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Gender

Here’s Why The Biggest Slum In India Is Honoring A Fictional Rape Victim

Ram Devineni has been thinking a lot lately about shakti — a word that translates loosely from the Sanskrit to “female power.” It’s a transformative...

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Health

India Partners With American NGO To Meet Its Maternal Health Goals

To alleviate the issue of maternal and infant deaths in India, the government launched a unique MAMTA card in Rajasthan and Gujarat a couple of years ago. The card tracks c...

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Environment

$150bn Needed To Save World From Climate Change, Warn Scientists

It took about $150bn in today?s money to put a man on the moon in the 1960s, and now it is said we need to come up with the same amount to save the world from climate chang...

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Sustainable Development

The Planetary Society's Solar Sail Is Ready To Deploy in Low-Earth Orbit

On Wednesday morning, a Mylar sheet the size of a boxing ring should pop out of a satellite that’s the size of a loaf of bread and make life for anyone who wants to l...

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Bollywood

CM Devendra Fadnavis seems to have Aamir Khan in splits!

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis shares a light moment with actor Aamir Khan, who has been appointed as the face of the state’s Swachhata Abhiyan. Yesterday, the NCP ...

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Festivals

15 Winners and Losers From Cannes 2015

As your jet-lagged Vulture staffers put their fancy clothes in with mothballs and break out the sweatpants, join us as we reminisce about what the Cannes Film Festival had ...

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Health

Government to form labour room guidelines to reduce Maternal Mortality Rates

NEW DELHI: Government is forming guidelines for labour rooms in hospitals as part of its efforts to reduce the maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR)...

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Environment

Climate change: Six energy companies write to United Nations for carbon pricing scheme

Six major energy companies have written to the United Nations asking for help in setting up a carbon pricing scheme to help tackle climate change.BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Tot...

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Sustainable Development

The Cassini Orbiter Takes One Last Look at Oddball Moon Hyperion

Ever since it first went into orbit around Saturn in July 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has racked countless discoveries about the gas giant and its spectacular set...

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Health

World Health Statistics Reports On Global Health Goals For 194 Countries

13 MAY 2015 | GENEVA - 2015 is the final year for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ??goals set by governments in 2000 to guide global efforts to end p...

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