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Health

Health-Care Data Is Ailing

Data pertaining to health care in India, evidence shows, is significantly compromised in terms of its quality, its periodicity and coverage. In addition, “there is a ...

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Human Rights

Playschools Will Have To Play By The Rules: Panel

Panaji: The education division of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has framed guidelines to regulate private playschools for children in the a...

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Sustainable Development

One Of The World’s Strongest Materials Looks Like A Chunk Of Coral

 Hydraulic presses aren’t just for smashing Legos and Barbies and making fake teeth explode. They’re also for real science—although, exploding object...

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Environment

Beijing Creates Anti-Smog Police To Tackle Air Polluters

Beijing will create an environmental police force aimed at tackling deadly smog, after the Chinese capital spent the first week of 2017 mostly shrouded in a thick haze of p...

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Festivals

At The Banff Mountain Film Festival, The Future Of Adventure Sports Is Female

In a 1989 broadcast, David Letterman introduced the greatest climber in the world by saying that the athlete had “a lovely little outfit on”. Lynn Hill had just...

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Alternative Entertainment

Ads For Thought: Six Heartwarming Commercials That Project The Changing Face Of Indian Advertising

The advertising sector in India has been showing several signs of having evolved for the better, these days. There has been a spurt of recent commercials that manage to sel...

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Hollywood

Beyonce And Lin-Manuel Miranda Top DoSomething.org’s 2016 Celebs Gone Good List

DoSomething.org, a global movement of young people doing good announces its ninth annual Celebs Gone Good list. Celebs Gone Good is an annual list that recognizes the year&...

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Kaleidoscope

Farewell Om Puri

He had been so excited about doing theatre after so many years, and was pleased by the response to his Teri Amrita with Divya Dutta. He would message about 'housefull' show...

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Health

Government School Kid Get A Guide On Healthy Living

To inculcate healthy habits among school-going children, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched a booklet, titled 'Healthy Children, Healthy India'. Two lak...

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Human Rights

In 2016, Hindi Literature Became The Voice Of the Marginalised

Who reads Hindi literature these days? And who writes it? For a language rightly claiming to be spoken by more than 400 million people, such questions seem astonishing. But...

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