Changes in cell chemistry from blue light exposure observed in fruit flies could also potentially cause detrimental effects on our body, including accelerated aging. Too much screen use has been linked to obesity and psychological problems. Now a new study has identified a new problem – a study in fruit flies suggests our basic cellular functions could be impacted by ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, a friend of India who visited twice in the mid-1980s, died on Tuesday aged 91 after a prolonged illness. He was the last Soviet president who ended the Cold War without bloodshed though could not prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Mikhail Gorbachev passed away tonight after a serious and protracted disease,” said Russia’s Central Clinical Hospital. ...

Ghulam Nabi Azad dashed off his resignation letter not without blaming everything on 8 years of Rahul Gandhi’s leadership of Congress under whom he said proxies and puppets are propped up for the party president’s post. Azad alleged that the senior leaders were abused, humiliated, insulted and vilified in a specially summoned meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee meeting ...

Although people have decorated their bodies for millennia with tattoo images as a form of self-expression but the inks used remained unregulated, resulting in products whose components are largely a mystery. Now, researchers have analyzed almost 100 inks and report that even when these products include an ingredient label, the lists often aren’t accurate. The team also detected small particles ...

The popular Galileo manuscript at the University of Michigan Library was found to be a forgery, as per an investigation by the University authorities, after a historian flagged it. Based on the watermarks, they realized that it was no more than a century old and not from 1609 as claimed. “It was pretty gut-wrenching when we first learned our Galileo ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) is entering all office systems, nearly 50 per cent of recruiters believe that it will become a regular part of their hiring process in the coming years, said a report by chat-based direct hiring platform Hirect. A whopping 96.5 per cent of recruiters at Indian startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India believe that ...

Even though they often enhance happiness, acts of kindness such as giving a friend a ride or bringing food for a sick family member can be somewhat rare because people underestimate how good these actions make recipients feel, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin. The study by UT Austin McCombs School of Business Assistant Professor ...

Refuting the rumors that Russian President Vladimir Putin is fighting cancer, the Kremlin has stoutly denied such reports once again. The Kremlin routinely rejected any speculation about Putin’s health. Last week, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin felt “fine” and in “good health” before describing speculation to the contrary as “nothing but hoaxes”. But the US intelligence community believes that Putin ...

Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has distanced himself from the January 6 Capitol Hills insurrection and his father-in-law Donald Trump in his new book titled “Breaking History”, as the Congressional committee’s investigations on Trump’s alleged role began. ‘Breaking History’ is the latest memoir from a Trump administration official, this one from the former president’s son-in-law who also served ...

Hyderabad police on Friday detained BJP MLA T. Raja Singh who had threatened to burn down the venue of stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui’s show scheduled to be held in Hyderabad on Saturday, just before he prepared to go there. Raja Singh has been detained and shifted to Bolaram police station in a police vehicle. His supporters raised slogans against the state ...

At least half of the companies worldwide are planning to cut jobs or prune bonuses and rescinding job offers due to the onset of a global economic downturn, said global financial monitoring firm PwC in its latest report. In its “PwC ‘Pulse: Managing business risks in 2022” survey in the US, it said 50 per cent of respondents are reducing ...

Just one week before the opening of a T20 tournament in UAE, the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) has made a huge change by removing Ahmed Raza as skipper of UAE’s T20 side, replacing him with batter CP Rizwan. Raza. however, will continue to remain UAE’s One-day International captain but the surprising decision just three days before their match against Kuwait ...

The government-run small savings schemes remained to provide the same interest rates since the past two years though the bank fixed deposit rates have considerably increased the interest rate. The small savings schemes’ interest rates were last revised in the first quarter of 2020-21, though banks have drastically hiked their home loan and term deposit rates after the Reserve Bank ...

On the death anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on August 18, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has written a letter to the Centre to bring back the remains of Netaji kept at the Renkoji Temple in Tokyo, Japan. In her letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she said: “As we celebrate ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ and pledge to take ...

Both the Bhartiya Kisan Union-Tikait (BKU-Tikait) and the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) have announced that they will hold a 75-hour sit-in at Rajapur Krishi-Utpadan Mandi Samiti in Lakhimpur Kheri from Thursday to seek justice for those killed in October violence last year. On Oct. 3, 2021, when protesters were walking on the road in Lakhimpur Kheri, they were hit and ...

It’s back to normal in Sri Lanka as former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country following protests against economic crisis in July is all set to return on August 24. Sri Lanka is still facing unprecedented economic crisis. This was confirmed by former Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Rajapaksa’s cousin Udayanga Weeratunga, who said that the former President would ...

As festive season is approaching, all Indian banks from State Bank of India to Kotak Mahindra Bank, have raised their fixed deposit rates by 15 to 50 basis points. Bulk deposit rates have been increased by 25-50 basis points for a period of one year and more than one year deposit rates have gone up to 75-125 basis points. The ...

 Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, who is on his maiden visit to the United Arab Emirates, on Thursday held talks with the UAE Justice Minister and the head of the Emirates Supreme Court. The discussion was focused on the Indian expatriates in the Gulf country and for closer judicial cooperation between the two nations. CJI Ramana, accompanied by Indian ...

Tightening naval ties between India and Sri Lanka, five sailing vessels of the Indian Navy are now visiting the island nation. “Continuing Indian Navy’s endeavour to build ‘Bridges of Friendship’, indigenous sailing vessels Mhadei, Tarini, Bulbul, Kadalpura and Hariyal visit the South Indian island from March 10-19 with the aims to provide ocean sailing training and experience to the Sri ...

India, which has maintained good relations with both Russia and Ukraine, offered help to “engage” in diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine following the UN concerns for the lives of millions of people. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “emphasized that there is no option but the path of dialogue and diplomacy”, said India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, ...