India need not worry about a drought yet

The weather bureau predicted on Friday that it will begin raining early next month. The criterion for the assessment of droughts is clear. For the millions of Indians waiti...

Carrie Underwood heads to Haiti for charity trip

Country star Carrie Underwood has embarked on a trip to Haiti as part of a children’s charity mission. The Blown Away hit maker joined forces with officials from the ...

More than 80 billion tons of mineral reserves in India yet to be tapped

Over 80 billion tons of India’s mineral reserves are yet to be tapped as the domestic mining sector has been waiting for exploitation of its full potential despite a ...

A simple yet rare solution

Iron deficiency in newborns can be checked if doctors wait for two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord More than 75 per cent infants in India suffer from anaemia or i...

Patrick Dempsey Partners With CrowdMed To Help Solve Difficult Medical Cases

Crowd Med, an online crowd sourced medical diagnosis platform that helps solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases, has announced that actor Patrick Dempsey...

True Review : Grace of Monaco

Critics Ratings: 2 STARS*

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Frank Langella

Direction: Olivier Dahan,

Centre Clears Sardar Sarovar Dam Height Increase

Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel rushes to dam site to hold ‘pooja’ to commence construction work; 245 more villages to be submerged after height increase...

Will global polio eradication miss yet another deadline?

When the world embarked on polio eradication 26 years back, the goal was to complete that task by the year 2000. That target was not met, nor did the two deadlines set afte...

Water pollution killing Goa’s marine population

The next time you want to dig into a spiced, crunchy fried mussel or fancy some coconut-laced clam gravy while lounging in a Goa beach shack, you might have to look harder ...