London, Oct 17 (IANS) Oscar Pistorius’s chief defence lawyer Friday said the paralympic athlete has “lost everything” since killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp but the prosecution said he deserved at least 10 years behind bars. On the fifth day of the sentencing hearing, defence lawyer Barry Roux said Pistorius had “not earned a penny” since fatally […]
Mysore, Oct 17 (IANS) Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Friday announced the setting up of five new national-level institutions along the lines of the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH). “A committee would soon be formed to decide on the location of the new centres. A parallel endeavour would be to set up speech […]
Islamabad, Oct 17 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will Sunday send his top security adviser Sartaj Aziz to Kabul as special envoy for talks with the new leadership, officials here said Friday. It will be the first formal visit of a senior Pakistani official to visit Kabul since formation of the government of national unity […]
London, Oct 15 (IANS) Personalised treatment for Type 2 diabetes could be available soon as researchers have found that yohimbin, a drug that was de-registered for several years, effectively blocks damaging effects of a gene variant that impairs insulin production. The drug showed promise in both animal experiments as well as in trials with donated human […]
Vienna, Oct 15 (IANS) Austria is under “a certain kind” of threat of terrorist attacks from the extremist group of Islamic State (IS), a senior security official said. “About 150 people, most of whom have Russian citizenship and are believed to be Chechens, have travelled from Austria to take part in conflicts in Syria and Iraq,” […]
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 15 (IANS) Thirteen Malaysians, believed to be linked to the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, have been arrested, media reported Wednesday. “The suspects were detained at several locations in Shah Alam, the capital of the western Selangor state, Tuesday,” The Star reported citing Malaysian Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar. The police were […]
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have questioned the technical feasibility of the ‘Mars One’ project that aims to establish the first human colony on the Red Planet by 2025. ‘Mars One’ is a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands that has put forward conceptual plans to establish a permanent […]
London, Oct 15 (IANS) Women who are shy and more sensitive to stress are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, found a research. Women who worry, cope poorly with stress and experience mood swings in middle age run a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life, it showed. “Some studies have shown that long […]
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) US President Barack Obama warned that there would be periodic setbacks in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) and said it is a long-term campaign. “This is going to be a long-term campaign; there are no quick fixes involved,” Obama said after a meeting with coalition military leaders at Joint Base […]
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) The European Space Agency’s Philae lander has snapped a “selfie” of one of the Rosetta spacecraft’s 16-metre solar arrays, with a comet hovering in the background some 16 km away. This is the last image from the Philae lander before it separates from Rosetta Nov 12 to land on the comet named […]