Anxious parents are more likely to have anxious children, a study on rhesus monkeys has revealed. It added that the risk of developing anxiety and depression is passed from parents to children. An over-active brain circuit involving three brain areas inherited from generation to generation may set the stage for developing anxiety and depressive disorders, […]
Music composer Pritam Chakraborty, who is making his Bollywood comeback through Salman Khan-starrer “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”, says keeping the star cast aside, it’s the music of a film that draws the audience to theatres. “I think once the music (of a film) is a hit, more than half the battle is won for a filmmaker. Music […]
The AAP government has decided to install jammers to prevent cheating with the help of high-tech electronic gadgets in examinations held for Delhi government jobs. The growing use of electronic devices in written tests has the city government worried over the possibility of incompetent candidates entering the government. “After successfully using the jammers in a […]
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one, as the old song goes. Who know this better than South Asia’s policemen, who saw criminals strike alliances with politicians to become their masters, terrorists become another implacable enemy and jealous colleagues turn out to be most lethal. This makes for a complicated life of compromised principles, […]
The sixth edition of the Jagran Film Festival came to an end on Sunday with the screening of National Award-winning filmmaker Nila Madhab Panda’s satirical drama film “Kaun Kitney Paani Mein”. The screening of the film – based on water crisis, caste and the power equation when water, the most important resource, vanishes and how […]
Unesco has designated several new World Heritage Sites in Norway, Germany, Israel, Britain and the US during the 39th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in the western German city of Bonn. Norway’s Rjukan-Notodden industrial site includes a group of hydraulic centers and was built early in the last century by the Norsk Hydro company […]
Australia’s Sydney Opera House has joined a growing list of cultural institutions worldwide to crack down on the use of the telescopic camera attachment that gives a wider field of view for “selfie”-style photographs, media reported on Monday. Sydney Opera House was the most instagrammed site in Australia in 2014, Xinhua news agency reported. A […]
The residents of the Chinese capital are obsessed with the weather. The first thing they check in the morning on their phone application is the pollution level. And then they look out of the window. What they hope for is a ‘Blue Sky’ – a portender of sunny, pollution free day. They even have a […]
Top police officers who undertook rare deterrent action against the killings on the streets of Delhi following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 ran into a wall of disapproval from the police leadership, according to a new book. Some of the most dramatic police action came from additional deputy […]
Initial results of Greek’s referendum on the signing of a new debt deal with creditors showed the “No” campaign leading by a significant margin, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Of the 14.09 percent of votes counted till 8:33 p.m. on Sunday, 60.15 percent were “No” votes, while 39.85 percent were “Yes” votes, the ministry […]