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11 Landmark Judgments By The Indian Supreme Court In Recent Times

On the 15th of April, 2014, the Supreme Court of India (in an unexpected show of decency) decided to recognise the transgender community as a third gender, availing them of...

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Gender

Indonesia Push To Teach Gender Equality In Schools Amid Rising Violence Against Women

IN the face of rising violence against female students, an Indonesian state commission has called for changes in the national school curriculum to promote gender equality a...

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Health

Lok Sabha Passes Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill; Paid Leaves Increase

The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 protects the employment of women in her maternity period and entitles her of maternity benefit (Credit: iStock Images) Almost six months aft...

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Human Rights

Iceland Becomes First Country In The World To Require Gender Pay Equality

Yesterday, Iceland became the first country in the world to introduce mandatory equal pay. On International Women’s Day, the Nordic nation announced their plans to fo...

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Sustainable Development

How An Atari Chip Set Off A War Among Neuroscientists

A video game chip started a scientific reckoning. It all began when some “microchip archaeologists” photographed the chip—the MOS 6502 microprocessor that...

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Environment

Shell Is Abandoning Canada’s Oilsands

In a move that might be indicative of flagging international confidence in the Canadian Oil sands, Shell has announced it will exit most of its oil extraction projects in A...

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Festivals

Exotic Venues & Unique Themes: These 7 Film Festivals Celebrate Cinema With A Difference!

Here, there are niche windows for every kind of cinema, and that’s the beauty of the Indian festival landscape. These festivals are unique in different ways: some foc...

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Alternative Entertainment

Madani Younis: ‘I Fear That Theatres Will Be Only For The Chosen Few’

Pointing through the Bush Theatre’s newly installed windows towards the street, Shepherd’s Bush Market and the railway bridge, artistic director Madani Younis o...

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Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan Supports Gender Equality! Tweets, Will Share Assets Equally Between Abhishek Bachchan And Shweta Nanda

Amitabh Bachchan showed his support for gender equality with his latest tweet, where he revealed that his assets would be equally shared by his son, Abhishek Bachchan and d...

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Hollywood

Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon And More Stars Join Tory Burch's #EmbraceAmbition Movement for International Women's Day

“Be persistent.” “Don’t apologize.” “Never give up on your hopes and dreams.” These are the calls to action made in the empowering...

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