India Fast-Tracks Kashmir Hydro Projects That Could Affect Pakistan Water Supplies

India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15bn in Kashmir in recent months, three federal and state officials said, ignoring warnings from Islamabad that power stat...

Indigenous film Festival: 'These Are Our Stories'

The Māoriland indigenous film festival will screen over 120 films this week, from shorts of a few minutes through to full-length features. The Māoriland festival is on a ...

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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UN Chief Calls For More Men To Stand Up For Gender Equality

The world needs more women leaders and men standing up for gender equality, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said while asserting that the empowerment of women is about breaki...

Shilpa Lends Grace To Women Empowerment Gala

Bollywood actress and entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty-Kundra attended women empowerment gala held here to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 3. It turned out to ...

Time for men to stand up and be counted

In an attempt to offer a bouquet of choices to women in need of family planning services, India has introduced hormonal injectable contraceptives in its national programme....

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...

Filmart: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival to Launch in China

"Hollywood’s genre movies are very big in China, but the Chinese audience is eager to watch local fantasy and sci-fi films that show their own people and culture," sa...

India Needs To Fight Maternal Mortality With A Sense Of Urgency

Healthy India is certainly a possibility by aligning proper mother and child care with universal health coverage, which is a long-term objective for India. To achieve this,...