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After the bizarre terrorist attack in Dhaka where 20 diplomats were taken hostage by apparently IS-backed attack in Dhaka, the Indian High Commission said all its officials are safe and it is monitoring the situation. A gang of 8 rmed assailants earlier entered a Spanish restaurant and have taken several foreigners, mostly diplomats, as hostages on Friday, sending shock waves ...

An anti-smoking drug to enable kick off the habit was found to be safe from previously thought side-effects such as risk of heart attacks and depression, said a new study, virtually endorsing the not very popular medical intervention for smokers. The drug — varenicline or popular as Champix or Chantix, was almost a decade-old but several studies in the past ...

Bollywood actors Genelia D’Souza and her husband, Riteish Deshmukh escaped the blast in Bangkok on Monday as they were just in a mall opposite the Erawan temple when the bombs went off. More than 30 people were killed and about 100 injured in the blast that shook the capital of Thailand. Riteish, who escaped the blast agreed with genelia when ...

An Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin measuring 6-ft came ashore from the sea creek at Dharamtar near Alibaug but 14 hours alter returned into the sea, said officials, who were fresh on the recent blue whale that was buried on the beach last week. The dolphin swam nearly 40 kilometres from the sea towards the Amba river, said forest official N Vasudevan, ...

US space agency NASA has begun the process of monitoring the orbit paths of its own MAVEN, India’s Mangalyaan, European Mars Express, its own old redundant missions to avoid collision after January 2015 incident. On Jan. 3, 2015, it was found that two weeks later, MAVEN and MRO (both NASA missions) could come within about two miles (three kilometers) of ...

Japan has lifted a tsunami warning after the north-eastern coast was jolted by an earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitude on Richter scale, probably a sequel to 2011 March earthquake, said seismologists. Post-quake, small waves of 10 to 20 CM reached the coast off Iwate prefecture, 600 km north of Tokyo, said NHK TV adding that local people had been ordered to ...

Depending on their smoking history, a drug may have contrary effects on people suffering from diabetes – reducing lung cancer risk among nonsmokers and increasing the risk among smokers, showing for the first time a direct link between smoking and lung cancer. Among nonsmokers who had diabetes, those who took the diabetes drug metformin had a decrease in lung cancer ...

A four-year-old Australian boy has become the first patient in the world to be fitted with an artificial pancreas to face off hypoglycaemia with type 1 Diabetes. Xavier Hames has type 1 diabetes and is at constant risk of hypoglycaemia — when low glucose levels can result in seizures, coma or death. But Hames was fitted with a pancreas-like pump ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry was unhurt on Monday afternoon after his motorcade was involved in road accident while on the way to the airport to fly to Pakistan. Gujarat Police officials said two cars in Kerry’s motorcade were involved in the accident as he left the Mahatma Mandir convention centre after attending the seventh Vibrant Gujarat summit. “It ...

The prevalence of hookah use among college students seems to be on rise, according to a recent study. The students consider hookah smoking safer than smoking cigarettes as they lack awareness about the risks associated with the former, says a US-based study. Misperceptions associated with hookah use indicate a starting point for developing health behavior change interventions. “The biggest surprise ...