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New WHO goals to focus on maternal mortality

In a special meeting for sustainable development in September, the World Health Organisation (WHO) will discuss the goals for the next 15 years. “It wants to end prev...

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Movies

Dolly Ki Doli

Critics rating: 2.5 stars

Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma

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TV

NO BLING, PLEASE

A television channel scan threw up an emerging change of dress code for women. The women characters ? mothers, mothers-in-law, bahus, etc. -- are wearing trendy outfits. Lo...

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Sustainable Development

Focus on sewerage system won’t clean up cities and rivers, says expert

Experts attending the third Faecal Sludge Management Conference (FSM3) in Hanoi, Vietnam, said managing sewerage is still a low priority in cities around the world, especia...

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Short film from India in global vaccination awareness campaign

Filmmaker Rakesh Omprakash Mehra’s new short film, which aims to raise awareness on polio vaccination, is now part of a global campaign where over 30 world artists at...

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Movies

Tevar Movie Review

Critics rating: 2 stars

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Manoj Bajpayee, Raj Babbar

Direction: A...

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Sustainable Development

India’s bride markets grow, while trafficking convictions decline

The shortage of brides in some states with skewed sex ratio has made human trafficking a lucrative trade The Indian predilection for aborting or killing the female child ap...

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Hollywood

‘Homeland’ Director: “What Happens to All These Women After They Direct Their First Film?”

For the past year, I have been the director/executive producer of Homeland season four on Showtime, which features one of television’s most complicated and compelling...

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Sustainable Development

Lexicon of democratic literacy

The introduction of educational qualifications as eligibility criteria for contesting panchayat elections has shocked and angered rural Rajasthan, including supporters of t...

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Sustainable Development

India to track toilet use with tablets

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching a nationwide online programme to check whether people are using toilets as part of his cleanliness drive. From next month, officia...

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