India's 'Climate Smart' Villages Target Sustainable Agriculture

Scientists warn that agriculture around the world can be significantly affected by climate change, and are now teaching farmers new technologies to adapt. At one ?climate s...

Welfare board for transgenders in Maharashtra

With assembly polls in sight, it’s appeasement time! On Thursday, state cabinet decided to set up a welfare board for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) communit...

Cinthol lathers up with 'confident' new campaign

Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) is expecting a revenue booster on the back of its newly-launched health soap Cinthol Confidence+. As the company positions this brand as &ld...

Bill Gates Spent More Than $200 Million to Promote Common Core. Here’s Where it Went.

The Gates foundation has bankrolled a sprawling network of groups to advance the standards. When it comes to putting your money where your mouth is, few or...

Zendaya Named As Trick-Or-Treat For UNICEF Spokesperson

Actress, platinum recording artist and author Zendaya, this year’s Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF spokesperson, is asking kids in the U.S. to make a difference in the live...

True Review: Mary Kom

Critics Rating: 3 Stars*

Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Sunil Thapa, Darshan Kumar,

Direction: Omung Kumar

The Giver Film Helps Charity Over Labor Day Weekend

As part of its continuing efforts to promote literacy and in order to provide books to those children in America most in need, Walden Media and the Weinstein Company (TWC) ...

India To Install 2,200 Solar-Powered Mobile Communication Towers

The Indian government is set to start work on a large project to install several renewable energy-powered mobile communication towers across nine states in the central belt...

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...