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Gender

‘Same-Sex Attraction Is Ok’ – Health Ministry’s New Manual For Children All Over India

“Boys should understand that when a girl says ‘no’ it means no,” reads the manual that India’s Health Ministry is now handing out across the coun...

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Health

What Policymakers Can Do About Healthcare In Rural India

In a recent article, I argued how increasing rural spending on schemes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA), skill development (STRIVE, ...

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Human Rights

Protecting The Rights Of Tribals

Recently, Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA), an Emirati investor, initiated an investment treaty arbitration (ITA) claim against India under the India-UAE Bilateral ...

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Sustainable Development

Inside NASA’s Space Farming Labs

For the first time since the end of NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, there is serious talk of sending humans beyond low earth orbit. NASA has been courting ideas for journe...

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Environment

There's Poison In The Air

Nearly a third of Indian cities have breached annual pollution limits mandated by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) between 2011 and 2015, according to figures from t...

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Festivals

Rumbles In The Jungle: Highlights From The Berlin Film Festival

It was blisteringly cold for the first few days of the Berlin Film Festival but there was plenty of heat coming off the cinema screens, not least from Call Me by Your Name. Th...

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Alternative Entertainment

UK Theatre Uses Play To Address Sexual Assault And Scrutiny In A Social Media World

University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance takes on a very important and difficult topic the next several days as it presents "Good Kids," a play centered on the s...

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Bollywood

I Want To Help People, Don't Intend To Make Money: Shilpa Shetty

Genuinely intending to help people lead a healthy life, Yoga junkie Shilpa Shetty Kundra stated that her recent venture 'Theshilpashetty.com' is the only initiative out of whi...

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Hollywood

Ashton Kutcher Takes Fight Against Sex Slavery To US Congress

In advance of the END IT Movement’s fifth annual “Shine a Light on Slavery” day, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations ...

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Kaleidoscope

Confluence of Friends

Many people, especially women, maintain friendships over a period of time, and form a support system that sees them through life’s many ups and downs. Joanna Trollope&rs...

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TRENDING: IS HE A LEADER OR A PROPAGANDIST?

Was it the leader of a democratic nation or a propagandist spewing divisive rhetoric in ...

April 28 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: LOOKING FOR THE MAHANAYAK

Srijit Mukherji’s Oti Uttam is a film hard to dislike. And no, it’s not just...

April 27 2024

POLITICS: PEOPLE WILL DEFEAT AMIT SHAH

Vinta Nanda spent two days with Sonal Patel and returns to tell us that the Congress Par...

April 26 2024