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"Out of school children comprise the workers and non workers. In our view they together signify a measure of deprivation among children and can be considered as a potential labour pool always being at the risk of entering the labour force" - NCEUS, 2007 10-Year-Old 'Slave' Rescued From Home Of Hyderabad Techies(13/9/17) Hyderabad: A 10-year-old child has been rescued from the home of a techie couple in Hyderabad today. She had allegedly been bought for Rs 10,000 from Maharashtra to care for their two young children. A video shot by an activist shows the child in the balcony answering questions in Hindi. She says she was brought in to work, is beaten and not given food on time. Later the child was reported to have been kept tied inside allegedly as punishment after she was caught talking from the balcony of the apartment to a passer-by. The couple Raghuram and Sangeetha claimed they had brought her to Hyderabad for treatment and not for domestic work. ...

NEW DELHI: In India, many consider them "monsters." Madhumita Pandey was only 22 when she first went to Tihar Jail in New Delhi to meet and interview convicted rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. It all started in 2013, first as a pilot project, months after the highly publicized gang rape and murder of a woman now known as "Nirbhaya" meaning "Fearless One." The details of the case - a young, aspirational medical student who was attacked on the way home with a friend after watching the movie "Life of Pi" - struck a chord in India, where according to the National Crime Records Bureau, 34,651 women reported being raped in 2015, the most recent year on record. Nirbhaya brought thousands of Indians to the streets to protest the widespread culture of rape and violence against women in 2012. That year, gend...

                                                                     Fake swamis and swaminis of India                          Recently Akila Bharatiya Akshara Parishad, an apex body of hindu sadhus, under which has 13 aksharas has released a list of 14 swamis identified as fake on Sunday and tagged them as "Rootless cult leaders" demanding appropriate laws to turn down them just after the revolutionary arrests of Gurmeet Ram Rahim with charges of rape cases . Its a pleasant news as the number of fake swamis are increasing day by day now that the list gives an awareness to the people. The list includes::: 1. Asaram Bapu (Asumal Sirumalani)     2. Radhe Maa (Sukhwinder Kaur)     3. Sachchidanand Giri (Sachi...