UN: Water holds key to sustainable development

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the vital role of water in sustainable development, highlighting in particular its importance with regard to food security, cli...

Vodafone India Reinforces Commitment to Sustainability Releases ‘Footprints III’- Sustainability Report 2013

Mumbai: Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, today announced the release of Footprints-III”, the third edition of its an...

“Shuga” is Saving Lives in Nigeria

“Shuga is a ground-breaking TV show that portrays the lives and loves of a group of young people. Seamlessly interwoven into the storylines are vital messages related...

Britain to give £100m to help battle against polio in East Africa and Syria.

Britain will help fund a huge vaccination campaign against polio launched by the United Nations in the Middle East after the disease re-emerged in Syria. The UN says it aim...

Women's empowerment should happen in India not only through reservation but as a matter of principle: Rahul Gandhi

Speaking at a function for a self help women’s initiative ‘Umeed’ in Badgam, J&K, Rahul Gandhi said that empowerment and participation in democratic i...

Igniting Minds for a Brighter Future

Reading the newspaper has become a troubling ordeal of late. Page after

page narrates incidents of crimes against women, communal tension and cases
of corrupti...

A Shifting Balance of Power

The notion and practice of power is arguably what creates and maintains large societies. Since the role of government is conceived to be so integral in safeguarding our soc...

Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vi...