Michelle Obama And Former First Ladies Support Healing Garden At Children’s National Health System

First Lady Michelle Obama and all five living former First Ladies have announced their support for a project to transform a gravel rooftop space at Children’s Nationa...

Will Companies Solve Climate Change Before Countries?

I just spent a week at the 15th Annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in India, a four-day eco-extravaganza for hundreds of participants from government, business, ac...

Religion a catalyst for sustainable development'

Describing faith as a “catalyst”, religious leaders Saturday said it could inspire people to change their perspective on environment and prioritize sustainable ...

Modi was silent when he had to speak and spoke when he needn’t have

The BJP’s troubles began when the prime minister continued in the sloganeering and promise mode of electioneering for too long.

The ...

WATCH OUT FOR MAHA ACTION

What?s interesting on television is the presence of authentic firang actors playing firang roles. Earlier, Tom Alter was invariably cast as the foreign hand in Hindi films;...

Make your handicaps your wings, says Hrithik Roshan

There is a way out of every struggle that one may encounter in life – that’s the message actor Hrithik Roshan has given out after successfully overcoming obstac...

The World May No Longer Know These 4 Deadly Diseases By 2030

In all of human history, we’ve only ever been able to completely wipe out one disease: smallpox. Declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980, smallpo...

Manisha Koirala walks 'for life'

Actress Manisha Koirala, a survivor of ovarian cancer, took part in CanSupport’s Walk for Life 2015 here Sunday to create awareness about the disease. The purpose of ...

The gender of a sound byte

Dear Barkha, This is taking up from where we last left off. The last time we met at a dinner party in Mumbai, you had enquired why I always turned down requests to appear o...