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Human Rights

How Rural Women Are Challenging Gender-Based Exclusion From Land Ownership In India

A rural women’s movement in north India has played a significant role in dismantling the existing power structures and overcoming gender-based exclusion from ownership o...

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Sustainable Development

A Solar-Powered Plane Has Completed The First Ever Trans-Atlantic Flight

Setting off from New York at 2:30 AM on June 20, 2016, pilot Bertrand Piccard spent a total of 71 hours and 8 minutes in the air, flying at 28,000 feet and covering a distance...

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Environment

Beijing Has Fallen: China's Capital Sinking By 11cm A Year, Satellite Study Warns

Excessive pumping of groundwater is causing the geology under the city to collapse, according to a new study using satellite imagery that reveals parts of Beijing – part...

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Festivals

Accenture Renews Sponsorship Of Gaze International LGBT Film Festival

Accenture has renewed its sponsorship of the Gaze International LGBT Film Festival in a three-year commitment. The financial services brand’s sponsorship of the festival...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Struggle To Adapt Storytelling For Virtual Reality

Storytelling in virtual reality has yet to take shape. While the simulated world of gaming has proved the visual capabilities of the medium, few have taken a crack at the art ...

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Bollywood

Soha Ali Khan Speaks At FICCI On Women Empowerment

Summary: Education brings in security for the women and the more it is widespread, women will become more secured," "We try to adjust ourselves as per our convenience and forg...

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Hollywood

Stars Join Tigertime's 2016 Stars And Stripes Celebrity Art Auction

Sixteen celebrities from the world of sport, music, dance, design, art, stage and TV have come together to support the TigerTime campaign’s 2016 Stars & Stripes cele...

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Trending

Where Private School Is Not A Privilege

In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send th...

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Gender

New York Makes History, With Tampons And Pads

New York City made history today with passage of the nation’s first legislative package to ensure access to menstrual products in public schools, shelters and correction...

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Health

What Is Missing On The Global Health Front?

The last World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva (23-28 May) discussed the manifold global health crises that require urgent attention, and adopted resolutions to act on many is...

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FESTIVALS: OPENING AND CLOSING FILMS AT KASHISH 2024

KASHISH 2024 unfurls Diversity with Gender-Queer and Transman focused films as its Openi...

April 30 2024

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