Abuja, June 2 (IANS) At least a dozen people were feared killed on Tuesday in a blast in a livestock market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, capital of the restive Borno State, a security source said. Many traders were hit by the bomb blast at Gamboru, a big market in the city, the source […]
London, June 1 (IANS) At a time when the use of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) in clinical practice has gradually reduced, a new article contends that there is ‘no clinically relevant evidence’ for the withdrawal of nitrous oxide. The issue whether laughing gas (nitrous oxide) should be banned from the operating room figured prominently in […]
New York, June 1 (IANS) Contact lenses may be the root cause of frequent eye infections, says a study. Researchers from the New York University (NYU) identified a diverse set of microorganisms in the eyes of daily contact lens wearers, which closely resemble the group of microorganisms of their eyelid skin than the bacterial grouping […]
Vienna, June 1 (IANS/WAM) The basket of 12 crude oils of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) closed at $60.47 a barrel on Friday compared to $59.33 last Thursday, the organisation’s secretariat said. The OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes is made up of Murban (UAE), Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Iran Heavy […]
London, June 1 (IANS) Can hormones also affect our morality? A new study says they can — with findings that high levels of testosterone – the male sex hormone – make people more prone to corruption. Researchers from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, also found that human beings may be naturally predisposed to corruption, Daily […]
Seoul, June 1 (IANS) Barely weeks after North Korea announced its first launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine, South Korea and the US conducted their biggest joint anti-submarine naval exercise, the Seoul government announced on Monday. The five-day military drill on South Korean waters close to Jeju island began on Saturday with the […]
Kabul, June 1 (IANS) At least 25 militants were killed in clashes that erupted after attacks on several security check posts in Afghanistan’s restive Kandahar province, media reported on Monday. According to officials, Taliban militants attacked security check posts in Kalamshah, Surkh Abad, Rud Kala and Enzar Kala areas of Marouf district leading to heavy […]
New York, June 1 (IANS) A young mother, shocked to find her picture of publicly breastfeeding her son on Facebook, has shot a furious letter to the person who had posted the picture. The person, stranger to the woman, had clicked the photo while she was feeding her child in public and posted it on […]
Washington, May 31 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry will return to the US on Sunday after fracturing his leg in a cycling accident in France earlier in the day, the State Department said. Kerry broke his right femur in the accident and, given the injury is near the site of his prior hip […]
Islamabad/New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) India’s objections to the 3,000 km-long Pakistan-China Economic Corridor (PCEC) notwithstanding, Islamabad was firmly committed to the $46 billion project and would not permit any attempt to sabotage it, a key advisor to the prime minister said. Sartaj Aziz, foreign affairs and national security advisor to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]