During the one year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s term, the ministry of railways has claimed several “new beginnings†and “key reformsâ€. Among its achievements: More rail track (1,375 km) electrified in one year than ever before; earnings increased 12 percent; more bio-toilets installed; and a feasibility report...
An India-born Singaporean member of parliament has decided against contesting the upcoming general elections, the media reported on Saturday....
After spotting stunning mountain ranges on Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission has now found evidence of exotic ice flowing across Pluto's surface and a surprising extended haze - a phenomenon only seen on active worlds like Earth and Mars....
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a Sun-like star....
Debunking the latest discovery claiming that the first people to reach the Americas came from Siberia, now in Russia, around 23,000 years ago, new research proposes that native Americans living in the Amazon bear an unexpected genetic connection to indigenous people in Australasia....
A Titan Arum, believed to be the world's largest flower, bloomed this week in Tokyo's Jindai Botanical Garden for the first time in five years....
A unique saturated fat found in fish and whole fat daily products can reverse diabetes, researchers have reported after discovering that dolphins suffering from prediabetes were cured when fed with a modified diet rich in the saturated fat....
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first year in office, the health ministry has relaunched existing programmes and claimed credit for programmes not launched by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government....
Banning Indian doctors and medical students from wearing long-sleeved white coats could reduce the spread of infections in hospitals, says a new study....
The New Horizons probe has found a second mountain range situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain on the lower-left edge of Pluto....
