Chennai’s Katradi NGO Uses Ultimate Frisbee and Arts to Break Gender Barriers in Youth | Chennai News

Gender and social justice are discussed at Katradi youth camps It was the boys who followed me, I did nothing wrong, 16-year-old Bhuvana (name changed) plucked the courage to tell her parents while attending a ‘Bridging the Gaps’ youth camp with Chennai-based Katradi (Wind Dancer’s Trust). Bhuvana’s father had beaten her a few days before…

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Punjab civic polls today across 103 urban bodies; over 7,500 candidates in fray | Chandigarh News

Punjab civic polls today across 103 urban bodies; over 7,500 candidates in fray CHANDIGARH: Polling for elections to 103 urban local bodies in Punjab, including eight municipal corporations, 75 municipal councils and 20 nagar panchayats, will be held on Tuesday.A total of 7,555 candidates are contesting across 1,896 wards. Of them, 1,613 candidates to contest…

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Aasu assistant gen secy among 5 held over Ulfa-I funding links | Guwahati News

Dibrugarh: Tinsukia police have arrested five people, including the assistant general secretary of the Aasu and a Maharashtra resident with travel links to neighbouring countries, in a crackdown on a suspected inter-state and international terror funding network, officials said on Sunday evening.The arrests followed intelligence inputs from a central agency, which flagged that extortion money…

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