Women
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Army gender stereotypes razed
The Supreme Court of India ruled on Feb. 17 that women could serve as army commanders, dismissing the government’s stance…
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Football’s forward, India’s first
On January 29, Ngangom Bala Devi, India’s top scorer and a former captain of the national women’s football team, made…
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Zero teenage pregnancy campaign launched in Rajasthan
At an event organized by the Rajasthan State AIDS Control Society and PFI marking the National Youth Day, Rajasthan’s Health…
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PM at 34
In 1906, Finland became the first European country to give voting rights to women. In 2019, the country is being…
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Girls on the march
There are some fortnights when good news doesn’t rain, it pours. This week, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced that Sainik…
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From darkness to light
First visually impaired IAS “We should never be defeated, and never give up,” said Pranjal Patil, the young woman who…
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Grass is greener where you water it
-Saira Mohan (Canadian supermodel whom Newsweek called “the perfect face” when the magazine put her on its cover in 2003)…
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Two jewels gone
In the first week of August, the world lost two jewels: the first African-American to win Nobel Prize in Literature,…
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Pull me down, I will come back stronger
On the day India was glued to television sets watching the first semi-final match of 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup…
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Hang them soon
Amid the outcry over the barbarous murder of a 3-year-old in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district, there’s a need to take…
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