7 Pakistani LIES about the 1965 War

Why did Pakistan sign a cease-fire without acquiring Kashmir, which was the sole purpose of the 1965 War, asks Ahmad Faruqui.   Fifty-five years have come and gone since the war was fought.......

COVID-19 vaccine at least a year away, say scientists

Vaccine design is still an empirical, trial and error process and a preventive against COVID-19 could be at least a year away, say scientists as information on developments in therapeutics to......

National Geographic reveals travel photograph of the year

Are you really fond of travel? Then these next 12 images will surely make you lose your mind. National Geographic just announced the winners of its 2016 Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.......

Robot crime fighters: Is the future already here?

As the gunfire stopped at a parking garage in downtown Dallas, where five police officers were killed and seven others injured in "ambush style" firing during a protest against the fatal police......

How sunflowers may help India meet solar energy target

Pallava Bagla explains the connection between the sunflower mystery and the 'rotatable solar trees' India plans to develop. One of the oldest scientific mysteries of the plant world as to what......

Fix age and wage issues before raising H-1B cap, argues visa's critic

Norman Matloff, professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis, believes that the US has enough highly skilled engineers and raising the cap on H-1B would hamper the wages of......

New tool to pinpoint oil reserves developed

Scientists have developed a new tool that can precisely pinpoint where petroleum and gas reserves have accumulated. The tool is a new index that provides a better understanding of how oil......

Engineered bacteria make fuel from sunlight

In a bid to find a substitute to fossil fuels as raw material for the chemical industry, scientists have engineered bacteria, which could help grow chemical precursors for fuels and plastics."Most......

AT&T ends sponsorship of scandal-hit Tiger Woods

AT&T Inc said on Thursday it isterminating its sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods, joining the list of companies that have distanced themselves from the top golfer in the wake of a sex scandal.......

Woods scandal cost shareholders up to $12 billion

The sex scandal that engulfed Tiger Woods may have cost shareholders of companies endorsed by the world's No. 1 golfer up to $12 billion (7.5 billion pounds) in losses, according to a study by two......

Earnhardt discharged from hospital

NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. has left a California hospital after treatment for second-degree burns suffered when his car burst into flames during a practice run for a race.Earnhardt left the......

'I don't think I have a weakness'

He is of impeccable pedigree. Prakash Amritraj, son of Indian tennis legend Vijay Amritraj, is around six feet and cuts a muscular figure as he confidently stalks the tennis court. He was the......