
He was an unlikely movie hero, with an average height and build, a rough-hewn appearance instead of good looks, a voice low and gravelly than pleasant, and a languid, laid-back air that however couldn't conceal an unmistakable toughness. These attributes would instead make Charles Bronson star of some of the most p...
The number of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members of parliament (MPs) in the current Lok Sabha above the age of 70 declined to 8.8 per cent -- from 14.2 per cent in the 15th Lok Sabha -- and MPs aged 25 to 40 increased from 5.8 per cent to 7.8 per cent, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data released by PRS Legislative Research....
The killing of 30 Maoists in a series of alleged gun battles with police in the dense forests on the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border last week has dealt the biggest blow to the extremist movement in the region in recent years....
A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims. In all these incidents Muslims were the main targets....
He says the prediction he made four years ago that the universe may not be undergoing accelerated expansion -- contradicting the view of mainstream cosmologists -- has now found support from an independent study reported by physicists from Oxford University....

“Kerala Center has been honoring outstanding achievers since 1991 and every year we invite nominations and the committee has to make a unanimous choice for a candidate in a category to be selected to receive the award and this year is no different from previous years in terms of their achievements,†said Dr. Abraham. ...

- An election for president of the US occurs every four years on Election Day, held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The 2016 Presidential election will be held on November 8, the last possible date (November 2 is the earliest)....
Preventing coronary heart disease (CHD) is not just about what you eat but is also linked to the cooking style you adopt, according to a team of international researchers who say urbanised South Asian's susceptibility to the disease is partly due to high-heat cooking methods such as roasting or frying....

British Prime Minister Theresa May hosted a reception at Downing Street to celebrate Diwali and welcomed more than 150 key figures from across the Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities. ...
The RGI publishes state level life expectancy-defined as the estimate of the average number of additional years that a person of a given age can expect to live -- data for different ages: 0 (at birth), 1, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. Being the state with the highest life expectancy at birth in India, Kerala used to be the...