A day after the BJP’s massive victory, all eyes are set on government formation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to meet his cabinet today evening (May 24).
While there is no official word on the exact date of PM Modi's second oath-taking, various reports suggested it wil...
Three people, including 2 Indians have died on Mount Everest due to ‘traffic jam’, expedition organisers and officials said on Friday, taking the toll to seven.
Nihal Bagwan and Kalpana Das died while descending from heavily traversed Nepal side, ...
A day after BJP's stellar performance, party's chief strategist from the Northeast and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is riding high on the latest electoral success in the region. The BJP bagged 14 of the 25 Parliamentary constituencies in the No...
The Meghalaya High Court has overruled the controversial judgment of Justice SR Sen which had stated that India should have been declared a Hindu country during Partition, the Bar and Bench reported.
A division bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Yaqo...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (May 24) expressed anguish over the fire tragedy at a commercial complex in Gujarat's Surat in which several students attending a coaching class lost their lives and many others were trapped. He also asked the G...
Be it a cyclone or a tsunami-like ‘Modi wave’, Odisha’s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik knows how to dodge it in time. Despite the resurgence of the BJP in the state, which has not only replaced the Congress as the Opposition in the Assembly, but also ...
A day after the BJP’s massive victory, all eyes are set on government formation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to meet his cabinet today evening (May 24).
While there is no official word on ...
A day after the Lok Sabha election results were announced, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and his deputy G Parameshwara expressed confidence that there was no threat immediate to the coalitio...
Chennai: In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came back to power with a thumping majority, but it wasn't a cakewalk in all the constituencies. The saffron party successfully increa...
The Union health ministry has advised states and union territories to hold screening sessions in school and college campuses for mental health and non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and blood pressure at regular intervals.
The ai...
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed universities and higher educational institutions to submit data on the number of sexual harassment complaints received by them and its status.
The commission has also sought a report on the ...
London: Antarctica's ice sheet has thinned by up to 122 metres in places, with the most rapid changes occurring in West Antarctica where ocean melting has triggered glacier imbalance, scientists say.
The UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling ...
Scientists have trained an artificial intelligence (AI) system to see things the way humans do, by inferring an environment with just a few quick glimpses around, that may pave the way for more effective search-and-rescue robots.
Most AI tool...
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning to introduce some 'creative' changes in the Class 10 examination pattern by decreasing the number of objective questions, from the current academic year.
Why is this being done?
T...
Washington: Scientists have identified an enzyme that helps some bacteria remove methane from the environment and convert it into a usable fuel — paving the way for a creating a novel, sustainable source of energy.
Known for their ability to methanotroph...
Jammu: The University of Jammu has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Armys High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) for undertaking research and training, a university official said on Monday (May 6).
The MoU was signed by Manoj Dhar, vice...
Guwahati: A total of 92 mistakes have cropped up in the answer keys of 21 of the 22 subjects of the Assam Civil Services examination, forcing the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) to declare the results twice.
Due to this anomaly, the APSC said on...
Geneva: Faced with a global resurgence of measles, health experts called on Tuesday (May 21) for countries to step up the fight against vaccine resistance, warning the movement was spreading like a contagious disease.
World Health Orga...
New York: Stem cells derived from the placenta can regenerate healthy heart cells after an attack, according to study conducted in animal models.
The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNA...
New Delhi: In a first, the Union Health ministry is planning to offer peritoneal dialysis facility to kidney patients at their homes under the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PMNDP).
The programme was launched in 2016 to provi...
Drinking coffee helps keep the bowels moving by suppressing the growth of gut bacteria and improving the ability of the intestines to contract, according to a study.
Researchers fed rats coffee and also mixed it with gut bacter...
Many men continue to abuse steroids to achieve muscular bodies despite knowing that the drug have potentially lethal side effects, a study has found.
Anabolic steroids such as testosterone are performance-enhancing hormones that increase muscle mass and boost athletic ability, which has led to their misuse and abuse by some, and men in particular.
However, the use of steroids has some life-limiting and serious side effects including re...
Three people, including 2 Indians have died on Mount Everest due to ‘traffic jam’, expedition organisers and officials said on Friday, taking the toll to seven.
Nihal Bagwan and...
London: Theresa May on Friday (May 24) announced that she is quitting as UK Conservative leader on June 7, sparking a contest for Britain's new Prime Minister.
She stepped down after fa...
Los Angeles: Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke says she had liked the script of Fifty Shades of Grey when it was pitched to her but eventually declined the project because she did not want to ...
Los Angeles: Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has defended the lack of scenes of Margot Robbie, who is essaying the role of the late actor Sharon Tate in his upcoming directorial Once Upon a Time in...
