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Are you riding with a Romeo?

While they provide pocket-friendly rides about town, shared cab services are increasingly becoming a hotspot for those...

19 Dec 2016 12:11 AM IST

This year, the parties will wrap up soon due to limited cash flow, shares Sukhdeep Singh, a software engineer at an MNC.

No cash, no party

Demonetisation has taken a toll on the New Year plans of many youngsters.

19 Dec 2016 12:10 AM IST

Tobacco levels on labels for hookah misleading: study

Tobacco levels on labels for hookah misleading: study

The actual levels of nicotine vary anywhere from 75 per cent less to three times higher than the amount stated on...

18 Dec 2016 5:54 PM IST

LGBT rights activists said womens safety shouldnt be used to discriminate against gay couples (Photo: AFP)

Gay couples barred from upscale bars in Delhi and Mumbai

A bar in Mumbai simply said the management only allows 'Husband Wife Type Couples' and another also suggested gay...

18 Dec 2016 5:28 PM IST

The artist placed mirrored tiles all arounf

French artist turns cement mixer into disco ball, hosts party

Benedetto Bufalino converted a dark under-construction locality into a party for passersby for two days

18 Dec 2016 4:25 PM IST

Leslie Binns has climbed all the major peaks in UK and was looking to tick Mt. Everest too before the incident happened

Briton abandons Mt. Everest dream to save Indian climber

Binns was enroute when he heard Sunita Hazra slipping down the fixed climbing lines and screaming for help

18 Dec 2016 2:53 PM IST

High BP drugs can control spreading cancer

High BP drugs can control spreading cancer

Calcium channel blockers target Myosin-10 cancer cells blocking cancer cell movement

18 Dec 2016 2:00 PM IST

The Principia famously elucidates Newtons three laws of motion, explaining how objects move under the influences of external forces.(Photo: Anglotopia.net)

Newton's book auctioned for record price

The goat-skin covered 'Principia Mathematica' book was bought for nearly four times the original set value

18 Dec 2016 12:32 PM IST

The virulent H5 strain was detected at several farms across the country due to which the decision was made. (Photo: Pixabay)

Japan culling 210,000 birds amid spreading avian flu

It is the fifth mass cull this winter in Japan with hundreds of officials working to prevent the spread of the virulent...

18 Dec 2016 11:25 AM IST

The zero, which could be thought of as a hole with nothing, suddenly assumes a deeper meaning when it is imagined as a circle. Such was the depth of early Indian thought.

Due credit: Zero changed the world

Our ancient philosophy explains why India was the source for the symbol of nothing.

18 Dec 2016 6:48 AM IST

The discovery of the brain-gut bacteria link can lead to the development of next-generation probiotics which can not just cure, but even one day prevent Parkinsons disease in humans.

New medicine: How the gut breaks the mind

Parkinson's disease has for the first time been linked to bacteria in your stomach.

18 Dec 2016 6:36 AM IST

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Wrap-up: Designer babies

The world of medicine is on the verge of a breakthrough to fix a genetic problem.

18 Dec 2016 4:23 AM IST