July 14th, 2008 - 2:40 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sahil Makkar
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Anti-narcotic agents are worried over the increasing use of Indian women, sex workers included, by Nigerian cartels to smuggle out drugs. Until recently, Nigerian gangs ...
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July 11th, 2008 - 11:10 am ICT by IANS
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Chandigarh, July 11 (IANS) First, there was a condom bar to drive home awareness about safe sex. Now, social activists have established condom depots in slum clusters in and around Chandigarh to ...
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July 10th, 2008 - 7:50 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The Indian capital is home to over 32,000 HIV/AIDS patients and at least one million more are very much vulnerable to the deadly disease, the Delhi State ...
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June 30th, 2008 - 11:23 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday called for more sensitivity towards HIV/AIDS patients as well as homosexuals and commercial sex workers to win the battle against the dreaded ...
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June 30th, 2008 - 8:51 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Thousands of commercial sex workers in Delhi have demanded voting rights and have urged the city government to facilitate their voter identity cards by extending the last ...
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June 28th, 2008 - 6:39 am ICT by IANS
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By Prashant K. Nanda
In a corner of eastern India's Kolkata city is a school that is waving the wand of education to work its magic not just in terms of reading and ...
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May 31st, 2008 - 1:56 pm ICT by admin
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By Maitreyee Boruah
Guwahati, May 31 (IANS) All is not well with children in India's northeast. A study conducted by a Guwahati-based NGO along with the police has revealed that a shocking 20 ...
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March 29th, 2008 - 11:07 am ICT by admin
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By V.N. Balakrishna
Vadiya (Gujarat), March 29 (IANS) A silent revolution is sweeping through the dusty terrain of this village, barely 70 km from the India-Pakistan border in Banaskantha district. More than 80 ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 8:47 pm ICT by admin
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(International Women's Day Roundup)
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) An assurance to table the long-pending Women's Reservation Bill in parliament, put an end to female foeticide and build toilets for women were some ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 7:26 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, March 8 (IANS) Throughout the year, they lurk in the shadows of red light districts. Saturday was the day they came out in the open. Hundreds of commercial sex workers from ...
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March 7th, 2008 - 10:19 am ICT by admin
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(For Women's Day March 8)
By Sahil Makkar
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) India will not consider legalising commercial sex or giving licences to brothels, Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury has ...
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