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Environment

It's Already Looking Like 2016 Will Be The Hottest Year On Record

How long can the hot streak last?
Global average temperatures set a seventh straight monthly record in April, and it wasn't even close, according to NASA figures. Last...

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Festivals

Indian Short Film ‘Beti’ At Seattle Film Festival

“Beti”, a non-fiction short film on girl child education, made by young student filmmakers of the city, has been invited for a special screening at the 42nd Sea...

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Human Rights

The Brutal Ways In Which Some Clan Councils In South Asia Punish Women

In India and other parts of South Asia, clan councils have long worked outside the legal system as enforcers of centuries-old social codes and traditions. Experts say these...

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TV

True Review Television - Doordarshan’s Tribute To Mothers

Last Sunday, which was also Mother’s Day, as I watched the Prerna Awards on DD National, I was overwhelmed by the stories narrated on stage by Daughters who acknowled...

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Human Rights

Kenya Could Become The Next Country In Africa To Legalize Homosexuality

In a country where gay sex is punishable by up to 14 years in prison and where attacks on the LGBT community occur frequently, a solitary rainbow flag flapping in the wind ...

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Bollywood

Nawazuddin Set To Launch Memoir At Literature Festival

Mumbai, May 10 -- Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born in Budhana, a small town in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
Later, he graduated from the National School of...

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Gender

Gender Stereotypes Meets Frisbee

The Frisbee, a white blur, whirs across the sky, quivers in mid-air for a second and then descends. They run towards it—unmindful of the hot sand that coats their bar...

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Health

Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

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Festivals

All You Need To Know About Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on 11 May with Mad Max’s George Miller heading up the jury. But amid all the glitz, glamour and furores over high heels, non-film b...

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Festivals

Cannes: Beloved Festival Figure Nathalie Dubois On Losing Her Brother In Paris' Bataclan Bombing

The France-born Dubois, who runs the DPA Cannes Gift Suite out of the Carlton Hotel, expresses the importance of coming to Cannes despite her fear of attending: "I'm fright...

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