Every year nearly one million new cancer cases are diagnosed in India, the prevalence being 2.5 million. With mortalities of 6,00,000-7,00,000 a year, cancer causes six per cent of all adult deaths in the country. The number of deaths per year is projected to shoot up to 1.2 million by 2035, acco

NEW DELHI: It has been nearly four years since Microsoft launched Windows Phone. The OS is beautiful to look at and with its unique tile-based user interface, offers an approach to software that is fresh and modern compared to Android or iOS. The OS even forced both iOS and Android to change their a

Dubai: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is on the rise in the UAE, according to a survey by the MS International Federation. Figures reveal that there were nearly 1,500 MS patients in the UAE last year, while in 2008 the number stood at 219. Dr Suzann Nori, consultant neurologist at the Rashid Hospital,

Karnataka recorded an overall voting percentage of 67.28 per cent, the third highest in the history of parliamentary elections in the State, in the single-phase polling held for all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies on Thursday. Bangalore urban, which comprises mainly the three LS seats of Bangalor

At least 150 sarees bearing the picture of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on the packets were seized from two shops at Maruti Nagar in BTM Layout, Bangalore South constituency, on Thursday. The sarees, which had come from Surat in Gujarat, were meant to be distributed to women vo

Image Courtesy: TOI NEW DELHI: You could call him the man with a golden gut. Doctors operating on this 63-year-old businessman literally hit a goldmine, finding as many as 12 gold biscuits weighing a total of 396 grams inside his abdomen. The Chandni Chowk businessman had come to the private c

It is a bit bigger and somewhat colder, but a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far, astronomers announced on Thursday. The planet, known as Kepler 186f, named after NASA's Kepler planet-finding mission, which detected it, h

Sharjah:  Yuvraj Singh struck form with a brilliant unbeaten half century as Royal Challengers Bangalore crushed Delhi Daredevils by eight wickets in their opening Indian Premier League match at Sharjah on Thursday. Yuvraj (52 not out) shared 84 runs from just 7.9 overs with captain Virat Kohli (

بھٹکلیس نیوز17، اپریل14 مصر کی حکومت نے ملک بھر کی مساجد کی کڑی نگرانی شروع کی ہے۔ اس اقدام کا مقصد کالعدم دینی سیاسی جماعت اخوان المسلمون کو مساجد کے ذریعے حکومت کے خلاف پرتشدد کارروائیوں اور پیش آئند صدارتی انتخابات کی راہ میں رکاوٹیں کھڑی کرنے سے روکنا ہے۔العربیہ ٹی وی کی رپورٹ کے مطابق مصری کاب

Taking Narendra Modi head on for the first time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today dismissed as a "myth" the Gujarat model of development and said her state was placed far better in various sectors. In a strong rebuttal to the BJP's Prime Ministerial nominee on his charge that her pa

Single-phase polling for 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka began this morning to decide the fortunes of 435 candidates in a close fight between the ruling Congress and BJP. Nearly 85,000 security personnel drawn from the state and central forces have been deployed across the state for free and fair

16 April, 2014 |Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: It is the fundamental right of every citizen of a democratic country to exercise his right to vote. Under no circumstances, it should be wasted. As the Lok Sabha election day comes once in every five years, Deccan Welfare Association in Bhatkal has prepare

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia is expected to make shops close at 9pm instead of midnight later this year, Saudi media reported on Sunday, in a move aimed at encouraging employment by making sales jobs more attractive. The policy, first announced last year, has been approved by a government committee, th

NEW YORK: An Indian-origin scientist has developed an incredibly low-cost microscope made almost entirely out of a very unlikely material — paper. The Foldscope, developed by Manu Prakash from Stanford University, contains three stages — a specimen stage in which the slide is placed, an optics st

The regional centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in Bangalore has secured the distinction of having the highest number of candidates to have passed in the southern region for this year. This was revealed by Dr M S Parthasarathy, Director, Bangalore regional centre, IGNOU, on

The seventh Indian Premier League (IPL) kicked with an emphatic 41-run win for Kolkata Knight Riders over Mumbai Indians, as the evergreen Jacques Kallis set the tone with a 46-ball 72 before Sunil Narine completed the task with four wickets. Opting to bat, KKR rode on Kallis and Manish Pandey’s