A Tamil Movie Based On True Events Has Sparked Off An Uneasy Debate On Police Brutality

In 1983, Coimbatore-based auto driver Chandran was working as a waiter at a hotel in a village near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. One day, he and a few other labourers from Tam...

Bravado Designs Launches Support Her Dream Campaign To Help Baby Buggy

Bravado Designs, a world leader in intimate apparel for nursing moms, announces the Support Her Dream Campaign  – a national commitment and call-to-action to sup...

Women And Girls Imperative To Science And Technology Agenda

Can you imagine an entire day without access to your mobile phone, laptop, or even to the internet? In our rapidly changing world, could you function without having technol...

Ban On Women's Entry In Some Temples Unfair: Vidya Balan.

Bollywood actress Vidya Balan today said the age-old practice of ban on entry of women of menstrual age in some temples was unfair "It is great that we are asking these que...

CNN-IBN Marks A Milestone: Announces 10th Edition of ‘INDIAN OF THE YEAR’’

~ Witness the achievements of India’s finest luminaries of the year 2015 ~

New Delhi, 10th February 2016...

Here's Why Polar Bears' Summer Just Got A Bit Worse

The area of frozen ocean that caps the North Pole was smaller this past month than during any January on record.
Measurements released last week by the National Snow ...

India: Protection Of Traditional Knowledge In India

The coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol in October will have great benefits for the defence of indigenous people's rights over their resources, and strengthen India's ...

There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change

The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4...

The Zika Declaration

THE Zika virus has been the predominant item across news agencies this past couple of weeks. Until the outbreak in Brazil in May last year (2015), most of us can probably s...