Mumbai, Nov 9, 2014: Nepal’s social crusader Anuradha Koirala, who has rescued more than 12,000 women from human trafficking and Maharashtra’s social worker Prakash Amte were among 10 prominent winners named here Sunday for the Harmony Foundation’s prestigious Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice-2014. Koirala, 65, through her […]

A nuclear reprocessing site with the risk of explosions and seeping silos: Sellafield is seeking help, but the UK government has just sacked the firm from being able to run the clean-up. Built on Cumbria’s coast in north-west England during the late 1940’s, Sellafield was used to manufacture plutonium for […]

The worldwide community has split over the Charlie Hebdo issue No. 1178, originally printed at 3 million copies. However, the increased demand caused the journal to increase the print run to 5 million, later – 7 million copies. The “survivors’ issue” released on January 14, 2015, featured a cover cartoon […]

With only their bare hands to guide them, the pain of bloodied fingers and bruised and broken finger nails became the norm as Tommy Cladwell, 36, and Kevin Jorgesen, 30, became first men in history to free-climb El Capitan’s Dawn Wall. The name given for the fact that it catches […]

The mystery surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has continued to haunt searchers – an international contingent of experienced rescuers and scientists who have been persistently seeking answers on behalf of victim’s families, the airline itself and a concerned public. The cartography of the search is of particular interest – understanding the obstacles […]

It’s a little over four months to the 2015 British General Election (May 7).This one promises to be crucial and more fluid than any election in living memory. Ever since the failure of the international banking system in 2008, millions of people have been pushed further into poverty by neo-liberal […]

We all know that feeling. That feeling when you’re asked, ‘what do you want for Christmas?’ Obviously it would not be Christmas without a few presents to unwrap, a glass of wine swilling in your hand and the debatably ‘pleasant’ company of your family members. However, most of the time we have only a […]

When I first heard about this cafe/eatery/breakfast bar, I was jealous. I was annoyed that I hadn’t thought of an idea so simple and so imaginative, that could essentially turn Corn Flakes into coins for the owners. I also thought it was marvellous, inventive and above all, really cool. I […]