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The 'Avon Ladies' Of Pakistan Selling Contraception Door To Door

A scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty rom 8am to 4pm, 25-year-old Samina Khaskheli travels door-...

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Using Social Media to Prevent Adolescent Suicide

Distraught over a poor grade that she thought would ruin her life, the honor-roll student broadcast her suicide for anyone to see. Hours later, she was in the inpatient psychi...

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Can India Benefit From A Human Rights Framework For Business?

On 26 June 2014, the government made a commitment at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), when it voted in favour of a resolution to establish an open-ended inter-...

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Why Haven't We Explored The Ocean Like Outer Space?

Only five percent of the seafloor has been topographically imaged, which leaves 65 percent of the entire planet (not counting land masses) relatively unknown. Yet, since the d...

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Australians Have Spent Almost $8bn On Rooftop Solar Since 2007, Says Report

In its latest State of Solar report, Solar Citizens – which campaigns for, and represents the interests of, solar owners – has for the first time estimated Austral...

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New York Asian Film Festival Is Having A Southeast Asian Moment

At the New York Asian Film Festival, Asian film means movies mostly from the continent’s Big Three: Japan, South Korea and the Chinese-language cinemas of Hong Kong, Chi...

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Complete Your Education Before Coming To Bollywood: Madhur Bhandarkar

Madhur Bhandarkar, who has directed hit films such as Chandni Bar (2001), Page 3 (2005) and Fashion (2008), among others, says everyone should complete their education before ...

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Bradley Cooper To Executive-Produce Star-Studded Stand Up To Cancer TV Broadcast

The Hollywood community is once again uniting to support Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), which will stage its fifth bienni...

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Google Helps Kids Send Videos To Dads In Prison For Father's Day

“When you come home, Dad, I want… ” Maya, 9, stops and puts her face in her hands, unable to continue. Maya, whose father is on a 25-year sentence in a Cali...

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Hit Hard By Climate Change, Rural Women In Sundarbans Turn Photographers

In the Bengali language ‘Sundarban’ can be literally translated as ‘beautiful forest’. A World Heritage Site, the area is the largest block of continuo...

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RETROSCOPE: CELEBRATING THE LEGEND DARA SINGH

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

November 13 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: GHATAK, JUNG, BRECHT & PARTITION

In this profound essay, writer and filmmaker Sharad Raj explores how Ritwik Ghatak merge...

November 12 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: JUST DO IT

In a conversation, Khalid Mohamed draws out the eventful life and film adventures of wri...

November 11 2025