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| Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Within a month of their return to India, two NRI children, who were earlier taken into foster-care by the Norwegian Childcare Services, find themselves in a new controversy -- their families have filed police complaints against each other alleging threats to kill.
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| Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) The eastern metropolis resonated with slogans of "Jaa porechi, besh korechi (I don't care what people think of my dressing sense)" as over a hundred women, men and children, including foreign nationals, took to the streets as part of the Kolkata Slutwalk to protest against any....
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| Jaipur, May 24 (IANS) Aamir Khan's highly acclaimed "Satyameva Jayate" has inspired a sarpanch in a Rajasthan village to register police cases against women and families who go for tests to detect and abort the girl child.
"Illegal sex determination is rampant in the Shekhawati region (Jhunj....
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| By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Mumbai, May 24 (IANS) With no major homophobia expressed by the police or state secretariat officials and no tantrums from ultra-right wing gay-bashing groups on the horizon, India's only queer film festival Kashish seems to have just had an uneventful start here.
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| Lucknow, May 23 (IANS) Even as India has observed Jan 26, Aug 15 and Oct 2 as national holidays, the government does not seem to have issued any formal orders for the same.
The disclosure from the central home ministry came in response to an application under the Right to Information (RTI) A....
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| By Brij Khandelwal
Agra, May 23 (IANS) River lifeguard Satish Chandra is like Mitch Buchannon, the popular character from American TV show "Baywatch" who saved people from drowning in the sea. However, Chandra has received hardly any recognition or honour even after saving 50 lives in 33 year....
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| Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) Unable to take care of her seven-month-old child due to extreme poverty, a mother in West Bengal's Nadia district sold her infant to a meat seller for Rs.2000.
Rinku Das, a recently widowed mother of two from Krishnanagar in Nadia district which is some 105 km from Kol....
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| By Radhika Bhirani
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) It's time for the queers to get the straight treatment! With over 125 films in different languages from across the globe, the third edition of Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival - the country's only mainstream LGBT movie extravaganza -....
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| New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) An Afghan theatre company, Rah-e-Sabz, which escaped a Taliban attack in Kabul last August because of a last-minute change in schedule, will stage an Afghan version of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" at the Azad Bhavan here Tuesday.
A miltant attack on the compound ....
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| By Mauli Buch
Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) Vegetable vendor Salma fights for the rights of the city's street vendors and has been jailed many times. Now the 26-year-old is going to an international conference in Brazil to speak about Indian domestic workers, labourers and hawkers.
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