Colony Residents Resist Eviction
By Rina Chandran New Delhi: Hundreds of residents in a New Delhi’s Kathputli Colony are resisting eviction by city officials and police in the third such protest this month, as anger mounts over a shortfall in housing for the urban poor, campaigners said. Evictions began this week in New Delhi’s Kathputli Colony, home to 3,500 families of stree...
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Half of Homeless Children in Cities Sexually Abused: Report
The blight of India's dwindling number of girls has worsened in urban India, according to a report by Save the Children, a global NGO with decades of experience.
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45% Of Vellore's Urban Slum Children Stunted By Age 2, Finds Lancet Study
By age 7, more than 26 per cent of the children were classified 'thin' and 5.2 per cent classified 'overweight/obese', findings published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal show.
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"Surrounded By Police Like We Are Criminals": Kathputli Colony Residents Resist Eviction
By Rina Chandran New Delhi: Hundreds of residents in a New Delhi’s Kathputli Colony are resisting eviction by city officials and police in the third such protest this month, as anger mounts over a shortfall in housing for the urban poor, campaigners said. Evictions began this week in New Delhi’s Kathputli Colony, home to 3,500 families of stree...
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Half of Homeless Children in Cities Sexually Abused: Report
The blight of India's dwindling number of girls has worsened in urban India, according to a report by Save the Children, a global NGO with decades of experience.
