Here's How Greenland's Melting Ice Sheet Is Contributing to Rising Sea Levels

If the entire Greenland ice sheet, which covers 656,000 square miles, were to melt, it would pour enough water into the world's oceans to raise global sea levels by about 2...

Globalizing sustainable development

The question of how the world can end extreme poverty and improve human wellbeing will take on new urgency in 2015, as the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire and a ...

4 Reasons Why It Is Great To Be An Indian Woman in 2015

Optics are great for “women’s empowerment”. For the euphoria, the hope and the promise they bring. Like a self-reflecting selfie, they become a commitment...

NETWORK18 & ORF INITIATIVE – THE INDIA – US DIALOGUES

~Setting the Agenda for a strategic partnership between two great democracies~

New Delhi, January 2015: In the lead up to President Obama&...

Melinda Gates has the perfect response to the anti-vaccine movement

On the heels of the measles outbreak at Disneyland, Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took aim at the vaccine naysayers who make these types of disease...

Obama-Modi and climate change

Ask not what India will do for climate. Ask what the US will do to reduce emissions to save world from climate When President Barack Obama visits Delhi for the Republic Day...

Akshay Kumar leads online support for Global Action/2015 campaign launch

The who’s who of India came together, through various social media networks, to lend their support to ‘Action/2015’ Campaign and superstar Akshay Kumar wa...

Global report shows how to beat the world’s biggest killers

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just released its Global Status Report on Non-communicable Diseases, the second in a series tracking worldwide progress in the preve...

Bill and Melinda Gates get Padma Bhushan

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates, who are also big philanthropists, were on Sunday chosen for Padma Bhushan award this year under the social work cat...