14th River to River Florence Indian Film Festival on Mar 21

Mumbai, March 2014: March 21^st is a day to mark in film lovers’ calendars as Pocket Films brings to Mumbai the first Indian chapter of Eur...

£12 device can save 70000 moms yearly at risk during birthing

The lives of tens of thousands of new mothers around the world could be saved by a simple, hand-held, British-made device costing only £12, which runs on a mobile-pho...

India’s “smart cities” would be stupid without disaster strategy

After Cyclone Hudhud pounded India?s southern port city of Visakhapatnam last October, snapping bridges, swamping farmland and wrecking fishing boats, many breathed a sigh ...

VISTAAR’S SCI-FI FILM ‘GENESIS’ Nears Completion

Mumbai, 9^th March 2015: When someone says sky is the limit, Vistaar Film Fund’s Managing Director, SheetalTalwar takes it quite liter...

Indian maternal health far worse than previously thought

As per a new study, maternal health in India much worse than previously thought as more than 40% of women are underweight when they begin pregnancy. The findings of Princet...

Elton John AIDS Foundation Applauds Special Envoy

The Elton John AIDS Foundation is extremely pleased that the United States Government has taken another important step in recognizing LGBT rights as human rights. By appoin...

New safety rules for offshore Arctic drilling proposed to avoid repeat of Shell disaster

US officials want to make sure companies can handle a blow-out in remote and icy conditions – without inflicting an environmental disaster The Obama administration pr...

How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

​​INDIA TAKES ON THE WORLD RECORD

IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL MISSION ‘BETI BACHAO, BETI PADHAO’

The Indian Open Water swim team “The Se...