Water

Drowning in Misery: How swimming pools of the rich are leading to a water crisis in the world

Your taps could run dry soon and you have the rich to blame. A recent study highlighted that while the poor use the majority of their water for basic needs like drinking and washing, the rich use excessive water for personal pleasure – filling up swimming pools, watering gardens

Humanity must chart new course on water use: UN chief

Water is 'the most precious common good,' and 'needs to be at the center of the global political agenda,' Guterres said at the end of a three-day UN conference that experts said held a measure of promise

'Vampiric' water use leading to 'imminent' global crisis, UN warns

The world is 'blindly travelling a dangerous path" as "unsustainable water use, pollution and unchecked global warming are draining humanity's lifeblood,' said United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Manorama: The comedienne, vamp & the maharani of memes

Manorama's last celluloid work was for Deepa Mehta's Water, in which she played the leery and vulgar widow who heads a widows' ashram.

Turkey, Syria earthquake: Why first 72 hours are critical for search and rescue operations

Over 15,000 people have been killed after a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria. A huge rescue operation is underway — and every minute is crucial

How single women and widows in Afghanistan are struggling to find their next meal

While the backlash against women’s rights needs to be urgently addressed, the crisis of food and nutrition security facing single women, widows and separated women, is not being recognised by many outside the country

Nature and forests through 2019: The year of uncontrollable rain forests fires all over the world

2019 closed out a “lost decade” for the world’s tropical forests, with surging deforestation from Brazil to the Congo Basin.

Birthday Special: Why Seema Biswas is not happy with the way mainstream Hindi cinema treated her!

Seema is not really happy with the way mainstream Hindi cinema treated her. She thinks of herself as part of Bollywood. But does Bollywood have a place for an actress as evolved as Seema?

Govt needs people’s participation to conserve water: PM Modi

In his virtual address at the first national conference of water ministers from states, PM Modi said water should be a subject of cooperation, collaboration and coordination among states and asked them to plan in advance in view of the fast pace of urbanisation

"How can you be part of Hindi cinema without knowing Hindi?": When a director shooed John Abraham out of an audition

Naturally there was a steady torrent of auditions happening. One of the hopefuls who knocked at this director's doorstep was a boy from Kerala named John Abraham who seemed “almost desperate” to get a break.