Beijing, March 31 (IANS) The China-India Yoga College has drawn thousands since it opened in November last year in Kunming in China’s Yunnan province. Based in the Yunnan Minzu (Nationalities) University, the country’s first yoga…
Washington, March 31 (IANS) Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Arun Agarwal, CEO of Nextt, the Dallas-based leader in the US home textile industry, to the Product Development and Small Business Incubator (PDSBI) Board. The…
London, March 31 (IANS) Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers that also includes an Indian-origin scientist has for the first time obtained the most detailed fingerprint of a super-Earth…
Brussels, March 31 (IANS) India has not bent before terrorism and will never do so, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said to a euphoric Indian community gathering here, while offering deepest condolences for the March 22…
Brussels: Board Members of the Association of Diamond Traders including Indian origin traders, call on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Brussels, Belgium on March 30, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Brussels, March 30 (IANS) A delegation…
Accra, March 30 (IANS) Ghanas premier higher institution, the University of Ghana has awarded an Indian-origin businessman Ramchand Mohinani with an honorary doctorate degree at a special congregation for his achievement in business in the…
New York, March 30 (IANS) Drinking a high carbohydrate shake can have an acute and detrimental effect on heart function, scientists, including an Indian-origin researcher, have found. Researchers studied 33 individuals who were given an…
By Kavita Bajeli-Datt New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Eight days after a horrific terror attack in Belgium left 34 people dead, an Indian working at the Brussels airport says the country is yet to recover…
Chennai, March 29 (IANS) The body of Infosys employee Raghavendran Ganesan who died in the terrorist attack in Brussels last week arrived here on Tuesday. The body was taken to his relatives house in a…
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday led a panel discussion on delivering consular services to Indians abroad as part of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD). “Brainstorming diaspora engagement. EAM…
New York, March 29 (IANS) Using a nanoparticle that delivers a drug and then glows green when cancer cells begin dying, Indian origin researchers have found a way to detect the effectiveness of cancer treatment…
New York, March 29 (IANS) Many bloodlines around the world, particularly of south Asian descent, may actually be a bit more Denisovan — a mysterious population of hominids that lived around the same time as…
By Rachel V. Thomas New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) Echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to bridge the “digital divide” in the country, a young Indian-American student has begun on her journey to empower rural…
Thane (Maharashtra), March 29 (IANS) The body of the Infosys employee, who was killed in the Brussels attacks, will be taken to Chennai on Tuesday, officials said. Infosys employee, Raghavendran Ganeshan, was killed while travelling…
Cape Town, March 29 (IANS) South African parliament can not conduct investigations into the alleged “state capture” by the Indian Gupta family, Moloto Mothapo, parliamentary spokesperson said on Monday. The allegations of “state capture” by…
By Arun Kumar Washington, March 28 (IANS) Mixing business with pleasure, Sanjay Govil bought an Indian badminton team, The Delhi Acers, which ended up being crowned the champion of India’s Premier Badminton League. Now the…
Cape Town, March 28 (IANS) The National Assembly should investigate “patterns of state capture” by the Indian Gupta family, South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. The DA made the appeal after Jackson Mthembu,…
New York, March 27 (IANS) Pregnant women with higher blood levels of a common plastic chemical used in the coatings of food containers are more likely to deliver their babies early compared with women with…
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 26 (IANS) A nurse hailing from Kerala and her infant son were killed in a shell attack at their residence in Libya on Friday,…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 26 (IANS) The Vatican and the FBI are among those working hard to rescue Catholic priest Tom Uzhunnallil from Kerala who is currently in the custody of the Islamic State terrorist group in…