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Women Tour Guides In India Are Showing The Route To Gender Equality

Indian women have been working as tourist guides since the 1970s, undeterred by the long hours in the outdoors and the responsibility of managing tourists from diverse backgro...

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Bangladesh Teens Stop Child Marriage

Adolescent girls in Bangladesh face severe threats to their health: Two-thirds marry by age 18, and a third of girls are mothers before age 20. A national network of teen girl...

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A New Type Of Dune Has Been Found On Mars

Led by Caltech planetary geologist Mathieu Lapôtre, the new research confirmed the existence of this third type of “bedform,” the term for sedimentary struct...

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Leaving EU Will Make It Harder For UK To Tackle Climate Change, Says Minister

“While I think the UK’s role in dealing with a warming planet may have been made harder by the decision last Thursday, our commitment to dealing with it has not go...

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London Indian Film Festival To Showcase Issue-Based Movies

The seventh Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival will be seen challenging stereotypes of India and South Asia, and will wrestle with some very hard issues. The Indian ...

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Ranbir Lends His Support To A Women Empowerment Organisation!

Bollywood hearththrob Ranbir Kapoor has always been known as an avid football fan. The ''Barfi'' star has often hosted and participated in several celebrity charity football m...

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Jennifer Garner Urges Support For Families Hit By Historic West Virginia Floods

Following historic flooding that hit West Virginia last Thursday and Friday, Save the Children is helping families and communities assess damages and meet immediate needs. The...

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Autism To Artism: These Face Masks Are Expanding The Horizons For Autistic Children

When Parasuram Ramamoorthy, a theatre specialist, heard the word autism for the first time, he misheard it as ‘artism’. That was happenstance with a purpose, becau...

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Ecological And Social Implications Of Trans And Climate Change

We are biological creatures, part of an ecosphere, living in communities. Like any other organism, our genetic code sets parameters within which we live. The ecosphere is gove...

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Adolescent Sexual Health: Time To Invest In A Healthy Future Generation

Good adolescent sexual health is the cornerstone of future healthy families and is essential for the development of optimal intimate and social relations including gender equa...

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INTIMACY & TECHNOLOGY – FRENEMIES??

Monojit Lahiri explores how technology has reshaped intimacy and interpersonal communica...

April 1 2026

NOW STEPPING INTO HISTORY

Khalid Mohamed’s conversations with actor-turned-director Riteish Deshmukh over ti...

March 31 2026

CINEMA THAT BREATHES IN STILLNESS

An evocative evening of French and German short films in Mumbai explores stillness, abst...

March 29 2026