Used as a route between Ladakh and Kashmir, the Zojila mountain pass is located at a staggering 11,580ft above sea level and is enclosed by Kashmir valley on one side and Drass valley on the other. The narrow road is on the western section of the Himalayas mountain range and is part of the 275-mile long route from Srinagar to Leh It is said to be one of the most […]

London: Do not throw that pomegranate peel in the garbage bin. In the near future, it may be a source of drugs for two incurable diseases that affect the elderly. Two years of research by a Nigerian scientist has shown that sufferers of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease could be helped by punicalagin, a compound extracted from pomegranates. Olumayokun Olajide from the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire showed how punicalagin […]

A robot sent out to travel across Canada by hitch-hiking has completed its 6,000km (3,728-mile) trip – apparently in one piece. HitchBOT reached Canada’s Pacific coast at Victoria, British Columbia nearly three weeks after leaving Halifax in Nova Scotia, far away on the Atlantic coast, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports. “I’m on a boat,” one of HitchBOT’s last tweets says. “Well, a ferry to be exact. Victoria, I’m on my […]

The Principality of Monaco has the highest density of millionaires in the world, according to a research report. About one in three in the city-state of Monaco is a millionaire, according to a study done by Wealth Insight and wealth management magazine SPEAR’s. The study ranked ranks cities by percentage of millionaires in its total population. Wealth Insight is a London-based wealth consultancy. The study classified 29.21 per cent of […]

New York: Several people reported seeing a ring of blinking lights in the sky in Texas during a recent lightning storm and have claimed that it was a UFO. lot of pictures and videos have been circulated on social networking sites and the best footage was recorded by Houston musician Andrew Pena, who he was videoing the spectacular lightning show while driving, the New York Post reported. In the video, […]

A large number of people who use detoxification of the body are interested in learning how to clean their colon. Colon may be the last and key to the digestive tract. It extracts water and salt from solid wastes. To possess a healthy digestive tract, then colon cleaning is essential. Additionally, it prevents cancer of the colon. Colon cleansing will remove all the rubbish that you have in your body, […]

Beirut:  More than 180,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict broke out in March 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a new toll published on Thursday. The Britain-based monitoring group, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said it had documented the deaths of 180,215 people. Among them were 58,805 civilians, including 9,428 children and 6,036 women. The group said 49,699 […]

Using both types of polio vaccine could speed up efforts to free the world of the disease, research suggests. The oral vaccine is leading the fight to eradicate polio, but trials in India show an additional injection of inactivated virus boosts immunity. The World Health Organization said the findings, published in the journal Science, were “truly historic”. The disease, which is spread through contaminated faeces, can cause paralysis and even […]

Washington: A new research has suggested that common cold infections are temporarily linked to increased stroke risk in vulnerable children. Researchers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco found that the risk of stroke was increased only within a three-day period between a child’s visit to the doctor for signs of infection and having the stroke. Senior author Heather Fullerton, MD, a pediatric vascular neurologist and medical director of the […]

Kaleem, from India, was born with hands twice the size of an average baby Continued to grow and now weigh two stone meaning simple tasks are hard They each measure 13 inches from the base of palm to end of middle finger Local doctors baffled by condition which has seen youngster be bullied over An eight-year-old boy has left doctors baffled after his hands swelled to giant proportions and now […]