Chandigarh, Sep 7 (IANS) A young braveheart from Kerala, Sifiya Haneef, was conferred with the Neerja Bhanot Award in a solemn ceremony here on Saturday. The award was presented to her by Wendy Sue Knecht,…
Tokyo, Sep 7 (IANS) Researchers have found that consuming mushrooms three times a week cuts the risk of developing prostate cancer in males. The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, found an inverse…
By Sandeep Puranik Bilaspur, Sep 7 (IANS) Old age may be synonymous with frailty, diseases, loneliness and dependability as a majority of the senior citizens often find it difficult to cope with even the daily…
New York, Sep 7 (IANS) Women who experienced six or more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in life have a greater risk of developing ovarian cancer compared to women who never…
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 7 (IANS) The people of Kerala are in a holiday mood and enjoying a long weekend as the state festival Onam has arrived. State government employees have to return to their offices only…
Samastipur, Sep 7 (IANS) Amid government push to increase the dwindling green cover in the country, Bihar’s Harpur Bochaha village is standout example of how community participation can change things for the better. Once devastated…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Twitterati on Saturday came hard on trolls coming from Pakistan after communication with the Vikram lander was lost while it was descending to the moon’s South Pole. Announcing loss of…
Harare, Sep 7 (IANS) Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday declared the late founding leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, a national hero. Mugabe, 95, died Friday morning in Singapore where he had been receiving medical…
Ranchi, Sep 6 (IANS) Thousands of blindfolded school children on Friday under guidelines of guides ran over one and half kilometers at Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium, Khelgaon in Ranchi, reminding the world what the visually…
Hyderabad, Sep 6 (IANS) With shortage of urea causing distress among Telangana farmers, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday directed authorities to deploy special trains and trucks to make one lakh tonne urea available…
Jaipur, Sep 6 (IANS) A silly mistake by a courier company has left the family members of a deceased shocked as they received an unidentified body in the coffin while waiting to perform the last…
New York, Sep 6 (IANS) Researchers have found that taking hot yoga classes lowered the blood pressure of adults with elevated or stage 1 hypertension. While there is evidence of regular, room-temperature yoga’s positive effect…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Setting up a platform for educating the masses, specially kids at a younger age, about the pride community, a prominent FM channel has launched a brand new initiative – ‘Pride…
By Zaffar Iqbal Srinagar, Sep 6 (IANS) Nazir Ahmad, a resident of Hawal area in Srinagar, slashed the guest list from 450 to just 100 for the marriage ceremony of his government employee son Asif…
By Manoj Pathak Purnia, Sep 6 (IANS) Bholanath Alok lives by the adage, “true love never dies”. With just one last wish. That his wife Padma accompany him on his final journey from this world….
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Mother Diary has hiked the price of cow milk by Rs 2 per litre from Friday in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). The cow milk variant will now…
Tokyo, Sep 6 (IANS) The Japanese government on Friday decided to follow the family-name-first order when using the Roman alphabet to write names in official documents, in a break from the long tradition of reversing…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Protein shakes have long been touted as a gym bag essential, consumed by gym-goers in an effort to boost muscle recovery and minimise post-workout muscle soreness, but they may not…
New York, Sep 6 (IANS) Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that bots or fake accounts enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) on social media have evolved and are now able to copy human behaviour…
Chennai, Sep 6 (IANS) The classmates of M. Vanitha, Project Director of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, are planning to hold a felicitation function here sometime this year to honour her. “We would like to hold a…