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The Wire 9 хв
“When the rape law was being amended in 2013, I had pointed out the pitfalls of tightening the law. If the victim survives, she will be a witness. The rapist therefore finds it more convenient to eliminate the witness."
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The Wire 24 хв
In terms of care work too, it shows that women spend more time (4.47 hours per week) on direct care work (related to looking after children, elderly, sick and disabled) than men (0.88 hours per week).
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The Wire 44 хв
“Observing us, women from other villages try to do embroidery. But this skill is inherent that we and our children do it easily and so nicely that sometimes customers ask us if it is machine embroidery,” said Uma.
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The Wire 1 год
A day before the budget session, an all-party meeting convened by the government was held Sunday in which the opposition demanded that issues such as farm distress, unemployment and drought should be debated upon in Parliament.
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The Wire 2 год
According to the last census, more than 2 million women live separated from their husbands, many the victims of desertion. Let the law punish all such husbands, and not just the Muslim ones.
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The Wire 2 год
Prior to NEET and when ‘in-service’ quota was in force, students from various socio-economic strata would enter the government service, even if they were unable to spend money or time for further studies.
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The Wire 2 год
Subramanian's new research paper traces “part of the overestimation” to a key methodological change in the way India calculated GDP – the measurement of the formal manufacturing sector.
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The Wire 3 год
Ambedkar envisaged reservations, allocation of seats to the poor in good schools, allotment of lands for the development of the allottees. Not to make them vote-banks.
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The Wire 3 год
The excess energy trapped since 2005 is “equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, 365 days per year”. We’ve trapped, since 1970, the energy equivalent of four Hiroshima bombs every second.
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The Wire 3 год
The dominance of Brahmins and Baniyas in the medical profession is not a recent phenomenon. It is a long standing pattern, where kinship and caste provided a social framework for them to access opportunities which emerged during colonialism.
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The Wire 4 год
Holding the high ground has always connoted a position of advantage or superiority in the military. Sixty years after the first satellite was launched, space is becoming the new military high ground that countries want to seize and dominate.
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The Wire 4 год
The officials at the Disaster Management Control Room said 22 people died in Aurangabad, 20 in Gaya and two in Nawada districts due to the heatwave.
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The Wire 4 год
With one more child dying of suspected AES in Muzaffarpur on Sunday morning, the death toll of children in the district rose to 83 this month, even as Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh each.
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The Wire 5 год
Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Infrastructure reported a net loss of Rs 3,301 crore for the quarter ended March 2019 compared with a net profit of Rs 134 crore in the corresponding period last year.
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The Wire 5 год
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman blamed Iran and called on the international community to take a “decisive stand” against the attacks of the two oil tankers.
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The Wire 5 год
The minister was channelling a mantra that almost every government around the world has taken to heart – data is an asset. This also explains why they are getting more concerned about its security.
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The Wire 6 год
Ceylan’s characters are memorable precisely because they leave space between what they speak, and what they hold back. We don’t act the way we speak, and vice versa. | writes.
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The Wire 6 год
While the English liberal has been busy reacting to the agenda set by the Sangh parivar appearing like cheap fakes of Voltaire and Rousseau, the regional liberal has been getting his/her hands dirty, and has also been paying with his life.
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The Wire 7 год
In a new problem, scientists have found that pollutants released by human activity can reach the deepest points in the world’s oceans, and pretty quickly too, via the food chain. Marine organisms at these depths seem to be feeding on these pollutants.
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The Wire 7 год
Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the world’s greatest opera singers and brought Shakespeare to the cinema-going masses, has died at 96. In a statement, his foundation said he died in Rome on Saturday. “Ciao Maestro,” said the announcement.
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