Women Empowerment Will Make Sense When All Women Get Equal Opportunities: Sharmila Tagore

For veteran Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore, celebration of ‘women empowerment’ or simply saying that today women are no less than men would make more sense whe...

Queens Still Rule

Is Queens Hain Hum heading for a closure, as its not notching up TRPs? It has been moved down from the 8 pm slot to 6.30 pm with a repeat at 11.30pm. The reason, however tr...

With This Low-Cost Arsenic Water Filter, An IIT Kharagpur Professor Wants To Helps Lakhs Of Indians

In 2004, Sirshendu De, a professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, started to work towards saving those from underprivileged backgrounds in West Bengal ...

Lipstick Under My Burkha To Open The New York Indian Film Festival

Lipstick Under My Burkha, which has failed to get clearance from India’s censor board, will open the 17th edition of the prestigious New York Indian Film Festival her...

Paediatrics Academy Starts Drive On Child Rights

To make parents aware about the child rights and help children safeguard their own rights, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) have initiated a year long awareness campaign...

Amitabh Bhattacharya Interacts With More Than 400 Students At The 5th Veda Session Of Whistling Woods International

“I always wanted to be a singer, not a lyric writer”, confessed Amitabh Bhattacharya at the 5th Veda session of Whistling Woods International

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INTERVIEW-India honors former child maid who saved hundreds others

NEW DELHI, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 21-year-old Indian woman, trafficked and enslaved as a child maid, was given a "Women Power" award by the president on W...

Kalki Koechlin: Why can’t we deal with a woman being sexually active?

Kalki Koechlin is not very active on social media as she says she prefers to keep her private life just to herself. But even then she has constantly made news regarding her...

Child Labor Rising Sharply In India's Cities, Report Says

Urban India is employing an increasing number of children — many under 9 years old — in producing everything from pickles to fireworks, working in tourism and l...