Empowering the poor or the rural elite?

Easter Bunny To Join Stars At The Los Angeles Mission On Good Friday

The stars will be out for the Los Angeles Mission’s annual Easter Celebration of New Life for the Homeless on Friday. A festive holiday meal will be served to thousan...

Soledad O’Brien To Be Honored With Civil Rights Award

Award-winning broadcast journalist, executive producer, advocate and philanthropist Soledad O’Brien will be awarded the Dorothy I. Height Award at the YWCA USA Annual...

Big B, Shilpa Shetty pitch in to change million lives in rural India

With great power comes great responsibility, and B’town’s young and famous lived up to these expectations at entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronnie and Zarina S...

Maternal Mortality Rate down to 178 from 600

India had a high burden of maternal and child mortality in the 1990s, but has made significant strides in stemming the deaths, a senior health ministry official said on Thu...

Mother Teresa’s Gnarled Hands Spur Cricket’s Waugh to Charity

The tiny hunched frame and gnarled hands of Mother Teresa are etched in former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh’s memory. Eager to see the realities of life in ...

On a mission to battle polio

Polio-stricken Arvind Kumar Mishra has been travelling across States in his wheelchair to spread polio awareness

The progress is slow. The rickety wheelchair has a ...

Over & Underground

Overheard – “These are times of political opportunism, religious intolerance and scholastic Puritanism – and they can be construed as provocative ...