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Major prostitution racket busted in Nepal’s border town
KATHMANDU: The authorities in Nepal have busted a major prostitution racket in Rupandehi district’s Butwal town, close to the Indian border.
The Nepal Police arrested at least 22 people, including girls, from different hotels of Butwal Municipality in Rupandehi district, close to the Indian border state of Uttar Pradesh. [...]
An open letter to Malaysian Indians
To begin with, this picture is not from Malaysia. It is from Chennai, the capital city of southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. According to flickr, this photo is part of their most interesting 50 sets. It says a lot about the pain, and struggle of Dalit community in India, above all in Tamil Nadu.
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Only 8 % of Indians go for higher education
Only eight percent of Indian students finishing school go for higher education – compared to 20 per cent in China – and the country needs 1,500 new universities in the next seven years to bridge the shortfall of skilled workers, India’s Knowledge Commission has said.
The 82nd annual conference of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) [...]
India drops down 2 places in HDI, ranks 128th
India growing? It’s not showing, Country unable to break out of class of laggards in UN assessment
The world’s second highest economic growth rate has not yet helped India hoist itself away from its customary position in the global development report card.
The Human Development Report for 2007-08 released by the UNDP today ranked India 128 [...]
17 million children in India work out of compulsion
Children’s Day under the shadow of the rape of childhood
We observe November 14, the birthday of the first Prime Minister of India, Chacha Nehru as Children’s Day. But a look at the condition of children in India makes one question the significance of November 14? Do we really cherish our future citizens?
THE DEFINITION OF a [...]
55 percent women anaemic, 40 percent kids underweight: NFHSreport
More than half the women in India are anaemic and one in three child is underweight.
‘Anaemia is disturbingly common among adults. 55 percent of women in India are anaemic and 43 percent of kids below the age of three are underweight,’ reveals the final report of the National Family Health Survey – III (NFHS-3), released [...]
Absent teachers resulting in 22.5 % education funds India
A classroom struggle
Schools be damned. That seems to be the only message that keeps getting hammered with every disheartening report on the status of schooling in India. If last week it was the severe step of having to file FIRs against teachers in the face of a staggering number of cases of abuse of children, [...]
Cheques worth $300,000 collected to sell answers to a nationwide examination for physicians
Indian education system was more corrupt during BJP Rule
NEW DELHI: Corruption in the Indian education system is high along with Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia and a host of African and Latin American countries like Uganda, Ecuador, Honduras, Zambia and Peru. It needs to be pointed out that the report is based on relatively old data of [...]
Amnesty International’ Full Report on India 2007
Amnesty International Press Release, May 25, 2007,
Perpetrators of past human rights violations continued to enjoy impunity. Concerns grew over protection of economic, social and cultural rights of already marginalized communities. Human rights violations were reported in several states where security legislation was used to facilitate arbitrary detention and torture. A new anti-terror law, in place [...]
Indian teachers ‘purify’ low caste students with cow urine
Mumbai, April 22, 2007 ,
Indian teachers have been sprinkling cow urine on low-caste students to purify them and drive away evil.
In India, millions of people formerly known as “untouchables” remain oppressed at the bottom of the ancient Hindu caste system.
The Times of India reported yesterday that upper-caste headteacher Sharad Kaithade ordered the ritual after taking [...]
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