Syd Field, whose books on screenwriting became set texts for many aspiring film writers, has died at the age of 77

Famous for outlining the “three act” structure used by many screenplays, the author and lecturer died of haemolytic anaemia at his Beverly Hills home.

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John Abraham, Sonam Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap Dia Mirza and Nandita Das show solidarity to the Arctic 30

Indian Celebrities have joined forces with Greenpeace India, The Manipur Cycling Club and a bunch of other NGOs that have come together at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest...

The Union Cabinet okays plan to raise cadre for health workers for rural areas

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the health ministry’s proposal to institute a three-year degree programme for public health professionals. The bachelor in comm...

Why don’t Indian media write more on climate change?

“Some media analysts say the slim coverage of climate issues by India’s local-language press is due more to commercial decisions and a shortage of trained scien...

Every second child in India is malnourished: Report

A recent report revealed that every second child in India is malnourished, 79% children across the country are anaemic whereas the child sex ratio is at the lowest point ev...

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar – An Innings That Will Never End

Today Sachin Tendulkar will emerge from the dressing room to a packed house at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai to join MS Dhoni and team to don his Indian cricket white...

‘Fandry’ all set to create a stir at the 18th International Children’s Film Festival

Director Nagraj Manjule marks an exceptional debut with Marathi movie ‘Fandry’. Fandry is a story of a ‘Dalit’ boy trying to impress his socially su...

Pentavalent vaccine gets clean chit, set for national scale-up

The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) has recommended scale-up of the pentavalent vaccine across the country, along with activities to monitor poten...

UNICEF and Community Groups to Prioritise Action on Child Poverty in Australia

Even after times of economic well-being and stability around 600,000 or 17.3 per cent of Australia’s
children continue to live in impoverished conditions, as sta...