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Robert Kardashian Among Honorees At Gabrielle's Angel Foundation Angel Ball 2016

Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research has announced that Angel Ball 2016 will honor the work of Carl H. June, M.D., Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherap...

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Snakes In The Living Room!

Snakes In The Living Room!I can’t believe this that our desi news channels have no clue about geographic locations in various cities. Take for example, early in the wee...

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Femme Very Fatale

There have been dangerous women in popular fiction, a few serial killers too, but Jodie Danforth is in a class apart. It is a generalisation, perhaps unfair, that women are af...

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Educated Village Youth Are Turning Paralegals To Help Landless Rural Folk In Telangana

Poorly educated and with few resources, Kanasari Veeraswami had no way of proving he was the lawful owner of a small plot of land left to him by his father in the southern Ind...

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The Story Of Sobita Tamuli, The Woman Who Brought Entrepreneurship To Her Small Village In Assam

Back in 2002, SobitaTamuli was an 18-year-old married girl with little formal education, living in a small village in Assam. Today, she is a successful entrepreneur heading a ...

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A Mother’s Nightmare That Is Bihar

One factor that is totally ignored in all deliberations on women’s empowerment is the role of high quality healthcare. Education, jobs and bank accounts remain the thrus...

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A Higgs Boson Scientist Created A Fertility App That's As Effective As The Pill

Over the past century or so, women have increasingly gained access to a growing range of family-planning options that are much more reliable than the ages-old “rhyt...

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Scientists Are Testing Out Nanoparticles That Can Stop Cancer In Its Tracks

The future is here; We now live in a world where researchers can send tiny, manmade particles into the body to blast apart cells that help cancer spread. Well, at least in mic...

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Japan To Face Criticism At International Summit For Flouting Whaling Ruling

Japan is likely to face international criticism at a whaling summit this week for killing whales in the Southern Ocean in defiance of a court ruling.Japanese fleets killed mor...

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Women Directors Are Everywhere, But Film Festivals Are Still Catching Up — NYFF

The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring critics co-produced by IndieWire, the Film Society...

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BUSINESS: MAKING M&E STUDENTS INDUSTRY READY

The highly anticipated 5th Edition of Masterclass Marathon hosted by Whistling Woods Int...

March 29 2024

BOLLYWOOD: DO OUR FILM AWARDS GUARANTEE REWARDS?

Indian film awards don’t bestow any real commercial legitimacy or credentials for ...

March 28 2024

FESTIVALS: LIVE THE LIFE ABUNDANT “ONE GREEN PLANET”

There was a time when I would jokingly respond to the standard question by the host repl...

March 27 2024