Speaking about the character of the jihadi activity from Pakistan, Narayanan said it tends to go up and down but added that "we don't mind the flip-flop".
Simply put, say researchers in a study widely cited in the international news media, obesity can spread through social interaction, much like flu
Later in the day NASA will unveil a report that admits to 'heavy use' of alcohol by astronauts, although the report remains silent on which astronauts were found to be drunk and on which missions
Satendar Singh has gone from being a young Fiji-Indian who won a visa to the United States via the immigration lottery and landed in that country full of hope to the latest entry in the roster of hate crimes fuelled by homophobia
As always, scientists, it seems, are on top of this problem, and have discovered a biological switch by which stress promotes obesity, the Washington Post has reported
An image of a protest at the Coca Cola museum.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has set a cat among pigeons by his decision to change his political affiliation from Republican to independent
The National Family Health Survey, carried out with US financing and under international supervision, puts the number of India's AIDS patients at between two and three million
Thanks to Rakesh Sharma, those with handheld equipment will no longer need a permit to shoot or have $1 million in insurance
A new report suggests oral sex may not be as safe as most people think.
The actual signals come from the brain, but the nerve cells in your gut do play a part in your emotion and intuition, says a recent report
An Icelandic company is in the process of developing a DNA test that will determine inherited vulnerability to heart attacks
'At least some of Khan's associates appear to have escaped law-enforcement attention and could, after a period of lying low, resume their black market business.'
The study showed that those who ate less salty food have as much as 25 per cent less chance of cardiac arrest or stroke, and consequently a 20 per cent lower risk of early death
The online world rallies to pay tribute to Mumbai girl Minal Panchal who was killed at the Virginia Tech shootout
A profile of the campus killer who massacred 32 at Virginia Tech in one morning
The study, published in the journal Environment and Urbanization, listed Mumbai among cities Tokyo, New York, Shanghai, Jakarta and Dhaka being some of the others where millions are at risk of flooding and heavy storms
Researchers said it was a vicious cycle. Higher levels of the hormone cortisol led to a reduction in the size of the hippocampus, which makes it difficult for a child to handle trauma, and this in turns raises both stress and cortisol levels
The increase in military spending is almost twice its pace of economic growth, and is the largest in 10 years
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