Life has come full circle for Nobel laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, who faced persecution during Sheikh Hasina's regime for embezzlement, is now all set to head of the interim government in......
Before the crucial United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December, India is strengthening its argument to avoid any rigorous capping on its carbon emissions. Here,......
The World Health Organisation on Monday (local time) temporarily suspended the clinical trial of malarial drug hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of coronavirus. THE WAR AGAINST COVID-19......
A consignment of hydroxychloroquine from India has arrived in the United States, days after New Delhi lifted a ban on export of the anti-malarial drug, seen as a possible cure for COVID-19, to......
A three-year-old American toddler miraculously escaped death after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a gun. The toddler shot himself after his aunt left a loaded firearm on a bathroom......
For Ashok Upadhyay, a taxi driver from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, who makes his living in Mumbai, there are concerns more pressing than the Budget. Namely, he says, prices for even basic......
Scientists have designed a novel super-capacitor that could help develop cell phones that recharge themselves in seconds and work for weeks. The super-capacitor designed by material scientists at......
Foreign pension funds are making a beeline for India despite the turmoil in global markets. More than 40 such funds (endowments and university and family foundations) have registered with the......
Carnegie Mellon University has named Dr Pradeep K Khosla as the new Dean to lead its College of Engineering.Khosla, 47, is an internationally renowned Indian American researcher and educator, an......
Almost a decade ago, when B-movie maestro Sam Raimi took fresh-faced arthouse actor Tobey Maguire and cast him as Spider-Man, most of the world was bewildered. Legal disputes had ensured that a......