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Even 10 days after the Malaysia Airline’s Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight MH370 went mysteriously missing, no definite information has been made available either to the families of the passengers, or in the public domain. Several theories have been floated on what could have happened to the aircraft. Aviation expert A. Ranganathan analyses the probable theories and comes up with a scary scenario:

An Italian court has barred India from encashing bank guarantees worth over Rs. 2,360 crore of AgustaWestland as part of the penalties imposed on it after scrapping of the Rs. 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal.

(Reuters) - Some U.S. doctors are becoming concerned about the quality of generic drugs supplied by Indian manufacturers following a flurry of recalls and import bans by the Food and Drug Administration. India supplies about 40 percent of generic and over-the-counter drugs used in the United States, making it the second-biggest supplier after Canada.

Though there is no cure, treatments in the form of therapies can greatly lessen symptoms of muscular dystrophy and improve the quality of life Last week, I learnt that Vishal had succumbed to the disease he had so valiantly fought for nearly 25 years. Though I had anticipated this news, it nevertheless affected me immensely. Vishal was born a healthy, chubby baby; everyone adored him, and his grandparents couldn’t get enough of him.

A series of programmes to create awareness and gather support for the implementation of the Madhav Gadgil-led Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) report will begin in the district with a public discussion at Kudremukh National Park near Aladangady in Belthangady taluk on April 1.

Doctors and scientists at a hospital Chennai have reported the very first occurrence of a rare disease, Haim-Munk Syndrome (HMS) — found only among specific Jewish populations — in a woman of Dravidian descent. Genetic analysis has identified the same gene mutation as the causative factor

A section of Tibetan refugees in Karnataka can exercise their franchise in the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April 17.

1.Ceren declared President of El Salvador   El Salvador’s election officials on Sunday declared ex-leftist guerrilla commander Sanchez Ceren the winner of a March 9 presidential election, after rejecting the opposition’s last challenges to the results.

The aim of the Unique Identification Number was to make access to bank accounts easier but the first Aadhaar card holder is still not eligible for loans

Is the blind implementation of social welfare schemes the only approach of governance in rural India, especially in Maoist-affected areas? A small village in Chhattisgarh provides a viable alternative

The March 16 referendum on whether the southeastern Ukrainian province of Crimea should unite with Russia or have greater autonomy within Ukraine has presented the United States and the European Union with their most severe political test in decades.

The Hindu Archives A wounded Indian soldier being evacuated to hospital during the 1962 war with China. For the first time, a large section of the still classified Henderson Brooks Report, which details a comprehensive operational review of India’s military debacle in 1962, has been made public

हीरे के अंदर संरक्षित खनिजों ने धरती के गर्भ में दबी चमकदार नीली चट्टानों के बारे में संकेत दिए हैं, जिनमें इतना पानी हो सकता है जितना सारे महासागरों में है. मध्य-पश्चिम ब्राज़ील से मिले एक हीरे में ऐसे खनिज मौजूद हैं जो धरती से करीब 600 किलोमीटर अंदर बनते हैं और इनके अंदर पर्याप्त मात्रा में पानी मौजूद है.

बिहार में जन्मी और ब्रिटेन में रहने वाली आशा खेमका साधारण महिला नहीं हैं. ब्रिटेन में डेम का सम्मान पाने वाली वे भारतीय मूल की सिर्फ़ दूसरी महिला हैं. 14 मार्च को ब्रिटेन की महारानी एलिज़ाबेथ ने उन्हें इस पदवी से सम्मानित किया.

Study finds correlation between rainfall in India and aerosol levels over W. Asia Monsoon rains over India could increase if desertification leads to more dust from West Asia and North Africa swirling into the air, suggests a research report being published in  Nature Geoscience. There has been growing interest in examining how fine particles in the atmosphere, known as aerosols, affect the climate. However, much of this research has looked at particles generated by human activity, especially the role of soot. Aerosol role But natural aerosols, such as sea-salt and dust, are far more abundant than human-produced ones, remarked V. Vinoj, who is currently with IIT Bhubaneswar. The research appearing online in  Nature Geoscience  was carried out by him with Philip J. Rasch's group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the U.S. Analysing observational data, Dr. Vinoj and his colleagues found that monsoon rainfall during June, July and August over...

1.Crimea Parliament declares independence after vote,EU to reject outcome Crimea’s Parliament on Monday declared the region an independent state, after its residents voted overwhelmingly to break off from Ukraine and seek to join