Indian scientist Kamal Bawa gets Midori Prize in Biodiversity

Indian scientist Kamal Bawa, a distinguished professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, has won the 2014 Midori Prize in Biodiversity for his resear...

Ad makers take ban on fairness ads in their creative stride

Last week, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) ordered broadcasters not to air advertisements that violated the Advertising Standards Council of India’...

True Review: Mary Kom

Critics Rating: 3 Stars*

Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Sunil Thapa, Darshan Kumar,

Direction: Omung Kumar

MDA Show Of Strength Telethon Raises Millions For Charity

The MDA Show Of Strength Telethon raised over $52 million on Sunday. “It’s inspiring to see so many celebrities, musical artists and athletes join forces to hel...

Sony Launches Women’s Channel ‘Sony Pal’

Multi-Screen Media Private Limited announced the launch of a new television channel called Sony Pal at the Hotel Taj Land’s End Aug. 7. Juhi Chawla is the face of the...

City Of Los Angeles Announces Stand Up To Cancer Day

On Wednesday, August 27, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Paul Koretz and the City of Los Angeles commended Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) by presenting a resolution declaring...

Some hard truths on safe motherhood

Maternal deaths should be treated as a human rights issue and governments need to focus on best antenatal practices and provision of emergency obstetric care to bring down ...

Ajay Devgn and Rohit Shetty give 2 Tata Cars to Mumbai Police for Police Patrolling

It was a day of immense pride and honour as actor Ajay Devgn along with Director Rohit Shetty were present at our Home Minister Shri RR Patil’s residence to give two ...

India's rural sector deeply at risk from climate change

India, one of the largest agrarian economies in the world, is deeply at risk from climate change, and could see economic losses of up to 8.7% of its gross domestic product ...