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From street vendors to gig workers, women in Delhi's informal sector face the physical, mental and economic brunt of rising temperatures.
Labour
The top court has potentially subjected lakhs of people to a citizenship trial.
Rights
Our everyday mapping technologies have largely failed to actually capture and describe the actual space that we coexist in.
Society
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Women
The post 2015 surge in fraud is not spread uniformly across India. Six states account for the sharpest deterioration: Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Telangana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
Education
The slippage had "significantly steepened the Centre's debt consolidation trajectory" towards its goal of reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio to 50% by FY31, according to a report.
Economy
Speaking to the Indian Express, Penguin Random House India's CEO cited an inaccurate map of India and other unspecified “red flags” for its decision.
Books
This problem is not limited to the absence of tree-canopy mandates as the Master Plan 2041 repeatedly invokes the language of sustainability, resilience and climate responsiveness without any enforceability mandate and thus remains largely aspirational.
Environment
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