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Young and restless

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Now this is probably what you mean by young and the restless.

City women easy victims for conmen

Are pretty girls an easy target for bluffmasters, who are capable of generating innovative ways of conning the former?

Speak up against injustice

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When 18-year-old high school student Krittika Biswas was wrongly arrested on the suspicion of sending obscene emails to a teacher, she sued the New York City government and her school administration f

License to intercept mails triggers jitters

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Well, if not in the real world, at least in the virtual world each one of us has a secret corner on the Internet. But what if someone gets a permit to sneak a peek into our inbox? Security agencies will soon be equipped to intercept emails and cyber chats in real time through the Centralised Monitoring System (CMS). While this is a move to put a check on terrorist threats via email, cyber experts say that this could mean that every cyber activity of ours will be watched.

Supermoms save the day

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How do soccermoms manage to keep pace with kids of fast forward generation? If some are picking up cool slangs, others have tuned in to the Internet lingo. Many are developing a taste for their kid’s choice of movies so that they have something common to talk about. And others are brushing up their guitar skills, and even taking up dance classes to actually belong to the kid’s generation.

Court steps in to end disruptive strikes in DU

While each one of us has a right to protest to make our “genuine” demands met, it often hampers the business of others. Even the Delhi High Court seems to have taken notice of the same.

Rehab for homeless teens being planned

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Thousands of kids on the city roads who are forever sniffing a rag/handkerchief are victims of drug abuse. They start out with fluid and iodex and graduate to the actual “stuff”. Living as a part of the invisible population, it seems that the government has finally woken up to their cause. That’s why it’s planning to start a de-addiction centre for homeless teens. While activists appreciate the idea, they are skeptical about the implementation.

Stalking should be a crime, say activists

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When a man chooses to trail you, it can’t be that he doesn’t know the kind of uneasiness he’s causing you. Perhaps he loves the thrill of it. His smirk says it all.

Rape within family turns kids into silent victims

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Thirteen-year-old Reshma (name changed) had silently been suffering at the hands of none other than her own father. She was ten when he allegedly began raping her. Finally, she told her brother’s wife that her father, a resident of North Delhi, would get drunk and repeatedly rape her.

Mahatma controversy evokes anger, outrage

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Why is it that books on the bespectacled, dhoti-clad face of humility, Mahatma Gandhi, often come packed with colourful accusations?

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.