Month: October 2018

Tiffin: A book on India’s culinary traditions

New Delhi : In some great news for gastronomers, 500 authentic recipes, from family favourites to forgotten treasures and showcasing food from Ladakh to Tamil Nadu and from Maharashtra to Arunachal Pradesh, have been compiled in a book form. With the recipes representing all the regions, ethnic groups, cultural […]

Startups are future of India: Suresh Prabhu

Invest India – WhatsApp partner to empower Indian entrepreneurs & startups In an effort to fuel the growth of India’s entrepreneurial and small business community, Invest India through its flagship initiative Startup India Hub has partnered with WhatsApp on a program that focuses on the proliferation of startups, […]

High hopes & hype for experimental depression drug ketamine

CHICAGO (AP) — It was launched decades ago as an anesthetic for animals and people, became a potent battlefield pain reliever in Vietnam and morphed into the trippy club drug Special K. Now the chameleon drug ketamine is finding new life as an unapproved treatment for depression and […]

Committee of Experts submits its report on Regulating audit firms and the Networks

open view web desk The Committee of Experts has submitted its report on Regulating audit firms and the Networks to the Government of India through the Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The Committee was constituted on April 20, 2018 pursuant to the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the […]

Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad to felicitate the winners of #OpenGovDataHack National Challenge

open view web desk Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad in the august presence of Shri S.S. Ahluwalia, Union Minister of State, Electronics and IT, Shri Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & IT and Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre, […]

Pakistan acquits Christian woman facing death for blasphemy

ISLAMABAD— Pakistan’s top court on Wednesday acquitted a Christian woman who was sentenced to death in 2010 on blasphemy charges, a landmark ruling that could ignite mass protests or violence by hard-line Islamists. Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar announced the verdict to a packed courtroom and ordered Asia […]

Parker Solar Probe breaks speed record, becomes closest spacecraft to sun

The Parker Solar Probe now holds two records: Closest approach to the sun by a spacecraft and fastest human-made object relative to the Sun. Since its launch on Aug. 12 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, the probe has passed Venus and is heading closer to the Sun. In all, the […]

Mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger found dead in West Virginia prison

Notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead Tuesday one day after being transferred to a federal prison in West Virginia, federal officials said. Unnamed sources told the Boston Globe that a fellow inmate with ties to the mafia killed Bulger. Federal investigators were probing the death. “The […]

No benefit to treatment for low-risk mild hypertension, analysis suggests

A study in Britain found no benefits to prescribing drugs for patients with low-risk mild hypertension, contrary to U.S. medical groups’ new guidelines. Researchers from the University of Oxford, Cambridge University and the University of Birmingham came to that conclusion after studying the records of 38,286 patients collected […]

Safety concerns are main reason parents hesitate on HPV vaccine

 Safety concerns are a main reason American parents hesitate to have their children vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV, according to a new study. The finding challenges a common reason given by doctors for not recommending the vaccine more forcefully — that parents are concerned […]

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