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Health

World AIDS Day 2016: 10 myths and stereotypes busted

There are many myths and incorrect social ideas that surround HIV and AIDS. People often even assume that the two are the same, which is definitely not the case. Myths rega...

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Sustainable Development

Meet the Cyborg Beetles, Real Insects That Are Controlled Like Robots

The future is crawling towards us on six legs. Motherboard traveled to Singapore to meet with Dr. Hirotaka Sato, an aerospace engineer at Nanyang Technological University. ...

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Environment

Trees may increase air pollution on city streets

City trees, popularly thought to remove pollutants and improve urban life, may also increase the amount of foul air that people breathe, says the UK body which gives indepe...

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Festivals

Sundance 2017 Announces Competition and NEXT Lineups, Including Returning Favorites and Major Contenders

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival may still be a few weeks away from kicking off in snowy Park City, Utah, but the annual festival has begun rolling out its various lineups, ...

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Bollywood

Bollywood taking baby steps towards philanthropy

In July, Warren Buffett, the chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, donated about $2.2 billion (around Rs.14,674 crore) of stock in his annual gift to ...

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Hollywood

Stars Pose For 2017 Hear The World Calendar

Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Jake Bugg, and nine other international stars from the acting, music, and fashion world have posed for legendary musician Bryan Adams to ...

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Gender

Coming To Terms With “Beauty And The Beast” And The Imperfect Feminism Of Disney

Looking back from a mountaintop of Elsa and Moana, it seems ridiculous that Ariel and Belle once struck Disney audiences as independent, tough, and feminist. But times can ...

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Health

India’s Immunization Coverage is Abysmal

India fares very poorly in comparison to other countries as far as expenditure and coverage for vaccinating it’s population goes. This, according to a recent white pa...

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Human Rights

Tribal Women from Odisha’s Kashipur Block Are Standing up against Exploitation – One Broom at a Time

Salpai Majhi, a proud and confident tribal woman leader, has a wonderful story to tell, “Since ages, we have depended on the forest to run our homes.We have been coll...

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Sustainable Development

Weaving A Story Of Change

C. Sivagurunathan has spent all his life listening to the sound of the loom. “My parents would take turns and weave on a handloom that occupied much of our one-room h...

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