Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets

Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...

Why do millions of Indian defecate in the open?

Its early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi. Along the tracks, another crowd is gatheri...

True Review: Humshakals

Critics Rating: 2 STARS*

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Ram Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Tamannaah Bhatia, Esha Gupta

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With depleting groundwater, Lucknow headed for severe crisis

The groundwater level of Lucknow continues to deplete at an alarming rate due to unregulated and excessive extraction and relentless concretization of green zones. Accordin...

Charity begins at home says, Malaika Arora Khan

Bollywood actress Malaika Arora Khan was recently spotted launching a charity-themed campaign `Taiwan Excellence Cares` in Mumbai. Speaking on the occasion the 40-year old ...

Comedy Of Oddballs

June-July are traditionally a time to bring in new shows and start new seasons on Indian television; e.g. Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 7 and Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Kare...

In Kerala, farmers fight to preserve world’s only variety of salt-resistant rice – and the ecosystem

Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani search for clouds along the west coast, they meet farmers who are attempting to return to a traditional system of alternating paddy and s...

Sustainable energy through biomass

Biomass fuels come from things that once lived, such as wood products, dried vegetation, crop residues, aquatic plants and even garbage India’s energy demand is on th...

Master plan soon to make Puducherry a ‘solar city’

The Puducherry landscape might soon be dotted with solar-powered households, government buildings and public lighting under a plan to make this grid-lined former French enc...