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Nishita Jha
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Name and shame list: Indian women students explain why they don’t trust official sexual abuse panels
A group of feminists has called for ‘due process’ to be followed in complaints about sexual harassment on campus. But many say official mechanisms don’t work.
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After teen is lynched on train, young men from his village are afraid of looking ‘too Muslim’
Faridabad’s Khandawli village is still trying to make sense of the brutal attack on Junaid and his brothers on Thursday evening.
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Gujarat riot victim Bilkis Bano moved 20 homes in 15 years but never lost her faith in justice
Through court dates and a police cover-up, her husband stood by her like a rock.
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Trending
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Can you prove you are an Indian citizen? Take the Assam NRC test
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Faultlines redrawn in Assam: Muslims targeted by Assamese nationalists join Citizenship Act protests
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Caught on the news: Anchor Arnab Goswami both opposes and supports the new Citizenship Bill
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Citizenship Amendment Bill gets President Kovind’s assent, becomes Act
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Dissent is ‘anti-national’ in Modi’s India – no matter where it comes from
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Attacks on Africans: In India's satellite towns like Greater Noida, do black lives really matter?
Students from the developing world come to the educational hub near Delhi seeking a 'premium international experience'. What they find is sometimes different.
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Demonetisation will hit the cash reserves – and health – of millions of sex workers
The access to healthcare and contraceptives for women and transgendered people in sex work is linked to their financially stability.
Nishita Jha & Sambit Pal
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GPS-enabled rupee notes with spelling errors: Ten demonetisation rumours from the past fortnight
How many of these have you heard?
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Video
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Watch: Shillong explodes in protest against the new Citizenship Act, like other North-Eastern cities
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Watch: First snowfall of the season puts a beautiful white cover on Manali in Himachal Pradesh
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Watch: A baby was saved from falling off the shop counter while their mother was shopping for a gun
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Watch: Comedian Kunal Rao laments the lack of a poetic sense in modern songwriters
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Watch Cristiano Ronaldo lose his cool at a pitch invader who grabbed his neck to take a selfie
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Note demonetisation: What of the women who hide cash to feed their children or to escape abuse?
A large section of women in India are out of the banking system, and the currency withdrawal has hit them hard.
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Three charts show how it is always a state of perpetual war on the Indo-Pak border
Reports suggest Indo-Pak relations have never been worse, but people on either side of the LoC – and indeed, the international border – live in an uneasy truce.
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Is it rape only when the victim screams and fights back? A Supreme Court verdict calls for a debate
The apex court dismissed a case after questioning the victim's behaviour. But accounts of rape survivors show there is no normal response to such an assault.
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The Reel
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Is the web series ‘Queen’ about Jayalalithaa? Here’s what Ramya Krishnan has to say
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‘Chhapaak’ trailer: Watch Deepika Padukone as an acid attack survivor
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‘Wonder Woman 1984’: The superhero is reunited with lover Chris Pine
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Women cinematographers speak up: ‘The mainstream is hostile, diverse pool is simply not available’
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How ‘Inside Edge’ season 2 squanders its first-mover advantage
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As BSF chief clarifies force did not ask Punjab to evacuate border, parties want Badal to explain
An evacuation without any seeming plan has left lakhs of people stranded in relief camps with crops ripening in faraway fields.
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‘If border is risky, why is CM Badal flying here in a chopper?’ ask residents of evacuated villages
Though thousands have been shifted out of villages in Punjab, there is little to indicate that the evacuation was necessary.
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Border-village evacuation: Khalsa Aid volunteers step up to fill gaps in official services
The Sikh humanitarian organisation has provided aid around the world, most recently to refugees in Greece.
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The Field
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Team management to test Bumrah’s fitness by making him bowl to Kohli and Co in India nets: Report
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Breathe to win: How you can benefit from controlled breathing techniques that elite athletes use
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I’m still Siya: Springboks skipper Kolisi wants to avoid pitfalls of fame
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The rich get richer: Europe’s Big Five dominate Champions League Last 16 to leave ‘underdogs’ behind
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Saudi Arabia to host its first professional women’s golf tournament in 2020