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There are allegations of irregularities regarding allocation of flats built for wounded freedom fighters. Out of 84 flats, 33 flats have been allocated. And 13 persons have illegally grabbed 26 flats out of these 33. Although 51 flats are…

Maldives crisis: The Indian government has already issued two statements criticising the political chaos in the Maldives and especially “disturbed” by the imposition of Emergency. The complexity of the ongoing crisis in the Maldives has…

It was an extraordinary recognition of unique role of the media in this country as the crucial bridge to the people of India. When four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court took the route of a press conference on January 12 to express…

For both Pakistan and India, Kulbhushan Jadhav has become a pawn in a high-stakes game.  In my memory, the Pakistan Foreign Office in Islamabad has a bright foyer lit with a grand chandelier, and tea and biscuits were always laid out…

Sivagami, first Kaadar to pursue post-graduation, wants to help her tribe progress Twenty-five-year-old Sivagami has many dreams. One of them is to help her community, which has for long been living in isolation and neglect. Ms. Sivagami…

For children of the Kaadar community in the Western Ghats, getting an education means leaving home at the age of six to stay at residential schools. Deep in the jungles of the Western Ghats near Valparai, over a 100 km from Coimbatore, is…

MUMBAI: Monika Mehtu's petite frame gives away little about the feisty 13-year-old hiding inside. Earlier this year, the teenager from the Bhula village of east Singhbhum district in Jharkhand, and six of her friends, prevented the marriage…

She had to quit school five years ago when she was in Class VI to help the family deal with medical expenses of her ailing mother. Seboti Pahariya has to wait till January to rejoin school. The 17-year-old has waited five years already.…

Beginning of the year 2018 remained quite tensed for Maharashtra. The first day of the new year came with a news of attack on dalits who were coming back after celebrating 200th years of Bhima Koregaon victory, near Pune against ruler…

Married girls aged 15-19 years are twice more likely to die during childbirth, UNICEF reports. Sarita, 15, and her friend Mali, 14, are nothing short of stars at the middle school in Punsa village, about 25 km from the steel hub of…