New Delhi: On Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday tomorrow, the BJP will observe ‘Seva Diwas’ across the country with party leaders attending medical camps, blood donation events, and taking part in cleanliness drives.

BJP chief Amit Shah will be in Ranchi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Kirti N

Scientists, including an Indian-American researcher, have identified a molecule that can help treat breast cancer, giving hope to patients who have become resistant to traditional therapies.

The first-in-class molecule shuts down oestrogen-sensitive breast cancer in a new way, researchers said.

First-in-class drugs are those

Kolkata: He might have been overlooked from India’s Davis Cup squad, but tennis great Leander Paes is no mood to quit the game as yet.

Paes said he has nothing to prove to anyone at this stage of his career.

Paes, who made his Davis Cup debut at the age of 16 in 1990 and holds the record for the most Da

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will present a “big gift” to Delhiites by inaugurating several highways in the next six months, to free the city from traffic jams and pollution, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today.

In the last two years, the Modi government has provided Rs 40,000 crore for infra

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank is likely to hold the key rate in the monetary policy review next month following a jump in inflation and is expected to focus more on resolving the problem of bad loans in the banking system, says a Morgan Stanley report.

There was an uptick in headline inflation in August driven by impleme

Seoul: North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan and into the Pacific Friday, responding to new UN sanctions with what appeared to be its furthest-ever missile flight amid high tensions over its weapons programmes.

The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the United Nations Security Council imposed an eighth

Menlo Park: Three female former employees of Alphabet Inc’s Google filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the tech company of discriminating against women in pay and promotions.

The proposed class action lawsuit filed in California state court in San Francisco comes as Google is facing a sex bias investigation by t

United Nations: The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday concerning North Korea’s latest missile launch over Japan, the council presidency announced.

The United States and Japan requested the meeting, which will be held at 3 pm (local time), according to the Ethopian council presidency. The m

Tokyo: Prime minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that Japan would “never tolerate” what he called North Korea’s “dangerous provocative action that threatens world peace” following a missile launch over his country.

“We can never tolerate that North Korea trampled on the international com

Washington: The United States called on China and Russia to take “direct actions” to rein in North Korea after it fired a ballistic missile over Japan into the Pacific.

“China supplies North Korea with most of its oil. Russia is the largest employer of North Korean forced labor,” Secretary of St