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Tabassum Barnagarwala

Southern Asia

Health Reporter at Scroll.in

Keen on health, rural & social issues | Journalist with @scroll_in | Formerly @IndianExpress | @ICFJ Fellow| Email: [email protected]

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  • 5 days ago | scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala |Vaishnavi Rathore

    The Indian Army announced on Friday morning that it had “effectively repulsed” numerous attacks from Pakistan that used “drones and other munitions” along the country’s western border late into the previous night. The attacks came after India struck nine sites in Pakistan, in what it described as a “focused, measured and non-escalatory” response to the killings by terrorists of 26 civilians in Pahalgam on April 22.

  • 1 week ago | scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala |Anant Gupta |Rokibuz Zaman |Nolina Minj

    On Wednesday morning, several hours after India launched Operation Sindoor against targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Mudra Singhe made her way through an unseasonal rain shower to a civil defence drill in South Mumbai. A volunteer with the National Cadet Corps, the 19-year-old said the session taught her “how to carry out a rescue from a building, either by rappelling or by lying flat and proceeding”.

  • 1 week ago | scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala

    A broken lane in a slum settlement in Mumbai’s Kurla has kept residents on tenterhooks. “Sometimes, sewage water leaks out of the damaged manhole covers,” said Rizwan Shaikh. “That attracts rats and we fear they will bite our children.”Over the last few months, women from the Bharti Nagar slum have visited the local ward office several times to complain. But the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is yet to undertake repair work in the lane.

  • 1 month ago | scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala

    For seven months last year, Aktari Mohammed Khan had to make frequent visits to Lokmanya Tilak Municipal hospital, 10 km from her home in Mumbai. Khan had splitting headaches due to a neurological condition called occipital neuralgia. With no money to afford private treatment, she had to travel in crowded buses till the hospital in Sion, where a government neurologist treated her for free.

  • 1 month ago | flipboard.com | Tabassum Barnagarwala

    Dharavi Is Full Of Talent, Says Simran Shaikh, India's Rs 1.9-Crore Cricket RockstarShe couldn't do enough to beat the Mumbai Indians that day, but by any yardstick we may choose, Simran Shaikh is rockstar already - of women's …

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