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Mumbai: Rising rents force sex workers to flee Kamathipura
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 16 (ANI): The increasing cost of real estate has forced city's sex workers to relocate themselves from the infamous Kamathipura area to suburban localities, said Vinay Vats, Director, Social Activities Integration (SAI), an NGO.
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Delhi ashram matter: HC directs accused baba to appear before it
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 22 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chief Swati Maliwal on Friday said the High Court had directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate the alleged illegal confinement of girls and women in an ashram owned by Baba Virender Dikshit and had
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World AIDS Day: Where do we stand on HIV-AIDS?
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 1 (ANI): Our country has the third highest number of estimated people living with HIV in the world. The estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India was 2.08 million (20.9 lakhs in 2011) out of which an enormous 86% of whom were in 15-49 years age group.
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Kolkata's sex workers celebrate Raksha Bandhan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 7 (ANI) :On the eve of Raksha Bandhan ,sex workers of Sonagachi , Kolkata ,tied Rakhi around the waist of passerby, in the hope of receiving equal respect in society.
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Sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi feel pinch of demonetisation too
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolkata/New Delhi [India], Nov. 17 (ANI): The Centre's radical move to abolish large bank notes has severely affected the business of sex workers in Sonagachi- India's largest red light district, in West Bengal capital Kolkata.
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