MP govt scraps circular on sterilisation, shifts official

The Madhya Pradesh government on Friday scrapped a controversial circular that set sterilisation targets for male multi-purpose health workers (MPHWs) and warned of salary loss for not......

A day at a village primary health centre

More rural women are having babies in government hospitals.Facilities have improved, but Bihar, discovers Archana Masih/Rediff.com, has a long way to go in public health. IMAGE: A nurse examines a......

Why India Needs Population Control

Will Prime Minister Modi start a conversation on the need for people to limit the size of their families, asks Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) on the occasion of World Population Day, July 11. IMAGE:......

Could 2017 be a repeat of 1975?

'It would be too sweeping to say that the elites and the middle-class don't care about liberty.''It is just that they are always calculating the trade-offs: What's in it for me, what could it cost......

'Films are bombing left, right and centre'

Shreyas Talpade reveals how he has survived in Bollywood. IMAGE: Shreyas, Sunny and Bobby Deol in Poster Boys. Shreyas Talpade was seen in a new avatar in Poster Boys -- behind the camera. A......

Poster Boys review: Low-IQ comedy

Shreyas Talpade's film, co-starring the Deol brothers, never adds up to anything beyond a shrill or overdone caricature straight out of a dummy's guide in how to amuse, says Sukanya Verma. There's......

'I can be the representative of farmers across India'

'We were shooting a sequence where I have a showdown with a minister. After the director said cut, I looked around and everybody was giggling.' 'Then I saw that my dhoti had given away......

Review: Poshter Boyz is a laugh riot

Poshter Boyz is a hilarious act. Had Dada Kondke been alive today, he would have gone gaga over Poshter Boyz's double-meaning, yet refined dialogues, says Prasanna D Zore. Three men -- a lover boy......