India should take a more proactive role in climate change negotiations: R K Pachauri, IPCC chairman

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman RK Pachauri laments that policy directives to implement Narendra Modi's "no-effect" guideline are yet to be prepar...

The truly dictatorial ordinance didn’t come from Modi: it came from Rajasthan

Laying down educational qualifications for panchayat and zila parishad elections endangers democracy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received plenty of flak for resorting...

Lexicon of democratic literacy

The introduction of educational qualifications as eligibility criteria for contesting panchayat elections has shocked and angered rural Rajasthan, including supporters of t...

Salman Khan donates 300 lenses to the disabled

Salman Khan’s charity doings have always been an inspiration and here’s the latest donation from his Being Human kitty. The ever-giving actor was recently in Sr...

STOP TELLING HER FAILED STORY, TELL HER YOUR STORY!

From the clothes, colors, landscapes, horizons, skies, flora and fauna, complexions, languages to livelihoods and food; everything changes from one kilometer to the other, ...

No change in India?s stand on climate change: Govt

India wants developed countries to fulfil their commitments ? under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ? of providing resources to developing countri...

Hema Malini launches cleanliness drive in Vrindavan

BJP MP and former actor Hema Malini Friday launched a mass cleanliness campaign in this holy town in Uttar Pradesh.

The Bharatiya Janata Party leader also administe...

Fergie Honored For LGBT Charity Work

Pop star FERGIE was honored for her work with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community at an awards gala in New York City on Wednesday night.The Black Ey...

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...