Meet BARC, A New TV Ratings System To Create A New Set Of Winners And Losers

It took nearly a decade of talking, three years of operational groundwork and even a rare Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) recommendation that government actual...

Spurt in HIV Positive Cases Rings Alarm Bells in Bengal

West Bengal is fast becoming a high-risk HIV positive state. According to statistics for the last two years available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, West B...

Can Big Data Based Intelligence Substitute Human Creativity?

Some time ago BBC published an article titled, “Calculated Risks: Will Algorithms Make Business Boring?” In the article, the author related this story: When Net...

Part Of Antarctica Suddenly Started Melting At A Rate Of 14 Trillion Gal. A Year

Sometime in 2009, a long-stable, glacier-filled region in Antarctica suddenly began to melt. Fast. A team of scientists with the University of Bristol made the alarming obs...

Animated series on Indian war heroes to be made for TV soon

An animated book series on Indian war heroes will be adapted for the small screen, according to its authors Major General G D Bakshi and his son Aditya Bakshi.

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Government Relaxes Norms; Cancer Drug Prices Goes Up

The government has allowed pharmaceutical companies to hike rates of 509 essential medicines used for treating various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis and cancer by 3.84 ...

Stars Donate To If Only's American Red Cross Campaign

If Only, a marketplace for experiences and gifts that donates a portion of its proceeds to charities, has announced the launch of its 2nd annual campaign with The American ...

Traditions, Society And Healthcare- Taking A Look At Community Health Issues

It was a cool afternoon in the winter of 1990. We were walking toward a remote village on a dirt road through a forest. It was a voyage of delightful discovery of flora...