This Kashmiri Pandit wants cinemas to reopen in the valley

'I am not going to force anyone to watch movies. If they want to, they can come and watch.''I want to give them the choice that everyone has in the rest of the country.' IMAGE: The shuttered main......

PM Modi receives UN's highest environmental honour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded with the United Nations’ highest environmental honour, bestowed upon five other individuals and organisations, for his leadership of the......

How India's young innovators do well by doing good

'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' is indeed possible!' says Dr R A......

Afghanistan defends India's surgical strikes in PoK

Afghanistan on Friday backed India's surgical strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, terming it as an act of "self-defence", and in a strong message to Pakistan asserted that......

From Copenhagen to Mexico: The cycle continues

After failing at Copenhagen, we pinned our hopes on Mexico City; in Mexico, we'll look for some place else, writes Barun Roy. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. That's how the 2009 United......

Did Modi Inspire This Grammy Win?

'Now, no one can stop me from making music till the day I die.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Ricky Kej/Instagram With two Grammys in the Best New Age Album category -- for Winds of Samsara in 2015......

Have you seen Dia more beautiful?

Dia Mirza has started shooting a Web series Kaafir. Kaafir is set in Kashmir, but it is being shot in Himachal Pradesh. Directed by Sonam Nair, produced by Siddharth Malhotra, co-starring Mohit......

Dia Mirza is going places

Isn't that Alec Baldwin standing next to her? UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador Dia Mirza and Hollywood star Alec Baldwin hosted The Champions of the Earth awards in New York this week. After the......

Dia on Ranbir, Sanju, playing Maanayata

'People who went on the sets thought Ranbir was Sanju sir.''Ranbir made Sanju sir his own.' IMAGE: Dia Mirza. Photograph: Abhijit Mahamunkar Dia Mirza is busy juggling her role as an actress with......