Aeras is a non profit biotech advancing the development of new tuberculosis vaccines for the world

Aeras is committed to ensuring the availability of information on TB vaccine R&D, progress towards our goals, and research outputs. This resource page includes annual r...

Mumbai hosts Third edition of Flashpoint Human Rights Film Festival from 12-14 December

The Press Conference for Flashpoint 2013, that was held at the Asian Center for Entertainment Education, saw a great turnout from the print and electronic media. ...

Earth's poles are shifting because of climate change

"Ice melting and sea level change can explain 90 per cent of the [eastward shift]," says Chen. "The driving force for the sudden change is climate change." Click ...

Movie Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Rating: 3 stars

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly

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George H. W. Bush Honored With Liberty And Justice For All Award

“The period of his presidency stands as a well-remembered time when those qualities characterized leadership in our country at the highest levels – a condition ...

Cuba: The Meaning of Human Rights

Cuba, a communist country has been showing great progress in the fields of development and human rights. Some statistics that show this rise are as follows:
As a resul...

Bollywood stars Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, John Abraham, Anushka Sharma express disappointment on Twitter over Supreme Court verdict on homosexuality

Bollywood celebrites on Wednesday voiced disappointment over the Supreme Court verdict that criminalised homosexuality, calling it “violative of basic human rights". ...

Pages from the Diary of a Community Health Worker

It was just another day in the late summer of 1992. Fresh from the success of a community intervention that sought to limit the effects of an outbreak of a gastrointestinal...

Reaching out beyond the screen

Television has ceased to be the idiot box, it is now more than just a medium of entertainment; we cannot override it as a medium of social influence.  Anita, a 38 year...