April 3, 2013
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
April 3, 2013
WASHINGTON: Big Pharma found little support from the small guy on the street as the Indian Supreme Court's decision to reject patent claims of the drug maker Novartis for its celebrated cancer medicine Gleevec reverberated across the world.
April 3, 2013
Women in India have been increasingly applying for gun licenses after the rape and murder of a woman in Delhi last December. The number of applications has doubled since the incident, when a young medical student was attacked by six men and assaulted with a metal rod.
Protesting rape culture in India
April 2, 2013
Washington — Calling a new Medical Council of India (MCI) entrance test adopted by some state governments as discriminatory to NRI students, several Indian community organizations in the US have sought its gradual implementation over two years.
April 2, 2013
Washington — The White House has urged the Senate to swiftly confirm Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan to what is "often called the nation's second-highest court", the US court of appeals for the American capital.
April 2, 2013
WASHINGTON: The US has started accepting petition for the much sought H-1B work visas, amidst fear from industry experts and officials that the Congressional mandated quota of 65,000 might get filled up in the first week itself.
April 2, 2013
BEIJING: Though BRICS has emerged as dynamic emerging economic group with its plan to set up a development bank, it would be "unrealistic" to expect the grouping to challenge US hegemony as the member nations face many hurdles, including territorial disputes, preventing them from deeper cooperation, according to a Chinese scholar.
April 2, 2013
SYDNEY: Global media baron Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday accused the government of his native Australia of "disgraceful and racist" language over a crackdown on visas for skilled migrants.
April 1, 2013
Government forces in Kashmir are increasingly using non-lethal weapons to uphold security in the region. Possibly hundreds have been injured from the weapons, with children and the elderly particularly vulnerable to the effects of chemical weapons.
