Geena Davis Warns 700 Years Needed To Reach Gender Parity In Kids? Media

Actress Geena Davis last week told a standing-room only event on gender and the media at the United Nations that the paucity of female characters in entertainment media for...

India bets on mobiles in battle on maternal, child deaths

NEW DELHI, March 17 (Reuters) - India is betting on cheap mobile phones to cut some of the world's highest rates of maternal and child deaths, as it rolls out a campaign of...

‘Crime Patrol’ completes 12 years

While criminal cases have always been a societal problem, it has always been a fascination for crime writers to include it as a narrative for television audiences. One such...

Women’s Day– Three Key Words For The Year

By Augustine Veliath

On this International Women’s Day I have a sense of accomplishment.

I was part of an event Elevate 2015 in Mum...

Emergency Care Essential to Stop Maternal Deaths

I was a gynecologist in Bo, Sierra Leone, when Mariama arrived on a motorcycle in front of our clinic. She was heavily pregnant and pale, sandwiched between her mother and ...

Aamir Khan, Sonakshi Sinha walk the ramp for charity

A bevy of Bollywood stars along with superstar Aamir Khan and actress Sonakshi Sinha walked the ramp for 10th Annual Caring with Style fashion event in Mumbai on March 1. A...

6th Jagran Film Festival opens its call for entries

The festival that created a furore with its vast span and a wide spectrum of never before presented cinema is back with a bang. This time, the Jagran Film Festival presents...

Deepika Padukone gets thumbs-up for her mental health initiative

B-Town’s gorgeous and talented Deepika Padukone recently took a bold step by talking about how she personally underwent anxiety and depression last year. It was hard ...

Breaking Europe?s Climate-Change Stalemate

Europe has a strong tradition as a leader in the fight against climate change. Lately, however, the continent has reached an ideological impasse over how to address the pro...