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'Billions' Star Tells Ellen What It Means To Identify As Gender Non-Binary

Asia Kate Dillon is making history as the first gender non-binary character on a mainstream television show, Showtime’s “Billions.” The star, who also identi...

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Dirty Air And Water Increase Cradle Deaths In India

If this does not wake us up what will? The World Health Organization (WHO) has pressed the alarm exposing that children below five years are at the highest risk from filthy ai...

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Plagued By Decades Of Child Trafficking, India Activists Call For Crackdown

MUMBAI // Activists are clamouring for the rapid introduction of a new law to crack down on child trafficking in India, a problem that has plagued the country for decades. Chi...

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This Scientist Is Using Subway DNA to Prepare For Life Beyond Earth

Dr. Chris Mason is studying human and bacterial DNA to understand how humans might prepare for life in space, as well as how to defend our bodies from the radiation of long jo...

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Thames Water Hit With Record £20m Fine For Huge Sewage Leaks

Massive fine reflects change in sentencing as previously low penalties failed to deter water firms from polluting England’s rivers and beaches Thames Water has been hit ...

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Nandita Das To Promote Nawazuddin Starrer Manto At Cannes Film Festival

Ace actor-director Nandita Das, who is not new to Cannes, will be promoting her new film Manto at the Cannes Film Festival this May. A 6.37 minutes of the movie that wa...

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There’s A Story Behind Every Woman

A few months ago, Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad approached saxophonist and photographer George Hull for an exhibition of photographs putting the spot light on women. “I felt ...

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Anushka Sharma: I Questioned All Established Norms Of Bollywood

Actress Anushka Sharma on Friday said that through most of her early years in the industry, she felt hyper-anxious because the boundaries and expectations from her were pre-de...

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Stars Join Enough Is Enough Campaign For War Child

In a moving new video released by War Child, a group of celebrities tell the true story of a Syrian teen forced to flee across the border, and the tragic events that follow. T...

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Varanasi: A Journey Beyond The Within

The first impression of this “holy” city were singular moments of “unholiness” tied together by exasperation and a tense feeling of confusion. As we fo...

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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

FESTIVALS: CINEMA ENDURES BECAUSE ARTISTS PERSIST

A powerful three-day gathering in New Delhi explored cinema’s endurance against ce...

November 16 2025