GM crops: Poison not panacea If you believe that GM crops are the answer to eliminate world hunger, you couldn’t be more wrong. Genetically modifying what nature has given us would only lead to our own doom. Why, it is already leading to our...

Do we need research to tell us what we always knew? Apparently, we do. A new study says that happiness and other positive emotions influence our well-being to a much larger extent than we believed they did earlier. The scientists exposed the subjects to...

It is always amazing to see the uproar in the media as well as on the streets when a minister gets embroiled in a controversy. The latest to make headlines is our own D K Shivkumar in Karnataka. Sure, he is involved in the mining deal. So what? All of...

Casino Royale makes a grand entrance. But me thinks Daniel Craig looks more like the bad guy than the good, sexy protagonist of Bond movies. I was a little shaken and stirred (though in a not-so-good way) by this choice of actor to fill in the...

Heard that Raja Chaudhary (one half of the famed jodi on Star One’s Nach Baliye 2) took seriously ill and could not perform. Poor Shweta Tiwari had to hit the dance floor with her choreographer despite knowing fully well that she wouldn’t...

Been watching the show ‘Bigg Boss’ on Sony lately? Well, I am a sucker for reality shows and fall for every single one. My guess was that Kashmira Shah was the insider, the Bigg Boss’s jasoos. (Remember how Rakhi Sawant claimed...