I Love Making Women-Centric Films: Shoojit Sircar.

In Kolkata for the DVD release of debutant director Anindya Chatterjee’s Open Tee Bioscope, a Bengali movie he produced, Shoojit Sircar opens up about his love for wo...

Why Healthy Mothers Matter.

Healthy mothers give birth to healthy children who grow up to be productive adults. By contrast, women who begin pregnancy too thin and do not gain enough weight during pre...

Chile Launched The Largest Ocean Preserve In The Americas

The preserve protects the waters surrounding the Desventuradas Islands, which are two days? trip from the Chilean coast and home to many species that exist nowhere else. Fi...

How A Pair Of Old Mines Helped Win A Nobel Prize In Physics

According to the Nobel prize committee, “the discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the univ...

Gender Parity Could Add 60% To India’s GDP By 2025

“The report analysed 15 gender equality indicators for 95 countries home to 93 per cent of the world’s women and 97 per cent of the world’s GDP”. An...

Madison’s First Asian-American Film Festival Kicks Off With Sci-Fi And Thrillers

For his film “Aloha,” writer-director Cameron Crowe wrote a character whose ethnic background was one-quarter Hawaiian and half-Chinese. The actress cast f...

Networks And Audiences Get Real About Documentaries.

Pardon the generalization, but it wasn’t long ago that you could walk into a theater showing a documentary and the seats would be filled mainly with academics and old...

Finally, A 'Reasonably-Secure' Operating System: Qubes R3

Last week, the software project announced the official release of Qubes R3, which includes major advances both for Qubes and for the future of secure operating systems. It ...

6th Jagran Film Festival Extends Lifetime Achievement Award To Shashi Kapoor, Best Actor To Dulal Sarkar And Best Actress To Bhumi Pednekar At The Starry Festival Closing Night

~ Veteran make-up artiste Pandhari Juker honoured with Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema title ~

~ Dulal Sarkar and the film ‘Chotoder Ch...