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Water Building A "Planet 50:50 By 2030"

Today is International Women's Day, and this year's theme is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality!" The reference to 2030 is about the deadline for the newly ...

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A Long Walk For Water

Members of 82.2% rural households in Chhattisgarh walk almost 500m a day to fetch drinking water, which means they cover a distance equivalent to that between Gurgaon and Agra...

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Meg Ryan, Robert Mark Kamen To Be Honored At Sonoma Film Festival

Meg Ryan will be honored with the Sonoma Salute Award at the 19th Sonoma Film Festival, a five-day program dedicated to the best in film, food, wine and spirits.During a tribu...

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Farhan Akhtar To Release Special Song On Women's Day?

Bollywood's 'Mr. All Rounder' aka FarhanAkhtar is always game for something or the other, when it's about creativity and excellence. No wonder then, he has become everyone's '...

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Stars Help Save The Children Celebrate A Night Of Motown

Last week, Save the Children held A Night of Motown at the Roundhouse in London. The event, sponsored by RB, was attended by over 350 guests including Helena Bonham Carter, Mo...

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Women’s Day Special: TV Actresses Talk About Their Proud Moments As Women

On the eve of Women's Day, popular television actresses including Rashami Desai, TinaaDattaa, VahbbizDorabjee talk about their proud moments as women. Rashami Desai – Pe...

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Still A Man's World

IT IS still common to see headlines announcing the first woman to occupy some important post or other. Asako Suzuki has just been appointed the first female board member at Ho...

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Amazon India Announces 'Women's Only' Delivery Hubs

It is the International Women’s day on 8th March this year, and what can be a better occasion than this for Amazon to embrace the hard-working women of our country. Amaz...

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The All-Female Patrol Stopping South Africa's Rhino Poachers

The Black Mambas are winning the war on poaching,” insists SiphiweSithole. “We have absolutely zero tolerance for rhino poaching and the illegal wildlife trade. Th...

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Female Directors Will Feature Prominently In This Year's Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled the first half of its annual slate of films Wednesday, a record third of which are from female directors including Sophia Takal and Ingrid J...

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GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024

POWERFUL PEOPLE: USHA UTHUP - THE QUEEN OF POP

Celebrating Usha Uthup’s five-decade journey as a musical trailblazer, cultural am...

November 21 2024