It seems that dogs cannot find a safe place to live anywhere in India. After a gruesome incident of two women clobbering 16 dogs to death stunned everyone, many more insensitive incidents like these are coming to light. On Tuesday, a driver while reversing his Toyota Innova ran over two puppies who were sleeping under it. Mirror …
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Government-owned carrier Air India has painted two of its aircraft with the logo of Mahatma Gandhi who is known as Father of the nation. His logo was embossed on the airline to mark his 150th birth anniversary. Gandhi played a pivotal role in India’s freedom struggle as well as development of its constitution. His non-violent practice and promotion of self-reliance …
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The “Ten threats to global health in 2019” list released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) certainly seeks attention from all country, but India in particular needs to get at work if at all, it wants its large population which is already vulnerable to almost all hazards to remain unaffected by these threats. There are seven threats that India needs to take …
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Jammu and Kashmir has been reeling under terrorism for decades. Armed Forces Special Powers Act was imposed in the valley in 1990 and has been implemented ever since. Over the years, war and terrorism has eroded the valley of its peace and normal life. Stone pelting, firing and teargas shells have claimed a thousand lives. Certain districts of the region …
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After the success of Raazi last year, filmmaker Meghna Gulzar needs no introduction — the film being one of the biggest hits of 2018. However, Bollywood isn’t always considered to be a woman’s turf. And now, that the discourse has moved towards fortified representation of women behind the scenes in Indian cinema, it won’t be an overstatement that feisty film-maker …
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When a few cleaners arrived at a Virar residential building to find out what had been blocking the establishment’s drainage system, they were not expecting 200 pieces of flesh and bones in it. In a spine chilling incident, Pintu Sharma in his 40s killed his 58-year-old friend Ganesh Kolhatkar, after both of them got into a fiery argument. The murder …
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Floods in India were responsible for the highest economic losses amounting to $45.7 billion between 1998 and 2017 as per a recent report. Hindustan Times reported losses that were caused to India doubled within 10 years till 2017 as opposed to the previous decade of 1998-2007. The alarming figures were highlighted in a new report published by the Action on …
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For the first time in history, less than 3 per cent of the children are not attending school and the dropout rates have also significantly reduced, a nationwide study has found. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), 2018 which was released last week found that the proportion of children age 6-14 who are not enrolled in school has fallen …
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Organ donation can help patients get a new lease of life. Kidneys, eyes, liver, corneas are the most common organs that are donated. However, there is also a big difference between organ donation pledges and people who actually end up donating organs. Organ donations by family of a deceased is called cadaveric donation. In an unfortunate incident, a 44-year-old civic …
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It has been over a month since 15 coal miners got trapped in a 320 feet deep gorge. Scuba divers were called, National Disaster and State disaster response forces were summoned to rescue the miners who were working inside a rat-hole mine (which has been declared illegal by NGT since 2014). 33 days after they went missing, Indian Navy managed …
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