No Female Directors Allowed? New Summer Movie Season, Same Sad Story

Helming a summer blockbuster can do wonders for one’s career With the start of another summer movie season brimming with extravagantly budgeted tent-pole features, an...

Gauging the Real Effects of Media

What if we knew that the fictional rapes in HBO’s mega-hit “Game of Thrones” caused real rapes in the real world? What if we knew that the portrayals of g...

Extreme wet, dry spells up drought, flood risks in India

In an alarming research, a team of scientists at Stanford University have identified significant changes in the patterns of extreme wet and dry events that are increasing t...

India may witness poor monsoon this year

India may witness poor rainfall this monsoon season, scientists said Wednesday. This has been linked to the El Nino, a weather phenomenon characterized by unusually warm oc...

Curtains For Bade Achhe Lagte Hain (BALH)

“We have an expression that when a show is running out of original stories, the producers will make a “jump the shark” episode, when something completely ...

Peter Dinklage Wants You To Face Your Food

Fans of Game of Thrones can’t seem to get enough of series star Peter Dinklage — and that’s why, with the hit series’ fourth season now underway, PE...

Climate Change Clouds Farmers

Indian farmers are keeping fingers crossed. Will the monsoon this kharif (south-west monsoon season) be normal, above normal (like last year), or sub-normal? One has receiv...

Kashmir loses Rs18 cr agri crop to bad weather

Srinagar, Apr 10: The continued bad weather this season has caused an estimated Rs 18 crore loss to agriculture sector in Kashmir.

A report prepared by Chief Agricu...

Toilets on all beaches by October: Goa tourism development corporation

Beaches in Goa are set for a major uplift this year, with Goa tourism development corporation (GTDC) promising public toilets and dressing rooms all along the coastline by ...