Actress Geena Davis Takes Fight For Women In Film Worldwide.

Actress Geena Davis called on Tuesday for greater efforts to stop the use of negative stereotypes of women and girls in film and the media as she unveiled details of a new ...

Citizen Media Shows Why India Is Unlikely To Reach Its Millennium Goals Target For Maternal Mortality

According to the UN Millennium Development Goals, India should bring down its maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 109 per 100,000 live births by 2015. This is a tough ask, as ...

Vidya Balan Reaches Out To Women Through 'Power Line'

Actress Vidya Balan has visited Uttar Pradesh Government’s ‘Women Power Line’ centre to prompt women to come out and speak for themselves.  Balan, 37...

Mathura To Become Model Of Sustainable Development

Authorities in Mathura have decided to protect cows and their grazing pastures besides taking urgent steps to develop new grazing grounds for cattle in the Yamuna river flo...

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

India’s Largest Film Festival Is Back 6th Jagran Film Festival To Commence Its 17 City Tour From Delhi

~The 2015 edition set to travel and touch lives of film lovers across length and breadth of India ~

~ Embellished with regional, Indian and world cinema as well as ...

New Film Prize Created To Promote Better Roles For Women

The New York-based Independent Filmmaker Project and Phosphate Productions have partnered to create a new prize, The Phosphate Prize at IFP, to encourage indie film writers...

Vidya Balan Vows To Eliminate Male-Female Disparity In Bollywood

Vidya Balan says there is a huge pay disparity between males and females in Bollywood. Actress Vidya Balan on Friday said she will strive to end the male-female disparity i...

Technology, Health And Media- Searching For Breakthroughs

August 1994- Sitting in a state transport bus on way to a remote village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, I was marvelling at the greenery all around.  T...