New York, April 29 (IANS) Retweeting or sharing information on the micro-blogging site can actually make things worse for you as it creates a cognitive overload that interferes with learning and retaining what you’ve just…
Bengaluru, April 29 (IANS) Software major Infosys has developed a knowledge-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform to drive automation and innovation for its global clients. “The platform Mana brings machine learning with knowledge of an organisation…
London, April 29 (IANS) Are you finding it difficult to remember things? If yes, drink peppermint tea, as according to a new study, it can improve long-term and working memory in healthy adults. For the…
By Shobhit Mathur & Nomesh Bolia After spending about Rs.3.5 lakh crore ($51 billion) – almost equal to Indias subsidy and pensions budget for 2015-16 – over 10 years on the worlds largest rural jobs…
New York, April 29 (IANS) Opening the door for new treatment for Type-2 diabetes in men, researchers have discovered the mechanism that put males with low testosterone at greater risk of developing the debilitating disease….
By Vikas Datta Title: Environmental Politics – A Very Short Introduction; Author: Andrew Dobson ; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 152; Price: Rs.225 Global warming and COP-21, or specifically at home in India, the ‘odd-even’…
Pyongyang, April 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court of North Korea on Friday sentenced South Korean man with American citizenship to 10 years of hard labour for espionage after he reportedly confessed to spying. Kim Dong-chul,…
How strong is the opposite attraction? Here is a tale of two extreme people from different professional world meeting – and love blossoms; a story of two childhood sweethearts living in Trinidad who fall apart…
Sydney, April 29 (IANS) One person was killed and two others were injured on Friday during a shooting outside a shopping centre in Australia’s Sydney city. The incident took place at the parking lot car…
Washington, April 29 (IANS) Inspired by NASA research on inflated anti-gravity suit or G-suit, “miracle suits” are helping new mothers survive blood loss after birth in developing countries, including India. California-based Zoex Corporation was the…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 21.7 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said….
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 29 (IANS) A cautious fiscal policy and lower inflation coupled with reforms in some areas are putting India on its trajectory to hit a 7.8 percent growth rate, according…
Mumbai, April 29 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), on Friday was trading 54.58 points or 0.21 percent lower during the morning session. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, April 29 (IANS) The common man in India has to wait for some more time to use the “Indian GPS’ as the Indian navigation system has to be formally declared operational…
Moscow, April 29 (IANS) Russia has become the world leader in wheat export, surpassing the US and Canada. “Russia supplies about 25 million tons of wheat on the external market by the end of the…
(160323) — BERLIN, March 23, 2016 (Xinhua) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference on the blasts in Brussels at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, March 22, 2016. (Xinhua/Zhang Fan) (wyl) Berlin,…
Beijing, April 29 (IANS) Chinese stocks opened lower on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.35 percent to open at 2,935.38 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.38 percent lower at 10,111.61 points,…
Beijing, April 29 (IANS) Chinese stocks opened lower on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.35 percent to open at 2,935.38 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.38 percent lower at 10,111.61 points,…
Port Vila, April 29 (IANS) A magnitude 7 earthquake struck the north of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu on Friday. The US Geological Survey located the epicentre of the quake at a shallow depth…
New York, April 29 (IANS) US stocks closed sharply lower as Wall Street was weighed by the decision of Bank of Japan to maintain its monetary policy amid the newly-released US data. The Dow Jones…