The Violence Against Women Project’ reinvigorates the pertinent issue: Day 2@Thespo!

After an impactful start yesterday, Thespo 16 came back with an extraordinary day 2. India’s most exciting youth festival lived up to its image every bit as the openi...

International law stays silent on the responsibility for climate change

The United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as the 1992 agreement is known, has sent a yearly caravan of politicians, activists and lawyers to some of the worl...

Stars work the stock market for charity

Dame Helen Mirren, Damian Lewis and Prince Harry became stockbrokers in London on Wednesday (03Dec14) to raise money for charity. They were joined by former Girls Aloud sin...

True Review: Kill Dil

Director: Shaad Ali

Cast: Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar, Parineeti Chopra, Govinda

Rating: 2 stars

Ran...

Film Bazaar unveils projects under ‘Work in progress’ Lab

Mumbai, November, 2014: The eighth edition of Film Bazaar, organized by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), will take place from Read More

Supreme Court fumes at gender bias in film industry

The Supreme Court on Monday described a 55-year-old tradition in the Indian film industry, mainly Bollywood, which allows only men to be employed as make-up artists, as &ld...

$2.5tn shortfall for sustainable development in developing countries

A step change is needed in the amount of private finance available for sustainable development. The bad news is the financial sector is still headed in the wrong direction....

Let?s talk about the weather

Diplomacy in the 21st century promises to take on a very different character and content from what has been practised in the past. Issues like energy security and climate c...

Child sex trade worth 343 billion dollars, says Kailash Satyarthi

Trafficking of young girls from countries like Nepal and Bangladesh into India for forcibly pushing them into prostitution shows no sign of abatement even as three million ...