Geneva: India accounted for the highest estimated number of suicides in the world in 2012, according to a WHO report published Thursday which found that one person commits suicide every 40 seconds globally. In the WHO South-East Asia Region, the estimated suicide rate is the highest as compared to other WHO regions. Suicide rates show a peak among the young and the elderly, the report said. Most suicides in the […]

Washington: A new study has found that stimulating a specific part of brain with non-invasive electric current, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, could boost a person’s memory.  Senior author Joel Voss at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said that the study showed for the first time that memory functions of the brain in adults could be specifically changed without surgery or drugs. It had tremendous potential for treating memory disorders. […]

New Delhi: In what could be a warning bell for the security agencies in India, reports have emerged that the dreaded Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group have been recruiting youths from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir to fight in Iraq, Syria and other places in the Middle East. As per reports, over hundred youths may have joined the jihadist militant group as of now […]

Jihadist fighters captured a major military air base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, removing the last government-held post in a province the extremists claim as part of their new “Islamic State.” The storming of Tabqa air field, a major government military facility containing several squadrons of planes, helicopters, tanks and artillery, is a significant victory for the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). “Some of the Syrian […]

Information, comments or views about us through others’ eyes is ‘environmental feedback’. Our quality of life depends on how we take the feedback about ourselves from others.If we know how to handle this properly,then it will help to keep us on track on our life plan. It also helps us become wiser and saves us from various psychosomatic illnesses. On the surface, environmental feedback can be either pleasant or unpleasant […]

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, […]

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 […]

Fashionistas take note: the latest in haute couture could be distressed jeans that have been ripped by lions, tigers and bears. A zoo fundraising group in Japan raised $3,500 last month after selling three pairs of denim jeans that were gnawed and clawed by lions and tigers. The group — the Mineko Club — created the special “Zoo Jeans” to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund and the local […]

India will soon be able to convert its plastic wastes into high-grade petrol and diesel, thanks to a breakthrough by researchers at the Dehradun-based Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP). The IIP, a constituent lab of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, has for the first time in the country developed a technology to convert plastic waste into petroleum products. The green technology is so far available only in Germany, […]

The Indian economy could lose $30 billion annually with the IT industry being the hardest hit if the Immigration Bill under consideration in the US Congress becomes a law, Indian American Advisory Council of House Republican Conference of US Parliament has said. The IAAC, which advises US House of Representatives on India related issues, stated the ‘US Immigration Bill S744’ calls for significantly cutting down on outsourcing of work for […]