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Gender

After Kalpana Chawla & Sunita Williams, Here’s The 3rd Indian-Origin Woman Go To Space

In November 1997, Kalpana Chawla became the first woman of Indian origin to travel in space as the mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator aboard the US space s...

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Health

UP’s Healthcare Paradox: From Worse Than Haiti To Better Than Rest OIf India

At a time when India’s sex ratio at birth is low and declining–from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014)–there are, in poor, populous Uttar Pradesh (UP), districts su...

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Human Rights

Equality’s Time Has Come

To understand the vehement opposition to 33 per cent women’s reservation in urban local bodies (ULBs) in Nagaland by male-dominated/all-male Naga tribal bodies, it is...

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Sustainable Development

We Need To Regulate The Seabed Before Mining Companies Destroy It

On Thursday, an international group of marine scientists published an article in Science in which they outlined the desperate need for an international effort to regulate t...

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Environment

On Top Of Everything Else, Climate Change Helps West Nile Disease To Spread

In case there weren't enough reasons to be freaked out about climate change, here's another one: a new study shows it can make it easier for West Nile disease to spread. Su...

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Festivals

Watch 120+ Short Films From The Sundance Film Festival

Too often do the shorts that screen at film festivals get lost in the mix, ignored by most charged with covering the respective festival. As our Sundance Film Festival cove...

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Alternative Entertainment

In The Burgeoning World Of Virtual Reality, Storytelling Is Both Cutting-Edge & Old-Fashioned

Over the last several years, the Sundance Film Festival has been an early adopter, and key champion, of bringing virtual-reality content into the world of film. What had on...

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Bollywood

Vivek Oberoi To Donate 10,000 Face Masks To Traffic Cops

Vivek Oberoi has always been at the forefront of noble causes and has contributed to the society in his own ways. The actor who serves as the anti-tobacco spokesperson for ...

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Hollywood

Steven Tyler Auctions Rare Sports Car For Charity

A rare sports car from the personal collection of Steven Tyler has been auctioned, raising $800,000 for his Janie's Fund, a philanthropic partnership with Youth Villages. T...

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TV

Of Meanies And Queens

What’s a soap opera without a couple of mean women or vamps? Call them what you may, these epitomes of the Wicked Witch from the West or East from the Wizard of Oz, a...

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