Fresh & Sharp @ Prime Time – Kehta Hai Dil…Jee Le Zara

Well, Kehta Hai Dil…Jee Le Zara completed 100 episodes in January end. Wonder what the detractors have to say now. Because when it started on August 15, 2013, there ...

2014 Environmental Performance Index

India ranks 155th out of 178 countries in its efforts to address environmental challenges, according to the 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). India performs the w...

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...

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...

Bhutan set to plough lone furrow as world's first wholly organic country

Bhutan plans to become the first country in the world to turn its agriculture completely organic, banning the sales of pesticides and herbicides and relying on its own anim...

How Climate Change affects India

Precisely at a time when India is confronted with development imperatives25, we will also be severely impacted by climate change. Like other developing countries, several s...

Amazon condom factory: A sustainable way to profit from Brazil's forests

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Movie Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Rating: 3 stars

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly

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