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Uttarakhand’s Gen Z pradhans combat stereotypes and patriarchy, rewrite rules of politicsA new generation of young, educated pradhans, many of them women, are returning to Uttarakhand's villages after years of outmigration. Thes...- Panchayat or 'Panch-Pati'? Husbands take oath instead of elected wives, sparks row in ChhattisgarhIn a troubling incident in Chhattisgarh, six husbands took the oath of office on behalf of their elected wives, sparking outrage and an off...
- From flowers to guns: Women's struggle against military conscription in MyanmarThousands of people are fleeing Myanmar due to the military junta's announcement of conscription to bolster its forces against armed groups...
- Banned in Kuwait, 'Barbie' sparks delight, and anger, in Saudi ArabiaThe movie "Barbie" made its regional debut in many Saudi Arabian movie theaters last weekend, gaining criticism by many in the Middle East ...
- Anushka Sharma’s Clean Slate Filmz to launch female-focused streaming platformThe company said that Clean OTT content will comprise international and regional projects across films, web series, and docu-series. They w...
- View: There’s no correlation between female empowerment and age of marriageDespite the government’s claim of special priority to women, their position keeps deteriorating because the deep social prejudices cannot b...
- Why did ‘Kerala model’ fail so spectacularly? Here are three possible reasonsOver a year later, the myth-making around the ‘Kerala model’ continues. Over the last week, the state has accounted for 49% of all new Covi...
- Tashigang: 36 voters at world's highest polling boothAt Tashigang, a village at an altitude of 4,650 metres in Lahaul & Spiti, polling was a celebration of its newfound status.
- Twitter apologises for Jack Dorsey's placard, users demand legal actionTwitter’s legal policy head Vijaya Gadde apologised after users expressed outrage against its founder Jack Dorsey holding a placard reading...
- Nuns in Kerala are taking on the influential Catholic Church for justiceThe five sisters belong to the Missionaries of Jesus, a Latin Catholic order set up in Jalandhar in 1993, headquartered there and with thre...
- HP Elections: There is no anti-incumbency, but BJP's campaign could tilt the balance in its favourBJP has overwhelmingly more firepower than Congress in HP and that was visible in the number of public rallies, party flags and in media ad...
- Manual scavenging: This is caste violence, says filmmaker Divya BharathiFor her efforts and activism against manual scavenging, CPI (ML) activist Divya Bharathi was forced to be on the run till recently.
- Love kills six times more Indians than terror attacksBetween 2001 and 2015, love was the officially recorded reason for 38,585 murders and culpable homicide cases. Government records also link...
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