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Meryl Streep Funds Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40

Meryl Streep has funded a screenwriters lab for women writers over 40, to be run by New York Women in Film and Television and IRIS, a collective of women filmmakers.
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Environment

Climate-Change Solutions

AGAINST THE BACKDROP of student-led protests urging divestment from fossil-fuel companies, President Drew Faust—declaring that “the challenge of climate change ...

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Bollywood

How Foundations Like Ronnie Screwvala's Swades Are Helping Entrepreneurs Emerge From Rural India

For Ronnie Screwvala this was an unusual success story. At a community centre in Khamgaon, a village 166 km south of Mumbai, he engaged a group of 25 rural women, all dress...

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Sustainable Development

Asia?s Investment Bank: A New Chapter In Sustainable Development

Development banks can help achieve much needed infrastructure development in Asia, but experts from the World Resources Institute caution that development must not come at ...

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“Broadcasters Need To Stop Relying On Advertisers For Revenue”: Sameer Nair

Broadcasters need to stop relying solely on advertisers as their main source of revenue. Moreover as digitisation reaches the third phase, it is imperative to for them to c...

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Health

Smart Farming

In a shabby godown-turned-office in Vaishali district, Shashank Kumar, an alumnus of prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), pensively browses through the Interne...

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Kiran Rao To Head NFDC’s Unique Film Centre “FILMBAY”

Mumbai, March 25 2015:Filmmaker Kiran Rao will spearhead a new and unique film centre in Mumbai “FilmBay”, a ...

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International Women Leaders Discuss Women’s Equality And Leadership At Barnard College

Last week, Barnard College and President Debora L. Spar hosted Queen Noor of Jordan, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee, CARE USA CEO Helene Gayle, President of Goldman...

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Bollywood

At UN, Bollywood’s Farhan Akhtar leads push to involve more men to end violence against women

When the moderator of a panel discussion on Wednesday at United Nations Headquarters in New York on how to end violence against women looked a little disappointedly at her ...

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Highway, Diya Aur Baati Hum, Udann and Beti project honoured at Elevate 2015

Imtiaz Ali’s movie Highway, the Star Plus daily soap Diya Aur Baati Hum,Colors social message show Udann and Anu Ranjan’s NGO Beti fighting for the cause o...

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