6 years on, Maharashtra has no climate-change action plan

Even as rural areas in otherwise drought-hit regions of Maharashtra (as also in neighbouring areas of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) struggle to cope with imme...

Soil health movement restoring agriculture

Farmers started the soil health movement that Ray Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Greensboro, N.C., sees as the solu...

True Review: Divergent

Critics Rating: 2 stars

Cast : Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courteney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwyn

Dir...

Move over Bollywood: U.S. festival spotlights independent Indian films

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, commencing on Tuesday, is bringing the movies made outside of the Bollywood studio system to Hollywood Bollywood films often captur...

Can our agriculture tackle climate change?

The latest report of the inter-governmental panel points to the impact of extreme weather events on farming in India

India has long been regarded a ‘climate c...

Food and drink industry backs sustainable farming scheme

Members of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform have developed the world’s first industry aligned Farmer Self Assessment of sustainable agriculture p...

Is This Our Democracy?

While watching the show Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan, running on Sunday mornings on Star Plus, last week, I began to feel faint.

Our acceptance of a flawed ...

Reproductive rights and wrongs: How discrimination blights maternity care

Last week, Brazil becomes the first country to pay compensation to the family of a woman who died in childbirth as a result of negligence and discriminatory practices in ma...

B-town’s men Ranbir, Big B, Akshay, Sidharth, Farhan walk the ramp for the ladies

Bollywood’s hot men Ranbir Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra walked the ramp for Manish Malhotra’s fashion show &ndash...