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Diarrhoea Kills Half A Million Children Globally, Shows Lancet Study

Immediate and sustained action urged as diarrhoea remains among leading causes of child mortality despite improved access to clean water and sanitation Half a million children...

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This Community Fridge Is Helping The Homeless & The Hungry

As the bell chimes loudly at the Shiv Temple in Versova, an elderly woman hobbles towards the temple’s gates, briefly stopping by the flower vendor, who nods at her amia...

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This Indian Village Is Making Jeans Out Of Banana Fibre

Things getting a little stuffy in those jeans? Slide into a pair of banana fibre jeans and liberate those sweaty legs!Anakaputhur, a weavers’ village located on the oute...

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35% Of World's 'National Animals' Are Threatened By Extinction

The US bald eagle is doing fine. The Central American tapir of Belize? Not so much. Just about every country has a national animal, a symbol that is widely recognized and a so...

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Duluth Superior Film Festival Highlights The Region, Women & Native Americans

Matthew Dressel found award-winning inspiration while traveling the backroads of Michigan as a teenager. What if a deer hunter's bullet went off its mark and hit a car, he won...

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Best Movies Of 2017 So Far

If the first half of 2017 has offered more than a few reasons to run screaming from the news and sit in a darkened room away from it all, at least it’s also offered plen...

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Amitabh, Anushka To Launch Narendra Modi Govt's 'Darwaza Band' Campaign To Make India Open Defecation Free

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and actress Anushka Sharma will on Tuesday launch the Narendra Modi government's `Darwaza Band` campaign aimed at making India open defeca...

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10 Female Superheroes To Remember

Gal Gadot-starrer ‘Wonder Woman’ that arrived in theatres last Friday is the rare superhero film with a female protagonist. Here are 10 other female superheroes Ga...

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Three Lead Artists Break The 'Bro-Code' In Indian Comic Scene

Some middle-aged men ask them to ‘go more dirty’ with their jokes, some older uncles tell them ‘not to swear’. While men are found funny, women comic a...

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14 Titans From 7 Countries Join The Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge

The Giving Pledge, an elite network of big philanthropic givers, has gained 14 new members from 7 countries, including the founder of discount airline easyJet, a Norwegian shi...

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PRITAM AND PEDRO REVIEW VERDICT

A convention-bound cyber thriller that never quite acquires the unmistakable Hirani magi...

July 5 2026

THE JOY OF UNEXPECTED DISCOVERIES

At MIFF 2026 last month, Vinta Nanda discovered three extraordinary student films from W...

July 4 2026

VIJAYA MEHTA: THE LEGENDARY BAI LEFT US

Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe pays tribute to legendary theatre visionary Vijaya Mehta, whose ...

July 3 2026