By Rachel V. Thomas New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Banning e-cigarettes may deprive Indian smokers of a substantially less harmful alternative, which can be against public health and can result in adverse consequences, experts have…
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) US tennis star Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl at a clinic in Florida, the media reported. Williams, 35, whose partner is Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, 34, was…
San Francisco, Sep 2 (IANS) Black smoke was seen billowing out of a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco, just hours ahead of its closure, the media reported. A Russian official told CNN…
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) The founder and CEO of Dell electronics has pledged to donate $36 million towards hurricane Harvey relief efforts, the largest aid till date, the media reported. Michael Dell and and his…
Havana, Sep 2 (IANS) US airline JetBlue has opened an office in Cuba, exactly a year and a day after the company in 2016 resumed commercial air service between Havana and Washington. “Our customers will…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Cataract is the single-largest factor for blindness in India, accounting for nearly 63 per cent of the total burden of vision impairment in the country, said an expert here on…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) After creating waves in US literary circles, the provocative memoir of Sujatha Gidla which details her memories of growing up as an “untouchable” in India, is all set to hit…
Phnom Penh, Sep 1 (IANS) Revenue from ticket sales for Cambodia’s Angkor Wat archeological park reached $69.2 million in the first eight months of 2017 — up 69.8 per cent compared to the like period…
Agra, Sep 1 (IANS) Noted Mughal historian R. Nath has challenged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s reported statement that the 17th century Taj Mahal was not a part of Indian culture. Nath told IANS…
London, Sep 1 (IANS) At least 8,500 people have died or disappeared while attempting to cross the Mediterranean since 2015, latest UN figures revealed on Friday. According to the figures released by the UN Refugee…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) India is one of the countries that recognises transgender people as a third gender, and Miss Transsexual Australia 2017 Laeticia Phylliscia Raveena feels if it continues to…
Mumbai, Sep 1 (IANS) An elderly Indian passenger died of a cardiac arrest while travelling from Frankfurt to Mumbai aboard a Lufthansa flight, official sources said here on Friday. The passenger, identified as Charanjit Singh…
By Saket Suman Thimphu (Bhutan), Sep 1 (IANS) Twenty years ago she was a chartered financial accountant in a fund management company in Hong Kong — and before that in New York and London –…
By Nury Vittachi I don’t always Google my cold symptoms but when I do I have the Black Death, pregnancy and a disease only horses get. This is not actually that surprising. I’ve had every…
By Arul Louis New York, Sep 1 (IANS) Sikh campaigners who ran a $1.5 million TV campaign has said that it helped in increasing Americans’ understanding of the community even though the US is in…
Mumbai, Aug 31 (IANS) Only days after actor Ajay Devgn left the sets of “The Kapil Sharma Show” as Kapil Sharma had not arrived, Sony Entertainment Channel on Thursday announced a “short break” with the…
Kolkata, Aug 31 (IANS) The two children of Ishrat Jahan, one of the five petitioners to the Supreme Court who challenged the triple talaq practice, went “missing” on Thursday morning but were found by police…
Makkah (Saudi Arabia), Aug 31 (IANS) Nearly two million Muslims from around the world have gathered here in an effort “to renew their sense of purpose in life, erase past sins and beg God for…
Patna, Aug 31 (IANS) India and the world cannot meet their cleanliness goals unless four Indian states — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha — become free of open defecation, Delhi-based Centre for Science and…
London, Aug 31 (IANS) Britain on Thursday observed Princess Diana’s 20th death anniversary. Dubbed the “people’s princess” by then Prime Minister Tony Blair, Diana died after a car crash in Paris with her boyfriend Dodi…