Heat-related deaths will rise 257% by 2050 because of climate change

An elderly couple enjoy an ice cream on Brighton Pier in the summer heatwave of 2013. Heat-related deaths are expected to rise by 2050, as global warming causes temperature...

Obesity: A rising epidemic in India

New Delhi: A recent study puts an alarming 70 percent of India’s urban population in the obese or overweight bracket taking the country right in the middle of a &ldqu...

Climate Change May Cause Trillions in Damage to World’s Coastal Regions

New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.

According to the stu...

Shatrughan bonds with youth to spread cancer awareness

The cine star-turned-BJP leader kicked off his party’s campaign to collect iron implements in Patna as part of Narendra Modi’s nationwide campaign for construct...

Gamers can now join hunt for cancer cure

LONDON: Gaming enthusiasts across the world can from Tuesday join the search for cancer cures with a citizen science project using a smartphone game to help researchers ana...

Cancer is curable: Demystifying many cancer myths

NEW DELHI: Some believe cancer is incurable, quite a few think it is contagious and many others feel it can be caused by hair-dyes and antiperspirants – myths like th...

Fresh & Sharp @ Prime Time – Kehta Hai Dil…Jee Le Zara

Well, Kehta Hai Dil…Jee Le Zara completed 100 episodes in January end. Wonder what the detractors have to say now. Because when it started on August 15, 2013, there ...

Hang out with Affleck and Damon to benefit charity

The celebrity charity bandwagon rolls on: George Clooney is auctioning a date with his handsome self for his charity; now his pals Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are doing the ...

Manish Malhotra to host show in Oman for a cause

Trinity Investment Partners, in association with NPA Events is organizing a charity dinner on February 20, 2014 at the Muscat InterContinental Hotel Lawns to raise funds fo...