Lights, camera, inaction: women directors cut out of British TV

New report finds that a third of popular TV shows have never hired a female director – and the total may even be falling In a recent research project, Directors UK an...

Empowering the poor or the rural elite?

Climate change research gets Norwegian aid

Research on climate change and biodiversity in India received a boost on Tuesday with a Rs. 14-crore grant from the Norwegian Embassy to Bangalore-based Ashoka Trust for Re...

IMD plans agromet service to get weather right for farmers

Realising that predicting the southwest monsoon is not enough by itself, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is now pushing for agromet advisories so that a contingen...

Hydro-power plants blamed for deadly floods in India

Badly managed hydro-power projects in northern India were partly to blame for devastating floods last year that killed thousands of people and caused extensive damage, an e...

Priyanka and Shabana root for women empowerment

Actor Priyanka Chopra feels that the mindset of people in India needs to change and they should no longer think of a girl as a burden. Priyanka, who has always lent support...

Community-based HIV prevention can boost testing, help reduce new infections

Communities in Africa and Thailand that worked together on HIV-prevention efforts saw not only a rise in HIV screening but a drop in new infections, according to a new stud...

Can we eradicate HIV/AIDS?

Wednesday is the 30-year anniversary of the day my colleagues and I reported that a new retrovirus, now known as HIV, was the agent causing AIDS. We also announced the deve...

Empowering the kings and queens of the roads

The year 2010 turned out to be unexpectedly special for Aishwarya Raman (23) and Anubhav Agrawal. Aishwarya, a student of sociology at MOP Vaishnav College, was in her fina...