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Embarrassing That Bollywood Puts Women In A Stereotype: Dia Mirza

Actor-producer Dia Mirza feels there is a need to redefine the concept of perfection in the film industry when it comes to female stars. The Love Breakups Zindagi star shar...

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Gender

These Women Took On Male-Dominated Workplaces And Emerged Inspirational Winners!

Access to sustainable paid employment is the key to women’s empowerment and capacity to exercise control over their lives. The Beijing Platform for Action had underli...

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Kaleidoscope

All It Takes Is Courage

Sushmita Mukherjee’s new one-woman show, Naribai, has her play a face-off between two been interesting women of different social strata. Sunaina is an upper clas...

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TV

Amma Only, On Prime Time

Never have Indian television channels been subjected to the frenetic pace, frenzied reporting and commentating as they all did on Tuesday, December 6 when J. Jayalalitha wa...

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Environment

A Toxic Leak Left Corpus Christi With No Water For Days. A Taste Of Things To Come?

Corpus Christi, Texas, calls itself the “sparkling city by the sea”. But lately it doesn’t feel very sparkling. The city imposed a four-day ban on consumi...

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Gender

Madonna Calling It Like It Is, Tells Us The Sexist Entertainment World Has Rules For Women And None For Men

Madonna smashed the sexist and ageist entertainment industry at the Billboard Women in Music 2016 awards on December 9th. While being honoured as the “Woman of the Ye...

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Bollywood

Akshay Donates Rs 9 Lakhs To Family Of Jawan Whose Body Was Mutilated After Killing

Once more Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has come to the aid of a family stricken by the death of a jawan in Jammu and Kashmir border. On November 22, suspected Pakistani tro...

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Environment

Villagers Say They Lost Their Lands As Yamuna Changed Course

It used to be an almost 2-kilometre-long walk to the water, said Nakshatra Nagar as he pointed to the Yamuna river flowing right next to his village, Kambakshpur. Over the ...

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Hollywood

Emma Thompson Backs Campaign To Empower Women

Emma Thompson has backed a campaign to support and empower women and girls living in poverty around the world.
The 57-year-old actress is working with ActionAid UK to ...

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Festivals

Curtains To Fall On Patna Film Festival Today

PATNA: Intense cold failed to deter cine lovers from thronging the two venues of Patna Film Festival - Regent Cinema and Rabindra Bhawan - in the last six days. The weeklon...

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