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New York: By collecting samples from the portal vein — which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver — physicians can learn far more about a patients pancreatic cancer...

Balasore: Emami Paper Mills, which recently diversified into high-end packaging paper, will invest Rs.1,000 crore in three years to double its production capacity of 1.32 lakh tonnes per annum in the segment. The company earlier...

Mumbai: Director Rajkumar Hirani says that actor Aamir Khan’s controversial statements were “innocent” and that the hype created because of it should’ve been ignored. “If you take the answer what he said, he’s clearly said,...

Microsoft Corporation CEO Satya Nadella will visit his home town Hyderabad next month, an official said on Saturday

Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu is just one win away from defending her Macau Open Grand Prix Gold women's singles title as she overcame Japanese Akane Yamaguchi 21-8, 15-21, 21-16 in the semi-final here on Saturday

Former media tycoon Peter Mukerjea, one of the four accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, on Saturday underwent a lie-detector test here in the presence of experts from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CSFL)

When soon-to-be-dad Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to go on two-months' paternity leave before his daughter is due, the corporate world took notice. Now the four-month paid paternal leave policy for US employees has been...

Some of the first large organisms on the Earth formed ecosystems that were much more complex than previously thought, an analysis of the feeding habits of a 555-million-year-old organism revealed

Actress Anne Hathaway is reportedly pregnant with her first child

Cells isolated from human umbilical cord tissue produce molecules that help retinal neurons from the eyes of rats grow, connect and survive, a new study reveals

London: Exercise can enhance the development of new brain cells that play an important role in learning and memory of adults, new research has found. The process of developing new brain cells in the adult...

New York: Scientists have reported first-ever measurements of a key neurotransmitter involved in learning with unprecedented precision in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease. The measurements, collected during brain surgery as the conscious patients...

Washington: In a bid to resume NASA’s commercial supply efforts to the orbiting international laboratory, the first flight of Orbital ATK’s enhanced Cygnus spacecraft will carry more than 7,000 pounds of equipment and experiments to...

Rio de Janeiro: Former FIFA president Joao Havelange, 99, has been admitted to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro for lung problems. His condition is “stable”, Rio’s Samaritano Hospital said in a brief statement on...

Valletta: Australia, Britain and Canada at a special session during the Commonwealth summit here pledged to spend billions of dollars in curbing climate change. Canada on Friday promised $2.5 billion over five years to help...

Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian Olympic boxing medal hopeful Clelia Costa has tested positive to a banned substance, officials said. Costa was found to have the masking agent furosemide in a urine sample taken in September,...

Mumbai: India’s first long-range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) -designated Barak 8 – jointly designed and developed by Israel’s IAI and India’s DRDO has been successfully flight tested from an Israeli naval Platform, an official said here...

The BJP’s castigation of the non-Muslims who complain of intolerance comprises words like “manufactured paper rebellion”, “fake dissent”, Nehruvian, Leftist and the like. In the case of Muslims, however, the charge of being unpatriotic comes...

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir’s borders can’t be redrawn, and Pakistan-held Kashmir will remain with that country, former chief minister Farooq Abdullah said on Friday. “Pakistan-administered part of Kashmir is (in) Pakistan and will remain (in)...

Abuja, Nov 27 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed in a suicide attack on a Muslim procession in Dakasoye town of Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kano on Friday, security and medical sources said. Many...