Intermittent fasting diets such as the popular 5:2 could improve memory and learning capabilities, finds study.

While this type of regime is typically associated with weight loss, new research on mice has revealed a link between eating every other day and better cognitive function.

In these animals, fasting was found to cause

United Nations: India has topped the list of people living abroad at 17 million with about 5 million Indians residing in the Gulf region alone, according to a new UN report.

Mexico, Russia, China, Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan and Ukraine also have large migrant populations living abroad, ranging from 6 to 11 millio

Mumbai: Hollywood film “Lake of Fire” songs that have been composed by Qutub-E-Kripa, an ensemble of student musicians of AR Rahman’s music academy KM Music Conservatory, have been shortlisted for the Best Original Song at the 2018 Academy Awards.

On Tuesday, the Academy unveiled the list of cont

Chennai: DMK leader M K Stalin today vowed to unravel the “mystery” behind the death of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in December last year and bring to book anyone found involved, as he claimed that the AIADMK government would not last long and his party would return to power.

He said this while canva

New Delhi: Of the 182 newly-elected Gujarat MLAs, 47 have declared criminal cases against them, while 141 are crorepatis, says a report released by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

“Out of the 182 MLAs analysed, 47 (26 per cent) MLAs have declared criminal cases against them. Out of 182 MLAs ana

Houston: Facebook is finally taking stern action against “engagement bait”, where publishers beg users to vote, like or share a post in the hopes of bumping it to the top of people’s news feed by manipulating the social networking site’s algorithms.

Such posts will neither be gone forever,

New Delhi: The government and the opposition today held meetings to resolve the impasse in Rajya Sabha over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “conspiracy with Pak” remark against his predecessor Manmohan Singh during the Gujarat poll campaign, but the stalemate on the issue continued.

Opposition lea

Bengalaru: With the Karnataka government refusing permission to Bollywood actress Sunny Leone’s New Year eve show here, the organisers have moved the high court, seeking a direction to the authorities to allow the event.

The government on December 15 disallowed the show here and elsewhere in the state after

Mumbai: Shiv Sena, a bickering ally of the BJP, recorded a dismal performance in Gujarat, with all the 42 candidates it fielded for the Assembly polls in the state losing their deposit amount paid for filing their nomination papers.

A candidate who fails to get more than one-sixth of the total number of valid vote

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today formed a temporary Internal Complaint Committee (TICC) in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to proceed with 31 pending complaints of sexual harassment.

The court’s direction came on a plea filed by a group of teachers and students of JNU opposing the office order dis