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Festivals

2016 Global Film Festival Links 'Film And Community'

The theme of this year's Global Film Festival, "Film and Community," is much more than a subject matter."We're really trying to not just program films around it, but to live i...

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Alternative Entertainment

REFRESHINGLY ORIGINAL

Yoga in Odissi - the title of a recent dance concert staged by RudrakshyaOdissi Foundation with financial assistance from the Ministry of Culture at RabindraMandap auditorium ...

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Bollywood

Anil Kapoor Urges People To QUIT SMOKING!

With home to the second largest population of smokers, India certainly needs to regulate the awareness towards health. DilDhadakne Do star Anil Kapoor has become a part of a s...

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Hollywood

Michael Crawford Set To Return As Frank Spencer For Sport Relief.

After nearly 40 years off our screens, Michael Crawfordis set to reprise his role as the iconic Frank Spencer in a special one-off Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em sketch ...

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Trending

"Availability Of BARC Rural Data Is Welcome New Arsenal": Sam Balsara

BARC India recently announced the completion of its joint venture with TAM Media Research, with the latter making an exit from the television ratings business effective Februa...

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Gender

Gender And Power Politics

A 2014 Inlaks scholarship to study the Yakshagana folk theatre form took Bangalore-based theatre practitioner SharanyaRamprakash to the esteemed Guru BannanjeSanjeevaSuvarna o...

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Health

ICHR: India's First Hospital-linked Digital Platform for Keeping Children's Health Records Launched

Your child's health records will now be made available at a click of a button. India's first ever digital platform, the Integrated Child Health Record (ICHR), for keeping a ch...

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Human Rights

This App Is Helping Young Iranians Dodge the Morality Police

Anonymous developers in Iran are making people’s lives just a little bit easier with Gershad, an app that helps Iranians identify (and avoid) locations where officers of...

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Sustainable Development

Government Announces Digital Marketplace For Farmers

Imagine a digital marketplace for farmers, using which any farmer in any corner of the country can instantly sell their agri-products to any buyer, there by controlling the pr...

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Environment

Here's Why It's A Very Bad Idea To Wipe Mosquitoes Off The Face Of The Earth

It would be hard to find an insect more despised these days than the mosquito. The blood-sucking pest is considered more lethal to humans than any other animal in the world. I...

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KALEIDOSCOPE: CELLULOID TO DIGITAL BY V.K. CHERIAN, BOOK REVIEW

Despite the cynical and sceptical times we live in, there are indeed many people who hon...

July 6 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: THE PERILS OF BLIND FAITH

Cults led by godmen erode rational discourse and exploit vulnerable populations. In time...

July 5 2024

POLITICS: RAHUL GANDHI’S VISION FOR INDIA'S YOUTH

Rahul Gandhi’s inaugural speech as Leader of the Opposition marks a pivotal moment...

July 3 2024