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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

MP Board Ruk Jana Nahi Class 10 Results 2016 has been declared on the official website www.mpsos.nic.in MP Board Ruk Jana Nahi Class 10 Results 2016 have been declared on the official website www.mpsos.nic.in by the Madhya Pradesh Open School Education Board. Many students are being eagerly waiting for the results to be announced. The MP […]

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against India’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for setting up solar power plants. Yet, there are ways to meet DCR in a way that it does not violate the multilateral trading norms. To backtrack a bit, the national solar target was revised to an ambitious 100 GW in 2015, […]

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 […]