Lit for Life 2014: Lights, Camera, Censor!: Moral Policing in Cinema

The conversation between actor Kamal Haasan and K. Hariharan, director, L.V. Prasad Film and TV Academy primarily addressed censorship, along with the taboos associated wit...

Food and drink industry backs sustainable farming scheme

Members of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform have developed the world’s first industry aligned Farmer Self Assessment of sustainable agriculture p...

Climate change a problem today – not tomorrow – for food security, experts say

Climate change has already had a powerful negative effect on agriculture and food security for the world’s most vulnerable, and that impact will get worse, according ...

Toni Collette Named Global Ambassador Of Humanitarian Charity

It’s always nice when Hollywood stars use their fame in order to make the world a better place, and Toni Collette has become the latest one to do so. Because the actr...

Political Apathy, Unplanned Urbanisation Make Vector-Borne Diseases Hard To Control in India

Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and state agencies a major hurdle in...

Tata Power Delhi Distribution wins ‘Innovation for India Awards – 2014

Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL) has won the ‘Innovation for India Awards 2014’, under Business Category, for developing tamper evident and defraud electri...

Is This Our Democracy?

While watching the show Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan, running on Sunday mornings on Star Plus, last week, I began to feel faint.

Our acceptance of a flawed ...

Lily Allen Joins Star-Studded Coram Charity Concert

The Royal Albert Hall came alive for Coram’s biggest ever musical fundraising concert featuring Lily Allen,Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Queen’s Brian May, Kerry Ellis, ...

Reproductive rights and wrongs: How discrimination blights maternity care

Last week, Brazil becomes the first country to pay compensation to the family of a woman who died in childbirth as a result of negligence and discriminatory practices in ma...