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Festivals

PREVIEW-Berlin Film Fest Opens With Clooney - And Eye On Refugees

George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when "Hail, Caesar!" opens the annual Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned show...

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Festivals

Spinning The Lazy Susan With Stars At Rotterdam's Film Festival

Few film festivals give anyone the chance to sit next to a star director over dinner, so spinning the lazy susan in Rotterdam's favourite Chinese restaurant with Whit Stillman...

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India Suffers From 'Inherently Unequal' Environment: Ratan Tata

The former Tata Group chief, who is now Chairman of Tata Trusts, said his greatest desire is to see India as a unified and equal-opportunity nationIndia suffers from an "inher...

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Why Maneka Gandhi Should Watch Doordarshan's Tv Series Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon

The serial tackles patriarchy, gender roles and foeticide with some engaging story-telling. Women and child development minister could take a cue from it. The serial tackles p...

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Bollywood

Actresses’ Lives Don’t Stop At 30 Or Marriage: VidyaBalan

While marriage and kids were earlier looked at as hindrances in the careers of female actors in Bollywood, it doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, feels actor VidyaBalan...

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Hollywood

Pamela Anderson Appeals To French Assembly To Ban Foie Gras Cruelty

Earlier this week, the French deputy minister of ecology introduced a proposed law to ban the force-feeding of animals, and to help kick off the debate, he invited animal-righ...

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Gender

India Needs To “Save Its Daughters” Through Education And Gender Equality

Women constitute nearly half of the country’s 1.25 billion people and gender equality — whether in politics, economics, education or health — is still a dist...

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Health

Rs 16cr Plan To Check Maternal Deaths

Pune: The state government has made a provision of Rs 16 crore to improve services at state-run healthcare centres handling high-risk pregnancies. Delivery room facilities at ...

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Sustainable Development

Smart Spoon Helps Parkinson's Patients Feed Themselves

Enter GYENNO’s Smart Spoon, a stabilization utensil device that offsets 85 percent of unwanted tremors for users affected by diseases like Parkinson’s. The spoon, ...

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Environment

Raging Fires in Southern Australia Have Destroyed 100 Homes

The community of Yarloop, south of Perth and home to an estimated 545 residents, was the hardest hit, with Reuters reporting that nearly all of structures, including the post ...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: DEPICTION OF CHILD ABUSE IN CINEMA

Courageous storytellers daringly illuminate the darkness of child abuse, igniting conver...

May 3 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: 50 YEARS OF GARM HAWA

On Balraj Sahni’s birth anniversary, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at the lasting l...

May 1 2024

GENDER: A WIFE'S HILARIOUS TALE DURING IPL FEVER

Monojit Lahiri hilariously recounts the rollercoaster ride of being an IPL victim, with ...

May 1 2024