Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) The Pakistan government on Friday formally decided to send its national men’s and women’s cricket teams to India to take part in the ongoing World T20 tournament. The national cricket teams…
Tel Aviv, March 11 (IANS) Israeli police on Friday said 177 “illegal” Palestinian workers were arrested overnight, on the third day of a crackdown following a fatal terror attack. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the…
London, March 11 (IANS) Giving prescribed does of “love hormone” oxytocin to men suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can instill empathy and compassion in them toward women, reveals a study. The researchers hope that…
Bangkok, March 11 (IANS) Thailand’s annual Songkran water festival may run for only three days this year as the country is suffering its worst drought in two decades. According to a proposal which will be…
New York, March 11 (IANS) Light therapy — exposure to artificial light — can decrease depressive symptoms and normalise circadian rhythms among cancer survivors, finds a study. “Depressive symptoms are common among cancer survivors’ even…
London, March 11 (IANS) In a first such experiment, scientists have configured a network of brain regions involved in self-disclosure as people post about themselves on the social networking giant Facebook that currently has 1.5…
New York, March 11 (IANS) Older adults who burn calories in moderate physical activities like jogging, swimming, gardening and dancing are likely to have lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, says a study. Exercise-associated calorie-burn…
Beijing, March 11 (IANS) A Chinese teenager in Guangdong province has recovered his eyesight after receiving corneal transplant from a pig’s eye, the media reported on Friday. The operation was carried out in February at…
Toronto, March 11 (IANS) Millions of people globally take statins to help lower their cholesterol level. Canadian researchers have now developed a new approach to determine which individuals should receive such important medications to prevent…
Red data points are the observed data; most of them have elongated shapes and larger galaxies tend to have larger ellipticities. Gray-colored regions represent the probability distributions calculated with the computer simulations, in which…
Dharamsala, March 11 (IANS) A group of lawmakers from the Baltic states have urged China to resume a dialogue with the Dalai Lama’s envoys for meaningful autonomy for Tibet, according to the Central Tibetan Administration…
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) A colonel of the Pakistan Army was killed on Friday in a firing incident in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. A police official from Peshawar’s Hayatabad area said that Colonel Tariq Ghafoor, who…
Damascus, March 11 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) has executed a poet and his son on accusations of apostasy in Syria’s Deir al-Zour province. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the extremist…
Washington, March 11 (IANS) When a historic comet struck Mars in October 2014, NASA switched off its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft and other Mars orbiters to protect sensitive equipment aboard them from…
Vienna, March 11 (IANS/WAM) The price of OPEC’s basket of thirteen crudes rose to $35.23 a barrel on Thursday, from $35.05 on Wednesday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations. The OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes is…
Tehran, March 11 (IANS) Moscow is set to deliver Russian-made surface-to-air S-300 missile defence systems to Iran before the end of this year, an official said. “I think we will deliver the S-300 by the…
London, March 11 (IANS) What makes computers and a human brain different when it comes to recognising images? The presence of an “atomic” unit of recognition – a minimum amount of information an image must…
Jakarta, March 11 (IANS) Authorities in western Indonesia on Friday began efforts to fight forest fires, as the dry season begins to set in. On Tuesday, the Sumatran province declared a state of emergency over…
Paris, March 11 (IANS) France is testing its reaction to hypothetical attacks on the venues that will host the matches of Euro 2016 football tournament from June 10, with imaginary scenes of shootings with Kalashnikov…
AIDS New York, March 11 (IANS) Men infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at greater risk of suffering from brittle and fragile bones than women, finds new research. The results showed that in HIV-infected…