Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping is the most powerful leader of China since Mao Zedong, US President Donald Trump said, underlining that the two leaders have developed a very good relationship.

Trump arrived in Vietnam from China, wherein he said he had a “very successful” meeting with Xi, CNN repor

Kolkata: Tamil movie icon Kamal Haasan, who has plans for a political plunge, on Friday lauded West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her enthusiasm to celebrate cinema through the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF).

Kamal, who was attending the inaugural ceremony of the 23rd edition of KIFF, met Banerj

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Who killed the giant ground sloth? Or the mammoth and sabre-toothed cat, come to that. Was it humans or a natural event, like the end of the last ice age? The question is endlessly debated. But the answer, at least in the Caribbean, now seems certain: it was humans.

It is hard to distinguish the

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Ambient light may be all you need to charge your phone. Small, thin and flexible panels created with an inkjet printer can harvest energy from artificial light and sunlight.

Conventional solar panels typically use silicon to capture the sun’s energy. But Sadok Ben Dkhil from Dracula Techno

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A new treatment for mental illness and alcohol abuse could be on the cards, a new study reveals, in the form of a psychedelic plant brew called ayahuasca.

From an analysis of more than 96,000 people across the globe, researchers found that individuals who used ayahuasca experienced greater well-

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal today gave a green signal to the implementation of the odd-even car-rationing scheme whenever PM10 and PM2.5 levels breach the danger mark, in a bid to control the extreme air pollution crisis Delhi has been facing in the last week.

PM10 and PM2.5 are particulate matter in the air

Washington: Olympic gold medal-winning US gymnast Aly Raisman has revealed that she was sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar.

Raisman, 23, is the latest member of the US national team and the biggest US gymnastics star to reveal being molested by Nassar, who is facing trial on more than 20

Bhopal: President Ram Nath Kovind, on his first visit to Madhya Pradesh after assuming office, was given a guard of honour at Raja Bhoj Airport.

On the first day of his visit, Major General AH Chauhan, Chief of Staff of Sudarshan Chakra Corps escorted the President to the saluting dais, where an Army unit gave him

Cinematographer Priyan, the man behind the lens of Director Hari’s action packed Singam series, passed away late on Thursday night. He was 53.

According to media reports, the ace lensman died of a heart attack at his residence in Chennai.

Priyan has worked as cinematographer for