Month: July 2019

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How the Centre Can Ensure Women Receive Maternity Benefits

Vanita Leah Falcao, K.C. Sachin and Sabhil Nath Painkra 22/07/2019

Increased budgetary allocation is a welcome step, but key...

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Death Toll Reaches 166 as Floods Continue to Wreak Havoc in Bihar and Assam

In Bihar, 72.78 lakh people from 12 districts of...

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That Time Dara Singh Went to the Moon Before Neil Armstrong Did…

Tanul Thakur 22/07/2019

On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission...

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Mapping the Moon for Apollo

Timothy Swindle 21/07/2019

The first humans to land on the Moon, and...

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The Story of India’s Private Forests

Manu Moudgil 21/07/2019

India has lost over 1.6 million hectares of tree...

A girl wrapped in a shawl looks on as she waits along with her mother for a train at a railway station on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India January 3, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Saumya Khandelwal

In Some Uttarakhand Villages, Not a Single Girl Was Born in Three Months

The Wire Staff 20/07/2019

The imbalance has raised the possibility of sex-selective abortions...

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Death Toll From Assam, Bihar Floods Approaches 150, Over 1.15 Crore Affected

The toll in Bihar floods climbed to 92, with...