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Time For India To Turn The Spotlight On Adolescent Health
In the list of health priorities, adolescent health lags far behind maternal and child health in India. It’s a dangerous oversight given that India is home to the largest number of adolescents in the world. An estimated 253 million adolescents live in India, and one in every fifth adolescent in the world is Indian. There is enough evidence to sho...
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Women: The Silent Victims Of Punjab's Drug Crisis
Amritsar, Punjab: In Amritsar’s Ajnala town, close to Pakistan’s border, 23-year-old Pooja (name changed), has been coping with her husband Parambir’s drug addiction for over five years. “After every treatment session, he promises to quit. But a few days after we are back home, he is back to the habit,” she says, despair and worry written...
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How Young Boys Bear The Burden Of Patriarchy In India
Mumbai: Inside a community centre at Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, Umair Khan teaches a group of young boys the difference between good and bad touch. The 20-year-old is a community organiser with Sneha – Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action. He works with the NGO’s youth programme Ehsaas which, since 2013, has reached out to over 6,000...
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How Asia’s Largest Human Milk Bank In Mumbai Saves Babies’ Lives
Mumbai: When her son Hassan was born at 28 weeks, Saba Khan was told the baby had slim chances of survival. “He was very weak and was rushed to the paediatric ICU. He stayed there for nearly 20 days and the doctor told me it would be nothing short of a miracle if he made it alive,” says Ms Khan. To make matters worse, Saba was very weak and cou...
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With Support From An App, Women Stand Up To Domestic Violence In Dharavi
A two-year-old app is helping women in Asia’s largest slum, Dharavi, to stand up against domestic violence. The Little Sister app, working in 3 languages, is helping women report instances, however small, and get help. Home to a population of over one million, Mumbai’s Dharavi sees many such cases, say the women who are part of the initiative s...
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The Young Rise Against Child Marriage in Bihar
The latest Census report says that nearly one in every three married women in India were married off below the legal age of 18 years, a grim reminder of how widespread child marriage is in the country. Clearly, the practice continues despite the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act because it has strong social sanction. What is needed is a change in m...
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Why Kanimozhi, Jaya Bachchan fight new bill that seeks to make divorce faster
Some of India's most famous women MPs have spent the week arguing against a new bill that seeks to make divorce easier. Actor-politician Jaya Bachchan and M Kanimozhi of the DMK are among those who said the proposals in the new bill will leave women more vulnerable.
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Angry Priya Dutt complains to Congress about 'insult'
As Mumbai gears up to vote for its local municipal elections, the Congress has some house-keeping it needs to urgently attend to. Priya Dutt, the popular MP and actor Sanjay Dutt's sister, is upset about not being consulted about the party's candidates. Ms Dutt denies that she has threatened to quit.
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Want alliance with Pawar's party for Mumbai polls, says Congress
The Congress has said it is eager to tie up with Sharad Pawar's party for elections for the country's richest municipal corporation, Mumbai's BMC.
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Reinvestigation for death of Yogita, child who allegedly died in Gadkari's car
In 2009, seven-year-old Yogita Thakre was found dead in Nagpur with bruises all over her body in a car allegedly owned by Nitin Gadkari, and parked at his home. At this time, Mr Gadkari had not yet been selected the chief of the BJP; he was the president of its Maharashtra branch. Yogita's mother, who worked as a domestic helper in the area, later ...
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Time For India To Turn The Spotlight On Adolescent Health
In the list of health priorities, adolescent health lags far behind maternal and child health in India. It’s a dangerous oversight given that India is home to the largest number of adolescents in the world. An estimated 253 million adolescents live in India, and one in every fifth adolescent in the world is Indian. There is enough evidence to sho...
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Women: The Silent Victims Of Punjab's Drug Crisis
Amritsar, Punjab: In Amritsar’s Ajnala town, close to Pakistan’s border, 23-year-old Pooja (name changed), has been coping with her husband Parambir’s drug addiction for over five years. “After every treatment session, he promises to quit. But a few days after we are back home, he is back to the habit,” she says, despair and worry written...
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How Young Boys Bear The Burden Of Patriarchy In India
Mumbai: Inside a community centre at Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, Umair Khan teaches a group of young boys the difference between good and bad touch. The 20-year-old is a community organiser with Sneha – Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action. He works with the NGO’s youth programme Ehsaas which, since 2013, has reached out to over 6,000...
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How Asia’s Largest Human Milk Bank In Mumbai Saves Babies’ Lives
Mumbai: When her son Hassan was born at 28 weeks, Saba Khan was told the baby had slim chances of survival. “He was very weak and was rushed to the paediatric ICU. He stayed there for nearly 20 days and the doctor told me it would be nothing short of a miracle if he made it alive,” says Ms Khan. To make matters worse, Saba was very weak and cou...
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With Support From An App, Women Stand Up To Domestic Violence In Dharavi
A two-year-old app is helping women in Asia’s largest slum, Dharavi, to stand up against domestic violence. The Little Sister app, working in 3 languages, is helping women report instances, however small, and get help. Home to a population of over one million, Mumbai’s Dharavi sees many such cases, say the women who are part of the initiative s...
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The Young Rise Against Child Marriage in Bihar
The latest Census report says that nearly one in every three married women in India were married off below the legal age of 18 years, a grim reminder of how widespread child marriage is in the country. Clearly, the practice continues despite the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act because it has strong social sanction. What is needed is a change in m...
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Why Kanimozhi, Jaya Bachchan fight new bill that seeks to make divorce faster
Some of India's most famous women MPs have spent the week arguing against a new bill that seeks to make divorce easier. Actor-politician Jaya Bachchan and M Kanimozhi of the DMK are among those who said the proposals in the new bill will leave women more vulnerable.
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Angry Priya Dutt complains to Congress about 'insult'
As Mumbai gears up to vote for its local municipal elections, the Congress has some house-keeping it needs to urgently attend to. Priya Dutt, the popular MP and actor Sanjay Dutt's sister, is upset about not being consulted about the party's candidates. Ms Dutt denies that she has threatened to quit.
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Want alliance with Pawar's party for Mumbai polls, says Congress
The Congress has said it is eager to tie up with Sharad Pawar's party for elections for the country's richest municipal corporation, Mumbai's BMC.
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Reinvestigation for death of Yogita, child who allegedly died in Gadkari's car
In 2009, seven-year-old Yogita Thakre was found dead in Nagpur with bruises all over her body in a car allegedly owned by Nitin Gadkari, and parked at his home. At this time, Mr Gadkari had not yet been selected the chief of the BJP; he was the president of its Maharashtra branch. Yogita's mother, who worked as a domestic helper in the area, later ...
