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At Periyar, no life jackets, no shoot

Safety first, sensation next. However, the shooting of a big budget Telugu movie stopped in its tracks at the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) as a forest official tried to hammer home the point.

Nina Pillai to head country's first exclusive TV channel for women, Sakhi

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A bevy of leading women from business, politics and cinema have joined their hands to form the country’s first exclusively women channel, Sakhi TV, that would go on air by the end of this year.

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Kerala child abuse rising

Child abuse in Kerala seems to have reached epidemic levels with the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan helpline reporting over 1,000 complaints since June 2011.

Likewise, the higher secondary helpline which beca

‘India not to revise its nuclear plan’

The former foreign secretary and the Prime Minister’s special envoy on climate change, Mr Shyam Saran, said that India need not have to revise its nuclear plans in the aftermath of the disaster at the

Govts have failed, not Pak: Fatima

Pakistan is now lorded over a by a man Fatima Bhutto calls “my aunt’s oleaginous husband” but she insists that Pakistan is not a failed state.

Flood of abuse stuns SSA help desk in Kerala

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When Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) set up help desks in schools, the Kerala government was unprepared for a literal flood of child abuse complaints.

Now, with help desks stuffed with complaints and the

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.