7 Things We’ve Learned About Earth Since The Last Earth Day

A whole lot has changed since the first Earth Day in 1970.

Back then, the most urgent environmental problems facing the United States were air and water pollution. ...

The Road To Better Data

When Moses went to Mount Sinai more than 3,000 years ago, he came back with 10 commandments. When the world’s presidents and prime ministers go to New York City in la...

Mrs. India Priyanka Khurana Goyal Joins Hands With Bal Snehalaya For Tree Plantation Drive On Earth Day

Mumbai 22^nd April 2015:  On the occasion of Earth Day, Bal Snehalaya a joint enterprise of the Thane municipality, the railway police and the rainbow f...

Panel Including Shonda Rhimes Address Film/TV's 'Unconscious Bias'

The top entertainment figures filling the stage at the Writers Guild Theatre came from wildly diverse areas. One was an Oscar-winning actress, another was an Oscar-winning ...

A Song To Save Her

HYDERABAD: We cannot be sure if it was a media stunt, but it was pulled off well. American pop singer Reggie Benjamin, who was in the city to launch his Mission Save Her in...

Love Story To Be Flag Bearer Of Tata Sky’s Disruptive Initiative

MUMBAI: Indian DTH player Tata Sky rattled competitors when it launched the world’s first ‘Daily Recharge’ plan for meager Rs 8, which gave viewers the ch...

Open Letter To Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: This Ad You Figure In Is Insidiously Racist

We write to draw your attention to a full-page advertisement for Kalyan Jewellers in which you feature that appeared in The Hindu (Delhi edition) on April 17, 2015. In the ...

Polio Vaccination With Micro-Needle Patches Receives Funding For Patch Development, Clinical Trial

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $2.5 million to advance the development of dissolvable microneedle patches for polio immunisation. The patche...

App Launched To Aid ASHA Workers In Maternal, Child Healthcare Duties

Gannavaram (AP): A Hyderabad-based IT services company today said it has developed a mobile App that would allow Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) in Andhra Pradesh...