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Malala done with Oxford; now it's Netflix and sleep!

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner who once took a bullet for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan, was over the moon on Friday after completing her degree in......

7 years on, Nirbhaya fund remains underutilised

The chapter of 2012 gangrape and murder case of 'Nirbhaya' concluded with the hanging of four convicts on Friday, but the fund set up in her name for the safety of women remains underutilised, with......

Rape of 5-yr-old in Delhi: 2 convicts get 20-yr jail

A Delhi court on Thursday sentenced two men to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for brutally raping a five-year-old girl and abandoning her in a house believing she was dead in Gandhi Nagar in......

6 states, UTs didn't use Nirbhaya fund at all

Six states and UTs -- Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura and Daman & Diu -- have not spent a single rupee from the fund allocated by the Centre, according to data shared by Women......

Abhijit's Nobel and the challenges ahead

'The fruition of Nobel's hope lies in the response of a caring government that can rise above politics and propaganda, not in the frenetic raptures of a public that worships fame for fame's sake,'......

'You can't succeed without taking risk'

'There are different kinds of risk.''It is a very powerful value. Your ability to de-risk the risk is also as important for risk taking.' A Wockhardt plant. Photograph: Kind courtesy Wockhardt Ltd......

Who will benefit from the Child Labour Act, Mr Modi?

Amendments to the Child Labour Act say children can work in ‘family enterprises’ but the definition isn’t clear, points out Shyamal Majumdar. Varun Gandhi may have gone overboard......

Child labour can disrupt 'Make in India', Satyarthi tells Modi

Make in India cannot be successful on the toil, miseries and abuses of young children in the manufacturing sector, the Nobel laureate wrote in a letter to PM Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi feels......

Why education does not interest Delhi's child workers

As many as 82 per cent of child workers in the national capital said that given an opportunity, they would not like to attend school, find out Prachi Salve & Aadya Sharma ' IndiaSpend Rustam,10,......

'Indian-Americans should contribute to India's progress'

Having excelled in America in their respective fields, there are tremendous opportunities for Indian-Americans to contribute to the development of India and its ties with the US, a top Indian......

Shah Rukh proud to be a part of Obama speech

Shah Rukh Khan said he was proud to be mentioned in US President Barack Obama's speech on gender and religious equality. Obama charmed the crowd while addressing a Town hall......

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi to appear on Crime Patrol

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Kailash Satyarthi will make a guest appearance on TV docu-drama Crime Patrol Satark for a special series on child labour and bride trafficking. The......

Freida Pinto to attend Nobel peace prize ceremony

Slumdog Millionaire actress Freida Pinto will attend the Nobel peace prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway, where Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi will be felicitated with the honour.......

Amitabh Bachchan: The love of my fans keeps me going

As Amitabh Bachchan celebrates his 72nd birthday on October 11, he tells us what his biggest happiness is. Image: Amitabh poses with the cake. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani Amitabh Bachchan......

After Brothels, Stolen Childhoods

The advertisement for Stolen Childhoods, a probing documentary about oppressive child labour in seven countries including India, is so small in The New York Times that readers may miss it. But the......

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