Costume designer Pia Benegal, designs costumes for Samvidhaan

TV series directed by Shyam Benegal talks about the Making of the Constitution of India

Mumbai : March, 2014 : Pia Benegal,...

Rohit calls for ban of animal circuses in a commercial shoot

Cricketer Rohit Sharma has called for better treatment of elephants and banning of animal circuses in a commercial shoot for an animal rights organisation. Appearing in a n...

Women's Day: Why is TV cocking a snook at women's empowerment?

Why does women’s empowerment find little space on the small screen? While there is a deluge of TV shows revolving around female protagonists preoccupied with househol...

Farm yields may drop if climate change impact not addressed

New Delhi: Agriculture yields are likely to decline to 9 per cent in the next 25 years if the climate change impact is not mitigated, Minister of State for Agriculture Tari...

Mission possible

The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and Jharkhand in India, and Ba...

Governance Tips from India's Children

Manisha from Siwan:
The Price We Pay for Patriarchy

For 23 years, I was a UNICEF   official. This meant children paid my salary. Chi...

Save Forests to Prevent Climate Change Woes

There is good news on the climate change front. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affair has cleared the national mission for green India. It is one of the eight national m...

Uttarakhand safest for newborns: first annual health survey

The first ever annual health survey (AHS) released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on May 3 rates Uttarakhand as the safest state in India for child to be born...

Most infant deaths in India occur on first day of birth

In spite of reducing child mortality, deaths of infants in India on the first day of birth is still way too high and likely to hamper it from achieving the millennium devel...