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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR
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A LAST CALL FOR THE PLANET
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FORGOTTEN DANCING QUEEN OF HINDI CINEMA
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MOTHER MYTH MAN CALLED SHAKESPEARE
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HALF CAULIFLOWER, PIECE OF CAKE
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DEBATING NATIONALIZATION OF MEDICAL COLLEGES
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DELHI’S GRAND CINEMATIC AMBITION
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THE ETERNAL CRISES OF FILM SCHOOLS
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INDIAN FARMERS BLINDSIDED BY CINEMA
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INDIAN CINEMA CONQUERS GLOBAL STAGE
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Gender
Thousands Of Women Sign Petition Against The ‘Tampon Tax’
After nearly 100,000 people signed a petition demanding to “remove the unfair tampon tax,” some Australian officials are considering a policy change to exempt sani...
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India Gets Its First Transgender College Principal
India, probably the world, will get its first transgender college principal when Manabi Bandopadhyay takes charge of Krishnagar Women’s College in West Bengal on June 9....
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“‘Dowry Calculator’ Is A New Way Of Looking At An Old Problem”: Aditya Save, Chief Marketing Officer, Shaadi.Com
Dowry, the deeply ingrained social evil, is often associated with arranged marriages. The regressive tradition has been spoken of in abundance, but occurrences of crime agains...
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The Film By Two Women That Has Wall Street Talking
Hollywood hasn’t released a notable female-led film set on Wall Street for 27 years. Not since Mike Nichols’s 1988 comedy Working Girl—starring Melanie Griff...
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‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Makes 2015 A Historic Year For Women In Hollywood
The success of Pitch Perfect 2 isn’t just good news for musical comedy fans; it’s also a historic win for women behind the camera. The Elizabeth Banks-directed seq...
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CBSE, State Boards To Bring In Gender Sensitivity Modules
With the increasing emphasis on gender sensitivity and issues of violence against women, both the CBSE and the State board are taking steps to sensitise their students and sta...
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UNICEF: Dalit Girls Most Excluded From Primary Education In India
A report just released by UNICEF and UNESCO on out of school children in India highlights that Dalit girls have the highest primary school exclusion rate in India. The report ...
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New Report Shows Women In Fisheries Sector Are Underpaid
A new Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report shows that though women make up nearly half of all people in the fisheries sector, they often do not get their dues. A rev...
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Measuring Maternal Health in a Post-MDG World
As the international development community looks back on the Millennium Development Goals and ponders what remains to be done under the proposed Sustainable Development Goals,...
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A story of drinkers, genocide and unborn girls – Why Men on Earth Outnumber Women by 60 million
Left to nature alone, the population on earth would be give or take 50% men and 50% women, according to what’s become known as Fisher’s Principle. The fact that wo...
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