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Alternative Entertainment

Striking Photo's Of A Ballet Program Bringing Strength To One Of Africa's Biggest Slums

Fredrik Lerneryd spent the last year and a half photographing a group of ballet dancers in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest urban slums in Afri...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Does Not Like Being Paid 'Much Less' Than 'The Boys'

Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra has proved to be a game changer when it comes to Asian actors in Hollywood. Speaking to BBC News, the erstwhile Miss World opened up about wh...

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Human Rights

A New Year Reminder: India's HIV Bill Does Little To Ensure Access To Treatment

Since pressure to draft the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014, began to be mounted more than a decade ago, socio-political circumstances have considerably ch...

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Sustainable Development

Massive Telescope Will Be Upgraded To Study The Nearest Exoplanets To Earth

One of the biggest space stories of 2016 was the discovery of the Earth-scale planet Proxima b in orbit around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. Located only 4...

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Alternative Entertainment

Photographers Capture Iconic Indian Artists In Their Element

Few human traits exist in that unlikely realm somewhere between being reviled and revered but our innate sense of voyeurism is definitely one of them. Though our methods ma...

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Festivals

Film Festival Puts Spotlight On Local Makers

Saturday has the kind of gray forecast nobody wants to hear - 45, cloudy and rainy. If only someone would organize a free screening of local films in a new, funky space. En...

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Human Rights

National Human Rights Commission Raises Concern Over School Infrastructure

Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) H L Dattu here on Monday expressed concern over poor infrastructure in schools, land acquisition without proper compe...

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Alternative Entertainment

4-Day Film-Music Package On Caste-Based Discrimination

Thought-provoking stories of the trials and resistance against caste-based discrimination are the focus of a four-day film and music package at the ongoing third edition of...

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Kaleidoscope

Action All The Way

Matthew Riley’s hero Jack West is one of the world’s five greatest warriors, along with Moses, Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Christ—seriously!—so he is...

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Health

India Reduces Baby Deaths But Still Hasn’t Met 2012 Targets

Of 36 Indian states and Union territories (UTs), the lowest IMRs were reported from Goa and Manipur with nine infant deaths per 1,000 live births First, the good news: 37 b...

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