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B-Town All 'Heart And Prayers' For Earthquake Victims

Bollywood celebrities like John Abraham and Anil Kapoor on Monday prayed for the victims of the earthquake that hit India’s northeast region. The earthquake, measurin...

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NFDC Film Bazaar 2015 Closes, Marks New Beginnings_AR Rahman Did A Knowledge Series Session With Nasreen Munni Kabir

Goa, November 25, 2015: The ninth edition of Film Bazaar organized by National Film Development Corporati...

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Festivals

Amitabh Bachchan To Inaugurate Kolkata Film Festival

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will inaugurate the upcoming 21st edition of Kolkata Film Festival, which will screen 149 films from 61 countries. The opening ceremony ...

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Retroscope

Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

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Health

Nadia In West Bengal Goes Churu Way, Achieves Open Defecation-Free Tag

The Centre has lauded the involvement of government officials in successfully implementing sanitation programmes across states. A recent communiqué issued by the Min...

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Gender

Over 70,000 Transgenders In Rural India: Survey

Rural India has over 70,000 transgenders, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list with nearly 13,000, and West Bengal home to around 10,000, reveals the Socio Economic and Cast...

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Gender

Tagore’s Stories Have A Strange Sense Of Gender Equality: Anurag Basu

Anurag Basu on adapting Rabindranath Tagore’s stories and the genre-defying format of his next film, Jagga Jasoos. Filmmaker Anurag Basu talks about adapting Rabindra...

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Gender

Entrepreneurship Helps Delay Child Marriage In India, Empower Young Women

Impoverished girls in India who are at high risk of child marriage are gaining independence and generating income with the help of a Seattle-based non-profit. Landesa Rural...

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Health

Spurt in HIV Positive Cases Rings Alarm Bells in Bengal

West Bengal is fast becoming a high-risk HIV positive state. According to statistics for the last two years available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, West B...

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Gender

India Gets Its First Transgender College Principal

India, probably the world, will get its first transgender college principal when Manabi Bandopadhyay takes charge of Krishnagar Women’s College in West Bengal on June...

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