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In the most damning study so far, a US research team has found that e-cigarettes, often targeted at youth and pregnant women, damage brain stem cells. Even short-term exposure of e-cigarettes (ECs) produces a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain, said the researchers...
To the horror of thousands of Facebook employees at it Menlo Park, California headquarters, emergency teams evacuated some buildings after a packet with possible sarin (a potentially deadly nerve agent) was detected in the social networking giant's mailing facility....
US stocks ended higher, led by gains in technology shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 117.47 points, or 0.44 per cent, to 26,717.43 on Monday. The S&P 500 increased 22.57 points, or 0.77 per cent, to 2,964.33. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 84.92 points, or 1.06 per cent, to ...
MacKenzie Bezos, wife of world's richest man Jeff Bezos for 25 years, is set to walk away with a whopping $38 billion this week -- roughly $1.52 billion a year since she got married to the Amazon Founder and CEO. The Bezos couple finalised their divorce in April in what was reported as the ...
The Australian government is "close" to a deal that will take it one step closer to legislating its signature 158 billion-Australian-dollar ($110 billion) tax cut package. Stirling Griff, a senator from the Centre Alliance party, told Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio on Tuesday morning that the party was on...
Commuters across Punjab faced inconvenience as employees of the state-owned Punjab Roadways went on a three-day strike on Tuesday, demanding regularisation of their services and raise in salaries. Protestors did not allow buses of Punjab Roadways and Punbus to ply in sev...
Ahead of the Union Budget, the Sensex and Nifty on Tuesday were trading marginally in the red. Union Budget is scheduled to be tabled on July 5. Analysts said that the Budget will be a key trigger for the markets, ahead of which some caution was being ...
Governments asset monetisation programme involving development and sale of surplus land parcel and other non-core assets of public sector enterprises (PSEs) is expected to be big focus of Budget 2019-20 that is constrained to look at various innovative models to mobilise additional resources amidst a slowing ...
Chinese short video-making app TikTok on Tuesday refuted Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's claim that it was illegally collecting data and sending it to China. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour on Monday, Tharoor said there were reports that the Chinese government received data from TikTok through the...
