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Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran's presidential elections

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has secured a win in the presidential elections in Iran, defeating hard-liner Saeed Jalili. IMAGE: Iranian presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian waves at......

Canada names Consul-General to Chandigarh

Helen Economo Amundsen, whose appointment as Consul General was announced on Thursday by the Foreign Affairs Minister Peter McKay is currently Acting Director-General in the Corporate Services in......

Shrina Kurani Is Running For Congress

Indian-American engineer-entrepreneur Shrina Kurani challenges a 30-year Republican veteran in a US Congressional race in a district that is predominantly white. IMAGE: Can Shrina Kurani become......

Indians greenest citizens of the world!

Indian and Brazilian have the most environmentally-friendly lifestyles, according to a new global survey. American customers scored lowest in the survey from the National Geographic Society, and......

Climate Change: India Must Walk The Talk

India lost around 38.5 thousand hectares of tropical forest in the last decade.Nearly 14 per cent of the country's tree cover!It is one thing for Modi to announce that India will reach a net-zero......

COLUMN: The goals and challenges of Rio+20

The bad news about the environment far outweighs small advances that have been made, writes Rajni Bakshi.Twenty years ago, it was mostly people who were displaced by dams, mines and other projects......

Green Scorecard: Private sector holds upper hand?

But the toughest opposition to a strategy for halting climate change also comes from entrenched private interests, says Rajni Bakshi. Those who have been despairing about the spectre of climate......

No China-style climate deal in works for India: US

China is the top greenhouse gas emitter, ahead of the United States, the European Union and India The United States on Wednesday played down prospects for a wide-ranging deal with India to curb......

Prez makes strong pitch for India as investment destination

Making a strong pitch for bringing investments, President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said India is fourth most attractive destination for Foreign Direct Investment for 2014-16 owing to easing of......

e-banking? It pays to be cautious

Salman often uses his office PC to dabble in the stock market. He makes payments using the Internet payment gateways. While he thinks his personal identification number -- or PIN -- is secure, the......

10 Films You Must Watch

Aseem Chhabra picks 10 movies that amazed him at the international film festival in El Gouna, Egypt. Last month as film people from around the world traveled to El Gouna, an Egyptian resort by the......

How a desi is making waves at MoMA

'We'll certainly have Hollywood productions, so why wouldn't we have Bollywood?'Indira Kannan reports. IMAGE: Members of the 69th Berlin film festival's international jury arrive for the awards......

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