Started in 1989, World Haemophilia Day is observed each year on April 17 to raise awareness and also to raise funds for the bleeding disorder. Haemophilia is a congenital lifelong bleeding disorder that prevents the blood from clotting properly, leading to internal bleeding; mostly in the joints, muscles and vital organs like the brain. In many cases, the disease leads to permanent disability. Major Types   There are two major […]

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (popularly known as Babasaheb) used education as a tool to rise above the ordinary and become one of the great leaders of modern India, an effective fighter against the discrimination present in a caste-ridden society, and one of the chief architects of the Indian Constitution. As jurist, economist, politician and social reformer, his life is an example to all of us. On his 124th birth anniversary today, […]

  LONDON: India’s foremost mental health expert who spends most of his time between Goa and London has now been named as among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Professor Vikram Patel, who has done seminal research on suicides in India hopes that his presence in the list makes the Indian government wake up to the serious shortage of programmes and experts meant specially to deal with […]

The innovative minds behind Google have repeatedly declared immortality is not a fantasy but a certainty. Bill Maris, the president and managing partner of Google Ventures, suggested the means to combat all diseases and age-related conditions could be available within his lifetime. Maris said, We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough […]

Low levels of vitamin D have been linked to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia and arthritis, as well as childhood illnesses. So is sunshine and oily fish enough – or should you take supplements?   Vitamin D, the so-called sunshine vitamin, is rarely out of the news. Take the past fortnight: a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology found that people with low levels of vitamin D […]

They are rich, they are posh, they are good looking – but underneath all that lies the craziness in the Mehra family. The much awaited trailer is out and boy does it raise the expectations. Anil Kapoor and Shefali Shah play rich parents to a bratty Ranveer Singh who keeps running away from commitment and a unhappily married Priyanka Chopra. The trailer speaks volumes of the miscommunication, the daggers drawn […]

In an incredibly thoughtless act, Saeed left the confines of his car to take a picture of the lion, and he sat on the ground with the car door left open, only a “jump away from the lion.” However, the camera shutter alerted the lion to his presence and he went from the hunter to the hunted. “The feel of the aggressive, approaching lion from the camera is something that […]

An iconic scene from Dereck and Beverly Joubert’s film Eye of the Leopard where a curious Legedema discovers a newborn baby baboon that brings out a different response to the one you’d expect. Please follow and like us:

HYDERABAD: There may not be many takers for the famous Ongole bull in its native Andhra Pradesh, but Brazilians have second bred it by the lakhs and are in turn exporting it to other countries at very high prices. Realizing that the original Ongole bull has become the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg, the Brazilians have now sought permission from the Chennai-based National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) to take […]

LONDON: He has managed to stand his ground against hawks like UKIP leader Nigel Farage, coalition partner turned critic Nick Clegg and his primary tormentor and prime minister hopeful Labour leader Ed Miliband.   But Britain’s prime minister David Cameron was left stumped on Tuesday by a bouncer coming from an unlikely foe – a 10 year-old.   With just over 20 days to go before Britain goes into what […]