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#MeToo: 70% of sexual harassment complaints filed with Maneka’s ministry yet to be disposed of

Sanya Dhingra -
The complaints were filed on the online portal, She-Box, which the ministry then forwards to the respective workplaces.

Marriageable age should be uniform for women and men, NHRC tells govt

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Suggestions by NHRC are part of efforts to eliminate child marriage. Rights watchdog also wants free education up to 18 years of age. 

Adopted Indian-origin girl abandoned in Spain does not want to return

Sanya Dhingra -
The 13-year-old girl was abandoned by a Spanish couple after they were allegedly deceived about her age.

Year since Indian child’s death in US, govt drags feet on punishing adoption agency

Sanya Dhingra -
Sherin Mathews, aged three years old, allegedly died after an assault by her Indian-American adoptive father

Modi govt official is worried about election fallout of giving cash instead of rations

Sanya Dhingra -
Rakesh Srivastava says replacing rations with cash transfers for children & women in poll year would look like government is stopping rations.

Spanish couple abandon adopted Indian child, Bhopal agency under the scanner

Sanya Dhingra -
Shelter home allegedly misled parents on age of children; Italian couple also writes to Indian authorities against agency.

Under fire, country’s central adoption agency seeks to increase senior cadre strength 

Sanya Dhingra -
Agency seeks over four times more Group A officers, wants integrated finance division. 

Modi govt to observe September as National Nutrition Month

Sanya Dhingra -
The National Nutrition Mission aims to bring down stunting of children in the age bracket of 0-6 years from 38.4% in 2018 to 25% by 2022.

Putting kids up for adoption may soon earn shelters money

Uzmi Athar -
Childcare institutes are often reluctant to sign up for adoptions because they fear losing the government grant they get for each child.

India plans to start a website to fight revenge and child porn

Sanya Dhingra -
Government aims to launch the portal in three months to flag and remove offensive content.

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Economy

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Esha Mishra -
Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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