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Train's Pat Monahan Helps Raise $122,000 to Launch HomeAid Los Angeles Chapter

  Pat Monahan, lead singer of the GRAMMY-winning, multi-platinum-selling band Train, performed on Tuesday, October 13th at the Beverly Hills headquarters of Kennedy Wils...

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Trending

Here’s Why An Indian Origin Cab Driver Has Been Selected As ‘Australian Of The Year’

For cab driver Tejinder Pal Singh, an Indian residing in Australia, it’s a special occasion on the last Sunday of each month. After completing his 12-hour shift, he star...

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Health

WHO Doubles Recommended Number Of Health Visits During Pregnancy

The World Health Organization revised guidelines on antenatal care on Monday, saying pregnant women should have twice as many contacts with health providers - eight - as it re...

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Human Rights

It’s A Hard Life For Dwarfs In India

Mahendra Vinayak Agavni, 45, a resident of Kurla in Mumbai has had a tough day in the city’s suburban trains. It’s an ordeal he faces pretty much everywhere he goe...

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Gender

“Will You Be Back Early?”: Problems Single Women Face In Finding Accommodation

“Where do you work (or study)?”, “Will you be back early?”, “I do not allow drinking in the house.”, “You cannot bring over men.&rdqu...

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Sustainable Development

Homemade Rotary Cell Phone Can Send Texts, Play FM Radio, And Make Calls

It wasn't all that long ago that huge swaths of critics were claiming Steve Jobs' keypad free cell phone would never take off, and I find myself wondering what they would have...

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Environment

Marrakech Climate Talks: Giving The Fossil Fuel Lobby A Seat At The Table

As the world gathers in Morocco for the historic first meeting under the Paris agreement – called “COP22” but now also “CMA1” – i...

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Festivals

MAMI An Exception, Most Film Festivals In India Await Sponsors

Mumbai Film Festival, the seven-day star-studded extravaganza, wrapped up last week. Organised by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI), the widely publicized festival...

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Alternative Entertainment

Six Photojournalists Who Will Open Your Eyes To Unseen Parts Of India Through Instagram

Instagram is one of the largest photo sharing platforms on the internet. It has more than five million users logging in everyday to share anything and everything from pictures...

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Bollywood

Vidya Balan And Vivek Oberoi Join The Celeb Line-Up For Global Citizen Festival India

International singer Demi Lovato along with actors Freida Pinto, Vidya Balan and Vivek Oberoi has joined the Global Citizen India movement to end extreme poverty by 2030. The ...

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FESTIVALS: THREE DAYS OF UNMISSABLE BRILLIANCE

In its final three days, the Prithvi Theatre Festival surges toward a spectacular finish...

November 15 2025

THOUGHT FACTORY: LEGACY, VISION, ART, AND NATION

This article by filmmaker Sharad Raj celebrates Jawahar Lal Nehru’s 126th birth an...

November 14 2025

RETROSCOPE: CELEBRATING THE LEGEND DARA SINGH

On his upcoming 97th birth anniversary, 19th November 2025, Monojit Lahiri revisits the ...

November 13 2025