Paris: Internationally-acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami has passed away in France where he had been receiving treatment for cancer. The 76-year-old award-winning scholar succumbed to a stroke in Paris on Monday, a few days after leaving Tehran. In March 2016, Kiarostami was diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer, following which he underwent a series of operations. […]
Miami : NASA’s unmanned Juno spacecraft began orbiting Jupiter, a key triumph for a USD 1.1 billion mission that aims to uncover the origins of the biggest planet in the solar system. “Welcome to Jupiter,” said a commentator at mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The room erupted in cheers as […]
Even moderate consumption of alcohol may increase the risk of several types of cancer, a new study has warned. According to researchers at the University of Otago, drinking was responsible for 236 cancer deaths under 80 years of age in New Zealand in 2012. The research builds on previous work that identified 30% of all […]
New Delhi: Ultra marathon runner Arun Bhardwaj, who will be taking part in the first ever multi city ultra marathon, ‘The Great India Run’, said running on the highways would be challenging with smoke and noise around. “I have participated in ultra marathons earlier but in this race, road will itself be a challenge as […]
New Delhi: 17 new faces including BJP leaders S S Ahluwalia, and M J Akbar and allies Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal and Ramdas Athawale of RPI were today inducted along with two old hands Vijay Goel and Faggan Kulaste into the Modi government in expansion and reshuffle in which five were dropped and Environment […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Amid reports that Marxist veteran VS Achuthanandan is set to be appointed Chairman of Kerala Administrative Reforms Commission, the LDF government today decided to amend the relevant law to confer him the post with Cabinet rank. A draft bill to amend the law related to the commission was approved by the state Cabinet which […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed former Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan’s petition demanding a CBI probe into the Kozhikode ice-cream parlour sex case. The alleged sex racket in the early 1990s involved an ice cream parlour in Kozhikode in Kerala and was flagged as “ice-cream parlour sex case” by the media. Several […]
Thiruvananthapuram: A top bureaucrat in Kerala has apologised on social media after a public spat with a Congress MP. Kozhikode Collector Prasanth Nair – a social-media savvy officer popular as ‘collector bro’ among his online fans – and lawmaker MK Raghavan fought very publicly for days. It started when Mr Raghavan accused the officer of […]
London: Artificial pancreas – a device which monitors blood glucose in patients with diabetes and automatically adjusts levels of insulin entering the body – is likely to be available by 2018, scientists say.Currently available technology allows insulin pumps to deliver insulin to people with diabetes after taking readings from glucose meters, but these two components […]
Beijing: At least 93 people have been killed and 19 others are reported missing in China after torrential rains lashed several provinces of the country in the last four days, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said today. Incessant rainfall since June 30 has destroyed 22,000 houses and forced 726,000 people to relocate in many provinces […]