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Twenty Percent Of The World's Plants Could Go Extinct — And It's Not Just From Climate Change

With the human population fast approaching 8 billion, human beings are leveling forests, clearing savannas, and transforming entire landscapes to make way for industrial-scale...

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Cannes 2016 Preview: Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch And Oliver Stone All Showing At Film Festival

Opening the festival with yet another Woody Allen film, romantic comedy Café Society starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, is a safe if slightly dull choice. Al...

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Nawazuddin Set To Launch Memoir At Literature Festival

Mumbai, May 10 -- Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born in Budhana, a small town in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.Later, he graduated from the National School of Drama in...

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Marcus Samuelsson Auctioning Off Private Chef's Meal For Charity To Spotlight Harlem

Celebrity chef, Marcus Samuelsson launched a ‘Wine & Dine’ package on eBay for charity and fans get a chance to bid for some awesome experiences in Harlem as p...

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Stereotypes How You Watch TV Is About To Change Forever

It’s finally, almost, happening (again). After years of behind-the-scenes brokering, a raft of tech companies are reportedly close to launching new streaming services th...

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Gender Stereotypes Meets Frisbee

The Frisbee, a white blur, whirs across the sky, quivers in mid-air for a second and then descends. They run towards it—unmindful of the hot sand that coats their bare f...

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Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has proven ...

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Watch Scientists Demonstrate The Anti-Aging Powers Of A 'Second Skin’

Aging stinks and most people hate it, which means there has never been any lack of products that claim to combat wrinkles and saggy skin. But a new “second skin,”d...

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How Climate Change In The Arctic Could Cause Tsunamis In The UK

Disasters are ranked according to both their potential for damage and the likelihood that they will occur in the next five years. An influenza pandemic, for example, is consid...

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All You Need To Know About Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on 11 May with Mad Max’s George Miller heading up the jury. But amid all the glitz, glamour and furores over high heels, non-film buff...

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NOW STEPPING INTO HISTORY

Khalid Mohamed’s conversations with actor-turned-director Riteish Deshmukh over ti...

March 31 2026

CINEMA THAT BREATHES IN STILLNESS

An evocative evening of French and German short films in Mumbai explores stillness, abst...

March 29 2026

A TIMELY DIALOGUE AT IFFD 2026

A powerful panel at IFFD 2026 brings together leading independent filmmakers to examine ...

March 28 2026