According to news article posted on the World Gold Council web site, gold nanoparticles ten thousand times smaller than a human hair could be used to break down chemicals in drinking water and reduce pollution. It said the particles, which mix gold and palladium, are the creation of engineer Michael Wong from Rice University in Houston, Texas.
In a perfect world, Raj Bhavsar should have won an Olympic medal for India.
Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas-Houston Medical School and his team may have found a way to attack the weakest link in HIV. According to a paper in the journal Autoimmune Reviews, the team has found an unchanging part of the virus that can be attacked using abzymes -- that is, antibodies that have enzymatic activity.
The Indian embassy in Washington is in the process of finalising a detailed report on the issue of over 100 Indian workers in a Mississippi shipyard, who revolted against their employer for their alleged "slave-like treatment" after being "tricked" into coming to the US.
For decades, high school students in America have been able to take classes in Latin, Spanish, French and even German. But given a shifting global order and an increasingly diverse domestic population, high schools are finding it necessary to offer more 'exotic' options.
Colombia beat Peru 4-2 in a penalty shootout on Friday to progress to the semi-finals of the Copa America after the two sides played to a dull scoreless draw in New Jersey.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Amidst a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 100 million people have already cast their ballots in early voting, putting the country on course for its highest turnout in a century. Some 239 million people are eligible to vote this year.
Howard Dale Bellamy (24), who robbed and killed 28-year-old Akhil Chopra almost three years ago while he was meditating in a west Houston park is bound to spend the rest of his life in prison, a Harris County jury decided on Monday.
Though the question whether one can become addicted to technology is itself debatable, John O'Neill, director of addictions services for The Menninger Clinic in Houston, says he sees parallels with the overuse of technology to dependency on substances such as alcohol or drugs.
Thottam will leave New York next month and relocate to New Delhi. Thottam, who lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, was raised mostly in suburban Houston. She came to Time from On magazine/Time Digital, and before that was a newspaper reporter in Queens and in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Trump will pay a state visit to India on February 24 and 25 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who on Wednesday said the US President's visit will be a 'very special one' and it will go a long way in further cementing India-USA friendship.
The bodies of the two Indian students of Louisiana State University, who were killed last week, are likely to be flown back to their native place in Hyderabad on Thursday, official sources said in Houston on Tuesday.
A four-agency task force probing the killing of two Indian doctoral students at a Louisiana State University apartment has intensified investigations, but has so far been unable to identify the motive behind the double homicide as two senior Indian officials reached the campus to take the stock of the situation.
The 15-minute conversation, which took place on Friday, was broadcast on National Aeronautics and Space Agency Television, following the conclusion of a station status media briefing from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Al Janoub, a 40,000-seat venue made to resemble the sail of a dhow, or traditional wooden sailboat, was opened last May and is the first to showcase the new cooling system.
Paul, director of the Chemical Immunology Research Center at the university, says HIV needs a complex solution because it mutates so fast. Which was why Paul and his team went about hunting for a part of the HIV that does not change. They found it and found a chemical that could destroy it.
Houston gymnast Raj Bhavsar on Tuesday was named in the US Gymnastics men's 2008 Olympic team after he was chosen to replace the injured Paul Hamm. All-around champion Hamm, winner of one of the most controversial golds at the 2004 Athens Olympics, withdrew from the Beijing Games due to injury.
The award is constituted in the memory of Prince Mahidol, the father of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
The history of professional Indian nursing in America started with the major migration of nurses in the early 1970s and 1980s.
Floyd's death has triggered nationwide violent protests with a section of the protesters resorting to looting and rioting across the country, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
The Doha-based airline operates across 145 business and leisure destinations spanning over the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa, North America and South America with a fleet of 139 aircraft.
Preferring coffee over a good night's sleep for that daily jolt might land you in trouble, for a new study has found that having caffeine for boosting energy might mask serious sleep problems.
World number one Roger Federer recovered from a set down to beat unseeded German Denis Gremelmayr 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 on Saturday to reach his first final of the year at the Estoril Open. He will now face the number two seed Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, who beat France's Florent Serra 6-2, 6-2 in the other semi-final.
15-year-old American Ryan Harrison beat Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas 6-4, 6-3 at the US Men's Clay Court Championship.
Brij and Aasha Chhabra were found shot in the head in an alleged case of contract killing. The couple had accused long-time friend Narayan Thadani of siphoning off their money and transferring their assets to himself. Thadani and three others, including two men whom Thadani allegedly promised $100,000 to kill the Chhabras, have been arrested in the case.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
"Because Muslims are part and parcel of India, if members of the community today lag behind the rest of the people in India, then logically the country would lag behind, too."
Dubai-based carrier, Emirates is adding a host of in-flight services, like the facility of using mobile phones onboard, toys for children and nutritious meals for them to attract more passengers.
Energy major Shell is in the process of setting up its first Asian Technology Centre at a 40-acre campus in Bangalore.
Transmeridian has been on the radar of ONGC Videsh Ltd (the overseas investment arm of ONGC) for sometime now.
The power drop led to a temporary loss of ISS communications and the shutdown of heating units, some science equipment and one of three operating US gyroscopes used for attitude control.
Trump was good for world peace. He didn't start a war anywhere, which is not something that can be said for most of his predecessors, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The US authorities are checking people's social media accounts for their political views before allowing them into the country after the recent travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump on people from seven predominantly Muslim nations, a media report said.
The music composer was in the US for his concert.
Kenneth Lay, the former chairman as well as a founder of US energy giant Enron died of a heart attack at his home in Aspen, Colorado on Wednesday.
If convicted of the conspiracy charge set forth in Count One, Williams and Mirza face a maximum punishment of five years imprisonment, a fine of USD 250,000 and three years supervised release.
Here are some special moments from the gala night in Zurich on Monday...
