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Newest Technologies Becoming Weapons In Fight For Land Rights

Cutting-edge technologies - from drones to data collected by taxi drivers - are becoming key weapons in the global battle to improve land rights and fight poverty, experts sai...

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This Scientist Wants To Sequence The Genomes of 8,000 Endangered Animals Before They’re Gone

Erich Jarvis has a selfish reason for wanting to sequence the genomes of thousands of endangered animals. He needs a bunch of these species to survive long enough for him to s...

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Canada Is Investing $2 Billion In A Climate Disaster Mitigation Fund

In its new federal budget, Canada invests in machine learning and teaching kids to code, but offers no real plan for how to address workplace automation.The wildfires that tor...

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Film Festival Highlights Work Of Deaf Community

Jules Dameron, an award-winning deaf filmmaker from Los Angeles, is thrilled to be in Rochester this week to headline the community's Deaf Rochester Film Festival, and to be i...

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Experimenting With Seven Styles Of Odissi

“Dance is the essence of my soul,” said Odissi exponent and Sangeet Natak awardee Aruna Mohanty, who is the recipient of this year’s prestigious Padma Shri a...

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It's Very Sad Thing That Women's Needs To Learn Self Defence Nowadays, Feels Akshay Kumar

Bollywood's Khiladi Akshay Kumar, who will next be seen in the upcoming film 'Naam Shabana' wants women to roam freely rather than to learn self defence these days. Actor Anup...

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Lily Tomlin To Headline Comedy Event To Benefit Voice For The Animals Foundation

Emmy and Tony-winning, Academy Award-nominated actress and animal advocate Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie) joins actress June Diane Raphael (Grace and Frankie) and other comed...

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'Billions' Star Tells Ellen What It Means To Identify As Gender Non-Binary

Asia Kate Dillon is making history as the first gender non-binary character on a mainstream television show, Showtime’s “Billions.” The star, who also identi...

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Dirty Air And Water Increase Cradle Deaths In India

If this does not wake us up what will? The World Health Organization (WHO) has pressed the alarm exposing that children below five years are at the highest risk from filthy ai...

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Plagued By Decades Of Child Trafficking, India Activists Call For Crackdown

MUMBAI // Activists are clamouring for the rapid introduction of a new law to crack down on child trafficking in India, a problem that has plagued the country for decades. Chi...

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LAST WEEK’S ARTS, CINEMA AND CULTURE PULSE

From Berlinale’s politically charged opening to India’s expanding global pre...

February 16 2026

INTERGENERATIONAL CINEMA COURAGE CREATIVE DIALOGUE

At the Self-Discovery: Rediscovering India Festival 2026, led by Neville Tuli, emerging ...

February 15 2026

POWER, PRIVILEGE, AND OUR SILENCE

A searing reflection on the Epstein revelations and what they expose about unchecked pow...

February 14 2026