Zee Entertainment CEO & MD Punit Goenka On Why Ditto TV Is Now For Only Rs 20 Per Month

In a market with no paucity of video streaming apps, Zee Entertainment’s Ditto TV has cut its subscription fees to just Rs 20 per month, from around Rs 150 per month....

Edinburgh Film Festival Waves Flag For Scottish Cinema's Independence

With gala showings dedicated to whisky and golf movies, and strong Scots connections throughout, there’s a buzz about Scotland’s film industry – despite s...

Bill Gates Launches Chicken Plan To Help Africa Poor

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has launched a campaign to help extremely poor families in sub-Saharan Africa by giving them chickens.
The billionaire and philanthropist ...

Apple's Siri Calls Ambulance For Baby

A woman from Cairns, Australia, used Siri to call an ambulance for her one-year-old daughter when she stopped breathing. Stacey Gleeson grabbed her iPhone and ran to the ch...

The Invention That Stops Girls Missing School Every Month

In Malawi a packet of sanitary towels can cost a whole day's pay, and girls often miss school because the cotton strips they use instead are inadequate. Charlotte Ashton me...

The Genius Of Indian Cartoonist Mario Miranda

India's western beachfront state Goa has been busy with celebrations to mark the 90th birth anniversary of one of the country's best-known cartoonists and illustrators, Mar...

Tom Hiddleston Defends War Zone Children

Hiddleston, star of the recent Night Manager TV drama, says "the strongest have to stand up for the weakest".A visit to South Sudan as a Unicef ambassador accidentally brou...

Why Kerala Is The Best Place In India To Die

In recent years, countries like Mongolia and Uganda have been praised for making great strides in improving palliative care, which focuses on managing pain and discomfort c...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...