Aamir scolds Karan, Arjun for Roast

The actor says he was deeply affected by the verbal and emotional violence in the show. Aamir Khan is the latest voice to join the ongoing debate surround ing the All India...

The gender of a sound byte

Dear Barkha, This is taking up from where we last left off. The last time we met at a dinner party in Mumbai, you had enquired why I always turned down requests to appear o...

TN aims to bring down maternal mortality rate, says TNHSP Director

The Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP) is working towards reducing Tamil Nadu’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 45 per one lakh live births by 2017 from the c...

Climate change is lifting Iceland – and it could mean more volcanic eruptions

Land moving upward faster than researchers expected at 1.4in every year, allowing ‘hot potato’ rocks to rise Iceland is rising because of climate change, with l...

Maternal deaths come down by 11 points

PATNA: Bihar has registered a decline of 11 points in the maternal mortality rate between 2011- 13. According to figures released by Registrar General of India this week, 2...

Global is the new local: Pollution changes clouds, climate downstream

The residents of Beijing and Delhi are not the only ones feeling the effects of Asian air pollution ? an unwanted by product of coal-fired economic development. The contine...

I’m Too Sexist For This Tweet

Old people can be hugely entertaining, as anyone who has ever heard their grandfather casually emit a jackhammer-style burp in public will agree. If they’re extra old...

Shreyas Talpade Starrer ‘Baji’ Set For A 6th February 2015 Release

• The film marks the return of Shreyas Talpade to Marathi cinema after a span of eight years
• Produced by DAR Motion Pictures, Virtue Entertain...
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Never mind growth, Davos delegates – how about a World Development Forum? Lawrence Haddad

This year’s gathering at Davos discussed inequality more than ever before. The latest Oxfam report has focused us all on one figure: 1% of the world’s populatio...