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Sustainable Development

Meet Nasa’s New Electric Plane: 'Maxwell'

On Friday NASA announcedthat the space agency is ready to test a new and experimental all-electric plane, the X-57, or “Maxwell.” It will sport 14 electrically-pow...

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Environment

There's A New Plan To Stop Climate Change: Turn CO2 Emissions Into Stone

The project took place at the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Station, the biggest thermal power plant in the world and the energy provider for Reykjavik, Iceland's capital. Usua...

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Festivals

Kannada Film Thithi Wins Top Award In Shanghai Film Festival

Kannada film "Thithi" on Saturday won Asia New Talent Awards for best film and best script writer during the on-going 19th Shanghai International Film Festival in China. Thith...

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Bollywood

Talk Openly About Menstruation, Periods Are Not Bad: Kareena Kapoor

Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor and UNICEF Goodwill advocate Kareena Kapoor was in Lucknow to attend an event called 'Celebrating Menstrual Hygiene for all Girls, for all Wom...

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Hollywood

Anne Hathaway Is UN Women's Goodwill Ambassador

Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway is the latest Hollywood figure to be appointed by the United Nations as a global goodwill ambassador to promote gender equality and women e...

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Trending

Surf Excel Pakistan's #Madadekibadat Ad Film: The Full Story

Our the past few days, the social media has been abuzz with talk of 'that new Ramadan ad by Surf Excel'. As far as brand promise goes, the ad per se is unremarkable - a little...

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Gender

The Feminist Art Movement: Empowerment, Creativity AND Power

The Feminist Art Movement emerged in the late 1960s in an attempt to change the status of women around the world using art as the medium of expression. Since then, the movemen...

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Health

UN Plans To End AIDS Threat By 2030

Speaking at a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, Health Minister J.P. Nadda reiterated India’s commitment to fast ...

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Sustainable Development

Why It's So Hard To Determine If Food And Drinks Cause Cancer

On Wednesday, the WHO’s cancer research arm—the International Agency for Research on Cancer—announced it had taken coffee off its list of items considered po...

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Environment

Why Climate Change Could Benefit Parts Of Canada’s Boreal Forest

Fact, he argues that Quebec’s massive boreal forest could provide a much-needed “refuge” for plants and animals, as much of the continent gets hotter and dri...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEBRITIES AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

From Mystique to Masses: How Modern Media Transformed Stardom into Spectacle. Monojit La...

November 26 2024

POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024