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Maharashtra wakes up to growing urban malnutrition-Meena Menon

Rising trends in malnutrition among children under six here and in other cities have prompted the Maharashtra government to introduce an Urban Malnutrition Mission from next month, official sources said. A quarter of children below six years in the city weighed at anganwadis are underweight, according to the latest monthly progress report (MPR) of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). Non-governmental organisations point to a severe crisis of primary health...

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TMC men strip woman for fighting hooch trader

-The Times of India Trinamool Congress men beat a 38-year-old woman, confined her near a temple, tore off her clothes and forced her to walk half-naked to her home at Kanaidighi village in Bengal's East Midnapore district. After the torture and humiliation in the presence of her 16-year-old son and daughter on Sunday, the woman consumed poison and was admitted to Contai subdivisional hospital. Police put up a barricade around the hospital...

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Babri Case: Final hearing on conspiracy charge on March 27 by J Venkatesan

The Supreme Court on Monday posted for final hearing on March 27 a CBI special leave petition against a judgment of the Allahabad High Court, which upheld the dropping of the conspiracy charge by a special court against BJP leaders L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and 18 others in the Babri Masjid Demolition case. Senior counsel Ravi Shankar Prasad drew the court's attention to the fact that the...

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SC frowns on prefix to Babri Demolition

-PTI There is nothing famous or infamous about the Babri Masjid Demolition, the Supreme Court said today after a government lawyer described the case as “famous”. “What is famous about it? It was an incident which happened and (the) parties are before us. It is not famous or infamous,” Justices H.L. Dattu and C.K. Prasad said. The two-judge bench was hearing a CBI petition to allow criminal conspiracy charges to be revived against...

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Secular Thoughts by KN Panikkar

Without equality, democracy and social justice, which are three interrelated factors, secularism cannot exist as a positive value in society. I HAVE known Prof. Romila Thapar for about 45 years, most of it as a colleague at the Centre for Historical Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Romila, as she is called by almost everybody – from her eight-year-old grandnephew to all of us present here – had helped to...

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