PeeCee speaks for the girl child

The actress joins Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez in a documentary.

Priyanka Chopra has lent her voice to the feature film Girl Rising directed by Oscar nominated di...

Taylor Swift named most charitable star

Los Angeles: Country singer Taylor Swift has been named the most charitable celebrity of the year.

In a list complied DoSomething.Org, the 24-year-old singer topped...

Paul Rodgers donates album profits to charity

Free star Paul Rodgers plans to give all the proceeds from his latest solo album to a music academy. The rocker financed The Royal Sessions himself and wants to donate the ...

Who said playing games is waste of time?

Throughout the last twenty or thirty years, parents around the world have been putting limitations on the amount of time their children spend playing games. Many a times, p...

Indian restaurant organises charity curry nights

AN award winning Indian restaurant in Widford is hosting a series of special charity nights.

Chefs at Indian Nights, in London Road, will be cooking up a three-cour...

Pride and prejudice

SPEAKING at Lithuania’s gay-pride parade last year, Birgitta Ohlsson was pelted with eggs. Even so, the mood was much better than at the inaugural event three years e...

Nepal clinches 139th position in environment index

KATHMANDU: Nepal has been ranked 139th in the Environmental Performance Index 2014, which assessed 178 countries across the world.

The EPI assesses nine parameters,...

Taste of sting

I vividly remember my first encounter with bichhu ghas, literally scorpion grass. My botany teacher had introduced me to the Himalayan giant nettle, known as Girardinia div...

50 Crore Tweets, Millions Of Comments On Social Media - Arnab Goswami Interviews Rahul Gandhi?

“The key to the future of the world,” he said in 1994, “is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.” – Pete Seeger RIP