Crocodiles Set to Face Extinction, Says Australian Researcher
Many of the world’s 27 species of crocodylians will soon be either totally or locally extinct due to…
Gaza May Become ‘Uninhabitable’ in 5 Years: UNCTAD
Living conditions in Gaza are so bad that they’ve been described as “less than human” and potentially uninhabitable…
UN Seeks Humanitarian Intervention to Help Syrian Refugees
In the wake of the grim discovery of the bodies of more than 70 people inside a truck…
Kurdi Image: UNICEF Seeks Urgent Succour to Syrian Refugees, Children
As the “heart-breaking” image of a drowned refugee boy who washed up on a beach in Turkey ricocheted…
Muhammad Yunus Opens Narayana Hridayalaya Hospital in Mysore
Nobel laureate and microfinance pioneer Mohammad Yunus, who was in Mysore to open a 200-bed multi-specialty hospital for…
Missing Mobile Phone? Don’t Let it Take Over as Phobia!
Call it missing mobile phone phobia or nomophobia or just another day of anxiety when you miss your…
Karnataka Farmers’ Association Calls for Bandh Over Farmers’ Suicides
The sugarcane farmers’ associations in Karnataka have called for a bandh on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015 which may…
India Internet Users Now More Than US Population Put Together
India’s current Internet users have crossed 352 million with the liberal addition of 52 million in the first…
Life Expectancy: Indian women live longer than men
Life expectancy has escalated to a great extent since 1990 as people even in poor nations are living…
India Ready with ‘Comprehensive’ Plan on INDCs Ahead of Paris Meet: Javadekar
India’s environment minister Prakash Javadekar has reiterated India’s stand on compliance with the Climate Change agreements in the…
Sensex Crashes by 1100 Points
While the market is going agogue over the sudden crash of Sensex by 1100 point in intra-day trading…
Imagine World Map Without Humans, Here It Is!
An interesting study by Arhus University in Spain has come out with a world map sans humans and…
Demand for Coffee Can Create Rift with Poorer Nations: Study
The explosion in worldwide coffee consumption in the past two decades has generally not benefitted farmers of coffee…
Antarctic Detector Confirms Cosmic Neutrino Sighting
IMAGE: A A HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINO EVENT OF THE NORTHERN SKY SUPERIMPOSED ON A VIEW OF THE ICECUBE LAB…
India Seeks to Block Onion Exports, Increase Imports to Control Price
With the onion prices skyrocketing, the Indian government has cracked whip on rising prices of onions in the…
Why OROP Issue Was a Pre-poll Harakiri by BJP?
The One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme that was hanging on the Finance Ministry for over five years,…
Supreme Court relents, Allows CBSE 2 Months to Hold AIPMT 2015
Following the CBSE’s inability to conduct the cancelled AIPMT 2015 entrance exam within a month, the Supreme Court…
Prabhu Deva’s ‘ABCD2’ Gets Less Flak
Remo D’souza’s directorial “AnyBody Can Dance 2”, released on Friday June 19 all over the country, did not…
Choice Based Credit System Not to Hamper Academic Liberty, Clarifies UGC
The UGC has clarified that the introduction of Choice Based Credit System will not in any way hamper…
Ramzan 2015: Muslims’ Month-Long Fast Begins
Ramzan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, began on Thursday with Muslims observing daytime fasting and…