Small concerns: The Local train

There local train platform is filled with people as I reach it around 8.30 am every day.  Carrying laptops, handbags and lunchboxes, everyone is set for the day. Newsp...

India’s 1st climate change theatre opens at Science City

Kapurthala: India’s first climate change theatre was opened at Pushpa Gujral Science City in Kapurthala on Thursday to educate people on one of the pressing developme...

Ray of hope for HIV patients

New York: In a significant discovery, researchers have identified a new protein that holds promise for the next-generation of anti-HIV drugs.

The team at University...

Who said playing games is waste of time?

Throughout the last twenty or thirty years, parents around the world have been putting limitations on the amount of time their children spend playing games. Many a times, p...

Indian restaurant organises charity curry nights

AN award winning Indian restaurant in Widford is hosting a series of special charity nights.

Chefs at Indian Nights, in London Road, will be cooking up a three-cour...

Pride and prejudice

SPEAKING at Lithuania’s gay-pride parade last year, Birgitta Ohlsson was pelted with eggs. Even so, the mood was much better than at the inaugural event three years e...

Nepal clinches 139th position in environment index

KATHMANDU: Nepal has been ranked 139th in the Environmental Performance Index 2014, which assessed 178 countries across the world.

The EPI assesses nine parameters,...

Beijing’s bad air would be step up for smoggy Delhi

In mid-January, air pollution in Beijing was so bad that the government issued urgent health warnings and closed four major highways, prompting the panicked buying of air f...

Taste of sting

I vividly remember my first encounter with bichhu ghas, literally scorpion grass. My botany teacher had introduced me to the Himalayan giant nettle, known as Girardinia div...