The World Cancer Day is observed on February 4 every year to bring awareness about the deadly disease and encourage early detection in people for treatment and prevention. The World Cancer Day was first observed in 2000 at the ‘World Summit Against Cancer’ held in Paris. The day was founded[Read More…]
A recent study had confirmed that a chemical present in the Lychee fruit is behind the mysterious death of malnourished children in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur for years. According to a study report published in the Lancet, an investigation begun in 2013 by India’s National Centre for Disease Control and the US[Read More…]
An image on Reddit of a Saudi prince who brought 80 hawks on a plane Monday morning is going viral. This may sound strange, as the very image of aeroplanes to us is a cramped little seat with barely any space to swing your leg and 80 hawks as your[Read More…]
A study by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bengaluru revealed that one in 20 Indians suffers from some sort of depression. But, the increase in prescriptions could also be a sign that people are more open than before to seek help for depression and the rising[Read More…]
The theatre society of a women’s college has been moral policed by the Sahitya Kala Parishad (Delhi government’s cultural wing) for performing a play with a number of words which apparently affected the cultural integrity of the society. ‘Lakshya’, a theatre group consisting of students of the Kamala Nehru college’s theatre[Read More…]
Roads in Kashmir are blocked with snow. Travelling through roadways is not an option in Kashmir anymore. And due to rising demand of air-tickets, there has been an intense inflation of price on Saturday came at a cost of Rs 38,379. At the same time, the cheapest ticket from Srinagar[Read More…]
E-cigarettes were introduced in order to discourage youngsters from smoking tobacco. But latest findings prove that they are actually attracting a new population of adolescents who might not otherwise have smoked tobacco products such as cigarettes. Research showed that the e-cigarettes attract low-risk adolescents, who have lower probability of using[Read More…]
Despite the WHO warning about the return of Vaccine-Derived Type 2 Polio Virus (VDPV2), some of the blood samples collected on August 30 in Ahmedabad city tested positive for Sabin-like type 2 polio virus. Earlier, World Health Organization had warned Gujarat and Telangana about the return of the polio virus.[Read More…]
As the fake news toll rises across the globe, researchers have come up with a solution to help keep the mass off misinformation. Scientists have developed a latest psychological “vaccine” to immunise the public against the damaging “virus” of fake news and misinformation on websites and social media. In medicine,[Read More…]
World famous Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi announced that his first Indian movie is titled “Beyond The Clouds” on Monday. He has finalised actor Ishaan Khatter and Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman for the upcoming project. Rahman will be working on the score of the project, and this film will mark the[Read More…]
The travel sector across the globe are concentrating on a series of offers exclusively catering to gay tourists, who tend to spend more than most when away from home. The trend was underscored at the For instance, Fitur tourism fair in Madrid, one of the world’s largest, which wraps up[Read More…]
Korean electronic company Samsung announced on Monday the real cause of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sudden over-heating and bursting into flames. The investigation report blames both the design and manufacture of the device’s batteries for the fatal malfunction. It took about seven hundred researchers and engineers examined hundreds of thousands[Read More…]