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TV Review: A PUKAAR FOR CHANGE

Life OK scores a hit with a time band which no other channel can really claim. It?s an eyeball grab for viewers who shun fiction shows, because of the overdressed, melodram...

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Health

India to reach replacement levels of fertility by 2020

Fertility is falling faster than expected in India, and the country is on track to reach replacement levels of fertility as soon as 2020, new official data shows. The 2013 ...

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Sustainable Development

How can India end this tide of violence against women?

Despite rising levels of education, gender awareness and stringent pro-women laws, change has been slow and violence against women is increasing The rape of a young woman b...

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Bollywood

Anupam Kher launches Gajra Kottary's book in Mumbai

Bollywood veteran actor Anupam Kher launched the book ‘Once Upon a Star’, which has been written by popular television scriptwriter Gajra Kottary, in Mumbai. Th...

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Health

Safe babies for HIV-infected mothers

Motherhood is a feeling every woman wants to experience. HIV-infected women are no exceptions. Like normal expecting mothers, they too can deliver a baby who is not HIV inf...

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Festivals

The Violence Against Women Project’ reinvigorates the pertinent issue: Day 2@Thespo!

After an impactful start yesterday, Thespo 16 came back with an extraordinary day 2. India’s most exciting youth festival lived up to its image every bit as the openi...

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Festivals

Thespo 16, ‘the’ carnival for young theatre kick starts

~Day 1 wows young theatre flag bearers with workshops, an action-packed week ahead ~

Mumbai, December ...

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Health

Maternal deaths on the rise in Almora district

The number of maternal deaths in Almora district is on the rise as despite special provisions in the National Health Mission to protect mothers and children post-delivery, ...

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Sustainable Development

Crisis centre for women in distress in West Bengal

It was beyond midnight when an official of West Bengal Commission for Women got a call from a Salt Lake resident, asking him to rescue an elderly woman who was pushed out o...

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Bollywood

Women generally not safe in Delhi: Sonam Kapoor

Actress Sonam Kapoor has strongly condemned the recent sexual assault on a young woman by a taxi driver in the capital and said that Mumbai is safer than Delhi for women. A...

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