The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched its Haryana 2019 campaign with a spate of rallies, welcoming Commonwealth gold-medal awardee and wrestler, Babita Phogat to the mix. Less than a week…
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‘A Woman With No Rights Will Keep Giving – Until She Dies’
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 19, 2019Gayatri Devi is a farmer and an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife hailing from Manikpur village in Chitrakoot,district of U.P. The strength and confidence she exudes as an independent , single mother…
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Durga Puja : Artificial ponds to help protect the Ken river
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 8, 2019River pollution due to idol immersion during popular festivals such as Durga Puja is a problem that is increasingly not just limited to big cities but small-town India too. Stricter…
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Swachh Bharat and ODF titles : A deliberate design to divide and rule
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 2, 2019Premnarayan Rajput is the son of Ramkali, the Pradhan of Baraimanpur village in Mahua block of Banda in Uttar Pradesh. Without caution perhaps, he admitted something that not many panchayat…
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Why the Uttar Pradesh village at the centre of the Chapatti-salt midday meal row is still seething
द्वारा खबर लहरिया September 21, 2019On August 22, Pawan Jaiswal, a journalist with Jansandesh Times in Uttar Pradesh, released a video showing schoolchildren at Siyur village in Mirzapur district being served a meager meal of…
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“They pluck out hearts of children”—how fake news is plaguing the hinterland
द्वारा खबर लहरिया September 21, 2019Through the thick, humid months of July and August, an unverified clip raced across social media and WhatsApp accounts in northern India, featuring mutilated bodies and organs, purportedly part of…
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The decades long battle for post-divorce alimony
द्वारा खबर लहरिया September 1, 2019Geeta has been separated from her husband for the past 18-19 years. Life has been much the same for her since her short-lived marriage. Though legally divorced and entitled to…
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“Where lies the freedom?” : Women’s views on the Triple Talaq ban
द्वारा खबर लहरिया August 15, 2019We met Subi Begum outside the civil court in Banda as she waited for the hearing of a case she has been fighting for years- “I feel at peace that…
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Naag Pancahmi, Misogyny and Bundelkhandi voodoo
द्वारा खबर लहरिया August 15, 2019“Yes, I have tried to understand why this is done but never went far with that. These dolls are just like us and fashioned after our image. So it is…