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London: Researchers have developed a self-contained fibre optic sensor for smartphones that can be used in a wide variety of biomolecular tests, including those for detecting pregnancy or monitoring diabetes. The readings of the sensor...

Washington: One week after the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples can marry nationwide and states cannot ban such marriages, Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has finally fallen in line. The Republican presidential candidate...

New Delhi: What’s the word that comes to mind when you put something really tasty and scrumptious in your mouth? Nom Nom. These are the two exact words that one would utter while dining at...

Washington: The US space agency is planning to send a boomerang-shaped aircraft to Mars first to check if the conditions are ripe for the humans to land on the Red Planet. Proposed to make its...

Antwerp: India eves rode on valiant saves from goalkeeper Savita Punia to beat Italy 5-4 in the penalty shootout after the game ended at 1-1 in the Hockey World League (HWL) Semi-Final here on Thursday....

Wimbledon: The Indian-Serbian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Janko Tipsarevic were knocked out of the Wimbledon tennis championships, as they lost in straight sets in the first round of the men’s doubles on Thursday. Bhupathi-Tipsarevic...

Jaipur: Veteran film actor and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hema Malini was injured in a road accident near Dausa, over 50 km from here in Rajasthan, late on Thursday evening. Doctors at the Fortis hospital...

New Delhi: She entered the world of showbiz as an actress and then dived into the filmmaking business as a producer and director. Actress-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt says she wants to get in front of the...

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Limited (OMFED) on Thursday said it aims to double its milk procurement to one million litres per day by 2020. Its chairman and managing director Bishnupada Sethi...

New Delhi: Two-and three-wheeler manufacturer Bajaj Auto on Thursday reported an increase of eight percent in its monthly sales for June, which stood at 331,317 units from 305,465 units in the corresponding period of the...

New York: The brain region that helps us remember locations and distances can also guide us how emotionally close we are to others, a study has found. The team from Mount Sinai Hospital focused on...

Washington: A single-celled marine plankton evolved a miniature version of a multi-cellular eye, possibly to help see its prey better, new research shows. In fact, the ‘ocelloid’ within the planktonic predator looks so much like...

Srinagar: The annual Amarnath Yatra started on Thursday as over 8,000 pilgrims left from two base camps in Kashmir for the Himalayan cave shrine. As many as 6,065 pilgrims left the Baltal base camp in...

Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan remembered his late mother Lateef Fatima Khan on her 74th birth anniversary and says that he would have been slapped by her for sharing her age on social media. Remembering...

Antwerp: Jasjit Singh Kular converted two penalty corners in the final quarter to send India to the last four stage of the Hockey World League (HWL) Semi-Final as the 2014 Asian Games champions overcame a...

New York: The brain region that helps us remember locations and distances can also guide us how emotionally close we are to others, a study has found. The team from Mount Sinai Hospital focused on...

New York: Man might have developed over the years the ability to repair damage from low-dose radiation from X-rays, CT scans and other medical imaging procedures, says new research. In recent years, there has been...

New York: The number of distant galaxies could be 10 to 100 times fewer than earlier thought, astronomers estimate. Over the years, the Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to look deep into the universe....

New York: Buoyed by growing sales, India will overtake the US to become world’s second largest smartphone market by 2017, says a report. According to international research firm Strategy Analytics, global smartphone sales are forecast...

Beijing: China has denied any of its armed personnel were posted in Pakistani Kashmir, stating that these were “just stories”. A senior leader in charge of bilateral relations with India and Pakistan said that with...