Amitabh Bachchan visits Amar Singh at AIIMS

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his daughter Shweta Nanda on Sunday visited Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where he is......

Bean sprouts: The source of the E coli epidemic

Health officials in Germany claimed to have finally solved the mystery behind the source of the worst E coli epidemic in more than 60 years, which so far has claimed 31 lives. The Federal......

Indian American develops food sensor

If Americans can eat spinach and other food and vegetables again without fearing that Escherichia coli will strike them down, the credit should go to an Indian-American scientist at Drexel......

How chocolate creates electricity

If you thought that chocolates only had thepower to tantalise your taste buds, think again, as microbiologist Lynne Mackaskie and her colleagues at the University of Birmingham in the UK have......

Ranbaxy gets USFDA nod for new drug

Ranbaxy Laboratories on Friday said it had received approval from US Food and Drug Administration to manufacture and market nitrofurantoin monohydrate macrocrystals capsules (100 mg) and planned to......

River Seine's suitability questioned for Paris games

IMAGE: The Eiffel Tower is seen from the water of the Seine River as the Olympics opening ceremony rehearsal is postponed amid rainy weather. Photograph: Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters The River......