Celebrities push to make 2015 year of action on poverty and climate change

Celebrities and campaigners including Matt Damon, Bill Gates, Jody Williams and Malala Yousafzai are joining forces to launch an international campaign to persuade the plan...

International law stays silent on the responsibility for climate change

The United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as the 1992 agreement is known, has sent a yearly caravan of politicians, activists and lawyers to some of the worl...

Sustainable development economics

TWO schools of thought tend to dominate today’s economic debates. According to free-market economists, governments should cut taxes, reduce regulations, reform labour...

Asha Bhosle Lends Voice to Marathi film Gurukul; sings lavani

Legendary singer Asha Bhosle today recorded a Lavani for Marathi film Gurukul, written and directed by Rommel Rodrigues.
“Ashaji’s golden melodious voice h...

It took only two days for Abbott's 'conversion' to climate change to be exposed

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's apparent, if modest, conversion to the idea that climate change was an "important subject" following talks with French president Francois Holla...

It took only two days for Abbott's 'conversion' to climate change to be exposed

Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s apparent, if modest, conversion to the idea that climate change was an “important subject” following talks with French presid...

True Review: Kill Dil

Director: Shaad Ali

Cast: Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar, Parineeti Chopra, Govinda

Rating: 2 stars

Ran...

Your brain on climate change: why the threat produces apathy, not action

Many people aren?t responding to mounting evidence of the huge impacts of climate change. Neuroscience helps explain why ? and the key role that businesses can play...