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This Year's Film Festival Slims Down ... To 180 Movies

The 35th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival opens Thursday with a new screening philosophy, some new venues and a host of new activities.
One constant of...

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Environment

Attention Must Be Paid (Not To Climate Change)

A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
This is from a news story on Thursday: “We are not saying this is defi...

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Festivals

What's On At The Spanish Film Festival 2016 In Canberra

It wasn't that long ago, well maybe it was 20 years, when for many of us moviegoers Spanish cinema was synonymous with the work of Pedro Almodovar. And vice versa. His film...

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TV

True Review Television - Television’s Talent Lure

Much of the early television actors came from the stock of overlooked talent of Hindi cinema during the 1980s. Television gave them recognition, work and visibility, so lon...

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Trending

Idea Extends Easy Share To Support Child Education

With its Easy Share campaign, Idea Cellular created a platform to enable mobile internet users to share data for the benefit of children. On the completion of this campaign...

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Sustainable Development

On Paper Electrified Villages; In Reality, Darkness

Haldu Khata, a village in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh, is one of the 7,008 villages that the government claims to have “electrified” in the last year, unde...

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Gender

India's First Transband: Don't Hide Us Away, Don't Keep Us In A Cage

KomalJagtap used to work as a wedding singer in India. For about 5,000 rupees (£52), she would dance and sing when people got married or wanted to celebrate a birth. ...

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Human Rights

Tackling Inequality As Injustice: Four Challenges For The Human Rights Agenda

Over the last three months, openGlobalRights has brought together leading practitioners from various fields to debate economic inequality from a human rights perspective. <...

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Gender

Right For Men, Left For Women: Gendered Buttons Still A Thing.

Buttons have existed as a way of fastening clothes since thousands of years BC, but over the last few millennia no one’s been able to explain the provenance of a rath...

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Health

Communicable Diseases Rise 32 Perccent In 5 Years, Spending Up 7 Percent

Spending on programmes to control India’s three main communicable diseases — malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy A — increased seven percent over five years...

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