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Festivals

New Films And Old Surface At The Pune International Film Festival

The annual Pune International Film Festival is the first such event in the calendar, but it tends to behave as though it is the last. The world cinema section is usually a ...

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Bollywood

Aishwarya, Kangana And More: Girlpower To Take Centrestage In 2016

When Kangana Ranaut-starrer Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Piku starring Deepika Padukone ranked among the top films of last year, they broke the notion that female-centric fil...

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Health

Spending On Child Healthcare Soars, But 40 Mn Children Stunted

Here are some health statistics for Indian children five years or younger: 38.7% are stunted (below normal height for the age), 19.8% are wasted (underweight and short) and...

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Movies

True Review - Hindi : Bollywood - '15 Going on '16

2015 was a good year for Hindi movies. Tevar may not have launched it in that direction but it was not an entirely dull outing. Shankar's I, dubbed in Hind...

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Trending

Bill Gates: The Top 6 Good News Stories Of 2015

This is a tough time to feel optimistic about the future. With the notable exception of impressive global cooperation on climate change and energy, our papers and screens h...

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Trending

Worries Grow Over Humanitarian Impacts Of 'Strongest El Nino'

The strongest El Nino on record is likely to increase the threat of hunger and disease for tens of millions of people in 2016 aid agencies say. The weather phenomenon is se...

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Environment

Your Birth Control Pills And Hamburgers Might Be Making These Fish Intersex

A strange thing is happening to male smallmouth and largemouth bass swimming in waterways in parts of the Northeast: They are increasingly showing up with characteristics o...

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Gender

Only 37% Of Over 10,000 Pay-To-Use Toilets In Mumbai Are For Women’

Few things in life are as compelling as a full bladder. Last month, it made 22-year-old Laxmi Pandit plead, bargain and fight with the hard-nosed attendant of a toilet near...

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Environment

The Top 6 Good-News Stories of 2015

This is a tough time to feel optimistic about the future. With the notable exception of impressive global cooperation on climate change and energy, our papers and screens h...

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Health

Launch Of Inactivated Polio Vaccine In India

India, once considered the most difficult place in the world to stop polio, will celebrate five years without a case this January. But our fight against the disease is not ...

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