Rome, March 11 (IANS/AKI) The Italian police on Friday arrested 19 officials, road contractors and a lawyer amid a widening probe into alleged corruption at the state-owned road construction agency ANAS. A finance police statement…
Moscow, March 11 (IANS) The exclusion of the Syrian Kurds from the upcoming intra-Syrian reconciliation talks in Geneva will only feed separatism in the war-torn country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “A…
Taipei, March 11 (IANS) Two people were killed and another was in critical condition when a rescue helicopter with five people on board plunged into waters off New Taipei City in northern Taiwan on Friday…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Among the things Mexico can learn from India is dealing with the diaspora, the Latin American country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Claudia Ruiz-Massieu Salinas said on Friday. India has the…
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) Gunmen shot dead a senior military officer in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday in a terror attack, officials said. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility shortly after the incident….
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) The Pakistan government on Friday officially decided to send the national men’s and women’s cricket teams to India to take part in the ongoing World Twenty20 tournament. The national cricket teams…
New York, March 11 (IANS) Becoming an elder brother or sister before pre-school days can lower a child’s risk of becoming obese, researchers suggest, adding that children who didn’t have a sibling are three times…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Expressing sympathy for the affected people of Japan on the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan earthquake, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Japanese people’s resilience was…
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) The Pakistan government on Friday formally decided to send its national men’s and women’s cricket teams to India to take part in the ongoing World T20 tournament. The national cricket teams…
Tel Aviv, March 11 (IANS) Israeli police on Friday said 177 “illegal” Palestinian workers were arrested overnight, on the third day of a crackdown following a fatal terror attack. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the…
London, March 11 (IANS) Giving prescribed does of love hormone oxytocin to men suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can instill empathy and compassion in them toward women, reveals a study. The researchers hope that…
Bangkok, March 11 (IANS) Thailand’s annual Songkran water festival may run for only three days this year as the country is suffering its worst drought in two decades. According to a proposal which will be…
New York, March 11 (IANS) Light therapy — exposure to artificial light — can decrease depressive symptoms and normalise circadian rhythms among cancer survivors, finds a study. “Depressive symptoms are common among cancer survivors’ even…
London, March 11 (IANS) In a first such experiment, scientists have configured a network of brain regions involved in self-disclosure as people post about themselves on the social networking giant Facebook that currently has 1.5…
New York, March 11 (IANS) Older adults who burn calories in moderate physical activities like jogging, swimming, gardening and dancing are likely to have lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, says a study. Exercise-associated calorie-burn…
Beijing, March 11 (IANS) A Chinese teenager in Guangdong province has recovered his eyesight after receiving corneal transplant from a pig’s eye, the media reported on Friday. The operation was carried out in February at…
Toronto, March 11 (IANS) Millions of people globally take statins to help lower their cholesterol level. Canadian researchers have now developed a new approach to determine which individuals should receive such important medications to prevent…
Red data points are the observed data; most of them have elongated shapes and larger galaxies tend to have larger ellipticities. Gray-colored regions represent the probability distributions calculated with the computer simulations, in which…
Dharamsala, March 11 (IANS) A group of lawmakers from the Baltic states have urged China to resume a dialogue with the Dalai Lama’s envoys for meaningful autonomy for Tibet, according to the Central Tibetan Administration…
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) A colonel of the Pakistan Army was killed on Friday in a firing incident in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. A police official from Peshawar’s Hayatabad area said that Colonel Tariq Ghafoor, who…