Rural girls quitting education as schools lack toilets

School education minister Vinod Tawde has expressed concern over alarming increase in school dropout rate, especially for girls, and blamed it on absence of girl’s to...

Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize Today

India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their fight against the oppression of children and th...

Shekhar Kapur takes International TV plunge, to direct the sequel to horror classic The Omen

~In his first television foray, film-maker to work with ‘Homeland’ actor Bradley James, series produced by Fox to air in 2015~

Mumbai, December 5, 2014:...

‘Ashamed’ a short film promoted by Pocket Films goes viral

Mumbai, December, 2014: ‘Ashamed’ a short film promoted by ‘Pocket Films’ is a film with a powerful impact and les...

Child nutrition in India’s developed States improves

India’s more developed States, especially its southern States, have seen improvements in child nutrition over the last five years, but have a patchy record on immunis...

Women on climate change frontline make big impact on small grants

In London, Paris and Washington, where leaders have made little progress in curtailing climate change, global warming may seem a merely theoretical problem ? too far in the...

Many Indian girls are going to incredible lengths to get the education they deserve

India is hardly the place that comes to mind when you think of places that have made strides in girls’ education. Headlines are filled with stories of how badly the c...

NO SENSITIVITY FOR A CHILD’S RIGHT TO ENTERTAINMENT

If one were to do a cross channel run, not a single one topped the Children?s Day celebrations. News channels like CNN IBN did their Citizen Journalist rounds with children...

NRI billionaire Manoj Bhargava pledges Rs 500 crore for Uttarakhand development

A charitable organisation founded by billionaire NRI entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava has pledged Rs 500 crore to fund development activities in Uttarakhand.

On the occa...