2015: the year businesses recognize that climate change is real

With new climate policies, civil unrest and supply-chain disruptions in 2014, more businesses are becoming activists It would be an understatement to say that a lot happene...

How can India end this tide of violence against women?

Despite rising levels of education, gender awareness and stringent pro-women laws, change has been slow and violence against women is increasing The rape of a young woman b...

New Delhi Gay Pride: India's LGBT community hit capital's streets for Pride parade

Hundreds of members of India’s gay and lesbian community marched in Delhi on Sunday in the capital’s first Gay Pride parade since homosexuality was recriminaliz...

International law stays silent on the responsibility for climate change

The United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as the 1992 agreement is known, has sent a yearly caravan of politicians, activists and lawyers to some of the worl...

Express in Lima: Javadekar to highlight India?s solar push

The recently-decided plan to go for a massive increase in solar power generation in the country will figure prominently in the statement of Environment Minister Prakash Jav...

Sustainable development economics

TWO schools of thought tend to dominate today’s economic debates. According to free-market economists, governments should cut taxes, reduce regulations, reform labour...

Hollywood star Clooney makes charity Downton Abbey debut

George Clooney swaps Hollywood for Highclere Castle as he is seen for the first time on the set of Downton Abbey, alongside co-star Hugh Bonneville. Recently-married Cloone...

Nearly one thousand people march for LGBTQ rights in New Delhi

Over 1,000 people marched from Barakhamba Road in New Delhi to Jantar Mantar on Sunday to demand an end to discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, q...

True Review - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Critics Rating: 3.5 Stars*          

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, ...