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Soon, Doctors Can ‘See’ A Fever

Visual, non-invasive monitoring of body temperature of patients without using a thermometer may become a reality soon, thanks to the work carried out by a team of scientists l...

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One Step Forward, Two Back – India’s Uneven Progress In Correcting Gender Imbalance

India’s sex ratio at birth – or the number of girl children born for every 1,000 boys born – has improved slightly over the last 10 years. But there are now ...

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Why Tiny Electric Planes And $25 Tickets Could Be The Future Of Regional Air Travel

Imagine taking your next trip of a couple hundred miles. New York City to Boston, for example. Or Houston to Dallas. Tampa to Miami. The obvious choice now might be to drive. ...

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Receding Glacier Causes Immense Canadian River To Vanish In Four Days

An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have reported, in an unsettling illustrati...

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Cannes 2017 Features 12 Films By Female Directors, Up By 9

The line-up for the highly anticipated Cannes Film Festival 2017 has been announced, unveiling a notable rise in female directors making the list. A total of twelve will have ...

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Documentary Sales Are Surging, But What's Driving Competition?

You could call it the “Netflix effect.” With the rise of the global VOD giant and its increasingly voracious appetite for nonfiction films, the documentary industr...

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Neil Nitin Mukesh Shoots An Ad For A Social Cause, Stands Up For Abused Elephants

As part of a campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, Neil appeared in a print ad, which sees him bruised and in shackles. The ad reads, “E...

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Alan Carr & Mel Sykes To Host British LGBT Awards

Alan Carr and Mel Sykes have been announced as the hosts of this year’s British LGBT Awards. The comedian and presenter will be joined by showbiz pal Mel Sykes to co-pre...

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Let's Talk About Trolls

I have been called a whore, a ‘randi’, ‘c***”, bitch and ‘presstitute” on Twitter and other social media platforms so often that now I bare...

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Bend It Like Poonam

This post originally appeared on Video Volunteers, an award-winning international community media organization based in India. An edited version is published below as part of ...

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AI, CREATIVITY AND PURPOSE UNITE

From AI-powered filmmaking education and innovative talent recruitment to empathy-driven...

June 20 2026

PRIDE, IDENTITY, COURAGE, FREEDOM, REPEAT

In this Pride Month conversation, Vinta Nanda speaks with Salim Asgarally about identity...

June 19 2026

WHY MOTHERS ECLIPSE FATHERS DAILY

Monojit Lahiri explores why Mother’s Day commands greater emotional resonance than...

June 18 2026