Nearly one thousand people march for LGBTQ rights in New Delhi

Over 1,000 people marched from Barakhamba Road in New Delhi to Jantar Mantar on Sunday to demand an end to discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, q...

India’s Lethal Birth Control

There’s no secret to reducing population growth: Women who are informed about and given access to contraception choices have fewer children. Yet India persists in a c...

Accent on male sterilisation

Between 2008 and March 2012, the Centre, under its Family Planning Insurance Scheme, had to pay compensation for botched sterilisation procedures which included 438 cases o...

How College Kids Helped Divest $50 Billion From Fossil Fuels

More than 700 investors pledged to divest their holdings from fossil fuel companies, just a day after an estimated 400,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of New ...

Child sex trade worth 343 billion dollars, says Kailash Satyarthi

Trafficking of young girls from countries like Nepal and Bangladesh into India for forcibly pushing them into prostitution shows no sign of abatement even as three million ...

Director Goran Paskaljevic announces his next film, ‘Dev Bhoomi’, the first Indo-Serbian co-production

~ Starring Victor Banerjee, ‘Dev Bhoomi’ is set in Garhwal, Uttarakhand ~

~ After a series of lo...

Addressing India's air quality, health and climate requires public action, study finds

Just weeks after New York City saw the largest climate march in history, new research shows that such public demand can have a direct impact on environmental improvements a...

Hollyoaks cast stands up to cancer in the UK

Jennifer Metcalfe, Gemma Merna, Ashley Taylor Dawson, Kieron Richardson and Fabrizio Santino are just some of the Hollyoaks cast who have united to join the frontline again...

How people are coming together to tackle climate change

The People?s Climate March on September 21 was a watershed for the emerging global climate movement, with more than 400,000 people taking to the streets of New York City. B...