7 Things We’ve Learned About Earth Since The Last Earth Day

A whole lot has changed since the first Earth Day in 1970.

Back then, the most urgent environmental problems facing the United States were air and water pollution. ...

The Road To Better Data

When Moses went to Mount Sinai more than 3,000 years ago, he came back with 10 commandments. When the world’s presidents and prime ministers go to New York City in la...

Mrs. India Priyanka Khurana Goyal Joins Hands With Bal Snehalaya For Tree Plantation Drive On Earth Day

Mumbai 22^nd April 2015:  On the occasion of Earth Day, Bal Snehalaya a joint enterprise of the Thane municipality, the railway police and the rainbow f...

Panel Including Shonda Rhimes Address Film/TV's 'Unconscious Bias'

The top entertainment figures filling the stage at the Writers Guild Theatre came from wildly diverse areas. One was an Oscar-winning actress, another was an Oscar-winning ...

A Song To Save Her

HYDERABAD: We cannot be sure if it was a media stunt, but it was pulled off well. American pop singer Reggie Benjamin, who was in the city to launch his Mission Save Her in...

Open Letter To Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: This Ad You Figure In Is Insidiously Racist

We write to draw your attention to a full-page advertisement for Kalyan Jewellers in which you feature that appeared in The Hindu (Delhi edition) on April 17, 2015. In the ...

REPORTERS: WHERE’S THE STORY?

I don?t feel at home with Reporters. The look is too glossy, too unreal. The channel head sports a muffler. The editor Kabir is usually in a jacket (wonder why the tie is m...

Doordarshan Looks To Offer TV channels On Smartphones; Prasar Bharati Writes To I&B Ministry With Blueprint

NEW DELHI: Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is experimenting with a pilot project to let people watch TV channels directly on their smartphones, without using Internet or ...

Truckers Ferrying Deadly HIV Virus Into NE: Survey

Most truck drivers live an isolated life– far from their near and dear ones– for months together. And their carnal desires are mostly fulfilled by commercial se...