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How this NGO is breaking taboos around menstrual hygiene in rural Andhra Pradesh -Nivedita Ganguly

-The Hindu Hyderabad-based Balamitra Foundation’s project of distributing menstrual hygiene kits in Andhra’s Billalavalasa village has started conversations on a topic often brushed under the carpet When Sravani got her first period, she had no idea how to manage the bleeding since nobody had spoken about it to her. Even her mother was hush-hush about it. She ended up using cloth and missing a week’s class at school. Several girls like her...

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A policy road map to tackle COVID-19 -Sanjay Reddy

-The Hindu The interest of each and the interests of all now coincide, not only within nations but for all humanity How will it all end? Policies to address the worldwide crisis brought about by COVID-19 must satisfy three criteria. First, they must aim to minimise the loss of life directly resulting from the disease, while recognising that there remain deep uncertainties about its true nature. Second, they must restore the elements of...

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Why most drop-outs from IITs, IIMs are from reserved category? -Shyna Kalra

-The Indian Express In terms of IITs, the maximum Dropouts are seen in IIT-Delhi, while at IIMs, most Dropouts took place at IIM Indore followed by IIM Kashipur. At IIM-Kashipur, all the Dropouts in the past two years were reserved-category students. Out of 2,461 students who dropped out from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the last two years, 371 students were from the Scheduled Caste (SC), 199 from the Scheduled...

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2,400 students dropped out of IITs in 2 years, nearly half were SC, ST, OBC -Kritika Sharma

-ThePrint.in Most of the Dropouts occurred in the older IITs — Delhi tops the list, followed by Kharagpur, Bombay, Kanpur and Madras. New Delhi: Over 2,400 students have dropped out from the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the last two years, with over half of them belonging to the general category. These Dropouts are both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. According to data shared by the Ministry of Human Resource...

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Wayanad's tribal hamlets one step from 100% literacy -EM Manoj

-The Hindu The focus is on preparing residents of 1,517 habitations to take the test by 2020 KALPETTA (Kerala): After making two successful forays into the tribal hamlets of Wayanad, Kerala’s State Literacy Mission (SLM) is all set to earn the ‘100% literate’ badge for the outlier region, which has the highest tribal population among all districts. Tribal pockets are among a handful of areas where full literacy remains elusive in the...

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