First Global Conference On Gender Equality In Kerala Asia Faces Fertility Crisis

In a bid to reduce gender inequality in India and increase female work participation rates, the Kerala government is set to host the country’s first global conference...

Cairo Film Festival Begins With Meryl Streep Work

The 37th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival opened here on Wednesday evening with an American work, Jonathan Demme’s Ricki and The Flash. That wond...

Making Health Care Accessible

Aneema Begum, 61, had the last of her three children 38 years ago. The first two didn’t survive more than a year, and it is after the birth of her last, and only surv...

Film Festival Kicks Off Thursday In Trelawny

The first annual IPHIAS International Film Festival is scheduled to kick off on Thursday in the western parish of Trelawny and run into the weekend. Starlyte Ente...

Measuring The Millennium Development Goals: Cutting Maternal Deaths

Becoming a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is more dangerous than climbing Mount Everest. In Chad, the odds of dying during pregnancy or childbirth are one in 15; in Sierra Le...

Make Diwali Safe For Pets, Urge Bollywood Actresses

Bollywood actresses Nargis Fakhri and Jacqueline Fernandezhave urged their fans to avoid firecrackers on Diwali to provide a safe environment for pets. Jacqueline Fernandez...

On Kid’s TV, Sugary Treats Pitched To Parents As Healthy

Children’s television has long been peppered with ads selling sugary snacks and drinks as fun, adventurous options for cool kids in the know. Now a study suggests tha...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

Boys And Girls Are Born Equal: The Power Of Challenging Gender Norms Early In Life

Diya (not her real name), a young girl in Jharkhand, India, regularly
experiences violence at the hands of her father. The injuries she
sustains from her father&r...