July 26, 2005, Mumbai: I walked for hours through waist-high water, as news of deaths poured in
Exactly 21 years back, a flood triggered in Mumbai by excessive rain killed more than a thousand people and gave us the first
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ECONOMY
Gender a priority in first BJP budget for Bengal, with a few question marks
Experts welcome gestures towards women’s empowerment, but many concerned about outcome of schemes and shrinking welfare net
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Bengal reports the highest number of missing children in India; 87% among them girls
Experts fear underreported trafficking-related figures may have contributed significantly to the large count of missing children
POLITICS
Safety and security top women platform’s demands in the run-up to state elections
Political parties asked to set up Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) for their workspace, climate change inherent threat
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Transgender community opposes new Bill and SIR exclusion, points out climate impact on their lives
SIR and the proposed Bill work in tandem, claim activists
ECONOMY
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Gender budget raises hope with many question marks
Experts say budget needed more allocations in women’s health, safety, livelihoods and in childcare
CLIMATE CHANGE
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Twelve years after being trafficked, a Sundarban woman stopped possible trafficking of a local girl
Basanti block, where the survivor lives, is a severely climate-vulnerable zone and among the most trafficking-prone areas of West Bengal
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India at 79
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India at 79: eight decades after independence, Indian women work much more than Narayana Murthy-prescribed 70-hour workweeks
Climate change magnifying the load, married women suffer most