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No More Lampooning, Bollywood Embraces Gay Characters

There was a time when films such as Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya (1998) lampooned people from the LGBT community through characters who were manily sidekicks, had overtly femini...

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Killing Norway To Allow People To Change Gender By Simply 'Ticking A Box', With Children As Young As Six Able To Swap w Without Any Medical Procedure Under Proposed Rules

Norway will allow people to change gender by simply 'ticking a box' with children as young
six able to swap without any medical procedure under proposed rules.
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What's Killing The World's Teenagers? Road Accidents, Suicide, Floods

The leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S. is road accidents — killing nearly 5,000 American kids between the ages of 10 and 19 in 2013.

Suicide a...

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Humans Risk Killing Off One-In-Five of All Plant Species

Twenty-one percent of the world’s plant species—essential to food and medicine supplies—are threatened with extinction, according to a report published Tu...

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Indian Short Film ‘Beti’ At Seattle Film Festival

“Beti”, a non-fiction short film on girl child education, made by young student filmmakers of the city, has been invited for a special screening at the 42nd Sea...

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VIDEO: Rare Clip of Raj Kapoor & Dilip Kumar Playing Cricket For Drought Relief in the 1960s

A rare video of Hindi film celebrities playing cricket has been going viral among both cricket and Bollywood fans. The black-and-white video, featuring celebrities like Raj...

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Google Is Reportedly Announcing A Standalone Android VR Headset Next Week

Google is moving beyond Cardboard.

The company will reportedly be announcing a standalone Android VR headset at next week’s Google I/O event. Entrepreneur and...

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School Praised For Installing Gender Neutral Toilet To Include Trans 6-Year-Old

A school in Auckland, New Zealand has been praised for installing a gender-neutral toilet to help a 6-year-old trans kid feel accepted.The Board of Trustees at the school g...

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India Misses Millennium Development Goal 5

Under the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, the target for India was to reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. Based on the UN In...

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A First For The Country, Maharashtra Bans Social Boycott Ordered By The Khaps

Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to ban village councils from imposing social boycotts. In the majority of cases, it is women and people from lower cla...

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