Washington, Oct 6 (IANS) Among Asian countries, India continues to be the top country of birth for scientists and engineers who have made the US their destination for key research and development, latest data has revealed….
Washington, Oct 6 (IANS) As South Carolina Tuesday began a slow recovery from what its Indian-American governor Nikki Haley called a “1,000-year level of rain” President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration ordering federal aid…
London, Oct 6 (IANS) With the increasing reliance on digital systems and use of commercial “off-the-shelf” software, global civil nuclear facilities are facing growing risk of a serious cyber attack, a report released on Monday…
Washington, Oct 5 (IANS) An Indian-American couple has announced a $100 million gift to the New York University School of Engineering in what is believed to be the largest philanthropic gift by a member of…
The corporate logo of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is shown in Silver Spring, Maryland, November 4, 2009. U.S. health officials unveiled plans to fight avoidable injuries from medication errors or misuse, a…
William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu were announced the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. Credit Jonathan Nackstrand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Stockholm, Oct 5 (IANS) Irish-born William…
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) India and Germany on Monday inked 18 MoUs, including on setting up a fast-track system for German companies in India and on security cooperation, following talks here between Prime Minister…
Amritsar, Oct 3 (IANS) Over 10,000 students in this Sikh holy city on Saturday staked their claim in the Guinness World Records with the largest dance performance in one place. Organisers said the students at…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that bulk of black money was still within the country and called for a change in the attitude of people so that plastic currency…
Washington, Oct 5 (IANS) The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to below 10 percent of the global population in 2015, according to a forecast released by…
Marking a potentially huge advancement in trauma care, researchers have for the first time created self-propelled particles in the form of a powder that can stop severe bleeding in such cases as post-partum haemorrhage or…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The government will soon make it mandatory to furnish the tax department-allotted Permanent Account Number (PAN) details for cash transactions beyond a certain threshold, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on…
London, Oct 4 (IANS): If you are married and find that the interest in sex is on the decline, don’t be surprised. According to a new study, frequent arguments and domestic fights — and not…
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Indrani Mukerjea, one of the three prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case who was admitted to a hospital here in an unconscious state on Friday, has regained consciousness and…
Apollo Hospitals will open four more hospitals in four to five months, taking its total bed strength to over 10,000, Apollo Hospitals chairman C. Prathap Reddy said on Saturday. The hospitals at Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam, Mumbai…
Mumbai, Oct 3 Indrani Mukerjea – one of the three prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case – who was admitted to a hospital here in an unconscious state on Friday, has lapsed into…
SYDNEY: What if you can pop an “exercise” pill daily which mimics the health benefits of running, weight training or endurance exercise to keep you fit and disease-free? It does not seem a far-fetched idea…
Gun violence in America has claimed hundred times more lives than Americans killed through terrorist attacks in a decade, yet the country refuses to pass tough gun laws in the face of a powerful gun…
One of the three prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder, Indrani Mukerjea was rushed to a hospital here in an unconscious state on Friday afternoon, officials said. She was rushed there after she complained…
India’s pledge on Friday to reduce carbon emissions up to 35 percent by 2030 has evoked wide appreciation, with some terming this as “aggressive” and “superior” to the ones proposed by the developed nations. As…