BHOPAL: Nobel laureate and Bachpan Bachao Andolan founder Kailash Satyarthi has launched a campaign with the objective of children’s betterment titled ‘Surakshit Bachpan, Surakshit Bharat’. “A massive people’s movement is imperative to combat increasing violence against minors, sexual abuse, prostitution, child labour and marriage, trafficking, etc. Every sixth kid in the world is a victim …
However banning crackers for Diwali and permitting them a few months later for New Years, will beg the question, is this about the festival or pollution? There has been a furore over the firecracker ban in Delhi in the past few days, as well as a counter-accusation that the debate has taken a ‘communal’ …
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The image of women producers is reaped millions of times throughout the vast terrain. While she cooks, she breast feeds one child and watches three others. If she fails in any of these tasks, or performs them too slowly, her husband often feels it is his prerogative to beat her.
MUMBAI: Big Tata group companies are readying to channel asignificant part of their mandatory charity spend to Tata Trusts, the group’s philanthropic arm and owner, in line with Tata Trusts Chairman Ratan Tata’s effort to streamline all social spends into one powerful programme, said several people with direct knowledge of the plan. Tata Trusts CSR …
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Two Indian para-athletes are taking the world by storm. Although sporting events for people with physical disabilities have been conducted for over a century now – the 1888 Berlin events for the deaf is an early instance – it took two catastrophic World Wars to fully bring the Paralympics to recognition, in a somewhat roundabout …
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