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New Delhi:A day before Indias Independence Day, tens of thousands of women in Kolkata and across West Bengal will participate in a Reclaim the Night march on Wednesday in the aftermath of the rape-murder of a doctor in RG Kar hospital, reports BBCcorrespondent Soutik Biswas...
Recalling the 1973 Aruna Shanbaug case and Vandana Dass murder last year,theBBC. reportsthat 30 percent of Indian doctors and 80 percent of nursesare women, who are more vulnerable than their male colleagues..
AFinancial Timesreport, India withdraws controversial broadcast bill after backlash, says that the Narendra Modi government taking back a draft bill that sought to extend regulatory oversight to online content creators after facing backlash is a stark reflection of its reduced parliamentary mandate.[The governments] legislative agenda is now something which cannot be dictated; it has to be done through trust, Apar Gupta, an expert on technology and media law, tellsFT...
Hindenburg Researchs latest on Adani, raising questions of conflict of interest involving SEBI chair Madhabi Buch, has become a trending topic on social media, reportsBBCin Why Indias market regulator is in the eye of a storm..
Indias colossal failure to invest in education, coupled with an economic growth model that has failed to produce quality jobs, has resulted in extreme scarcity, which has intensified competition, writes Yamini Aiyar, a visiting senior fellow at Brown University, in aForeign Affairsreport, calling the situation a toxic cocktail, leading to routine cheating.. Discussing the NEET crisis, Yamini Aiyar, a visiting senior fellow at Brown University, writes that Indias colossal failure to invest in education and produce quality jobs has resulted in extreme scarcity and competition a toxic cocktail that leads to cheating..
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