Chennai,  The flat wicket at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday made it hard for the Indian bowlers to go for the wickets and instead they have been forced to bowl defensively and wait for the batsmen to make mistakes, said India left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem.

Nadeem took the wickets of Joe Root an

New York, Researchers have reported that zinc supplements for both men and women attempting to conceive either naturally or through assisted reproduction during the pandemic may prevent mitochondrial damage in young egg and sperm cells.

According to the researchers, including Husam Abu-Soud from the Wayne Sta

Washington, NASA has selected tech billionaire Elon Musk's private aerospace company SpaceX to provide launch services for an astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light.

The planned two-year mission is called SPHEREx, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epo

Beijing, China's space probe Tianwen-1 has sent back the first image of Mars that it captured from a distance of 2.2 million km from the Red Planet.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released the image of Mars captured by Tianwen-1, Xinhua reported on Friday.

The probe cond

London,  Researchers at University of Cambridge have revealed a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic.

The new study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment revealed

San Francisco,  Authorities in the US city of San Francisco announced that it has the infrastructure in place to administer at least 10,000 Covid-19 vaccines per day once the adequate supply is received.

This week, the city launched a new high-volume vaccination site at the Moscone Center; expanded inocu

Nay Pyi Taw, At least nine civilians and three policemen were killed in an armed attack on a convoy of a former member of Myanmar's self-administered zone, a statement released by the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Service Office said on Saturday.

The convoy led by U Khin Maung Lwin, a former central execu

United Nations,  Two million additional cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) may occur over the next decade as Covid-19 "shutters schools and disrupts programmes that help protect girls from this harmful practice", the Unicef warned.

The warning came in a joint statement by

Beijing,  A recent survey in China has revealed showed that 93 per cent of the respondents will send their Spring Festival greetings and wishes virtually instead of paying visits in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Falling on February 12 this year, the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, is

Nay Pyi Taw,   In the wake of the military coup, Myanmar has blocked access to micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing app Instagram on Saturday, just two days after the country directed state-owned telecom companies to take a similar actions against social media giant Facebook.

A statemen