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Stephen Hawking's Latest PSA Takes On 'Diet Tips'

Stephen Hawking, while a bona fide genius, is also the type of friend who regularly tells it like it is, even when you kind of wish he wouldn’t. Earlier this month, h...

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Gender

Women In Coffee Country

They toil in coffee estates, are plantation owners and managers, marketing professionals or tasters. On the eve of the Coffee Santhe, BHUMIKA K. speaks to some women who&rs...

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Health

Foot Soldiers Of India’s National Health Program, Here’s How Much An Asha Worker Makes

Foot soldiers of the National Rural Health Mission, these women health activists risk their well-being to keep villagers healthy. It’s perhaps time the Accredited Soc...

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Human Rights

Wheel Of Fortune

I was at a conference last Sunday when a gracefully dressed South Indian woman with a boy cut was wheeled up to me.
Preethi Srinivasan, I was to learn during the conve...

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Sustainable Development

Life On The Loom

The cacophonic Old Natham Road gradually gives way to the desolate streets of Valluvar Colony, lined with rows of tiled-roof houses. It’s noon and the entire hamlet i...

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Hollywood

Emma Thompson Backs Campaign To Empower Women

Emma Thompson has backed a campaign to support and empower women and girls living in poverty around the world.
The 57-year-old actress is working with ActionAid UK to ...

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Health

19 Movies That Actually, For Once, Understood Mental Disorders

Mental disorders are still taboo, and whatever limited conversation revolves around them has resulted in incorrect, dramatized understanding of them. Even now, there is har...

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Human Rights

Children And Families Should Never Be In Immigration Detention – UN Experts

Governments should stop placing children and families in immigration detention, a group of UN human rights experts* has said in a call to mark International Migrants’...

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Sustainable Development

Inside Dubai's Quest To Build The First Hyperloop

An ultra high-speed hyperloop—personal transportation pods whizzing through skyscrapers and sand dunes faster than an airplane—might soon become a reality here ...

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Festivals

Curtains To Fall On Patna Film Festival Today

PATNA: Intense cold failed to deter cine lovers from thronging the two venues of Patna Film Festival - Regent Cinema and Rabindra Bhawan - in the last six days. The weeklon...

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