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Ishika Chaudhary The legal age of marriage in India has a long history which dates back to the British Raj and has undergone various transformations in the face of societal changes. The different age of marriage for both the sexes…
Manoj Parmar Micro Housing. Cities in India are faced with the challenges of unprecedented migration of labor and workers in search of better livelihoods. Housing for such migrants along with the existing living densities in the slums requires the reassurance…
Krishna Raj The proposed Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021, now being referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee for scrutiny, was tabled in the Lok Sabha without public consultation. The Biological Diversity Act (BDA), 2002, was prepared with caution and on…
Rajesh Tandon “I don’t care, rather get Covid than my children die of hunger”, shouting dozens of women, and men, stopped traffic on a busy Mehrauli-Badarpur road last Thursday morning at 8 am. They were demanding that buses, tempos, Gramin…
Anil Trigunayat Addressing the Shura Council King Salman of Saudi Arabia last week reiterated his concern about the Iranian government’s policy which is destabilizing regional security and stability, including building, and backing sectarian armed militias and propagating its military power…
Tikender Singh Panwar As world leaders were holding hectic negotiations over climate change at COP26 in Glasgow in November, there was a subtle protest by the inhabitants of the Kinnaur district, in the Himalayas, against the impact on the ecology and environment of their…
Gurinder Kaur According to a study released by the University of Leeds (England) on December 20, 2021, the Himalayan glaciers have been melting at least ten times faster than the average in the last few decades. The study has revealed…