Being beaten up at home could be making Indian women and children frail and undernourished. In an interesting research, a team of social scientists from Harvard School of Public Health has for the first time found a strong association between domestic violence and chronic malnutrition among Indian women and children.

Microcredit Raises Hopes For India's Farm Widows INDIA: April 3, 2008 SUNNA, India - Savita Jiddewar is a rare success story on the cotton fields of central India, the epicentre of an agrarian crisis that has seen 150,000 farmers commit suicide since 1997 because they could not pay back loans. Her home stands out strikingly in this small village of dirt lanes and pale blue brick houses. She has a television set, a DVD player and a comfortable sofa. A mobile phone rings intermittently and the aroma of cooking wafts from the kitchen.

More women are dying from cancer than men in Punjab. This is contrary to the global trend where more men die from cancer than women.

As many as 42,000 women from rural areas in Delhi, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have learned to read and write.

DELHI Migrants might be causing uproar in some parts of the country but photo-journalist Harish Tyagi sees their lives in an entirely different light through his lense.

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