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Dubai: The role he really wanted and was never offered was that of ‘Agent 007’, probably because he is too short, Shah Rukh Khan said Wednesday here, tongue firmly in cheek. However, Shah Rukh Khan added that he is ‘brown enough’ to play the baddie...

New York: Scientists have discovered, for the first time, water molecules on the surface of an asteroid. The team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in the US looked at four silicate-rich asteroids using the FORCAST instrument from the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)...

New Delhi: One in five migratory species is threatened with extinction and 44 per cent have a decreasing population trend, according to the United Nations' first 'State of the World's Migratory Species' report released Monday. The situation is far worse in aquatic ecosystems, with 97...

New Delhi: Here is a guide to the week ahead for you. This is your forecast for February 12-18. Aries This week, there is a feeling of excitement and opportunity in your career sector. The stars will make you inclined towards interests that allow you...

Chennai: Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, fondly addressed as ‘MS’ by his friends and colleagues, made the stellar contribution of making the nation foodgrain surplus. In the process Swaminathan ended dependency on American wheat imports. Swaminathan is the father of India’s green revolution, the celebrated agronomist, who...

New York: Mutant wolves around Chernobyl, where the world’s worst nuclear accident took place 35 years ago, has now developed anti-cancer abilities, an advance that may open door for cure against the deadly disease, according to a study. In 1986, a nuclear reactor at the...

Subhankari Sudeshna Dash, not a stranger to failures, achieved a significant milestone by securing rank 2 in OPSC OCS 2020 examinations. In her own words, this success follows a series of setbacks, making it the second defining moment in her life. Civil services journey  ...

New Delhi: Son of a schoolteacher from Aligarh district in Uttar Pradesh, Vijay Shekhar Sharma was enamoured by Jack Ma-run Alibaba's focus on smartphones rather than desktop computers, when he built a digital payments company that would let Indians pay for vegetables, pay utility bills...

New Delhi: Even as cancer incidence is continuing to increase in India, experts on World Cancer Day Sunday suggested that if cancer is detected and diagnosed at an initial stage, then cure rate is very high. World Cancer Day is observed February 4 each year....

Melbourne: Last week, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, had implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company's PRIME study, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last year, is testing a brain implant for “people with paralysis...