Thiazide drugs, a common group of salt-lowering medicines used to treat high blood pressure for decades, can lower blood pressure for a while and then stop working in some patients. Researchers from University of Maryland's School of Medicine (UMSOM) have now revealed a key mechanism for this failure....
The book could not have come at a better time. This is a well-written story of the rise, fall (crash?) and most dramatic rise of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). It is not a saga of Arvind Kejriwal per se. Saba Naqvi, a respected political writer, followed closely both the AAP and Kejriwal for Outlook and uses her understanding to explain what helped the count...
Scott C. Waring said the unexplained object in the image taken in 1960 by an unmanned NASA probe sent out during the Mercury project in the early days of the US's space exploration could be an alien spaceship....
India's first satellite - Aryabhata - was launched successfully by a Russian rocket on an April day 40 years ago, taking the country on an exciting space odyssey as far as the Moon and the Mars....
Completing a workshop in capacity building and training here, a batch of senior Afghan civil servants says they have learnt a lot which they can implement back home. ...
Surviving without sex affects the health of even those females, who have acquired over the ages the rare ability to clone themselves and perpetuate offspring without males....
Amid the raging debate globally over net neutrality, which has evoked a strong reaction from stakeholders in India, domain experts feel that an unshackled access to the Internet world isn't feasible in India yet but attempts must continue for egalitarianism. ...
The pioneer was Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" (1764), the first modern novel to encompass supernatural elements, but it was Clara Reeve (1729-1807) who moved the genre forward. In "The Old English Baron" (1777), she took Walpole's plot only but balanced the fantastic elements with realism to make it more believable....
After reclaiming the top spot in badminton singles rankings, Saina Nehwal is doubly delighted at fellow Hyderabadi tennis ace Sania Mirza's rise to the summit of the women's doubles rankings and says the twin achievements reflect the rise of women power in the domain of Indian sports....
An exhibition displaying the Turin Shroud, the alleged burial cloth of Jesus Christ, will begin on Sunday in Italy....
