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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: SHYAM BENEGAL’S MANTHAN

Thanks to the efforts of the Film Heritage Foundation, Shyam Benegal’s masterpiece has reached a new generation, proving cinema’s p...

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Environment

Drought Ridden Somalians Now Face A Famine

2017 was not Somalia's year. While they did inaugurate a new president and parliament in a historic election pr...

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Environment

Climbers Prepare For Clean-Up Mission On Mount Everest

The government of Nepal and Everest expedition organisers have launched a clean-up operation at 21,000ft to remove rubbish left on the world’s highest peak after a se...

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Environment

Every Breath Is An Effort': Delhi Residents Suffer Amid Smog Crisis

Article Residents and visitors to Delhi are struggling to cope with severe levels of toxic air pollution that have prompted authorities to declare an “emergency situa...

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Trending

Indian Boss Gives 1,260 Cars, 400 Flats And Jewellery As Diwali Bonus To Staff

Savjibhai Dholakia, who runs diamond export firm Hare Krishna Exports, rewarded employees ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali A diamond tycoon in India has once...

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Gender

The 'Avon Ladies' Of Pakistan Selling Contraception Door To Door

A scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty
rom 8am to 4pm, 25-year-old Samina Khaskheli trav...

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Human Rights

Married At 14, Abandoned By 15: The Forgotten Girls Of Dhaka

More than half of girls in Bangladesh marry before they are 18, exposing them to abuse. But if their husbands abandon them, it can offer a route to freedom On the northern ...

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Human Rights

India's Doctors Learn Safer Abortion Techniques To Cut Maternal Deaths

Lying in bed clutching her abdomen, a young Indian woman leans over her toddler to retrieve some pain relief from the stash on her bedside table at a private hospital in De...

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Environment

Here's Why It's A Very Bad Idea To Wipe Mosquitoes Off The Face Of The Earth

It would be hard to find an insect more despised these days than the mosquito. The blood-sucking pest is considered more lethal to humans than any other animal in the world...

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Human Rights

Five Ways Tech Is Crowdsourcing Women’s Empowerment

From gathering data on street harassment in Egypt to finding respectful gynaecologists in India, technology is helping women fight discrimination Even when data is gathered...

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