At Periyar, no life jackets, no shoot
Safety first, sensation next. However, the shooting of a big budget Telugu movie stopped in its tracks at the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) as a forest official tried to hammer home the point.
Nina Pillai to head country's first exclusive TV channel for women, Sakhi
A bevy of leading women from business, politics and cinema have joined their hands to form the country’s first exclusively women channel, Sakhi TV, that would go on air by the end of this year.
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Kerala child abuse rising
Child abuse in Kerala seems to have reached epidemic levels with the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan helpline reporting over 1,000 complaints since June 2011.
Likewise, the higher secondary helpline which beca
‘India not to revise its nuclear plan’
The former foreign secretary and the Prime Minister’s special envoy on climate change, Mr Shyam Saran, said that India need not have to revise its nuclear plans in the aftermath of the disaster at the
Govts have failed, not Pak: Fatima
Pakistan is now lorded over a by a man Fatima Bhutto calls “my aunt’s oleaginous husband” but she insists that Pakistan is not a failed state.
Flood of abuse stuns SSA help desk in Kerala
When Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) set up help desks in schools, the Kerala government was unprepared for a literal flood of child abuse complaints.
Now, with help desks stuffed with complaints and the