Police fire tear gas, water cannon to break up farmers’ protest
New Delhi: Police on Tuesday fired teargas and water cannons to halt and scatter a march by thousands of protesting farmers heading ...
Physics Nobel for laser pioneers
Stockholm: A trio of American, French and Canadian scientists won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for breakthroughs in ...
WHO plays down risk to Indian children from tainted polio vaccine
Mumbai: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that there was minimal risk of children contracting the polio virus in ...
Scientists behind cancer immuno therapies win Nobel medicine prize
Stochholm: American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday for ...
Half of women at risk of dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke: study
Nearly half of women and one in three men are at risk of developing stroke or degenerative neurological diseases such as dementia and ...
UN report confronts nations with tough choices on climate
The world’s nations will gather at a UN conference in South Korea on Monday to review and approve a 20-page bombshell — ...
Mass burials to begin as Indonesia toll jumps to 832
The death toll from Indonesia’s quake and tsunami disaster nearly doubled to 832 Sunday and was expected to rise further, ...
Congress cries foul over IL&FS bailout
The Congress on Saturday accused the Centre of putting pressure on the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and the State Bank of ...
Education must be connected with social cause to achieve developed society: P Javadekar
New Delhi, Sep 30: Education must be connected with a social cause to achieve a developed society, Minister for Human Resource ...
Environment-related challenges getting deeper: Rajnath
Abu Road (Raj), Sep 30: Union minister Rajnath Singh Saturday expressed concern over man-made threats to environment, saying ...