Rohit calls for ban of animal circuses in a commercial shoot

Cricketer Rohit Sharma has called for better treatment of elephants and banning of animal circuses in a commercial shoot for an animal rights organisation. Appearing in a n...

Vandana Bahadur: A woman of steel in all-male gram panchayat

On a pleasant Sunday in January this year, as the nation was celebrating the 65th Republic Day, a 32-year-old woman was fending off 100-odd men at a panchayat meeting in Ma...

MMR vaccine linked to lower rate of infection-related hospital admissions

In a nationwide group of Danish children, receipt of the live measles, mumps, andrubella (MMR) vaccine on schedule after vaccination for other common infections was associa...

Climate change is killing life at the bottom of the sea

Climate change isn’t a matter of controversy– the planet’s climate changes all the time and is arguably doing so now. The question is what’s causing...

2014 SEED Awards for entrepreneurs for sustainable development

SEED is now inviting applications for the 2014 SEED Awards for Entrepreneurs in Sustainable Development, which aim to develop the most promising social and environmental st...

Seven unforgettable stories in the battle against sex trafficking, collected over two decades of my reporting

We think of slavery in terms of those sepia photographs in the history books, the horror that Abraham Lincoln helped end. That’s what I thought when I first reported ...

First Lady Charity announce support for breast cancer

THE First Lady Charity will soon deliver a Mammogram machine for breast cancer to the Ministry of Health and Medical Services.

A member and secretary of the First L...

Keira Knightley campaigns for women in Afghanistan

Keira Knightley and Salma Hayek are campaigning for women’s rights in Afghanistan by writing to UK Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of International Women’s D...

Women's Day: Why is TV cocking a snook at women's empowerment?

Why does women’s empowerment find little space on the small screen? While there is a deluge of TV shows revolving around female protagonists preoccupied with househol...

Farm yields may drop if climate change impact not addressed

New Delhi: Agriculture yields are likely to decline to 9 per cent in the next 25 years if the climate change impact is not mitigated, Minister of State for Agriculture Tari...