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Environment

India’s Roads Melt As Record-Breaking Heat Wave Continues

India’s on-going heat wave, which set a new record for the country’s highest-ever recorded temperature last week, is melting tarmac on the roads of some of India's...

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Festivals

Carol Opens Kashish Film Festival

Carol today kick started the seventh Kashish Mumbai Queer Film festival. Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett-starrer 2015 lesbian drama “Carol” today kick started the seve...

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Alternative Entertainment

Donmar Warehouse To Build Temporary Theatre For All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy

Season comprising Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest to be staged at 420-seat venue next to King’s Cross station The Donmar Warehouse is building a temporary theatr...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Chopra, Bond Girl? Nah. She Wants To Be First Female 007

Priyanka Chopra, Bond girl? Not likely - how about Priyanka Chopra, 007? Homegirl says she's not interested unless it's a license to kill. In an interview to Complex magazine,...

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Hollywood

James Bond In India: Inside Daniel Craig's Itinerary, Meeting Modi And Football With Bollywood

Daniel Craig, if things work out as planned, will be in India next month for a charity football match. The Hollywood star, says a report in Mid-Day, will be the attraction of ...

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Trending

Ex-NasaMan To Plant One Billion Trees A Year Using Drones

A drone start-up is going to counter industrial scale deforestation using industrial scale reforestation. Bio Carbon Engineering wants to use drones for good, using the techno...

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Gender

The Wage Gap: Is Gender Bias The Chicken Or The Egg?

When a field of work traditionally dominated by men is “feminized,” guess what happens. Wages drop! This shows that gender bias is a factor - maybe a big one - in ...

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Health

The Faces Of Malnutrition

Nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 can be attributed to undernutrition. This translates into the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year. Only a frac...

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Human Rights

Refugee Children Are Five Times More Likely To Be Out Of School Than Others

A new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’, jointly released by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) ahead of ...

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Sustainable Development

This Powerpuff Girls PSA Is Teaching Brazilian Kids About Zika

When it comes to fighting Zika, the World Health Organization is taking all the help it can get, including enlisting the help of cartoon-loving kids. Zika, a mosquito-spread ...

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INDIAN CINEMA CONQUERS GLOBAL STAGE

From Berlinale to BAFTA: How India’s Cinema Took the World Stage from The Daily Ey...

February 24 2026

A TEST OF GLOBAL CONSCIENCE

A global outcry rises as the Taliban formalise domestic violence within law, drawing con...

February 23 2026

ASSI REVIEW: JUSTICE ON TRIAL

A Scathing Indictment of a Society Where Justice Arrives Too Late. Arnab Banerjee review...

February 22 2026