Flood submerges 30 Bihar districts, 45 lakh hit in two phases of deluge

The flood situation remained grim in Bihar on Friday though the water level has come down in several rivers, while a section of the affected people put up a road blockade in Muzaffarpur district......

Nipah Death Puts Kerala On Alert

The scare of communicable diseases seems to be gripping the country with Maharashtra reporting 28 Zika cases this year, the highest since 2021. IMAGE: A patient, who according to medics is......

15 dead, many hospitalised as north India reels under punishing heatwave

Swathes of northern and eastern India remained in the grip of a punishingly long heatwave on Wednesday, increasing heat stroke casualties and prompting the Centre to issue advisory to hospitals to......

133 dead in Russia terror attack; 4 gunmen among 11 arrested

At least 133 people were killed after a group of armed men in combat fatigues stormed into a concert hall in Moscow and unleashed gunfire and detonated explosives among the crowd on Friday (local......

Engineering R&D to be $42 bn mkt in India by 2020

The engineering R&D services market is expected to be on a roll with increasing interest by the global companies to set up their captive R&D centre in the country. According to a recent study by......

N India lags southern, western regions in literacy

If you have ever wondered why foreign universities are striking most of their alliances with institutions in the southern and western regions rather than north India, a new CII-KPMG study may shed......

US: $1.2 bn grant for electronic health records

As the Obama administration works to garner support for healthcare reform, about $1.2 billion in grants were announced on Friday to help hospitals and healthcare providers implement and use......

What the health sector wants from the Budget

Health sector in India has seen some of the most dramatic growth stories in past decade. Ranging from improved health care facilities to low cost treatment, the success of the health sector has......

Football's 'Eternal great' Pele passes away

'God gave me this ability for one reason: To make people happy.' IMAGE: Pele had been undergoing chemotherapy on a regular basis since he had a tumor removed from his colon in September 2021........