London, Jan 9 (IANS) While the propensity to take physical, social, legal or financial risks generally decreases with age, in countries with great poverty and difficult living conditions, risk-taking remains high even in old age,…
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) Linking poverty with obesity, a new study has found that children and adolescents from low-income families are more likely to be obese than their higher income peers. Fewer resources like…
Sydney, Jan 9 (IANS) Treatment with a hormone that plays an important role in labour and breast-feeding can improve the behaviour of mothers suffering from postnatal depression, a common disorder affecting 10 to 20 percent…
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) An associate professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University has designed a device that can capture and retrieve rogue drones. Mo Rastgaar designed a drone catcher that can chase,…
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) For those who are curious about how life began on Earth, all it took was one random mutation more than 600 million years ago to start multicellular life on our…
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) The presence of a harmless bacterium found in the nose and on the skin may negatively impact the growth of a pathogen that commonly causes middle ear infections in children…
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) An Indian-American professor has devised a new method to characterise dark matter that can help hunt for the mysterious space phenomenon. Sukanya Chakrabarti, an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of…
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) Far from increasing the vulnerability of wildlife to predators, ecotourism actually helps conservation efforts, researchers say. “There have been some claims that have drawn media attention, saying that nature tourism…
Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) Indian diaspora/NRI students will be offered 60 paid short-term internship positions in 23 Indian companies in major Indian cities during the summer of 2016 under a public-private partnership. The Overseas Indian…
Mumbai, Jan 9 (IANS) A college girl who fell into the swirling Arabian Sea while clicking a selfie off a rocky beach here on Saturday was untraced as well as a youth who plunged into…
Patna, Jan 9 (IANS) A rape victim in Bihar has asked President Pranab Mukherjee for permission for mercy killing, saying she has been denied justice for nearly three months, police said on Saturday. The woman…
Pathankot: Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits different areas of Pathankot Airbase, on Jan 9, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Pathankot, Jan 9 (IANS) Brushing aside criticism over the handling of the counter-offensive againt the terrorist attack on…
Patna, Jan 9 (IANS) Jailed gangster Santosh Jha’s sister Munni Devi and her husband Sanjay Lal Dev were on Saturday arrested in Bihar’s Darbhanga district in connection with the killing of two engineers of a…
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) A suspected jewellery thief was arrested in a village in Massachusetts after police found him wearing the same ‘selfie’ hat that he wore during a robbery. Police arrested James Anderson,…
Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) A Philadelphia police officer was shot and seriously injured by an assailant who said he had acted in the name of Islam, authorities said. Edward Archer, 30, was arrested soon after…
Pathankot: Security beefed up at Pathankot Air force base during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi days after terrorists attack, in Pathankot, on Jan. 9, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Ten…
Agartala, Jan 6 (IANS) The Tripura Police is likely to approach Interpol to probe the fake Facebook account opened in the name of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, an official said here on Saturday. This is…
Mumbai, Jan 9 (IANS) The police here force-fed four dozen bananas to a chain-snatcher to recover a stolen gold chain he had swallowed to escape public wrath, an officer said here on Saturday. The incident…
Mumbai: Actor Amitabh Bachchan during the press conference for the promotion of film Wazir, in Mumbai on January 3, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Jan 9 (IANS) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who was injured while shooting for…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) Pathankot (Punjab), Jan 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Saturday briefed by senior defence and security officers about the terrorist attack, carried out by suspected Pakistani…