The Journey Continues

Hindi Theatre does not have it easy in Mumbai, still some groups are carrying on with dedication. Om Katare?s Yatri, that was one of the groups that was formed when Prithvi...

All Of The Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living In The Anthropocene

What follows in “The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene,” a new study published in Science, is a laundry list of huma...

Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’.

Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The T...

You Can Blame Climate Change For Making The Days Longer

Scientists have known for about 30 years that the additional water would flow toward the Equator from the poles, adding mass to the planet's middle and a bit of drag to its...

Small Metal Grate Makes Big Impact On Environment, Health

A University of Iowa researcher created an inexpensive metal insert for primitive cookstoves, such as this one used in a remote village in India, that may decrease global w...

Bangladesh Leads South Asia In Reducing Gender Disparity: Report

Bangladesh has been ranked 64th this year in an index showing the condition of women in 145 countries. Last year, it was positioned 68th among 142 nations. The Geneva-based...

What Is The Ideal Cesarean Rate?

For many years, discussions around the ??deal cesarean rate??tended to refer to a 1985 World Health Organization (WHO) consensus statement?that recommended a population-bas...

India Home To Highest Number Of Undernourished Women In Developing World

A recently-released study has highlighted that more than 18 million women in low- and middle-income countries around the world are severely undernourished. The study w...

Now That We Can Edit Cancer's Genes, We Can Make Better Drugs

The ability to edit the human genome, a sci-fi procedure made possible by a new technique called CRISPR/Cas-9, has taken the field of genetic research by storm. In the...