Kerala Is Making History Once Again by Starting India’s First Transgender School

After becoming the first Indian state to adopt a transgender policy, Kerala is all set to write history yet again by starting India’s first transgender residential sc...

Monday Mallika Sherawat Back For A Good Cause

Mallika Sherawat, who was once known as the most-sought after Bollywood hottie, has gone into hibernation for quite some time now. She was last seen in the film DIRTY POLIT...

12th ADDA Short Film Festival Concludes In Guwahati

The 12th ADDA Short Film Festival came to a glittering end at the Jyoti Chitraban Film Studio recently. The festival was inaugurated by renowned Kamrupi folk singer Dhanada...

10 Movies To Watch At The Debut Macau International Film Festival

Six-day celebration of cinema includes new offerings from Fruit Chan and Takashi Miike, and the first chance for movie lovers in the region to see some of this year’s...

A Catastrophic Amount of Carbon Could Leak From the Soil By 2050

The term “snowball effect” is an unfortunate way to describe climate change, but a new study is predicting just that.

Climate scientists war...

Madurai film fest to open with Shridhar's 'Vande Mataram'

CHENNAI: Award-winning student-director Shridhar Sudhir's 'Vande Mataram' will be the inaugural film at the 18th Madurai documentary and short-film festival, to be held fro...

Socially-conscious children’s films use artistic platform to educate

Hollywood has always been criticized for trying to engineer American society. For example, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough accused Brokeback Mountain of advancing a “ra...

New, Genetically-Modified HIV Vaccine Enters Next Phase of Trials

A new possible HIV vaccine that uses a genetically-modified version of the virus is heading into Phase II trials. The results of an earlier trial showed it provoked an immu...

Cinema reflects progress of women in all spheres: Big B

Analysing the space that women have occupied in Indian cinema, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan on Friday spoke about how the shifting portrayal of female characters in the...