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Nestle, Mars Vow To Clean Up Pet Food Supply Chain

The move by the world’s two largest pet food companies puts pressure on suppliers to end labour abuses.Swiss food giant Nestlé SA and US candy and pet food compan...

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Why Scientists Are Listening To Insects

Researchers are reviving a field of study grounded in both music and biology: wingbeat frequency. This peculiar line of study could help us fight malaria It's a warm summer af...

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Sometimes The Best Way To Make Change Is To Make Trouble

We decided to go to Malta because we were fed up with the inactivity from NGOs about the endless trapping and killing of migratory birds there. We first went four years ago, t...

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Rural Film Festivals Are The Next Frontier Of LGBTQ Tolerance

In the fall of 2015, in tiny Lewisburg, West Virginia, Tim Ward and Jon Matthews were gearing up for the second annual Appalachian Queer Film Festival (AQFF for short). Their ...

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The Handmaids Tale Lifts Hulu With Dystopian Vision

A generation after the book was published and became a movie, "The Handmaid's Tale" has been turned into a jolting TV series, representing a huge step up in class for Hulu. Ma...

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Sonali Bendre To Talk On Women Empowerment

Sonali Bendre will be a guest speaker at the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry event tomorrow, where she will promote the idea of women empowerment. Sonali says, “...

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Berklee College Of Music To Present Female Student With Beyonce's Formation Scholars Award

Berklee College of Music is one of four colleges participating in Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s annual Formation Scholars awards, beginning this fall. Berklee will awa...

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Vani Tripathi Tikoo: Meghdoot Theatre Is Being Dedicated To Ebrahim Alkazi, Not Renamed

The Meghdhoot amphitheatre at the Sangeet Natak Akademi is one of India’s first open theatre. It’s one of the finest spaces for live performances, with a banyan tr...

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Hollywood Writers, Studios Reach Deal

Hollywood writers and major entertainment studios reached a tentative deal late Monday night, halting a strike that would’ve begun Tuesday. The 9,000-member Writers Guil...

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Why 47 Companies Stopped Competing And Started Collaborating For Good

In 2014, my creative agency Mekanism launched a campaign in partnership with non-profit Civic Nation called It’s On Us. The intention was simple but lofty: to end rape c...

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BOLLYWOOD: LOVE, AGE, CHAOS, REPEAT

A witty, uneven yet engaging romantic comedy, De De Pyaar De 2 explores age-gap love wit...

November 19 2025

THOUGHT FACTORY: DEATH OF THE WORKING CLASS HERO

Khalid Mohamed analyses the slow disappearance of the working-class protagonist from Hin...

November 18 2025

TV: TRANSFORMATIVE MADRAS JOURNEY

A deeply personal recollection of discovery, creativity, culture, and artistic encounter...

November 17 2025