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Abortion Limit Increased From 20 to 24 Weeks, Cabinet Approves Changes

This provision is for "special categories of women", which...

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Why It Shouldn’t Be so Difficult for a Woman to Fly Gaganyaan First – But Is

Virjana Dwarkan and Kapil Subramanian 17/01/2020

It is not merely that this government is blind...

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Problem: India’s Anti-HIV Interventions Have Been Ignoring Virtual Networks

Rohan Gupta 14/01/2020

Virtual communication facilitates a direct link between sex workers...

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Why Have So Few Women Won the Most Important Award in Computing?

Susan D’agostino 09/01/2020

Since 1966, 70 computer scientists have won the Turing...

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Healthcare Is Gender Blind. Here’s How to Fix It.

Shagun Sabarwal 02/01/2020

To improve the enrolment of women in health insurance...

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Kerala Gram Panchayat Set to Become First to Be Free of Synthetic Sanitary Pads

The Wire Staff 30/12/2019

Cloth pads and menstrual cups have been distributed to...

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A New Kind of Quantum Information Conference Is Coming to Chennai

Nandita Jayaraj 19/12/2019

In 2018, a quantum information workshop in Brazil came...