Sania Mirza's latest Grand Slam triumph at Wimbledon is a testament to what Indian women are capable of achieving, but there is a long way to go before change sets in for most women who wish to take up sports as a profession in this country, feels badminton ace Saina Nehwal....
Of more than 110 million rural households without toilets across India in 2012, the government has been able to assist 11 million households in building toilets. That means, nearly 99 million households need toilets over the next four years, if the government is to meet the target set by the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign) by October 2,...
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Wednesday warned the medical superintendent of the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital over his controversial remark on a nurses' room in the hospital....
Analysis of a newborn's first stool can alert doctors whether a child is at risk of problems with intelligence and reasoning, new research shows....
The former vice-president of South Korea's flagship carrier Korean Air Lines Co., has asked a US court to dismiss a civil lawsuit that was filed by a flight attendants involved in last year's "nut rage" case....
India has dismissed as "petty, to the point of being ludicrous", the criticism over Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif walking up to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the meeting room in Ufa, Russia, on July 10....
An Australian woman faces deportation from the United Arab Emirates for an "objectionable" post on Facebook, media reported on Tuesday. ...
London, July 12 It was Christopher Columbus who discovered America but new evidence suggests the Chinese were exploring the Americas at least a thousand years before Christ....
Compared to those in the developed world, middle classes in India and other developing countries are more susceptible to Type-2 diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases, thanks to their undernourished ancestors, says a study....
A layer of the Indian and Pacific oceans, between 100-300 metres below the surface, has been accumulating more heat than previously recognised, thus temporarily hiding global warming, NASA has reported....
