Mask mandate can be removed for now, say experts

Setting at rest fears over Covid restrictions being relaxed, several experts say the two-year stringent mask mandate has led to fatigue and can be removed from public spaces for now just as many......

'Omicron is a very, very obvious case for boosters'

'An individual who maybe has had two vaccines, or has had two vaccines, and a booster, is going to be pretty well protected.' IMAGE: A municipal corporation worker administers a dose of COVID-19......

Benefit of the common cold? It may prevent Covid-19

Being previously infected with coronaviruses that cause the 'common cold' may decrease the severity of COVID-19, according to researchers, including one of Indian origin, who said the finding could......

Doctor, 41, dies of the disease he was researching

'Two years ago, had I been given even a tiny hint that my genes were tipping the scale for the development of a disease that would lock me into my body, unable to move or breath normally on my own,......

It's time for brain gain, say Indian scientists in US

Managed and operated by volunteers from Boston, YIM is a non-for-profit organisation founded by MIT/Harvard Indian-origin scientists and entrepreneurs in 2009. About 50 young Indian scientists have......

NetIP conference in Boston to draw industry stalwa

With the mantras 'Explore, Dream, Discover,' the 17th edition of the three-day Network of Indian Professionals in North America (NetIP) conference to be held in Boston offers to the 800......

Indians win Global Indus Technovators award

Ten young innovators and entrepreneurs of South Asian origin have been honoured with 2005 Global Indus Technovators Awards by the Indian Business Club at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This......

Guharoy wins SUNY Chancellor's award

Sudip Guharoy, director of pharmacy services and associate chief of the section of clinical pharmacology at the Department of Medicine at the Upstate Medical University of the State University of......

Ozzy Osbourne's tremors and rumours

Ozzy Osbourne says it has been fixed, but fans grew concerned when the former Black Sabbath frontman cancelled some dates on his European tour last week due to nervous tremors.Osbourne told MTV......

Poverty pays rich dividends

Kannan Mani: I AM just exiting out of the movie hall and start penning this thing before the frames take backseat in my mind. BoYS - What do I say about this movie. Before I can utter a word or......