Vienna, Feb 23 (IANS/WAM) The price of OPEC’s basket of thirteen crudes stood at $29.48 a barrel on Monday, compared with $29.17 last Friday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations. The OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes…
(151225) — BEIJING, Dec. 25, 2015 (Xinhua) — A cyclist takes photos of the smog-shrouded Palace Museum turret in Beijing, Dec. 25, 2015. An orange alarm has been issued to alert smog and air pollution…
Tokyo, Feb 23 (IANS) Two Japanese major opposition parties on Tuesday said they were merging to form a new party ahead of the upper house election this summer in a move to better challenge the…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday demanded a law against discrimination of people from weaker sections in educational institutions across the country. “What happened to Rohith (Vemula) has not happened to him…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) With children getting more and more isolated in terms of interactions with their surroundings, occurrences of childhood leukaemia could increase in India, according to a cancer expert. There is a clear…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Taking a u-turn from earlier position, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Tuesday said city police would oppose Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail plea in…
Kuala Lumpur, Feb 23 (IANS) A task force of non-governmental organisations in Malaysia has said that some 7,000 Hindus living in the country are wrongly classified as Muslims on their national identity cards, the media…
Dhaka, Feb 23 (IANS) With two back to back T20 series wins and Virat Kohli coming back after being rested, India look like a force to reckon with as they kick-off their Asia Cup campaign…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said that the President’s address to parliament on Tuesday reflected richly the Modi government’s work for development of the rural poor and the…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The indefinite agitation in West Bengal by Greater Cooch Behar People’s Association continued to disrupt the movement of trains for the fourth day on Tuesday. According to Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR),…
Rohtak: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar interacts with press in Rohtak on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Rohtak/Chandigarh, Feb 23 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had to face the wrath of locals…
Toronto, Feb 23 (IANS) Low voltage electric currents can temporarily improve sight in adult patients with lazy eye, or amblyopia – a condition previously thought to be treatable only in childhood, new research has found….
London, Feb 23 (IANS) Swedish researchers have developed a new magnetic imaging technique that utilises sugar to assess the malignancy of tumours in cancer patients. The new imaging technique has been combined with the testing…
Kabul, Feb 23 (IANS) Taliban militants on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 14 people in Parwan province. A Taliban suicide bomber targeted police patrol team in Siagurd district of Parwan province…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) With Prime Minister Narendra Modi promising tax cuts and a $1.5-billion fund for India’s start-up eco-system, young entrepreneurs hope that the Budget 2016-17 will have some concrete steps to foster…
Sai Dharam Tej and Mehrene Kaur are likely to team up for BVS Ravi’s upcoming action drama, which will go on the floors from August. “The regular shooting will start from August after Sai completes shooting…
Los Angeles, Feb 23 (IANS) A film adaptation of “Good Morning, Mr. Mandela”, book written by Zelda la Grange, the former private secretary of Nelson Mandela, is in development. The book is based on her…
Tokyo, Feb 23 (INAS) Japanese Defence Minister General Nakatani on Tuesday said the country’s civilians still have control over the Self-Defence Force. He downplayed the report that senior officials in the SDF demand a bigger…
New York, Feb 23 (IANS) Soon after the disclosure by actor Charlie Sheen on TV that he was HIV-positive, there has been a surge in both news coverage of HIV and Google searches for information…
Tokyo, Feb 23 (IANS) Japan shares ended the trading Tuesday lower by erasing gains in the morning session as sentiment here brought by rising oil prices was weighed by the Japanese yen’s advance that triggered…