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Environment

As Climate Change Uproots Communities, Innovation Can Rescue Culture

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When powerful Cyclone Heta hit the tiny Pacific island nation of Niue in 2004, it caused huge damage, including destroying...

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Festivals

Sundance Film Festival: London Sets 2017 Dates

The Sundance Institute and U.K. exhibitor Picturehouse said Tuesday that the Sundance Film Festival: London, an international version of Robert Redford's Utah festival, wil...

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Gender

In Tranny, A Punk Rock Legend Reconciles With Her Past

In 2012, Laura Jane Grace told a reporter something that she had been keeping secret her whole life. Two intensely anxious months later, the punk musician and lead singer o...

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Health

Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope

Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during...

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Human Rights

Activist revisits prison diaries

In a session at the Times Celebrate Bandra Festival, activist Arun Ferreira, who was branded a 'Naxalite' by the state and charged with sedition before being acquitted of a...

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Human Rights

This Tradition Is Forcing Rajasthan Women To Let Go Of Family Property

In a bid to address the imbalance, Rajasthan and other states now offer lower rate mortgages and cheaper registration when a property is registered in the name of a woman.<...

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Festivals

IFFI 2016: SP Balasubramaniam Receives Centenary Award

Girl power and cinema rooted in reality were buzzwords at the inaugural ceremony for the 47th edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa on Sunday. Hoste...

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Bollywood

Shahrukh Khan & Farhan Akhtar Thank GCFI For Highlighting Social Issues

Shah Rukh Khan and actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar recently expressed their gratitude to the conveners and CEO of Global Citizen Festival Hugh Evans, for laying emphasis on i...

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Hollywood

Underground's High School Mentorship Takes Aim At Hollywood Diversity

A partnership between film/management company Underground and Verbum Dei High School, an all male career prep school in South Central L.A., is helping to prepare a fresh wa...

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Gender

High Above The Glass Ceiling

It’s jupast noon and I am at Mad Street Den with only a labrador for company, until Ashwini Asokan, the CEO and co-founder, walks in. I follow her into a orange-walle...

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