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MEET INDIA’S ONLY WOMAN TUNNEL ENGINEER. SHE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN BENGALURU’S METRO PROJECT

Annie Sinha Roy, a 35-year-old resident of Bengaluru, is India’s first and only tunnel engineer.
AND SHE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 4.8 KM EAST-...

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Human Rights

THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO CREATED A NEW WAY TO BUST SEX TRAFFICKING RINGS

When she was still an undergrad, Emily Kennedy created Traffic Jam, a program that helps authorities track prostitution rings by using publicly available data.
Last ye...

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Environment

IN PHOTOS: THE LARGEST BURNING OF IVORY IN HISTORY

Kenya torched 105 tons of ivory worth an estimated $105 million over the weekend in a bid to highlight the impact of poaching. Eleven piles of ivory, representing the tusks...

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Alternative Entertainment

One Woman's Holocaust Secrets Make For A Powerful Film

HOW GENEALOGICAL DETECTIVE WORK MENDS A SHATTERED FAMILY
ONE OF THE WORST PARTS OF THE HORROR THAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST IS THAT ITS ECHOES NEVER CEASE TO REVERBERATE. YOU...

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Hollywood

SOLIDARITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR REFUGEE WHO SET HERSELF ON FIRE

Australian Twitter users have been sharing photos of what they were doing at 19, in solidarity with an asylum seeker who set fire to herself on Monday, apparently in protes...

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Gender

The Gender Beat: South Asian Women Earn 80% Less Than Men; Kerala’s First Woman Boat Master

A new study published by the international organisation Action Aid titled The Price of Privilege: Extreme Wealth, Unaccountable Power and the Fight for Equality in the 21st...

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Festivals

JURY ANNOUNCED FOR 2016 FASHION FILM FESTIVAL

CHICAGO, IL — May 1, 2016 — The fourth annual Fashion Film Festival Chicago (FFFC), today announced its jurors — a diverse group of fashion industry and f...

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Alternative Entertainment

ONE WOMANS HOLOCAST SECRETS MAKE FOR A POWERFUL FILM

One of the worst parts of the horror that was the Holocaust is that its echoes never cease to reverberate. You can blow up the gas chambers, you can burn down the camps, bu...

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Human Rights

Exploiting Asia's Biodiversity Can Ensure Food Security, End Hunger

Experts came together at a regional consultation on Asia’s biodiversity to assess opportunities on how to ensure food security and enhance nutrition across the contin...

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Alternative Entertainment

Best Music Film & Literature That Came Out In April

Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo's first novel about the superrich, is a fascinating failure. Published in 2003, it follows a 28-year-old billionaire named Eric Packer over the cour...

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