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Vandana Bahadur: A woman of steel in all-male gram panchayat

On a pleasant Sunday in January this year, as the nation was celebrating the 65th Republic Day, a 32-year-old woman was fending off 100-odd men at a panchayat meeting in Ma...

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Movies

True Review: Gulaab Gang Starring Madhuri Dixit & Juhi Chawla

Director: Soumik Sen

Cast: Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla

Rating: 2 stars

The Soumik Sen-directed Gul...

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Hollywood

Keira Knightley campaigns for women in Afghanistan

Keira Knightley and Salma Hayek are campaigning for women’s rights in Afghanistan by writing to UK Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of International Women’s D...

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Bollywood

Women's Day: Why is TV cocking a snook at women's empowerment?

Why does women’s empowerment find little space on the small screen? While there is a deluge of TV shows revolving around female protagonists preoccupied with househol...

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Bollywood

Actor Vidya Balan, who started her innings in showbiz with television, will be seen on the small screen for an International Women’s Day special

The Hum Paanch (1995) actor, who was recently seen on the big screen in the film Shaadi Ke Side Effects opposite actor Farhan Akhtar, will be seen as the host of a show cal...

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Health

Most infant deaths in India occur on first day of birth

In spite of reducing child mortality, deaths of infants in India on the first day of birth is still way too high and likely to hamper it from achieving the millennium devel...

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Bollywood

Official Premiere launch of National Anthem featuring Women from the film and television world by WIFT India

Official Premiere launch of National Anthem featuring Women from the film and television world by

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TV

SAMVIDHAAN – The Making of the Constitution of India

As I watched the first episode of Shyam Benegal’s Samvidhaan – The Making of the Constitution of India, I was reminded that when we studied the Indian Constitut...

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Environment

Extreme hot temperatures increasing despite global warming hiatus claims

Extremely hot temperatures over land have dramatically and unequivocally increased in number and area despite claims that the rise in global average temperatures has slowed...

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Thought Factory

3 Screens and The Missing 4th “R”

Screens surround us, and our children.

First of all there is the big screen, with its larger than life images, with its tinsel moorings, colors and the celebrities ...

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