Inaugural On The Line Film Festival Celebrates Indie Film

The Twin Cities gains another film festival this week at the Landmark Center in St. Paul. The On the Line Film Festival will have its inaugural opening tomorrow, and run th...

Thousands Of Animals Have Been Saved In Nepal As Mass Slaughter Is Cancelled

A festival in Nepal celebrating the world’s largest animal sacrifice was canceled on Tuesday in a landmark victory for activists. The Gadhimai Temple Trust said the e...

Bollywood Stars Sandip Soparrkar, Onir And Monica Dogra Support Transgender, The Hijra Community.

The “3rd National Transgender Hijra Habba” took place at the Eros International hotel in the capital of India, Delhi. This event was an attempt to create a broa...

New York Asian Film Festival Features Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Crime Master

It’s been not quite 30 years since a group of young Hong Kong-based moviemakers, now in or near their 60s, reinvented the gangster film, infusing the motifs of the Am...

Courtroom Drama Double Bill

Weekend nights couch potatoes have a choice of crime thrillers and courtroom dramas. Savdhaan India on Life Ok and Crime Patrol on Sony are dramatized real life police case...

Climate Change: Paris 'Last Chance' For Action

Scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point plan of action at landmark talks in Paris.

The key element is the goal to li...

Vatican Announces Major Summit On Climate Change

Catholic officials announced on Tuesday plans for a landmark climate change-themed conference to be hosted at Vatican later this month, the latest in Pope Francis’ fa...

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

A JUDICIAL MILESTONE

Last Sunday night, after the Roop Kanwar case, Bhanwar went back to another landmark in judicial history. The last jury trial in India. In the...