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Human Rights

Child Rights Commission Demands Implementation Of Supreme Court Rules On School Buses

Concerned about the increasing number of deaths of children in school bus accidents, the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) at a meeting w...

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Sustainable Development

What Do We Want the Future to Be?

Sometime in late June of 2011, I sat down at a Thai restaurant in Williamsburg with then-deputy editor Sean Yeaton. I'd been badgering him for months over email to give me ...

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Festivals

Five Films, One Night: Best of Oxford Film Festival Screening

The 2017 Oxford Film Festival swept through the community bringing visitors and films for a few short yet memorable days last month. For those who missed this huge event, o...

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Alternative Entertainment

‘Our Society’s Lens Is Never Focused On What Women Have Achieved’

When I started out, it wasn’t a conscious decision to create only works about women. I had dabbled in theatre for a while but it was with Why Mee Savitribai that I fi...

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Gender

Sweden To Modernize Law On Changing Gender

At present Swedish law states that transgender people must go through a medical procedure before they can have their gender change legally recognized, but the government no...

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Environment

Plant Thought Extinct For 200 Years Sparks Legal Action Against Sydney Development

A newly rediscovered rare plant – thought to have become extinct almost 200 years ago – has sparked a legal action in Sydney’s west against a development ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Deshkar Memorial Music Fest To Feature Works Of Five City Poets

The disciples of musician Pt Prabhakarrao Deshkar will be organizing a two-day music and dance festival on March 17 and 18 in memory of their guru who was a renowned teache...

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Bollywood

Vivek Oberoi & Swara Bhaskar Interact With Traffic Cops At The Theatrical Launch Of Award Winning Short Film Hawa Badlo

The mega theatrical launch of award winning short film Hawa Badlo supported by GAIL (India) Limited, was held at PVR Cinemas, Lower Parel in Mumbai. Actors Vivek Oberoi and...

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Trending

Opinion: A Censor Board Member's View On 'Padmavati'

Violence or vandalism cannot recreate history. In fact, it cannot create anything. It only destroys - destroys peace, democratic discourse, creativity and free speech. Unfo...

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Festivals

Lipstick Under My Burkha To Open The New York Indian Film Festival

Lipstick Under My Burkha, which has failed to get clearance from India’s censor board, will open the 17th edition of the prestigious New York Indian Film Festival her...

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