Hydro-power plants blamed for deadly floods in India

Badly managed hydro-power projects in northern India were partly to blame for devastating floods last year that killed thousands of people and caused extensive damage, an e...

Hugh Jackman Creates Charitable Foundation With Wife

Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness have launched a charitable foundation for performing arts in their native Australia.

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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...

Josh Charles To Turn Times Square Into Big Pinwheel Garden To Fight Child Abuse

Prevent Child Abuse America and actor Josh Charles from the Emmy-nominated CBS show, The Good Wife, will turn New York City?s iconic Times Square into a ?Big Pinwheel Garde...

Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Disease in Two Big Studies

People with low vitamin D levels are more likely to die from cancer and heart disease and to suffer from other illnesses, scientists reported in two large studies published...

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...

Exhibition for Upliftment

On Tuesday, the 1^st of April, the Mijwan Welfare Society (MWS) founded by the Kaifi Azmi is set to hold an exhibition showcasing the “Chikankari”&nbs...

Pollution levels in Indian cities progressively getting worse

A study pointing that the pollution levels in New Delhi is worse than that of Beijing may have been quoting the data from the worst period of the year but the air quality i...

Is climate change responsible for the hail storms and unseasonal rainfall in Maharashtra?

Is climate change responsible for the hail storms and unseasonal rainfall in parts of Maharashtra? Or is it a one-off phenomenon?

The South Asia Network on Dams, Ri...