True Review: Television

Last week, especially the weekend, belonged to Sachin Tendulkar, who played his last test match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Branded the SRT 200, as it was also his 2...

The Union Cabinet okays plan to raise cadre for health workers for rural areas

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the health ministry’s proposal to institute a three-year degree programme for public health professionals. The bachelor in comm...

India among the world’s 83 countries which do not meet the minimum healthcare workers requirement.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report, recently released in Brazil, says that nearly 83 per cent of physicians in India are males.

The report, titled “A Un...

Garlic Tales

The day shimmered in the April heat. Vehicles of all shapes and sizes whizzed or trundled past, making the service road shudder at regular intervals. This made for a slight...

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar – An Innings That Will Never End

Today Sachin Tendulkar will emerge from the dressing room to a packed house at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai to join MS Dhoni and team to don his Indian cricket white...

Has climate change contributed to cyclone Haiyan’s ferocity?

Based on the estimate by the US military’s installation on Hawaii, the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre, Haiyan was the most powerful recorded cyclone to make landfall. I...

Title: Polio epidemic from Syria becomes palpable threat for European nations

In recent developments, two German doctors have confirmed a contagion in poliovirus in Syria (a virus that was presumed to be irradicated from the nation in 1999).

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UN Environment Programme states an increase in global green house gas emissions by 2020 (Emissions Gap report 2013)

The United Nations says it is “less and less likely” that global greenhouse gas emissions will be low enough by 2020 to stop the atmosphere warming beyond the i...

Do Attend the Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest at NCPA, November 14 to 17, 2013.

An announcement for all avid readers in Mumbai, it’s time for Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai International LitFest
where Over 120 writers and thinkers from all...