London, May 10 (IANS) Researchers from the Michigan State University in the US have found that a strain of bacteria called Wolbachia bacterium can infect mosquitoes and make them resistant to the malaria parasite. The study, published in the journal Science, said the parasite struggled to survive in infected mosquitoes, [...]

New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) From viral conjunctivitis to corneal ulcer, the merciless summer can cause all sort of eye-related problems. Water, eye exercises and other remedies can help protect them. Sanjay Dhawan, director, ophthalmology at Fortis Healthcare, shares some of the common eye problems during summer and tips on [...]

Shimla, May 10 (IANS) If sizzling plains of north India are getting you down, think about holidaying in Himachal Pradesh. The weatherman Friday forecast more thundershowers and even fresh spells of snow in the hills this weekend. “A fresh likely to be active again in the western Himalayas till May [...]

New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) The government would soon come up with a central coordinating agency on organ transplants, the ministry of health Friday said. The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) will be set up at Safdarjung Hospital, Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Jagdish Prasad told reporters [...]

Chandigarh, May 10 (IANS) A majority of the chemists’ shops in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh remained shut Friday following the call for a nation-wide, one-day strike against the central government’s new drug policy and its impact on traders. Except for a few such shops at major government and leading private [...]

New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Over 20,000 slum dwellers were treated by a team of 262 doctors in a month-long campaign by the Art of Living (AoL) foundation, it was announced here Friday. The 108 free health checkup and awareness camps were launched April 14 in collaboration with the Indian [...]

Lucknow, May 10 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Friday expressed his concern over growing crime against women and children and called for inclusion of moral values in the curriculum of educational institutions. Speaking at the fourth convocation at the Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar University here, the president said growing incidence [...]

Dehra Dun : This capital city of Uttarakhand boasts of some of the best schools of not only the country but the world, and institutions like The Doon School, Welham Boys and Welham Girls have put it on the world map of education. But quality education is perhaps limited to [...]

Lucknow, May 10 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Minister Shiv Pal Singh Yadav Friday turned down an invitation to him and his ministry officials from the US’ Johns Hopkins University. The minister for his decision cited the “humiliation” of his cabinet colleague Mohammad Azam Khan during his visit to Boston. “There [...]

Moscow, May 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Bears waking up after winter hibernation in Tomsk in Siberia are better behaved this year than last year, a wildlife official said Friday. “Compared to this time in previous years, things are somehow calmer now, there were times when about a dozen bears had to [...]