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Thursday, July 24, 2025
TopicHema Committee

Topic: Hema Committee

Kannada film forum urges Siddaramaiah govt to form Hema Committee-like panel led by retired judge

Comprehensive measures are needed to create a safe & equitable working environment for all women in industry, Film Industry for Rights & Equality writes to Siddaramaiah govt.

Actor-politician Khushbu talks of father’s abuse amid sexual harassment scandal in Malayali cinema

Justice Hema Committee’s report on 19 August exposed rampant sexual abuse in Kerala’s film industry, which it said was controlled by 10 to 15 powerful men.

Hema Committee is a start. How many reports, careers, lives before we see real change?

It feels like Indian women are routinely made to believe that they are in the midst of a reckoning and are brought to the precipice of change, only to have their hopes dashed.

Malayalam cinema is a Boys’ Club. Its progressive tag coming apart with Hema Committee report

The inequality within the Malayalam film industry is pervasive. It extends to junior artists and crew. Men and women who don’t have the clout to fight back.

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India’s ancient knowledge could save the future of AI. Build with wisdom, not just engineering

Each billion dollars we spend on GPUs and AI hardware is akin to planting more neurons in the simulated brain we are building. And this brain is expanding — quickly.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.