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American boy's death puts spotlight on opioid crisis

Detectives are still trying to piece together the child's final day.

19 July 2017 1:49 PM IST

People with a hereditary form of schizophrenia, or a subset of the general schizophrenic population, are deficient in the brain protein DISC1, an important multi-function scaffolding protein vital to key brain functions (Photo: Pixabay)

Now a way to fight schizophrenia discovered

Researchers find people with schizophrenia lack a protein vital to key brain functions.

19 July 2017 1:26 PM IST

The study pointed out that this wasnt same in case of women (Photo: AFP)

Religious men rejecting porn more likely to watch it in private

The research said that men without religious affiliations who call porn immoral are less likely to watch it anyways.

19 July 2017 1:15 PM IST

Study shows that those who bulk up face significant increases in health problems, from heart disease to unhealthy aging (Photo: Pixabay)

Five kilos weight gain in middle age may boost risk of disease

Study says even modest weight gain in adults is linked to of major chronic diseases and non traumatic death.

19 July 2017 12:54 PM IST

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Poor sleep may increase risk of Alzheimer's disease: study

Here's what a new study found.

19 July 2017 12:37 PM IST

According to the research, rather than humans actively taming wild wolves, it would have started with the animals approaching hunter-gatherer camps in search of food. (Photo: AP)

Study sheds new light on dog domestication

Experts say pet dogs trace their roots to single group of wolves that crossed path of humans 40,000 years ago.

19 July 2017 12:36 PM IST

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This monsoon, let's be HepAware!

WHO reports Hepatitis A is one of the most frequent causes of food-borne infections

19 July 2017 11:26 AM IST

Sadat Hasan Mantos tales on Partition being dramatised in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Broadcast narrates Manto's tales of Partition riots

Fauzia Dastango, who performed last evening, said she identified with Manto's work.

19 July 2017 12:40 AM IST

Alia Bhatt, Kangana Ranaut and Deepika Padukone

A classic check mate

Checks isn't restricted to a board game, floor tiles or a picnic blanket anymore.

19 July 2017 12:38 AM IST

Irshad Alam Khubi conducting a class.

Through the eyes of a storyteller

Condemning conventional style of education, Irshad Alam Khubi started an organisation that educates underprivileged...

19 July 2017 12:36 AM IST

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Classroom faux pas

The class in question was the Foundation Course, which is one that all students of the Masters programme take when they...

19 July 2017 12:17 AM IST

My mom is a support system, says Kanwar Dhillon

She is not only my support system but a support system to my entire family.

19 July 2017 12:14 AM IST