What’s gone wrong with TV news in India

Broadcast news has dominated as the major source of news and information across the world for over 3 decades. This was all the more possible...

Labour Laws for Children

Human Rights Watch published a dispatch last Wednesday, reporting the establishing of a new policy, that prohibits children under the age of 18 from working with green toba...

265 Million Children are working around the World this Universal Children's Week 2017

The International Labour Organisation states in its latest World Report on Child Labour (2013) that there are around 265 million working children in the world which is almo...

Delhi’s Air Pollution – at the Cost of Innocent Children’s Health

The Calcutta National Cancer Institute submitted a proposal for studies on health impact of air pollution on adults and schoolchildren of Delhi to the Central Pollution Con...

Antibiotic resistance emerging to be a major Public Health Crisis

Antibiotic use plays a key role in the emerging public health crisis of antibiotic resistance. Although the majority of antibiotic use occurs in agricultural set...

The Good Doctor: An avant-garde Medical Drama on Autism

With its release in the fall (September 2017) The Good Doctor turned out to be the most watched and the most talked about show in the US. A show that managed to whip out ex...

Cows produce more Greenhouse Gases than Cars

We've been blaming vehicles for causing global warming but not many know that livestock sector is one of the leading causes of climate change, responsible for more greenhou...

Stopping the Red-Light District

Prostitution, called the oldest profession in the world is making new news today as questions regarding its moral, ethical and legal issues are being debated over.

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Anaarkali of Aarah   in support of female students of BHU

Swara Bhaskar is supporting the female students of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Last month in BHU, there was an incident where a female student claimed that she...