Highway

HIGHWAY –  A MARVELLOUS JOURNEY

RATING: 4.5 stars

First of all – a standing ovation to Bollywood.  H...

Mumbai: Rag pickers' daughter wants to complete MBA

Mumbai: The youngest daughter of scrap pickers and MBA student, Savita Doke (22), has worked hard to pursue her higher education. On the home stretch, however, she is strug...

Climate Change May Cause Trillions in Damage to World’s Coastal Regions

New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.

According to the stu...

Small concerns: The Local train

There local train platform is filled with people as I reach it around 8.30 am every day.  Carrying laptops, handbags and lunchboxes, everyone is set for the day. Newsp...

Indian artists to tour US for charity funds

Kolkata: In a bid to eradicate avoidable blindness by 2020 in the country, a trio of classical artists here will begin a multi-city tour of the US Feb 21 to raise funds for...

Beijing’s bad air would be step up for smoggy Delhi

In mid-January, air pollution in Beijing was so bad that the government issued urgent health warnings and closed four major highways, prompting the panicked buying of air f...

National Urban Health Mission launched

The ambitious National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), aimed at providing adequate and efficient urban public health delivery system for the urban poor, was launched here toda...

Climate change adversely affecting agriculture

JAIPUR: Climate change, the greatest global challenge, is already a reality for the farmers of Rajasthan. It is increasing the pressure on already scarce resources and if p...

Shilpa Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Sonakshi Sinha contribute to Raavi's charity work

Child actress Rimmi Srivastav, seen in the title role in TV show “Raavi”, inspired Bollywood celebrities like Shilpa Shetty and Arshad Warsi to support her init...