Kaleidoscope - From A Child’s Heart

It has been observed that more often than not books for or about kids have a male protagonist.  Two recent books buck that trend and have girls leading-- and very inte...

Sacramento Music Festival Returns With Swing, Latin Rock And, Yes, Jazz

The Sacramento Music Festival’s organizers are singing an upbeat tune as a weekend of music descends on Old Sacramento. Advance ticket sales are up 7 percent compared...

Carol Opens Kashish Film Festival

Carol today kick started the seventh Kashish Mumbai Queer Film festival. Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett-starrer 2015 lesbian drama “Carol” today kick started the s...

WHO Says Life Expectancy Has Increased By Five Years Since 2000, But Health Inequalities Persist.

Dramatic gains in life expectancy have been made globally since 2000, but major inequalities persist within and among countries, according to this year's 'World Health Stat...

India Misses Millennium Development Goal 5

Under the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, the target for India was to reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. Based on the UN In...

#StarringJohnCho: Fed Up With Hollywood’s Whitewashing, One Photoshop Guru Is Recreating Movie Posters.

Frustrations over a lack of diversity in the 2015 Academy Awards nominations birthed the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite. It took over social media and has dominated Oscars coverage...

8 Female CEO's Out-Earn 93 Male CEO's

Fortune has a piece out today showing that “Female CEOs of the Largest Public Companies Are Actually Out-Earning the Men.”

According to Equilar, an exec...

How Climate Change In The Arctic Could Cause Tsunamis In The UK

Disasters are ranked according to both their potential for damage and the likelihood that they will occur in the next five years. An influenza pandemic, for example, is con...

Off-Label Use Of IPV Vaccine To Tide Over Shortage

Due to shortage of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) globally, India and a few other countries are stretching the supply of the vaccine to cover all children. The IPV vaccine...