India Hits Its U.N. Poverty-Cutting Target, but Misses Others

India is on track to cut poverty in half by the end of this year, compared to 2000 levels, but needs to do more to improve education and empower women, a United Nations rep...

Jessica Alba and Jennifer Meyer create necklaces for charity

Jessica Alba and celebrity jeweller Jennifer Meyer have put their glossy heads together to design two necklaces for the AIDS charity, which are launching today on Gilt. The...

Prince of Wales Speaks At Meeting On Forests And Climate Change

The Prince of Wales has described climate change and sustainable development agreements expected at major summits this year as a “Magna Carta” for the planet. H...

Random Thoughts

It?s been a week of stray watching besides follow ups. ? I can?t understand why a channel like Disney Channel plays low key when they launch a new indigenous show. I am ref...

Jennifer Garner And Save The Children Feature On New Documentary

The low-cost, Save the Children home-visiting program that actor/advocate Jennifer Garner and journalist Nicholas Kristof explored last night in the new PBS documentary A P...

Bollywood families get real

The Indian film fraternity is leading by example and setting new parameters when it comes to love, marriage, children and life choices Lada Guruden Singh While it was in 20...

Nagesh Kukunoor’s Next, Dhanak Produced By Manish Mundra Is The Only Indian Film To Be Selected In The 65th Berlin Film Festival

—It is the only Indian feature selected in the festival and will compete in the Generation Kplus category against films selected from across the world—

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Maternal deaths come down by 11 points

PATNA: Bihar has registered a decline of 11 points in the maternal mortality rate between 2011- 13. According to figures released by Registrar General of India this week, 2...

Gates CEO: Let's Shrink Maternal Mortality

“This has been an area that’s so important and so challenging. It is essential to think about all aspects of that. For example, one of the areas that the Founda...