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The Healing Frontline: How Healthcare Professionals Can Help End Gender-Based Violence

Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most pervasive and devastating human rights violations across the globe. It transcends borders, cultures, and communities—affecting individuals regardless of age, class, race, or sexual orientation. Whether it takes the form of intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, child abuse, or human trafficking, GBV leaves a lasting impact on the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of survivors.

National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) 2024: A Framework for Integrated Urban Governance

NUDM was launched as a new scheme in 2024, under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs along with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology,

Impactful Policy Research in Social Sciences (IMPRESS) 2018 

To revolutionize India's policy research space in the true sense, IMPRESS has to move beyond being a selective academic grant program to being an inclusive national knowledge production machine. As a young researcher, I envision the future of policy innovation occurring in open, diverse, and democratized research environments, not in hierarchical constraints. Visualizing IMPRESS in this way will not only establish it as a funding program, but as a driving force for India's intellectual and socio-economic balance. 

Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Satellite Towns (UIDSST), 2009

According to the census 2011, nearly 78 million individuals migrated from rural to urban areas. This increase was due to the availability of better opportunities, higher wages, better education and healthcare in the urban areas. This migration along with the naturally increasing population growth and expansion of borders accelerated urbanization.  

Remembering Ambedkar: His enduring vision and India’s constitutional journey

The ideas and ideals of Babasaheb, whose birth anniversary is today, on April 14, still guide and motivate us. But there’s another special date to remember — January 26, the day we adopted the Constitution in 1950. This year, our Constitution turned 75. Whenever we find ourselves at the crossroads of a constitutional dilemma, we find ourselves turning to the Constituent Assembly debates and the words of Babasaheb, hoping that they will guide us in resolving not only our constitutional quandary but also our moral and social ones.

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