Move over Bollywood: U.S. festival spotlights independent Indian films

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, commencing on Tuesday, is bringing the movies made outside of the Bollywood studio system to Hollywood Bollywood films often captur...

Hospitals Safer Than Homes for Births

A new analysis suggests that giving birth in a hospital is considerably safer than having a baby at home or in a birthing center. Researchers analyzed data collected by the...

Can our agriculture tackle climate change?

The latest report of the inter-governmental panel points to the impact of extreme weather events on farming in India

India has long been regarded a ‘climate c...

Toilets on all beaches by October: Goa tourism development corporation

Beaches in Goa are set for a major uplift this year, with Goa tourism development corporation (GTDC) promising public toilets and dressing rooms all along the coastline by ...

Josh Charles To Turn Times Square Into Big Pinwheel Garden To Fight Child Abuse

Prevent Child Abuse America and actor Josh Charles from the Emmy-nominated CBS show, The Good Wife, will turn New York City?s iconic Times Square into a ?Big Pinwheel Garde...

Victoria Beckham Donates Daughter’s Clothes To Charity

Twenty-five specially curated outfits pulled together by world renowned designer and mum Victoria Beckham from the wardrobe of arguably the most stylish little girl in the ...

At long last, WHO certifies Bangladesh polio-free

Through a robust national immunization programme, Bangladesh mostly rid itself of the crippling disease in 2003. But the country reported a final case of poliomyelitis in M...

Climate change as a matter of public health

For a long time people perceived climate change as an environmental issue–the concern of environmentalists, the concern of a few. It was reframed as a justice issue a...

Widows of the genocide: how Rwanda's women are rebuilding their lives

Widows’ associations, which sprung up after the 1994 massacre, are bucking Rwandan tradition by setting up retirement homes Odette Kayirere, left, of the Rwandan wido...