Does India need a bank for women?

India’s government thinks so. Plans for such a bank – the first state-run one of its kind in India – were announced in the annual budget. Finance Minister...

Priyanka Chopra And Kareena Kapoor To Act Together For UNICEF

Not since Aitraaz have Bollywood divas Priyanka and Kareena shared screen space together. But thanks to UNICEF, that is about to change. Both work very closes with UNICEF &...

5 Traditionally Male Jobs You Didn't Know Women Pioneered

Today, women make up nearly half of America’s workforce, and counting. But even as women achieve new levels of success at work, some fields remain heavily male-domina...

A Complete Network, Almost

Has the time come for Indian Television to move into genre specific channels? On a visit to Canada, I discovered that there were pay channels dedicated to Westerns and war ...

India brides leave husbands' homes for lack of toilets

Six newlywed women in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have returned to their parents because their husbands’ homes had no toilets. The women, all from ...

India's 'untouchable' scavengers

Rights group Human Rights Watch has called on the Indian government to end “manual scavenging” – the practice of cleaning human waste by low-caste communi...

True Review: Mardaani

Critics rating: 2.5 STARS*

Written by: Gopi Puthran
       
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