Muaz Shabandri (Reporting from Los Angeles) / 20 May 2014 As Emirati students make a mark at the world’s largest scientific fair, Khaleej Times looks at the potential of the new generation to create an amazing future Meet Shamma Al Bastaki and Hayat Al Hassan, the first Emirati students to wi

Abu Dhabi: Residents from across the UAE and the Gulf region may soon benefit from access to cheaper medicines, following the signing of a long-term partnership agreement on Monday between UAE-based pharmaceutical company Neopharma and American firm Pfizer. The agreement will allow for the prod

The University of Maryland, in partnership with the US-based Novavax pharmaceutical company, has developed a vaccine that appears to effectively fight the MERS coronavirus in mice. Meanwhile, four deaths and six new cases of MERS were reported on Monday, bringing the death toll to 173 since Septemb

Motorola has been bullish so far this year with its pricing and strategy for India. After a long absence, it came back with the Moto G and Moto X, and now continues with the Moto E, making other manufacturers sit up and take notice. At Rs. 6,999, the Motorola Moto E is priced to ruffle feathers.

Heavy rain accompanied by lightning claimed eight lives across the State on Monday. Four persons died on the spot after the wall of an under construction godown collapsed following incessant rains in Kaginelli village of Shikaripur taluk in Shimoga district.  The deceased have been identified

JAMMU: Seventeen people were killed and 27 injured when a bus going to the Kashmir valley fell into a deep gorge in the Jammu region Tuesday, an official said. The accident occurred when the bus driver lost control at Digdol on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district, 170 km from Jammu, an

The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has planned to convene a meeting of its senior leaders to review the policies and populist schemes of the Siddaramaiah dispensation, following criticisms that they failed to make an impact on voters in the Lok Sabha elections.  The decision comes at

Dubai -- The UAE has approved the bylaws for the creation of a nationwide credit bureau that would help create a more robust credit environment in the country by allowing lenders to better establish the credit standing of borrowers. His Highness Shaikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice P

Scientists at a US university say they have developed a technique to hack into Indian electronic voting machines. After connecting a home-made device to a machine, University of Michigan researchers were able to change results by sending text messages from a mobile. Indian election officials say

Obrenovac, Serbia/MAGLAJ, Bosnia: Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising flood waters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people. Receding waters in some of the areas worst-hit by the heavie

The fact that the BJP has won a majority on its own in the 16th Lok Sabha has, inevitably, drawn comparisons with previous elections in which parties have won a majority of seats on their own. What has not quite figured in most of these comparisons is the fact that no party has ever before won more

LONDON: Britain's foreign minister for India Hugo Swire has said India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biggest challenge will be to prove "that he is the prime minister of the whole of India and of people of all faiths". Swire told TOI that Modi's non-secular image since the Gujarat riots in

Udupi: A 42-year-old chicken stall owner is still to figure out why he was knocked out by a group at Hoode on Saturday evening May 17. A group of seven people, for no particular reason, allegedly assaulted a man named Mohammed Ais, a resident near Hoode fish market. He is an ordinary chicken stal

Dubai: The horrific crash of a minibus on Emirates Road on May 10 which left 13 workers dead and 15 injured puts the focus back on the many accidents involving heavy vehicles and buses. Are these drivers sufficiently trained? How tough are the training methods? Or are many of them are overworke

JAMSHEDPUR: Little did Ayush Banerjee expect that Saturday would be a red-letter day in his life. The national Indian School Certificate Examinations (ISCE) topper, said he was completely surprised on hearing the news. The Loyola School, Jamshedpur, student, who scored 99.25%, said that though he

Motorola's Moto G has set the benchmark for budget smartphones with its exceptional performance, good build quality and affordable price. Not only has the phone received critical acclaim, it brought Motorola back in the limelight and, in a way, resurrected it. However, with the recent launch of M

The last-minute efforts by the Congress to pacify senior leader C K Jaffer Sharief failed on Wednesday as he refused to change his decision to quit the party.  Congress candidate from Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency C Narayanaswamy met Sharief at his residence, seeking his support on the e

Despite a concerted effort by "secular" parties to get Muslims to vote en bloc against BJP, the saffron challenger prevailed largely because of what is being called "reverse polarization". In both UP and Bihar, which have a significant population of Muslims, the BJP pulled off big wins. Talking t