Brasilia, March 4 (IANS) Brazilian scientists have detected traces of the Zika virus in the common mosquito Culex which means it can potentially transmit the disease, the media reported on Friday. Tests were conducted on…
Washington, March 4 (IANS) Ami Bera, the only Indian origin member of the US House of Representatives announced his support for two progressive Indian-American women running for office in Vermont and Washington states. Bera is…
Tokyo, March 4 (IANS) Japan is set to introduce digital textbooks in classrooms in four years’ time, the media reported on Friday. An education ministry panel has decided on a basic policy for introducing tablet…
Beijing, March 4 (IANS) Signals to Earth from China’s new BeiDou Navigation Satellite have been successfully received and decoded, the media reported on Friday. Now, the satellite is entering a load test stage, the People’s…
New York, March 4 (IANS) Researchers have found that a protein involved in the breakdown of glucose – a process known as glycolysis — plays an important role in coordinating cellular processes crucial to cancer…
Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) A Pakistani daily on Friday criticised India’s Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh for his comment on the Pakistan-India match and said that letting political views “tarnish the sport to such…
Manila, March 4 (IANS) A Filipino man has transformed himself into a carbon copy of “Superman” after a series of 26 painful cosmetic surgeries, the media reported on Friday. “The most painful surgical procedure was…
New York, March 4 (IANS) US technology giant Apple has launched customer support on micro-blogging website Twitter to answer your queries about its wide range of products. Although Apple has Twitter accounts for specific products…
Wellington, March 4 (IANS) US space agency NASA is planning to set a record for the longest ever flight for a scientific balloon to be launched in New Zealand next month. NASA’s Balloon Programme team…
Washington, March 4 (IANS) The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan body that monitors religious freedom abroad, has expressed disappointment at the denial of visas for what it said was a long…
Beijing, March 4 (IANS) China will raise its defence budget by seven to eight percent in 2016, compared with last year’s 10.1 percent, an official said on Friday. The announcement was made by Fu Ying,…
Beijing, March 4 (IANS) Chinese book “Order: Fangyuan Story” has won the title of the world’s most beautiful book at an annual event held in Germany recently, the media reported on Friday. The “world’s most…
Beijing, March 4 (IANS) The US is militarising the South China Sea, a spokesperson for China’s national legislature said on Friday. Fu Ying, spokesperson for this year’s annual session of the National People’s Congress, said…
Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) A project has been launched to add colour to the dusty walls of Pakistan’s Peshawar city, a media report said on Friday. The Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) and the culture…
Seoul, March 4 (IANS) South Korea and the US began talks on Friday over the deployment of an American anti-missile system – Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system (THAAD) – a controversial project that has…
London, March 4 (IANS) Researchers have identified a brain inflammation marker in patients at early asymptomatic stages of Alzheimer’s disease. This molecule may provide clinicians with a rapidly detectable biomarker for the transition from preclinical…
London, March 4 (IANS) Overturning an earlier order from the Hamburg data protection authority on Facebook’s “real name” policy, a German court has allowed the social networking giant to prevent its users from using fake…
New York, March 4 (IANS) Scientists have discovered a new kind of stem cell — one that could lead to advances in regenerative medicine as well as offer new ways to study birth defects and…
Toronto, March 4 (IANS) An Indian-origin Sikh hockey player was honoured in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC), a media report said. Assistant deputy speaker of the B.C. Legislature, MLA Raj Chouhan, honoured 92-year-old…
Washington, March 4 (IANS) By pushing NASAs Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This…