“Pyaasa” Will Be The Opening Film In The ” Indian Classics” Section At The 45th International Film Festival Of India

Hollywood Executives' Quiet Ban On Women In The Movies, By The Numbers.

On Monday, L.A. Weekly’s cover story, “How Hollywood Keeps Out the Stories of Women and Girls,” reported on the dearth of films written by women...

Women Power In Vogue, Say Vidya Balan, Sharmila Tagore.

Dubbing the Kolkata International Film Festival’s (KIFF) endeavour to focus on films helmed by women as “poetic justice”, Bollywood actresses Vidya B...

Wash Up! For Universal Children's Day

“The one thing all children have in common is their rights. Every child has the right to survive and thrive, to be educated, to be free from violence and abuse, to pa...

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...

Gender Parity To Boost India's Economic Growth: IMF

As per a recent IMF study, India’s GDP can expand by 27 percent if the number of women workers increases to the same level as that of men. This is much higher than th...

Cine Central Film Festival Showcases Movies From 17 Countries

Bangladeshi film “Mritika Maya” (Earthen Love), an emotional tale of an old potter, is part of an eclectic package of films being shown at a film festival here ...

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...

No Role Parity Between Male, Female Actors: Sharmila Tagore.

Sharmila Tagore said the difference in wages of male and female actors still exists in the Hindi film industry. Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore rued that male actors s...