Less than 12 percent of children use toilets in India

According to a study, the use of toilets by children in rural areas is less than 12 percent as against 47 percent in urban areas.

Against this background, social sc...

A mother and a judge speaks out on section 377

My name is Leila Seth. I am 83 years old. I have been in a long and happy marriage of more than sixty years with my husband Premo, and am the mother of three children. The ...

Karun Chandhok to cycle 500km for charity

Indian racing driver Karun Chandhok began his 500km charity cycle rideSunday morning at the Pallikaranai Government School here.

The “KC500 presented by Montr...

India just produced its first gun for women. Is this a solution or a problem?

India appears to be following the US by making and marketing guns for women, but it won’t make women any safer

“Nirbheek” is small, light and can ...

Sugar Has No Nutritional Value: Myth or Fact?

Dr Aseem Malhotra is an interventional cardiologist and the founding member and science director of Action On Sugar, a group of specialists concerned with sugar and its eff...

Cyrus Mistry, Writer in Seclusion

Author Cyrus Mistry trounced competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature, for his book Chronicles of...

’24’ Exec Producer Tackling Mother Teresa Biopic

“Hotel Rwanda” scribe Keir Pearson has been hired to write the screenplay.

Tony Krantz, the former head of Imagine Entertainment’s television di...

Kerala wins UN award for sustainable tourism

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Tourism has been conferred the United Nations Award for creating innovative initiatives for sustainable tourism, the first time India has ever wo...

Probiotics May Ease Stomach Upset in Babies

A new clinical trial suggests that a daily dose of a Probiotic may ease digestive upset in babies.

Italian researchers randomly assigned 468 infants less than a wee...