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Gender

Mobile Phones: Patriarchy's New Red Alert

Villages are imposing mobile phone bans on young women in order to control their new independence and mobility. It started with KhapPanchayats in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and...

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Sustainable Development

Storage Level In Major Reservoirs Sees A Further Dip

The volume of water in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending March 10, 2016 stands at 45.801 BCM (billion cubic metre). This is just 29 per cent of the tot...

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Festivals

Film Festivals Set For Next Week

Seen & Heard’ column by Dave MabellTV shows may come and go, but some films live on forever. Others, that really should be seen, may never reach their intended au...

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Trending

Government Uber To Install Breathalysers In Bars In Association With Mumbai Police

Safety is of utmost importance to Mumbai Traffic Police, and with the recent increase in ‘drunken driving’ cases in the cities, the traffic police have become m...

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Gender

Expectant Government Launches 'Mahila-E-Haat' To Encourage Women Entrepreneurship

Today, 8th March, is International Women’s Day and what could be a better day to flag off some women-centric initiatives in India. After all, women are at par with me...

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Bollywood

Women’s Day 2016: 8 Bollywood Songs Dedicated To Women’s Empowerment

Every year March 8 is observed as International Women’s Day. The whole world takes this to celebrate and appreciate the contribution of women towards the society. Thi...

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Health

Empty Promises And Dead Children

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy events, celeb...

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Festivals

Tribeca Film Festival Shorts Lineup Includes Works By Danny Devito, Michael Rapaport& Matthew Modine

The 15thannual Tribeca Film Festival announced its slate of 72 selected short films, 45 of which are world premieres and 53 which are in competition.  The festival cho...

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Bollywood

Women's Day 2016: Top 5 Female Directors Who Made It Big In Bollywood

International Women's Day is observed March 8 every year to celebrate the achievements of women across the globe. This day is dedicated to all the female figures of the soc...

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Festivals

A Melee Of March Film Festivals In London

A long overdue celebration of a distant noir scene so good Martin Scorsese ripped it off (with The Departed) but came nowhere near the ice cool original he was aping (Infer...

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