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Filipino Auteur Brillante Mendoza To Receive Tribute At Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival is set to pay tribute to Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza, who won the director prize at Cannes with his ultra-violent “The Execution of P...

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Health

New Single-Dose Drug May Treat Malaria

A new drug may treat malaria in a single dose and prevent infection being transmitted by mosquito bites to other people, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have fo...

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Bollywood

Parineeti Chopra Named Brand Ambassador Of Girl Child Campaign.

Haryana government named Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra as the brand ambassador for the ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ campaign. Haryana government named Bollywo...

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Festivals

Denis, Jia, Holland To Lead First TIFF Platform Jury.

Festival selects trio to judge first competitive section, aimed at ‘auteur films’; Cameron Bailey talks strand. The Toronto International Film Festival (Septemb...

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Health

Indian Private Hospitals Biggest Beneficiaries Of International Aid Programmes

The biggest recipients of investment through aid programmes of rich nations have been the large commercial hospital chains in the emerging economy countries. Limited to a f...

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Gender

Oscars Shouldn’t Compromise To Up Diversity, Say Female Academy Members

Producers Marcia Nasatir and Bonnie Arnold suggest rapid pace of change at voting body could undermine requirement for high standard of professional achievement Two high-pr...

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Health

AIDS Epidemic Can End By 2030: UNAIDS

India has achieved a reduction of more than 20 per cent in new HIV infections between 2000 and 2014, according to a report released by UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Prog...

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Health

Developed Nations Should Invest In Healthcare Of Poorer Countries: WHO

In the run-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to gradually move t...

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Sustainable Development

Can We Finance Sustainable Development?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most comprehensive international poverty alleviation movement in history. Since 1990, extreme poverty has been cut by ...

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Environment

How To Talk To A 5-Year-Old About Climate Change

Climate change can be a scary thing to talk about with grown-ups, let alone children. It is also very complex, with long-term effects that reach into future decades and cen...

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