The five glitzy offshore casinos anchored in the Mandovi river, which are now contemporary landmarks in the state's capital, will be shifted upriver to other locations, even as an anti-corruption outfit claimed that five more casinos could soon be given operating licences....
If you are a girl — educated and from an economically stable family — from an urban area, either Jain, Christian or upper-caste Hindu, the chances are you will not be married before adulthood (18 years), according to a new report....
An extremely powerful telescope on Earth has revealed in detail a huge lava lake on Io - the innermost of the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Italian scientist and scholar Galileo (Galilei) in 1610....
Researchers from the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on smartphone to magnify images and provide schools and clinics a low-cost alternative to the conventional equipment....
For years, scientists have struggled to explain how India could have drifted northward so quickly. Now, geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unearthed India's rapid move toward Eurasia 80 million years ago that later gave rise to the Himalayas....
Their mantra is to strike a balance between the built and natural environments, but an American landscape architect is using that very thinking to provide to sex workers in India new careers in textile and design production. ...
It was my last day in Shanghai. The group I had been traveling with had already left for the U.S. I had decided to stay back for two more days, hoping to explore more of Shanghai, this time all by myself. I wanted to explore more of the Bund and the areas surrounding it. Some of the travel brochures I browsed tout the Bund...
Opting for relief work as against traditional celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the first successful Indian expedition to Mount Everest in 1965, the "living members" of the Indian team of mountaineers have decided to help the quake-affected people in Nepal....
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) policy during last summer's war in Gaza caused unprecedented harm to Palestinian civilians and infrastructure, an Israeli non-governmental organisation has charged. ...
The app, How-Old.net, predicts how old you are when you upload a picture of yourself. The app has gone viral in the past couple of days, reported mirror.co.uk ....
