Nations must allocate more resources to end poverty: WB

Countries such as India, which accounted for nearly a third of the people living in poverty globally, needed to complement efforts to enhance growth with policies that allo...

Bandra’s street art: Bollywood on the walls

Mumbai and Bollywood are synonymous with one another for many people. I have lost track of the number of times people have only wanted to talk about films and Bollywood wit...

Climate change as a matter of public health

For a long time people perceived climate change as an environmental issue–the concern of environmentalists, the concern of a few. It was reframed as a justice issue a...

Climate change a problem today – not tomorrow – for food security, experts say

Climate change has already had a powerful negative effect on agriculture and food security for the world’s most vulnerable, and that impact will get worse, according ...

Toni Collette Named Global Ambassador Of Humanitarian Charity

It’s always nice when Hollywood stars use their fame in order to make the world a better place, and Toni Collette has become the latest one to do so. Because the actr...

Global warming could dry out a third of the Earth by 2100

Forget changing rain patterns — warmer temperatures alone could bring drought to a third of Earth’s land area by the end of the century. That’s the gist o...

Climate change, air quality and health

The third National Climate Assessment report, due to be released this month, confirms both the role of human activities in causing climate change and the broad range of adv...

True Review: Main Tera Hero

Critics Rating: 4 1/2 Star

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Ileana D’Cruz, Nargis Fakhri, Anupam Kher, Arunoday Singh, Rajpal Yadav, Saurabh Shukl...