Open Letter To Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: This Ad You Figure In Is Insidiously Racist

We write to draw your attention to a full-page advertisement for Kalyan Jewellers in which you feature that appeared in The Hindu (Delhi edition) on April 17, 2015. In the ...

Polio Vaccination With Micro-Needle Patches Receives Funding For Patch Development, Clinical Trial

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $2.5 million to advance the development of dissolvable microneedle patches for polio immunisation. The patche...

Refusing To Talk About Climate Change Doesn't Mean Its Not Happening, Says Obama In Earth Day Speech

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Technology The 'Golden Key' For Planetary Sustainability: India At UN

As the world observed Earth Day, India said technology held the “golden key” to planetary sustainability and concerns over intellectual property rights should n...

REPORTERS: WHERE’S THE STORY?

I don?t feel at home with Reporters. The look is too glossy, too unreal. The channel head sports a muffler. The editor Kabir is usually in a jacket (wonder why the tie is m...

Doordarshan Looks To Offer TV channels On Smartphones; Prasar Bharati Writes To I&B Ministry With Blueprint

NEW DELHI: Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is experimenting with a pilot project to let people watch TV channels directly on their smartphones, without using Internet or ...

60 Powerful Social Issue Ads That’ll Make You Stop And Think

We’ve seen some great public service campaigns recently which made us wonder – why not do posts on the best ones in the last couple of years? We scoured the int...

Climate Change: Paris 'Last Chance' For Action

Scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point plan of action at landmark talks in Paris.

The key element is the goal to li...

Do We Need a Global Tax On Wealth?

Taxes have always been politicized. In modern times, no election passes without each campaign's position on taxes being thoroughly scrutinized. And with economic inequality...