Going Mainstream In Including Disabled People In Development

Across the world, 1 in 7 people has a disability and 80 percent live in developing countries. Many people with disabilities face discrimination and stigma in their everyday...

How We Entered A New Era Of Astronomy

Last week, a new era of astronomy began as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory executive director David Reitze stood before a packed room at the National Pr...

Berlinale Film Festival: Recounting The Horrors And Scars Left By Wars

Can any nation ever put behind the memories of a war? The scars that are engraved on the soul, and the soil, are perhaps the hardest to get rid of.
In Germany, it is n...

International Indie Film Festival Heads To Cinema Village

A group of filmmakers and cinephiles are calling attention to "emerging filmmakers with low budgets and no connections" with a film festival at Cinema Village, kicking off ...

Salman Khan's Big-Hearted Gesture For A Film Set Worker

Known for taking up humanitarian causes, Salman Khan has offered financial help to a film worker struggling to meet the expenses of his 16-year-old daughter's open heart su...

Hozier Donates Song Proceeds To Domestic Abuse Charities

Irish singer/songwriter Hozier is donating the proceeds of his new single, Cherry Wine, to a series of international domestic abuse charity organisations which provide supp...

FLO Film Festival & Symposium

India Gears Up For Mobile Money For Everyone Through UPI

In the next two years, a bank can lend a vegetable vendor of a few hundred rupees which she will be able to repay at the end of the day. All this will be done via mobile in...

Gulzar, Shabana Azmi, Imtiaz Ali To Take Part In Urdu Fest

Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt, ShabanaAzmi, Imtiaz Ali, are set to bring alive Urdu's timeless splendor Bollywood personalities Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt, Sha...