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The team that Liverpool forgot
Liverpool's men have added a Premier League crown to their European and world titles, while the club's underpowered, overlooked women's team has just been relegated
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'Hamilton' is coming to the small screen. This is how it got there
The public will now finally get a chance to see a live-capture of the stage show. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Disney, which last year outbid competing studios for the rights to the film, announced that it would forgo a planned theatrical release and instead stream it on Disney Plus starting July 3
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Lightning and violent rainstorms kill scores in India
The victims included many farmers working in their fields and children playing outside. At least 83 were reported killed by lightning in Bihar alone
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Tracing the multi-billion dollar fairness cream market in India
In the past few weeks, HUL dropped 'fair' from Fair & Lovely, and Shaadi.com shut down its 'skin tone' filter. But through Bollywood, matrimonial ads and other forms of media, colorism pre-dates colonialism in South Asia, reinforcing systemic differences in caste and class
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HUL drops 'Fair' from 'Fair & Lovely' cream name
HUL's decision to change the name of the 45-year-old brand comes as several global peers have shuttered brands with racist names
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45 years since the Emergency. What led to it?
A timeline of major events related to the Emergency, imposed on June 25, 1975
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It's time to end racism in the fashion industry. But how?
Everyone thinks the industry needs to change. They don't yet agree on how
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IMF predicts deeper global downturn even as economies reopen
The IMF cautioned that its forecast was more uncertain than usual because the trajectory of the pandemic remained hard to predict. Even in countries where infection rates are declining, major obstacles such as the hindrance to travel, mobility and consumption persist
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CSR for Covid-19 is rising, but what about other causes?
Companies are channelising a big chunk of their CSR money towards the coronavirus response, leaving initiatives for other social causes scrambling to stay afloat
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Five things that make Rahul Dravid the greatest batsman
As Rahul Dravid is named the Greatest Indian Test Batsman, here are some key milestones in his cricketing journey
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For 105 years, the Hinduja family stayed together. Now they are falling out
Often called the 'fab four', the strikingly similar Hinduja brothers—with clearly demarcated businesses and identical sartorial choices—have long been held as the epitome of sibling unity. Now, a family dispute threatens to change things