Widowed Before They’re Old Enough To Marry, Life Is A Battle For These Girls

Shanti Dhakad of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district got married when she was 13. Six years later, her husband died in an accident, forcing the illiterate Dhakad into ma...

Kalki Koechlin?? ??argarita, With A Straw??Gets Thumbs Up From Industry

MUMBAI: The Kalki Koechlin starrer Margarita, With A Straw has been hugely appreciated by the Bollywood film fraternity including Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Rakeysh Ompr...

Cannes: Filmmakers asked to apply for India Pavilion by 20 April

NEW DELHI: The India Pavilion at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival next month will be set up once again by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FI...

Celebrities Ramp It Up For 'Beti' Charity Show

Several Bollywood and TV celebrities walked the ramp for designer Archana Kochar as part of her ‘Beti charity show’.

Daisy Shah and Payal Rohatgi were a...

Citizens For A Clean Economy

SAN JOSÉ – Over the past 20 years, environmental, energy, and climate policies have been decided behind closed doors – with little input from the people ...

Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne 2015 On Equality

Bollywood actress Vidya Balan today announced the return of Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) which will run from August 14 this year with a theme of Equality apart ...

Fighting TB With A Drive-In Film And Test

Some lives hang on the distance of dusty roads, with a cure out of reach. Take tuberculosis, an ancient disease that still kills about 4,100 people each day around the worl...

Why Bollywood Is Like The Congress Party

Furious 7 is breaking box office records for Hollywood films in India. It has beaten The Amazing Spiderman for the biggest opening for a Hollywood film, and looks like it i...

Making A Medicine As Easy To Find As A Can Of Coke

Diarrheal disease, which kills a million children younger than 5 each year, has an image problem. It doesn’t raise much alarm in industrialized countries, where it is...