New Delhi/Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said he was detained at a US airport following which a senior US diplomat of Indian origin apologised. “I fully understand and respect security with the way the world is, but to be detained at US immigration every damn time really really sucks,” Shah Rukh said in a […]

New Delhi, Aug 12: Yesterday’s billionaires are India’s most defaulting billionaires today, said journalist Josy Joseph while releasing his book ‘A Feast of Vultures – The Hidden Business of Democracy in India’ here on Thursday. “Defaulters of the 1990s, when I started reporting, are today’s most defaulting billionaires. I am sure today’s defaulters will be […]

New York: US tech giant Apple is planning to revamp its entire MacBook Pro line this year, with a new design and a number of new features, a media report said. The company is working on a new programmable strip of OLED-based function keys that can be switched to perform different functions depending on which […]

Toronto: Climate change is likely to pose a huge challenge to the survival of the world’s primate populations, including monkeys, apes, and lemurs, especially in Central America, the Amazon, and southeastern Brazil, as well as portions of East and Southeast Asia, says a study. “Our research shows that climate change may be one of the […]

Washington: In a significant find, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has discovered deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn’s largest moon Titan that are flooded with liquid methane. The finding represents the first direct evidence of the presence of liquid-filled channels on Titan and could give scientists insights into its origins and similar geologic processes on the Earth. The […]

Kolkata: Aimed at easing access to silk-related web resources, a portal on sericulture designed by Indian researchers comes with a built-in search engine to enable quick and accurate data mining and also seeks to protect indigenous knowledge on the subject. Developed by researchers at Bioengineering Research Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, the portal is called […]

London: Chemotherapy treatment undertaken by women during their pregnancy may negatively affect their unborn baby girls’ fertility in later adulthood, warns a study. The findings showed that a drug called etoposide can damage the development of mouse ovary tissue grown in the lab. Etoposide is used to treat several types of cancer and is considered […]

London: Women who undergo a premature delivery have a higher content of macronutrients such as protein, fat and carbohydrates in their milk than women who give birth after week 37, according to a new study. The milk partly compensates because the baby is not fully developed and also protects the infant by ensuring healthy colonisation […]

Raigad (Maharashtra): Indian Navy divers have found the wreckage of the two ill-fated State Transport buses which were washed away on August 3 when a bridge on raging Savitri river in Mahad collapsed due to floods, an official said here on Thursday. “After a long search and working for 12-14 hours daily for the last […]

Thiruvananthapuram: A Romanian man involved in stealing customers’ money through electronic tampering of a State Bank of India ATM here is being brought back from Mumbai, where he was arrested. A four-member Kerala Police team is returning here on Thursday evening with Gabriel Marian in custody. Marian has reportedly admitted to committing the crime, police […]