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Dirty Air And Water Increase Cradle Deaths In India

If this does not wake us up what will? The World Health Organization (WHO) has pressed the alarm exposing that children below five years are at the highest risk from filthy ai...

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Plagued By Decades Of Child Trafficking, India Activists Call For Crackdown

MUMBAI // Activists are clamouring for the rapid introduction of a new law to crack down on child trafficking in India, a problem that has plagued the country for decades. Chi...

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This Scientist Is Using Subway DNA to Prepare For Life Beyond Earth

Dr. Chris Mason is studying human and bacterial DNA to understand how humans might prepare for life in space, as well as how to defend our bodies from the radiation of long jo...

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Thames Water Hit With Record £20m Fine For Huge Sewage Leaks

Massive fine reflects change in sentencing as previously low penalties failed to deter water firms from polluting England’s rivers and beaches Thames Water has been hit ...

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Nandita Das To Promote Nawazuddin Starrer Manto At Cannes Film Festival

Ace actor-director Nandita Das, who is not new to Cannes, will be promoting her new film Manto at the Cannes Film Festival this May. A 6.37 minutes of the movie that wa...

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There’s A Story Behind Every Woman

A few months ago, Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad approached saxophonist and photographer George Hull for an exhibition of photographs putting the spot light on women. “I felt ...

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Anushka Sharma: I Questioned All Established Norms Of Bollywood

Actress Anushka Sharma on Friday said that through most of her early years in the industry, she felt hyper-anxious because the boundaries and expectations from her were pre-de...

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Stars Join Enough Is Enough Campaign For War Child

In a moving new video released by War Child, a group of celebrities tell the true story of a Syrian teen forced to flee across the border, and the tragic events that follow. T...

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Varanasi: A Journey Beyond The Within

The first impression of this “holy” city were singular moments of “unholiness” tied together by exasperation and a tense feeling of confusion. As we fo...

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FICCI Frames 2017: ‘The Hungry’ Is A Rare Example Of Indo-UK Co-Production In 2017, The Indo-UK Year Of Culture

MUMBAI, 22 March 2017: In what is being described as a rare example of an Indo-UK co-production in 2017, the Indo-UK Year of Culture, Cinestaan Film Company and Film London&rs...

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FESTIVALS: KASHISH 2024 WITH DEEPA MEHTA, NANDITA DAS AND MEENAKSHI SHEDDE

KASHISH 2024 to host ‘Fire’side chat with Meenakshi Shedde. Internationally ...

May 9 2024

FESTIVALS: IS MOM YOUR BEST FRIEND?

On Mother’s Day, Monojit Lahiri  chooses a provocative and informative path -...

May 8 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: CRAFTSMANSHIP AND FORM

Towards the non-bourgeoise tales from screen and stage: Amar Singh Chamkila and Lavani k...

May 5 2024