Priorities

New Material Lifts Technology From Desert Beetle, Harvests Water From Air

The global water scene should strike fear into the hearts of even the most privileged of middle-class Americans. There will be good years and there will be worse years, but th...

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Cushion Mothers, Care For Children To Deliver Growth

Highlighting the need to focus on maternal and child health or long-term growth, the Economic Survey 2015-16 gas called for early life interventions and low-cost investments i...

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Projecting Health: The Power Of Locally Made Videos To Change Behaviours

The Projecting Health project empowers communities to use inexpensive video gear to create and screen locally made health education videos. Video: PATH.Suman Patel is beaming....

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'Eternal' Data Storage Is Here

Like most, my personal requirements for long-term data storage pretty much end when I end. So, we're talking decades, and certainly not centuries or millennia. I'd even say th...

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Satyarthi To Launch Two Campaigns For Child Rights

Nobel laureate KailashSatyarthi plans to launch this year his most ambitious campaign against child labour "100 million to 100 million" and "a biggest moral platform" that wil...

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Bee Extinction Is Threatening The World’s Food Supply, UN Warns

Last Monday, members of nearly 100 national governments met in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for a weeklong conference to discuss the threats facing animal pollinators su...

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Women In India Are Now Legally Allowed To Be Head Of Their Households

India is slowly giving women the recognition they deserve.The Delhi high court ruled that the eldest female member of a family can now act as the legal head of household, also...

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Mumbai HPV Vaccine Proven To Dramatically Reduce Infection Among Teenage Girls

Since its introduction in 2006, the HPV vaccine has sharply cut the rate of infection in young women, a new study published on Pediatrics reports.The American Academy of Pedia...

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Mumbai: Child Rights Body Unveils Rs 1000 Crore Plan To Transform Lives

Plan India, one of the major global child rights organisations, aims to invest Rs 1000 crore in programmes to improve the lives of millions of children over the next five year...

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LeEco Collaborates With 'Akshaya Patra' To Provide Mid-Day Meals To Underprivileged Children

LeEco has already become a well known brand in India, though it is not even a couple months old in the country.Entering in January 2016, it hit the right chord with the smartp...

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BOLLYWOOD FAME, FORGOTTEN STARS, CAUTIONARY TALES

Today Mumbai’s film actors have wised up to the fact that fame and fortune don&rsq...

February 3 2026

MARDAANI 3 RETURNS WITH GRIT AND LIMITS

In his review, critic Arnab Banerjee examines how Mardaani 3 revives Shivani Shivaji Roy...

February 2 2026

BOB DYLAN’S IMMIGRANT LAMENT STILL HAUNTS US

In this searing cultural meditation, Khalid Mohamed revisits Bob Dylan’s protest s...

February 1 2026