Our Last Week
Here’s a round-up of all the stories we’ve reported over the last week
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Is It Too Early To Declare COVID-19 'Herd Immunity'?
Maharashtra's curve of COVID-19 cases has more or less matched India's. We analyse what the recent surge in COVID-19 infections in the state could presage for the rest of the country
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Why Do Women Run Fewer Than 13% Of India's Small Businesses?
Women entrepreneurs in India are more likely than men to have their applications for loan rejected or delayed, studies show. Read the first story in our two-part investigation into gender bias in business, the latest in our Women@Work series
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What Are the Socio-cultural Factors That Made the Badaun Victims Vulnerable?
How is rural India changing, and not changing? What choices are open to girls in Indian villages, and which ones are firmly closed? We spoke with Sonia Faleiro, author of The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, about the Badaun teens found hanging in 2014
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‘What if you get married?’ ‘Why not have more men in your team?’
Women entrepreneurs in India frequently face questions like these, discouraging them from owning and running businesses. This is part-two of our latest addition to our Women@Work series
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Can Policies To Reduce Gender Discrimination Have The Opposite Effect?
Changing India’s son preference requires more than implementing gender-neutral policies. In fact, such policies can have unintended consequences, as gender bias runs deep, research shows
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Can India Handle Two National Immunisation Programmes?
India’s mother and child immunisation programme is failing to meet its targets, and so is the COVID-19 immunisation programme. Can both programmes run successfully this year? Experts say it will be hard without parallel infrastructure for both
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