What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

Engineers Stumble On A Whole New Method Of Laser-Based Spacecraft Propulsion

A team of Chinese physicists has developed a new variety of light-based propulsion system with the ability to harness much greater forces than a conventional solar sail. Th...

Vivek Oberoi Gives Support For 100 Girls!

Yet again, Vivek Oberoi has showed his generous heart… The actor-philanthropist has recently supported SHE campaign (Support Her Education) for a skin care brand (Th...

MD/Phd Student Expanding Research And Advocacy For Health Care In India

UMass Medical School students are working in Gujarat, India, this summer to improve health care in the mostly low-income rural region. They are conducting health disparitie...

New Data Reveals Which Approach To Helping The Poor Actually Works

For years, policymakers have debated different approaches to helping the poor — everything from building schools, to delivering soccer balls that produce electricity....

India’s Largest Film Festival Is Back 6th Jagran Film Festival To Commence Its 17 City Tour From Delhi

~The 2015 edition set to travel and touch lives of film lovers across length and breadth of India ~

~ Embellished with regional, Indian and world cinema as well as ...

New Film Prize Created To Promote Better Roles For Women

The New York-based Independent Filmmaker Project and Phosphate Productions have partnered to create a new prize, The Phosphate Prize at IFP, to encourage indie film writers...

Making Labour Joyful

BIRTH is an unpredictable affair. One moment you are contentedly showering your enormous, overstretched self, or lying on a hard hospital bed with nothing much to do; the n...

Indian Origin Stanford Professor Creates A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets

Manu Prakash, an assistant professor at Stanford University has built a computer that operates on water. It gains its energy from moving water droplets. The idea stuck Mr. ...