Relocating from the city to smaller towns will not offer respite from air pollution. The real solution is clear policies on clean energy Recently, Delhi introduced for the first time a fleet of electric buses in the city — that too a whopping 1,000 buses. Such measures are required on priority basis in all the […]

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Recently, when returning from office in the evening, I was mugged. The snatchers even attacked me and almost choked me. There’s a DDA park in Dwarka Sector 19 — between pocket 2 & 3 — and the incident happened there. I was walking from Dwarka Sector 11 Metro. I take this route every day. It […]

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To celebrate international Women’s Day, this entire edition is devoted to the women who are breaking new ground, refusing to be confined to the stereotypical roles Playing with fire SHUBHAM BHATIA When Taniya Sanyal from Kolkata was doing her Master’s in botany, she had no idea that one day she would become the first woman […]

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Are elected women leaders just proxies for the men in their families, or do they have real control? In search of answers, Patriot went to Meerut district to meet two women leaders — a village Pradhan and a Nagar Panchayat Chairperson Bharoli village in Mawana tehsil is criss-crossed with little lanes that lead into homes […]

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In college, I used to hang out with two of my classmates, both boys. But the fact that I was spending a lot of time with them was not taken in a good way by my other classmates. I heard people saying (behind my back) that ‘She’s double dating.’ There was much more to this. […]

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Haemoglobin counts continue to be low even as the country’s development parameters improve. Awareness about nutrition is key According to the National Family Health Survey 2016, India has the highest number of anaemic individuals globally — nearly 53% adult women and 50% pregnant women in India are anaemic. Santanu Misra, co-founder of the non-governmental organisation […]

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After blogging as Mrs Funnybones, Twinkle Khanna has become a topselling author with her debut novel set in a Kerala health spa called Shanthamaaya. An extract Jay must have already told Lalit that I was in Shanthamaaya because he didn’t look surprised to see me. He smiled, a wide, gummy smile, and pulled me towards […]

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Eight regional trains will make commuting within NCR fast and hassle-free in the near future Last week, the Union Cabinet approved the 82 km long Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut rapid rail corridor at the cost of Rs 30,274 crore. India’s first Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) will take less than an hour from Delhi to Meerut with halts […]

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