Cinema reflects progress of women in all spheres: Big B

Analysing the space that women have occupied in Indian cinema, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan on Friday spoke about how the shifting portrayal of female characters in the...

Disturbing Images Show The Extent Of Delhi's Extreme Pollution Emergency

Delhi, the capital city of India and home to 25 million residents, is in the midst of an “extreme pollution event.” In other words the city has been overrun wit...

Desert 'fog catchers' make water out of thin air

Fog harvesting was devised in South America in the 1980s and there are active projects in various countries including Chile, Peru, Ghana, Eritrea, South Africa and Californ...

This Tradition Is Forcing Rajasthan Women To Let Go Of Family Property

Chaksu, Rajasthan: Days before she was married 18 years ago, K Bina Devi and her sister were called to the living room of the family home where they lived with their parent...

As Climate Change Uproots Communities, Innovation Can Rescue Culture

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When powerful Cyclone Heta hit the tiny Pacific island nation of Niue in 2004, it caused huge damage, including destroying...

11 Times The Simpson's Accurately Predicted The Future

Sixteen years ago, an episode of "The Simpsons" predicted that Donald Trump would one day become US president.

And this wasn't the only time the writers had m...

Activist revisits prison diaries

In a session at the Times Celebrate Bandra Festival, activist Arun Ferreira, who was branded a 'Naxalite' by the state and charged with sedition before being acquitted of a...

Underground's High School Mentorship Takes Aim At Hollywood Diversity

A partnership between film/management company Underground and Verbum Dei High School, an all male career prep school in South Central L.A., is helping to prepare a fresh wa...

Healthy children build healthy nations

Our country is home to the largest child population in the world. A substantial 41 per cent, around 450 million, are children. But it is incongruent that for their educatio...