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Kalki Koechlin Gets Praise From Melinda Gates

Actress Kalki Koechlin is on cloud nine after getting a letter from Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, praising her for bringing "attention...

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Trending

Censor Board May Soon Lose Power To Make Cuts

Restricting the scope of the Censor Board to "categorising" films according to the audience's age and maturity, the ShyamBenegal panel has recommended that certification sh...

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Gender

Climate Change Is Not Gender-Neutral

It is well established that the poor are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and that women—who account for the majority of the world’s poor&mdash...

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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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Sustainable Development

Scientists Think Intelligent Life Could Have Evolved Before Brains

Today, French scientists took a poke at humans’ intellectual hegemony by demonstrating, for the first time ever, that a single-celled organism without a brain or nerv...

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Environment

Chernobyl's New and Improved Sarcophagus Will Contain The Disaster's Radioactivity For A Century

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers are giving the epicenter of the long-defunct facility a facelift. With financial assistance from more than 40 n...

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Festivals

Jones' L.A. Film Festival 2016 Puts The Focus On Diversity

With Tuesday's announcement of 42 world premieres across five competition sections, the Los Angeles Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, is continuing to make the c...

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Alternative Entertainment

Laura Jones' Label In Response To A Degenerative Disease

Leeds-based producer and DJ Laura Jones has had an celebrated career with releases on acclaimed labels such as Crosstown Rebels, Leftroom andVisionquest. Now Jones, who is ...

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Bollywood

Akshay Kumar To Felicitate A Young Girl

Actor Akshay Kumar is all set to felicitate Shreya Naik, a 19-year-old girl from Andheri who had apparently beat up a man who tried to molest her. It is reported that Naik ...

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Hollywood

Reese Witherspoon To Speak At Simpatico Conference Down Under

Reese Witherspoon will speak at the Simpatico Conference in Australia and New Zealand in July.
Reese is headlining a formidable speaker lineup of five exceptional spea...

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