Seventieth World Health Assembly Opens In Geneva

In her final opening address to the World Health Assembly as Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan offered some advice to delegates "as you continue to shape the future of thi...

Kerala Just Installed Sanitary Napkin vending Machines In Every High School

A study published in the International Research Journal of Social Sciences suggests that 88% of menstruating women in India cannot afford sanitary napkins in India, with ta...

Environmentalism Used To Be About Defending The Wild, Not Anymore

We’re domesticating areas instead of protecting them. Living without technology I’ve found my place in the natural world – and this path could be our salv...

Aruna Raje Patil: Committed To Feminism

Aruna Raje Patil passed out of FTII with a gold medal in 1969 becoming the first trained woman technician in the industry.
At the beginning of her career Aruna Raje w...

Arunachal's Anju Jamsenpa Scales Mt Everest Twice In Five Days

ITANAGAR -- Arunachalee climber Anshu Jamsenpa today scripted history by scaling Mt Everest twice within five days. Jamsenpa, a mother of two, had conquered the world's hig...

The Legend Of Baba Ghor

Braving leopard warnings and bumpy rural roads, the writer visits a shrine from another continent and another time Ten kilometres out of Bharuch in southern Gujarat, the ai...

Why Mentally Don't Need An Exorcists Cane

The Mental Healthcare Bill 2016, passed in March by Parliament has been welcomed by many for introducing reforms to the existing Mental Health Act of 1987. Among its severa...

Shabana: Long Way From Being Perfect, But A Start Has Been Made

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi is quite impressed with the kind of roles that female actors are portraying in films these days. She says, in the past, heroines were merely addi...

Arjun Kapoor Will Be Chief Guest At KASHISH 2017 In Mumbai

South Asia's biggest LGBTQ film festival to be held from May 24-28, 2017

Actor Arjun Kapoor will be chief guest at the opening ceremony of the 8th edition of ...