Measuring The Millennium Development Goals: Cutting Maternal Deaths

Becoming a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is more dangerous than climbing Mount Everest. In Chad, the odds of dying during pregnancy or childbirth are one in 15; in Sierra Le...

Robots Will Make Leeds The First Self-Repairing City

The idea is to create a city that behaves almost like a living organism,? said Raul Fuentes, a researcher at the School of Civil Engineering at Leeds University, who is wor...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

New Kind Of 'Designer' Immune Cells Clear Baby's Leukemia

A baby whom doctors thought almost certain to die has been cleared of a previously incurable leukemia in the first human use of an “off-the-shelf” cell therapy ...

In Rare Appearance, Larry Page Discusses New Alphabet Structure

SAN FRANCISCO:  In a rare public appearance, Google co-founder and Alphabet Inc CEO Larry Page explained why he was spurred to create a whole new structure for the com...

In The Age Of Downloads, MAMI Film Festival Is Still A Crowd Puller

The film lovers of the world should rejoice, when the curtains go up on 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival on Thursday evening with the Gateway of India as the perfect back...

Over 66% Adolescent Girls Anaemic In Maharashtra.

PUNE: Adolescent girls hitting the gyms in the quest for well-toned body seem to be paying scant attention to their diet, especially protein and vitamin intake, risking ana...