WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Hundreds of thousands of animals set to be slaughtered during two-day religious festival in Nepal The Hindu festival is held every five years in honour of Gadhimai, the goddess of power Festivities kicked off on Friday morning with the mass-slaughter of 5,000-6,000 buffalo in a field The last time the festival was held, in 2009, more than 250,000 animals were killed, according to PETA More than 250,000 […]

Google is working on a cancer-detecting pill in its latest effort to push the boundaries of technology. Still in the experimental stage, the pill is packed with tiny magnetic particles, which can travel through a patient’s bloodstream, search for malignant cells and report their findings to a sensor on a wearable device. As many as 2,000 of these microscopic “nanoparticles” could fit inside a single red blood cell to provide […]

Hyderabad: What has Hyderabad Biryani got to do with terror activities in India? As the latest discovery by the police in Hyderabad suggests, both are connected in a bizarre way. Hyderabad Biryani is the code name for literature on explosives recovered from two activists of Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The two – Shah Mudassir, 25, from Omerkhed and Shoeb Ahmed Khan, 24, from Akhada in Maharashtra – were […]

Ten-year-old Sadiq, who has blood cancer, wanted to be police commissioner, and his wish was granted on Wednesday. Dressed in khaki uniform and a cap, he beamed with pride when police officers of Hyderabad saluted him, their “chief” for a day. He also had a snappy salute for the cameras, baton tucked under one arm. Sadiq, who is from Karimnagar, has many relatives in the police force. So it was […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic. The money will be used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Ebola response effort in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and elsewhere in the world where Ebola is a threat, the foundation said Tuesday. The grant follows a $9 million donation made by Microsoft […]

Praneeta, Shaheen and Anjali are not related, nor are they friends. Yet, fate tied these three children together in a horrible fashion. Aged between three and five, all three of them were abandoned by their parents in the face of poverty, sold away to brokers for prostitution and pornography, and simply left to be raped and tortured. Their stories, as narrated by social activist Sunitha Krishnan during her TED talk, […]

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 […]

I can not speak for the rest of the Facebook employees, but I can tell my stories to explain why I believe the 99% approval rating is pretty fair. After I joined Facebook in 2010, I worked on a secret project “graph search”. Within a couple months, I attended two Zuck reviews to discuss the project. He absorbed our ideas and provided feedback and support. I am not sure how […]

Dear Satya, As I approach the six month mark of my retirement and your appointment as CEO, I have been reflecting on my life, my ongoing ownership of Microsoft stock, and my involvement with the company. I have reached some conclusions and wanted to share them with you. I know August is the key month during which the company starts to prepare the proxy statement for the next shareholders’ meeting, […]

A mathematician of Indian-origin has won the prestigious Fields Medal, known as the ‘Nobel Prize for mathematics’. Manjul Bhargava, a Canadian-American professor of mathematics at Princeton University, was among four winners of the celebrated award. Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani, who works in the US, has become the first ever female winner of the Fields Medal. The medals will be presented in Seoul at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four […]