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Human Rights

Playschools Will Have To Play By The Rules: Panel

Panaji: The education division of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has framed guidelines to regulate private playschools for children in the a...

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Sustainable Development

One Of The World’s Strongest Materials Looks Like A Chunk Of Coral

 Hydraulic presses aren’t just for smashing Legos and Barbies and making fake teeth explode. They’re also for real science—although, exploding object...

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Festivals

At The Banff Mountain Film Festival, The Future Of Adventure Sports Is Female

In a 1989 broadcast, David Letterman introduced the greatest climber in the world by saying that the athlete had “a lovely little outfit on”. Lynn Hill had just...

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Bollywood

Indian Women In 2016: Incredible Courage, Fortitude, Willpower And Gumption Defined The Year Women And Sport

Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar, Deepa Malik, Geeta Phogat, PV Sindhu, Sania Mirza and many others grabbed headlines for achievements, records and Olympic medals. But worth cel...

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Hollywood

Beyonce And Lin-Manuel Miranda Top DoSomething.org’s 2016 Celebs Gone Good List

DoSomething.org, a global movement of young people doing good announces its ninth annual Celebs Gone Good list. Celebs Gone Good is an annual list that recognizes the year&...

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Kaleidoscope

Farewell Om Puri

He had been so excited about doing theatre after so many years, and was pleased by the response to his Teri Amrita with Divya Dutta. He would message about 'housefull' show...

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Gender

Saathi: Healthcare Startup Makes Biodegradable Pads From Banana Fibre

Saathi - - an Ahmedabad-based startup founded by three Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates -- Amrita Saigal, Grace Kane and Kristin Kagetsu, has developed a bio...

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Human Rights

In 2016, Hindi Literature Became The Voice Of the Marginalised

Who reads Hindi literature these days? And who writes it? For a language rightly claiming to be spoken by more than 400 million people, such questions seem astonishing. But...

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Sustainable Development

These Tiny Jelly Robots Can Precisely Deliver Medicine In The Body

If you’ve ever seen anybody endure chemotherapy, you know that it can be a grueling process, to say the least. But new research on tiny, 3D-printed, jelly-like robots...

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Environment

All That Glitters Is Not Green: Costa Rica's Renewables Conceal Dependence On Oil

Unless you’ve avoided social media for the last week, you probably know that last year, Costa Rica was able to produce 98% of its electricity without oil – a fe...

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