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Bollywood

Akshay Kumar: Build Small Toilets Like Phone Booths

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar on Monday urged the Maharashtra government to construct toilets in every nook and corner on the lines of the now defunct telephone booths to ma...

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Festivals

All About Aaba, The Only Indian Film At The Berlin International Film Festival This Year

Amar Kaushik (33), an associate director on films such as No One Killed Jessica (2007) and Go Goa Gone (2013), has lived in Mumbai for over a decade. However, he spent the ...

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Sustainable Development

Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the US and the EU) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars probe into space. But it remains part ...

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Sustainable Development

How We Blended Our Minds With Our Devices

Like life itself, technologies evolve. So it is that the telephone became the smartphone, that near-at-hand portal to the information superhighway. We have held these power...

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Retroscope

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

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Health

Global Fight Against Tuberculosis Hinges On India Stepping Up Funding: WHO

India is critical to the global fight to end an epidemic of tuberculosis by 2030 and must step up funding to control the disease, the World Health Organisation said, citing...

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Hollywood

Geena Davis: Unconscious Bias Is Hurting Women in Hollywood.

Geena Davis is making it her mission to educate Hollywood on gender equality. For years the actor has been very vocal about the dire need for equal gender representati...

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Retroscope

A Personal Tribute To Smita

That was sometime way back in the seventies. I still remember the two young women in our Tashkent film delegation who were fashionably late for meals, meetings; who giggled...

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Trending

Overall Telephone Subscriber Base Rises To 999.71 Million: Trai

The total telephone subscriber base in the country rose marginally to reach 999.71 million at the end of April, on the back of growth in wireless users, sectoral regulator ...

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Thought Factory

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

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