Pulitzer Prize-winning author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Professor of Economics at Harvard University Raj Chetty have been named by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as '2020 Great Immigrants' honourees, the Corporation said in a statement on Wednesday.
The top 10 failed states in the 2009 list are: Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Guinea and Pakistan.
'I was attracted to her both as a fine co-star and as a person who had some of the attributes I hoped to find in a woman at that age and time,' says Dilip Kumar in his autobiography, Dilip Kumar: The Substance And The Shadow.
'In a future where newspapers are gone, the public will have a severe lack of material to be properly informed.' 'We will be left in a world of journalism that is entirely populated by Arnab and anchors like him, competing on the basis of passion and anger, and by people who pull out their phone and tweet a comment without first hand information,' says Aakar Patel.
While snoring can be harmless, it can also be a sign of sleep apnea, a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing starts and stops over the course of the night.
A new study has the answer to your embarrassing alcohol moment.
How you can undo perils of too much screen time!
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
While bats are the ancestral hosts to many deadly viruses affecting humans such as Ebola, rabies, and the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the flying mammals themselves tolerate these pathogens without ill effects
Watching TV for 5 or more hours daily cuts sperm count by 35 per cent.
Results from early-phase non-randomised vaccine trials in a total of 76 people show that two formulations of the vaccine have a good safety profile detected over 42 days, and induce antibody responses in all participants within 21 days.
'Tell me, one BJP policy that Mamata has opposed and is fighting tooth and nail?' Be it Article 370, instant triple talaq, be it CAA/NRC/NPR, be it notebandi, FDI, she has aligned with the BJP.'
In their ground-breaking study, a team at Pennsylvania University made laboratory rodents HIV resistant by sabotaging a gene in blood cells that the deadly virus normally infects, the Nature Biotechnology journal reported.
Senior criminal lawyers explain the minutiae of the National Herald case in an effort to help sort out the legal intricacies of the case for the layman.
Women, although open to using the internet for health information, reported feeling overwhelmed by what they found.
A new study has revealed that typing could help reduce blood pressure.
AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford are facing questions about their Covid-19 vaccine and whether regulators would quickly authorise its emergency use after the pharma company acknowledged an error in the vaccine dosage received by some participants and other irregularities and omissions, according to the New York Times.
"Understanding how cancer cells spread is tremendously important for cancer research. It is the ability of tumours to invade other tissues and spread around the body that makes them so dangerous. The cancer just overwhelms the body. Potentially, our findings can be applied to the most common form of cancer, carcinoma, found in the breast, lung and gut for example, which makes up 80 to 90 per cent of all cancers," lead researcher Chris Ward said.
Researchers have identified genes that perform a key role in the ageing process, boosting efforts of scientists aiming to possibly extend the natural human life span. The study appearing in the journal Genome Research looked for genes that control the ageing process in two primitive organisms, yeast cells and nematode worms -- separated by 1.5 billion years of evolution.
'This is not a government that will be an ally to supremacist ideology or strongman politics anymore, here or anywhere else,' asserts Suleman Din.
'A number of facts are still left unaddressed by the Supreme Court judgment.' 'I think there are enough grounds for an inquiry to be ordered.'
Waking up early can keep the blues away!
Scientists have discovered a gene that ups the risk of obesity, a breakthrough which they claim offers insight into why some people put on weight while others with similar lifestyles stay slim. A British-led team has found that people who inherit two copies of the variant, which lies close to a gene called MC4R, weigh an average of 1.5 kg more than those without the genetic variation, the Nature Genetics journal reported.
An international team of scientists has found a type of 'cellular chatter' that reveals early evidence of the disease, providing a chance to interfere in its progress, according to a study published in the Nature Medicine journal. "Our data indicates that blood contains a highly-specific biological signature that can characterise Alzheimer's disease years before a clinical diagnosis can be made," lead researcher Dr Tony Wyss-Coray of Stanford University stated in the article.
The weapons are mostly relatively simple uranium arms with "modest" yields around the size of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The chronic dry eye is a common disease in which natural tears fail to adequately lubricate the eyes, thus drastically affecting its functioning.
Subir Raha, the former chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has been awarded the prestigious 'Energy Executive of the Year' award instituted by London-based renowned energy journal Petroleum Economist.\n\n
Subir Raha, the former chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has been short-listed for the prestigious "Energy Executive of the Year" award instituted by London-based renowed energy journal 'Petroleum Economist'.
Experiments showed that the women's natural killer immune system cells were less lethal compared with those from other study participants.
'If people want to blackmail others to get information or harm things, so why will someone give them information?'
Rediff Labs shows the number of both domestic and foreign tourists visiting each state in 2015 and its growth rate.
A study has revealed how women, who used contraception with more progesterone were the most sexually active when they were faithful and loyal to their partners.
Even 30 minutes of exercising daily is known to balance hormones, manage stress, and manage weight to the best, says Dr Manoj Kutteri.
Every cog in the wheel must present its unique services at the moment of instructed haste, says Vikram Johri.
'In the Middle Ages, when Muslims were around 15 per cent of the population of the world, they accounted, according to one estimate, for 90 per cent of scientific advancements.' 'And today, when Muslims are around 22 per cent of the population of the world, their share in scientific writings is less than 1 per cent!' point out Ziya Us Salam and M Aslam Parvaiz.
'Gauri was a woman of great integrity and few people know how modestly she lived, generously sharing the little she had.' 'Her only asset was the home her mother built.' 'But she had even bigger riches -- her capacious heart,' remembers former husband and close friend, Chidanand Rajghatta.
'Safest' looks like a phone booth, but is a state-of-the-art mobile COVID-19 testing lab.
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