British Floods, California Drought: A Connection?

This winter, weather reports have been full of extremes. California, for instance, has had the driest year in 119 years of recordkeeping, with the Sierra snowpack less than...

Nuclear Plants To Power Sustainable Development

Forgotten is the shock and despair triggered by the Fukushima power plant disaster about two years ago. Nuclear power is here to stay. In fact, according to a consensus eme...

Telling The Story Of The Birth Of A Nation Is Never Easy: Shyam Benegal

Mumbai:

  Feb, 2014: “Telling the story of the birth of a nation is never e...

Christian Bale Wrote On His Face To Support A Man With Cancer

There are people who still think of Christian Bale as “that guy who threw the temper tantrum on the set of that movie” because we’re always going to remem...

Akshay Kumar to teach self defence for women

Akshay Kumar, India’s Bollywood Actor, is set to launch a free of charge martial arts training institute for women in Mumbai this year. The self defense course is set...

Tackling water, sanitation, energy nexus key to sustainable future – UN officials

General Assembly President John Ashe (right) opens the thematic debate on water, sanitation and sustainable energy. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is at left. UN Photo/Paulo...

Polio-free India to get WHO certification

As India celebrates its victory over polio — completing three years without any case of the debilitating infection — the nation becomes entitled to polio-free c...

Global warming: Ice loss makes Arctic itself a bigger climate changer

As the Arctic region loses ice cover to global warming, it is itself becoming a stronger contributor to warming than climate models had predicted it would, a new study find...

Prince Charles unveils plan to launch charity for South Asia

Britain’s future king Prince Charles has endorsed his commitment to charity projects in countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with a plan to launch a charity f...