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Gender

Climate Change Is Not Gender-Neutral

It is well established that the poor are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and that women—who account for the majority of the world’s poor&mdash...

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Human Rights

Married At 14, Abandoned By 15: The Forgotten Girls Of Dhaka

More than half of girls in Bangladesh marry before they are 18, exposing them to abuse. But if their husbands abandon them, it can offer a route to freedom On the northern ...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Think Intelligent Life Could Have Evolved Before Brains

Today, French scientists took a poke at humans’ intellectual hegemony by demonstrating, for the first time ever, that a single-celled organism without a brain or nerv...

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Bollywood

Akshay Kumar To Felicitate A Young Girl

Actor Akshay Kumar is all set to felicitate Shreya Naik, a 19-year-old girl from Andheri who had apparently beat up a man who tried to molest her. It is reported that Naik ...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Glimpses Of Kabul

Western women who do not have to live under oppressive conditions in strictly patriarchal countries like Afghanistan tend to romantisize the country's beauty and the nobili...

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TV

True Review Television - Balika Vadhu: Change Of The Guard

Generation leaps are the flavours on Prime Time. Coincidentally, both shows which have taken the leap are Colors’ top line shows – Balika Vadhu and Chakravartin...

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Health

Off-Label Use Of IPV Vaccine To Tide Over Shortage

Due to shortage of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) globally, India and a few other countries are stretching the supply of the vaccine to cover all children. The IPV vaccine...

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Health

An Epileptics Cinematic Journey: Films From My Perspective

As the title indicates, I have epilepsy. If you ran into me on the street, it’s not something you’d be able to tell about me by looking. That’s not how ep...

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Gender

Tegan & Sara On Queering Pop And Ditching Guitars

Three years ago, Tegan and Sara transformed from indie rock mainstays to legitimate pop stars. Their 2013 albumHeartthrob saw them crack Top 40 with synth-pop confecti...

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Environment

Mitsubishi Becomes Latest Automaker To Admit To Cheating Consumers And Regulators

The latest example of the trend surfaced Wednesday when Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) revealed that it lied about the fuel economy of at least 620,000 so-called ...

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