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Going Mainstream In Including Disabled People In Development

Across the world, 1 in 7 people has a disability and 80 percent live in developing countries. Many people with disabilities face discrimination and stigma in their everyday li...

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How We Entered A New Era Of Astronomy

Last week, a new era of astronomy began as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory executive director David Reitze stood before a packed room at the National Press...

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Last January Was The Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly Of Any Month On Record

NASA has released its global temperature data for January 2016, and, once again, the record for the hottest month in recorded history has been shattered. At a time whenthese k...

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Berlinale Film Festival: Recounting The Horrors And Scars Left By Wars

Can any nation ever put behind the memories of a war? The scars that are engraved on the soul, and the soil, are perhaps the hardest to get rid of.In Germany, it is not just a...

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International Indie Film Festival Heads To Cinema Village

A group of filmmakers and cinephiles are calling attention to "emerging filmmakers with low budgets and no connections" with a film festival at Cinema Village, kicking off thi...

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Salman Khan's Big-Hearted Gesture For A Film Set Worker

Known for taking up humanitarian causes, Salman Khan has offered financial help to a film worker struggling to meet the expenses of his 16-year-old daughter's open heart surge...

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Hozier Donates Song Proceeds To Domestic Abuse Charities

Irish singer/songwriter Hozier is donating the proceeds of his new single, Cherry Wine, to a series of international domestic abuse charity organisations which provide support...

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India Gears Up For Mobile Money For Everyone Through UPI

In the next two years, a bank can lend a vegetable vendor of a few hundred rupees which she will be able to repay at the end of the day. All this will be done via mobile in a ...

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Gulzar, Shabana Azmi, Imtiaz Ali To Take Part In Urdu Fest

Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt, ShabanaAzmi, Imtiaz Ali, are set to bring alive Urdu's timeless splendor Bollywood personalities Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt, Shaban...

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Women Considered Better Coders – But Only If They Hide Their Gender

When a group of computer science students decided to study the way that gender bias plays out in software development communities, they assumed that coders would be prejudiced...

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GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024

POWERFUL PEOPLE: USHA UTHUP - THE QUEEN OF POP

Celebrating Usha Uthup’s five-decade journey as a musical trailblazer, cultural am...

November 21 2024