How climate change destroys human rights

Environmental destruction caused by people is poised to become the “most massive human rights violation ever”. In a 2012 interview, Oregon State University phil...

IGT: India Does Have Talent

In 2009, a 48-year-old matronly Susan Boyle floored   the judges, audience and TV viewers of Read More

Dermot O’Leary, Ricky Wilson, Keith Lemon ‘go commando’ for charity

Dermot O’Leary and Ricky Wilson are among the stars who have lent their support to a new charity campaign. Keith Lemon, Rizzle Kicks and John Prescott are also taking...

The Third World’s drinking problem

With sustained political will, the world’s water and sanitation challenges are by no means insurmountable During its recent gathering in Davos, the World Economic For...

The Third World's drinking problem

With sustained political will, the world’s water and sanitation challenges are by no means insurmountable During its recent gathering in Davos, the World Economic For...

Global Warming and Potential Water Contamination Resulting from Fracking for Hydrocarbons

Contaminated water, presumed to be from drilling into and fracturing (fracking) hydrocarbon-bearing rock strata, has been in the news for some time now. And so have global ...

Anti-polio drive launched in NW Pakistan

Pakistani authorities today launched an anti-polio drive aimed at covering over 700,000 children in the tribal areas and frontier regions of the country’s northwest.<...

The Writer and Publisher: No Holy Marriage This!

When a writer is attacked or hauled to court, who really stays on for the good fight? Author MURZBAN SHROFF breaks his silence.

To all you writers or independent pu...

Global warming won’t cut winter deaths as hoped

Climate warming would likely not decrease winter mortality, the report suggested more volatile winters Global warming will fail to reduce high winter death rates as some of...