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India ushers in New Year sans Covid curbs after 2 yrs

Large crowds thronged popular boulevards, tourist hubs and entertainment centres across India and many joined special prayers at places of worship on Sunday as people stepped out to celebrate the......

Coming Soon, New Ways To Vaccinate

'Just put a patch on your arm and the vaccine can be absorbed by the body.' IMAGE: Administering vaccines through the oral and nasal route are also likely to gain popularity over the traditional......

Scientists identify new antibody that limits severity of coronavirus

Scientists have identified and tested an antibody that limits the severity of infections from a variety of coronaviruses, including those that cause COVID-19 as well as the SARS illness. IMAGE:......

He'll be a president for all families: Jill Biden on poll triumph

United States Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's wife Jill Biden on Saturday celebrated her husband's victory in the US presidential elections by sharing a picture of the couple holding a......

Will the election gods smile on Joe Biden?

The 2020 race marks Biden's third attempt at running for US president. He first tried in 1988 but dropped out after allegations of plagiarism. He ended his second attempt in 2008 after garnering......

India should make it easy to hire, fire workers

Foreign firms are reluctant to come to India because of labour regulations, says Anusha Chari, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chari,......

Millionaire Wadhwani sets up India chair at CSIS

Multimillionaire Silicon Valley information technology entrepreneur Romesh Wadhwani, CEO of Symphony Technology Group in Palo Alto, California, has established an India Chair at the Center for......

The richest people you've never heard of

You might think enormous wealth guarantees instant notoriety. It doesn't. Some of the world's richest people manage to stay below the detection of the public despite being worth billions. We're not......

Can CEOs cure cancer?

"If you are going to have a successful corporate program, it has to be directed from the top," says William Weldon, the CEO of Johnson & Johnson. He could be talking about cost-cutting initiatives......

How math geeks are changing IBM

There's a calculus to knitting. An untamed batch of wool gets twisted and fed into a spinning wheel, a wooden contraption about as high-tech as an abacus, that binds the fibers into a single strand......

Robin Williams cremated privately, ashes scattered at sea

Get your lowdown on what's going on in the world of Hollywood, right here! Acting legend and comedian Robin Williams, who passed away on August 12 at his California residence, has been laid to......

Was MJ anorexic?

Each day we hear something new about Michael Jackson. The latest is that the pop icon, who passed away last week, may have been suffering from an eating disorder. According to the singer's autopsy......

It's Dim All the Lights for Anoop Desai

Like he has done several times during the high octane American Idol contest, Anoop Manoj Desai had dinner with his family after Tuesday's performance. Family members say that Anoop who is a natural......

Anoop Desai in American Idol top 10

Anoop Desai, who was in serious trouble two weeks ago with low votes in the American Idol competition, went from "being a zero to a hero," with his performance on Tuesday as Simon Cowell, one of......

Meet American Idol finalist Anoop Desai

Whether Anoop Desai lasts in American Idol or not, one thing is certain, say his family members -- his passion for music will continue. Desai was back in the competition after being nearly booted......

Samaranch given state-like funeral in Barcelona

Juan Antonio Samaranch was given a send-off resembling a state funeral in his native Barcelona on Thursday, a day after the former International Olympic Committee (IOC) president died at the age of......

U.S. footballers may be too fat, study finds

America's professional football players may be bigger than life on the field but one in four is also so fat they risk weight-related health problems, a doctor said on Tuesday.Joyce Harp of the......

Jones's training going well: coach

Former triple Olympic champion Marion Jones's training for next season is going "quite well", her new coach said on Tuesday."Whatever you saw last year, put it out of your mind," Steve Riddick told......

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