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Kapil Sibal-KAMAL NARANG

School question

ON June 26, less than a week before the Economic Survey for 2008-09 was released, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal announced
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A child labourer near Siliguri, West Bengal, on June 12. It is estimated that there are around 100 million girls involved in child labour across the world.-RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI /REUTERS

Invisible work

IN 1999, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) adopted the Convention on the Worst Forms of Labour. One aspect of the convention dealt with the
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S.K. Thorat, Chairman, UGC.-SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR

The increase explained

AMID the controversy over the proliferation of deemed and private universities and allegations of malpractice by some of these institutions, the Unive
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At a polling booth in the Hajipur parliamentary constituency in Bihar during the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections, on April 23. Ram Vilas Paswan, whose Lok Janshakti Party claims to represent Dalit interests, contested and lost from here.-RANJEET KUMAR

Lesser citizens

AMID the great success story of the Indian elections are some unpalatable facts, which are quietly swept under the carpet. Although Dalit politics ass
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Rajya Sabha members Thanga Tamil Selvan, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Maya Singh and Nandi Yellaiah meet the press after a discussion with parents in Chennai on the introduction of the Adolescence Education Programme in schools. A 2007 picture.-S.R. RAGHUNATHAN

Shades of saffron

A PROGRAMME designed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) to impart adolescence education to children aged 14 and above in schools has
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The other half

in New Delhi
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A.M FARUQUI

Unhealthy trend

WHAT is the state of the nations health? The findings of the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), a household survey carried out during 2005-
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PARTH SANYAL

Sense of betrayal

SEVERAL national womens organisations have on their own prepared a charter summing up many of their long-standing demands. They want the charter to be
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Rape and bias

in New Delhi
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Losing ground

in Coimbatore
S. VISWANATHAN in Coimbatore, T.K. RAJALAKSHMI In Gurgaon & LYLA BAVADAM in Surat
Construction workers at a site in Chennai. In India, the ILO report says, casual workers earn 45 per cent less than regular workers.-MANDAL, ATREE

Wake-up call

THE World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization, produced by the International Labour Organisations (ILO) Int
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Construction workers at a site in Chennai. In India, the ILO report says, casual workers earn 45 per cent less than regular workers.-MANDAL, ATREE

Wake-up call

THE World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization, produced by the International Labour Organisations (ILO) Int
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