New York, July 14 (IANS) Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that a new class of oral drugs for treating breast cancer are generally well-tolerated with a manageable toxicity profile for most patients. The…
London, July 14 (IANS) Oscar winning composer A.R. Rahman got slammed over social media after some of his fans reportedly walked out of his concert at Wembley Stadium because many of the songs he sang…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Ajit Jain, a Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology alumnus and President of Berkshire Hathaway Insurance group, has donated stocks of the company to IITKGP USA Foundation for his alma mater, the…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul in 2014 are yet to be located although the Iraqi city has been liberated from the Islamic State, a senior official said…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The Indian Consulate in Jeddah is making arrangements to bring back the bodies of 11 Indian workers killed in a fire in a house in Saudi Arabia’s Najran city, the…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Of the 11 Indians killed in a fire in a Saudi Arabian city on Wednesday, four were from Uttar Pradesh, three from Kerala and one each from Bihar and Tamil…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) At least 10 Indians were among 11 people killed in a fire that broke out in a Saudi Arabian city on Wednesday as India’s Jeddah Consulate officials rushed to the…
London, July 12 (IANS) An Indian-origin boy with an allergy to dairy products has died after suffering a severe reaction to a piece of cheese allegedly forced on him in his school, prompting an investigation…
Vijayawada, July 12 (IANS) An Indian-American doctor couple, hailing from Andhra Pradesh, was killed when their private plane crashed in the US state of Ohio. According to information reaching their home town Machilipatnam, Umamaheswara Kalapatapu,…
Washington, July 11 (IANS) The US Senate has voted to confirm Indian American lawyer Neomi Rao as the head of Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)….
Washington, July 11 (IANS) An Indian citizen in the US has pleaded guilty to funnelling thousands of dollars to an Al Qaeda leader in Yemen and trying to orchestrate the killing of a judge, federal…
New York, July 11 (IANS) A drug already in use to treat malaria and certain autoimmune diseases in pregnant women has shown promise in reducing transmission of Zika virus from mothers to their foetuses, according…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) With Mosul liberated from the Islamic State, India has activated various channels to locate the 39 Indians who were abducted by the terror group from the Iraqi city three years…
Chandigarh, July 10 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday assured Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh that her ministry was making all-out efforts to trace and facilitate the return of the 39 Indians, mostly…
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) From Hasan Minhaj and Aziz Ansari to Kal Penn and Russell Peters, many Indian-origin comics pick up their immigration tales as well as “desi” stories for their…
London, July 8 (IANS) India, along with China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia, accounted for over 16 million or half of the global estimated cases of a fatal lung infection called Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in…
Toronto, July 7 (IANS) One hundred and fifty Canadian dancers and dholis will participate in DANCE 150, a unifying celebration for Canada 150 in the heart of the City of Mississauga on Sunday, July 9….
Tel Aviv, July 6 (IANS) In the last engagement of his historic visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met a group of Indian students pursuing higher studies in Israel. “It was great to meet…
New York, July 6 (IANS) At a time when computer chips’ ability to process a glut of data is slowing, researchers, including one of Indian origin, have developed a three dimensional (3-D) chip to tackle…
Washington, July 6 (IANS) In a major leap ahead to life beyond chargers, cords and dying phones, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have invented a cellphone that works without batteries. Instead, the phone harvests the…