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New York: Yeasts used to ferment cocoa during chocolate production can modify the aroma of chocolate — resulting into a new era of boutique chocolates, Belgian researchers report. “The discovery makes it possible to create...

London: A team of Swedish researchers, by using living roses, has created analogue and digital electronic circuits inside living plants, calling them “electronic plants”. The experiment demonstrates wires, digital logic and displays elements — fabricated...

Chennai: Actress Ruhi Singh, best known for her performance in Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Calendar Girls”, will make her Tamil debut with the upcoming road thriller “Bongu”. It was the film’s script that persuaded Ruhi to amke...

Mumbai: Actress Deepika Padukone says that her “Bajirao Mastani” co-star Priyanka Chopra became her first friend in Bollywood — even before she had entered the film industry. “Priyanka is the first film person I ever...

Scientists have developed a way to monitor food security using a smartphone app, which combines weather and soil moisture data from satellites with crowd-sourced data on the vulnerability of the population to malnutrition and other...

India and China on Saturday agreed to boost cooperation in combating terrorism and decided to set up a high-level meeting mechanism led by India's home minister and China's minister of public security

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked the global investment community to set up shop in India and benefit from its fast growth, strong fundamentals, constant reforms and a welcoming environment

Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea played some scintillating tennis to earn a straight sets win here on Saturday and enter the men's doubles summit clash at the $7 million ATP World Tour Finals being played...

The ruling BJP in Gujarat will face its first election in Narendra Modi's absence in over a decade, as the first phase of polling in the two-tiered elections to 323 local bodies take place on...

Defending champion International Master Padmini Rout of Odisha and WGM Swati Ghate of LIC continued to lead the fray with 6.5 points each after the eighth round of the women's national premier chess championship here...

If you are waiting for “Facebook At Work” to come to your workstation so that you can work closely with colleagues, now get ready for another feature that you would never like to miss: “Work...

By Saeed Naqvi The massacre in Paris is not just a French or a Western tragedy. It has caused universal outrage. And yet the global media’s coverage of the horror tends to give the West...

Washington: In a significant step toward expanding research opportunities aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and reducing its dependence on Russian launch facilities, NASA has ordered California based-company SpaceX to launch astronauts from US soil....

Gulbarga: India’s Prerna Bhambri lived up to her top billing to come from a set down and defeat unseeded compatriot Riya Bhatia 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 to clinch the singles crown at the Gulbarga ITF $10,000...

Panaji: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Saturday condemned the decision of FTII students to take their protest to the inaugural ceremony of the prestigious 46th edition of the International...

Mumbai: The central bank’s attempts to curb volatility in rupee value and to maintain its competitiveness helped India’s foreign exchange (Forex) kitty to gain 780.9 million, experts said on Saturday. Overall, the Forex reserves stood...

“Man develops breasts from eating chicken,” said the headline of a report sent to me by a reader in China. I was about to dismiss it as an urban legend when a journalist colleague said...

United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon underlined his concern over the blocking of essential supplies on the Nepal-India border and the adverse impact on the humanitarian operations post the devastating quake in April, his...

Kuala Lumpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on the sidelines of Asean summit. “The bilaterals amidst the multilateral. Modi meets Premier Li Keqiang for his first engagement,” Vikas...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted searches at several places in three states, including Delhi, in connection with the money laundering probe against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. “The searches were...