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‘Skip the doctor-engineer race, barbering pays more’: Jawed Habib’s fact-based reality check for parentsIndia's career advice to become a doctor or engineer is being challenged. Celebrity hairstylist Jawed Habib highlights that the country's b...- Manual scavenging persists despite legal ban: Economic SurveyThe Economic Survey 2025-26 flags concerns over workers in sanitation roles. It points to deep socio-cultural issues despite laws. The surv...
- 'There is something wrong': SC raises concern about rising number of student suicides at institutesThe Supreme Court has sought reports from IIT-Kharagpur and Sharda University regarding recent student deaths, expressing concern over risi...
- Karnataka CM writes to Rahul Gandhi on preparing draft of Rohith Vemula ActKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has directed his legal team to draft the Rohith Vemula Act, aiming to prevent discrimination in educa...
- Dalit girl made to sit outside her classroom during exams as she was menstruatingIn Coimbatore, a Dalit eighth-grader was allegedly barred from her classroom during her period and forced to take her annual exam on the st...
- 750 leprosy colonies in India still remain segregated from mainstream society: OfficialThere are still 750 leprosy colonies in India that need to be integrated into mainstream society, according to S Govindaraj, Commissioner a...
- US court spikes caste bias case against Cisco employeesWhile the CRD has voluntarily sought the dismissal of the case against the two Indian-American employees of Cisco, it is still processing t...
- In affidavit in SC, Centre defends exclusion of Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims from scheduled castes' listThe ministry also refused to agree with the report of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission that recommended inclusion of Dalit Christian...
- Delhi HC seeks Centre's stand in CHRI's plea concerning suspension of FCRA registrationIf their foreign contributions are for salaries then everything goes, the central government's standing counsel Anil Soni told the court as...
- TrulyMadly raises $2.1 million in pre-Series A funding roundThe TrulyMadly funding round comes close on the heels of the online dating app recording 10 times growth in Tier II-III cities amid the cor...
- National Award winner Kaushik Ganguly to make Bollywood debut with 'Manohar Pandey'The film will feature Supriya Pathak Kapur, Saurabh Shukla and Raghubir Yadav.
- Quota demand: Maharashtra government starts survey of Marathas in villagesAccording to a government official, the sample survey has been undertaken to ascertain the economic backwardness within the community to ju...
- Jat row: There can't be more appropriate time to start a debate on de-induction from reservation listSince the Jats are a dominant caste and politically significant, Haryana CM Khattar has bowed to their demands, instead of rejecting them o...
- Amnesty report condemns 'growing intolerance' in IndiaAuthorities in India failed to "prevent many incidents of religious violence" and sometimes "contributed to tensions through polarising spe...
- RSS doesn't work with an eye on polls: Bhaiyyaji JoshiRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has carried out its work not with an eye on elections or politics but for all round betterment of society, RSS ...
- Universal ID cards for persons with disabilities envisaged in 2014The year witnessed the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment envisaging universal ID cards to persons with disabilities in the coming ...
- Department of AIDS Control to be merged with Health Ministry; decision riles activistsThe merger was first proposed in the 12th Five-Year Plan. Planning Commission suggested that the DAC should be integrated with the National...
- Vicky Donor: Movie ReviewAmongst the major accomplishments of this film is the fact that despite being a film revolving around the theme of the sperm donation, Vick...
- Recasting 2011 census: Too little, too lateWhat we lose by this careless inclusion of caste in the census of 2011 is an opportunity to debate the underlying nature of social inequali...
- PM backs an individual dealPolitical support for deals is also a decisive determinant of success.
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