Microsoft booked an $8.4 billion charge in the fourth quarter, swallowing a bitter pill by writing off the Nokia phone business it bought just over a year ago. It narrowly beat analysts’ depressed expectations for a quarter that also saw a steep decline in personal computer sales even as it prepares to launch its latest operating system, Windows 10. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant posted a net loss of […]
She is the daughter of a daily labourer construction worker. Her foot were on ground but she wanted to gallop into the sky. She didn’t have money to buy shoes, but her legs yearned to fly. She won India most laurels, put India on the world map. Until one day, she was stripped off her dignity. She is Santhi Soundarajan. Recently, the media has been abuzz with the story of […]
Surgeons in China have restored the use of a hand severed in an industrial accident by grafting it onto a man’s ankle for a month before re-attaching it to his arm. The groundbreaking surgery was carried at at Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province in central China. A worker, named only as Mr Zhou, lost his left hand when it was completely severed by a spinning blade machine at the […]
Iran and six major world powers reached a landmark nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East. US President Barack Obama praised the deal as one built on verification, not trust, and said it would help stop the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. “Every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off,” Obama said in […]
NEW YORK: 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. In particular, high levels of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE) found in the meconium (a newborn’s first stool) from a mother’s alcohol use during pregnancy can alert doctors that a child may develop cognitive problems in teenage years, the findings showed. “We wanted to […]
It is a worry for women over 40, many of whom take large doses of calcium to keep their bones strong after the menopause. We’ve always been told that calcium is the key to lifelong bone health, but last week a German study found that it could also double your risk of suffering a heart attack. It is a worry for women over 40, many of whom take large […]
MTV’s extended trailer for the new fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles has been unveiled. Terry Brooks’s acclaimed novel is coming to screens for the very first time in January 2016, reported Digital Spy. An unveiling of the first full-length trailer at Comic-Con International comes mere weeks after season one wrapped in New Zealand. Watch the trailer here: Please follow and like us:
LONDON :(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Just $160 per year for each person living in extreme poverty would eradicate world hunger by 2030, the United Nations said on Friday, recommending the money should be delivered through both cash transfers and “pro-poor” investments. Eliminating hunger is one of the U.N.’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), new objectives set to replace the eight expiring U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The SDGs will be finalised […]
Toronto: Scientists have discovered a striking new species of horned dinosaur in southern Alberta, Canada. Based on fossils collected from a bone bed, the team from the Royal Ontario Museum found the dinosaur named Wendiceratops pinhornensis that is approximately 20-feet long and weighs more than a ton. It lived about 79 million years ago, making it one of the oldest known members of the family of large-bodied horned dinosaurs that […]
VILNIUS: Indian students have started to explore new parts of Europe for higher education and many are headed to Lithuania. Lithuania has recorded a massive increase in the number of Indian students heading to its universities with the latest data showing that the number of Indian students studying full time in the Baltic country have increased from 37 in 2011 to 357 in 2014. In 2012, there were 57 students […]
