US set to declare Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist group
Washington: A US official says the state department intends to designate a Nigerian Islamist militant group as a foreign terrorist organization on Wednesday. Designating the group called Boko Haram, which wants to impose Islamic law across northern Nigeria, means that US regulatory agencies are instructed to block business and financial transactions with the organization. Boko Haram, which has been blamed for thousands of deaths in the past four
Late bedtimers will have lower grades
Los Angeles: Late bedtimes may lead to poor academic performance and emotional distress later in life in teenagers, a new study has warned. Researchers found that teens with late bedtimes during the school year and schooldays that start early are mor
World sends emergency relief to battered Philippines
Manila: The United States, Australia and the United Nations mobilised emergency aid to the Philippines as the scale of the devastation unleashed by Super Typhoon Haiyan emerged on Monday. The Pentagon sent Marines and equipment to assist with the rel
Soon, car that can warn driver of heart attack
Tokyo: Japanese researchers are developing a new car that can not only warn its driver of an impending heart attack, but also predict the ailment in advance. The car will have two electric poles for electrocardiographic monitoring and sensors mounted
Haiyan leaves over 10,000 dead in Philippines, heads towards Vietnam
Hanoi: The death toll from a super typhoon that decimated entire towns in the Philippines could soar well over 10,000, authorities warned on Sunday, making it the country's worst recorded natural disaster. The horrifying estimates came as rescue work
Haiyan kills at least 1,200 in Philippines
Tacloban: One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall devastated the central Philippines, killing more than 1,000 people in one city alone and 200 in another province, the Red Cross estimated on Saturday, as reports of high casualties began t
Scientists develop new tearless onions
Washington: Good news for housewives! Scientists have developed a new type of ‘tearless’ onions that produce less of the protein blamed for making eyes burn and tear up. The ‘tearless’ onions not only prevent eyes from burns a
Sweetie sting by Dutch activists catches 100 Indian child sex predators
Amsterdam: Enlisting the help of a computer-generated 10-year-old Philippine girl, Dutch children's rights activists turned online sex predators into their prey. Out of the 1,000 internet users who were found to be sex predators, over a 100 were Indi
Indian-origin scientist develops app to check noise pollution
Melbourne: A group of scientists led by an Indian-origin researcher in Australia has developed a new smartphone application that can be used to monitor stress-causing noise in urban areas. Researchers from the prestigious Commonwealth Scientific and
