Demise of Anti-Poaching Crusader

Leading conservationist Wayne Lotter was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Wednesday.
Lotter, 51, was a South African who had dedicated ...

Jackie Chan's Helping Hand to the Blind

Jackie Chan recently launched an operation in collaboration with the Beijing Tongren Opthalmology Department to help visually-impaired Tibetans undergo surgical procedures....

The Laws and the Loopholes

A new video by YouTube channel Vitamin Stree talks about how India co...

Child Brides

The average age of marriage may be rising in the cities, but in the heart of Andhra hinterland, child marriages are still a very grim reality for many.

The case in ...

Sustaining Sanitation

With the Prime Minister riding high on the publicity of the Swachh Bharat Mission, clean India seems to be an achievable dream today, but statistics say otherwise.

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Cross Country Cinema

Bengali director Kaushik Ganguly's Bishorjon opens with Padma, a Hindu Bangladeshi, finding a wounded Nasir Ali, a Muslim Indian lying unconscious on the banks of ...

No more ‘talaq, talaq, talaq’!

The Supreme Court on 22nd August 2017 struck down the Muslim practice of triple talaq, which allows men to instantly divorce their wives, as unconstitutional.

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National Energy Policy and Public Health

The draft National Energy Policy was released by Niti Aayog on the 27th of June 2017. It openly invited comments and suggestions from the public to help strengthen its opin...

Modern-Day Slavery

The National Crime Agency of the UK reports revealed that a subtle form of slavery is rampant across the country even today, and is ‘far more prevalent than thought e...