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Human Rights

Two Children Drown Every Day On Average Trying To Reach Safety In Europe

In a joint statement, issued in Geneva, UNHCR, UNICEF and the IOM warned that the number of child deaths was on the increase and called for more measures to increase safety...

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Festivals

Shifting Perspectives At Non-Fiction Film Festival

Urgent global issues get personal at Doc Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art’s annual program of international non-fiction film.Many selections in the festival, which...

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Alternative Entertainment

Brooke Bond Red Label's Happy Hijras Return With 'Sab Rab De Bande'

Hindustan Unilever (HUL)'s happy hijras (Hindi slang for eunuchs) are back, this time with Sonu Nigam, and a much higher branding quotient. 'Brooke Bond Red Label 6 Pack', ...

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Festivals

Berlin Film Festival: Director Defends Eight-Hour Movie That Features Hour-Long Lunch Break

‘It’s not slow cinema, it’s cinema,” says Lav Diaz, director of historical drama A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, shown at the Berlin film festiv...

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Hollywood

Ben Stiller Visits Refugees With UNHCR.

Ben’s private briefing, organised by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, brought him face to face with three families who had lost everything because of war. With their liv...

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Festivals

PREVIEW-Berlin Film Fest Opens With Clooney - And Eye On Refugees

George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when "Hail, Caesar!" opens the annual Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned s...

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Festivals

Europe's Migrant Crisis Has A Starring Role At The Berlin Film Festival

BERLIN — Europe's migrant crisis will play a starring role at the Berlin International Film Festival that opens this week, a reflection of Germany's own leading perfo...

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Sustainable Development

Nuclear Fusion Hit A Massive Milestone In Germany

The Max Planck Institute in Greifswald reached a true milestone in physics and technical engineering today right in front of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s eyes. T...

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Festivals

Luxor Egyptian And European Film Festival Kicks Off

The 4th edition of Luxor Egyptian and European Film Festival opened yesterday in the presence of Minister of Culture Helmy El-Namnam, Luxor Governor Mohamed Badr, festival ...

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Retroscope

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

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