2 hours ago By Steven McIntosh, Entertainment reporter Cowles Filmmaker Duncan Cowles says the idea of the “old-fashioned man” is still a “seductive idea” to some The topic of male mental health has received much more prominence in the last decade – something many would argue is long overdue. But while the high rates of male suicide … Read more
Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden is to open up about her ordeal with breast cancer in a new BBC documentary. The film, with the working title Amy Dowden: Fight of My Life, will be broadcast on BBC One this summer. It will be shown ahead of her return to Strictly, after she missed last … Read more
“Gauri,” a documentary based on journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, directed by Kavitha Lankesh, has won the “Best Long Documentary Award” at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal 2023. According to a release, the citation of the award reads: “A brave and uncompromising pulse-taking of the current crisis in Indian politics, focusing on the … Read more
Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar. File | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mumbai chief and MLA Ashish Shelar on January 28, 2023 sought police action against the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) students, who were allegedly planning to screen the controversial BBC documentary on 2002 Godhra riots, ‘India: The Modi Question’, on … Read more
Students at Jadavpur University in Kolkata watch a BBC documentary on PM Modi on January 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI Students’ unions at two universities in Kolkata on Friday screened the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question. While the supporters of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) screened the documentary at Presidency … Read more
As the screening could not take place, the the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union shared the link of the documentary and the students, who had gathered in large numbers, viewed it together on their phones. Photo: Jaideep Deo Bhanj Youth organisations affiliated to the Opposition parties and student outfits on Tuesday screened the first episode … Read more
The screening was prevented by the authorities in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University as electricity had been cut off Youth organisations affiliated to the Opposition parties and student outfits on Tuesday screened the first episode of BBC’s “India: The Modi Question” across Kerala to lodge protest against the Centre’s recent move to ban it on social … Read more
April 8, 2022 – It’s long been known that birth control pills have a checkered history. Before the era of informed consent in clinical trials, hormonal contraceptives were tested in vulnerable populations. The warning labels of blood clots and heart attack risk were only added to packaging inserts in 1978. The hormone-emitting NuvaRing birth control … Read more
April 8, 2022 – It’s long been known that birth control pills have a checkered history. Before the era of informed consent in clinical trials, hormonal contraceptives were tested in vulnerable populations. The warning labels of blood clots and heart attack risk were only added to packaging inserts in 1978. The hormone-emitting NuvaRing birth control … Read more
– Hollywood actor and director Sean Penn is in Ukraine filming a documentary about Russia’s invasion, Kyiv and Hollywood publication Variety have said. Pictures released by Ukraine’s presidential press service on Thursday showed the Oscar winner attending a media briefing at the presidential office in Kyiv as Russian military invaded the country. “The director specially … Read more