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Sustainable Development

Sea Pollution Rate Alarming; Let’s Check It

Every year June 8 is observed as the World Ocean Day to underscore a need to protect the great body of salt water, which covers 70.78 per cent of the earth’s surface....

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Health

Will global polio eradication miss yet another deadline?

When the world embarked on polio eradication 26 years back, the goal was to complete that task by the year 2000. That target was not met, nor did the two deadlines set afte...

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Sustainable Development

Mumbai Is Noisiest City In The World

Mumbai is hostage to air and water pollution at dangerous levels, and is probably the n the world, ahead of Delhi and Kolkata. Maharashtra’s economic survey, released...

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Health

Study Blames Anaemia In Maternal, Perinatal Deaths

A study in Nagpur has revealed that anaemia is a big factor in the high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) as well as perinatal mortality rate (death of foetus after seven month...

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TV

Women Of Grit

Scripts are created by writers, but the written word is brought to life by the director and the actors. Often actors treat the script as a source of dialogues to learn, and...

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Environment

Can India Reform Its Agriculture?

Climate change is stressing an already struggling farm sector, but there is a way forward. Over the last decade, India?s official position in global climate negotiations ha...

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Hollywood

Jimmy Carter?s Call to Action ? Women, Religion, Violence and Power

Former US President Jimmy Carter’s latest book is called Call to Action – Women, Religion, Violence and Power. In a CBC interview, he spoke about his view on wh...

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Environment

Heat wave due to climate change

The persistent heat wave sweeping through most parts of West Bengal this summer has triggered concerns among climatologists, who feel that this is actually the harbinger of...

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Environment

Delhi records coldest May day in a decade

The coldest day in May in a decade was experienced by the Capital on Tuesday when the early morning temperatures dipped to 18 degrees Celsius, seven degrees below normal, a...

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Bollywood

Film makers throng to Jagran Film Festival 2014

14th May 2014: Hardly had Jagran Film Festival opened its call for entries, it ended up receiving hundreds ofentries in the first phase itself. The Festiva...

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