Sehari is consumed before sunrise by the people who observe Roza or the day-long fast during Ramzan, a month of special prayers for Muslims across the world. read more

Olympian pugilist Vijender Singh, who is contesting elections on a Congress ticket, says boxing will remain his first love. read more

Dogs have smell receptors 10,000 times more accurate than humans, making them highly sensitive to odours we can’t perceive, said researchers who presented the study at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting in Florida,... read more

Platelets are blood cells that help form clots and stop bleeding. When they receive information from fibrinogen, they go into action and accumulate in the remaining part of the liver to help restore it, increasing the chances of a fully functional liver... read more

Researchers have developed a device that can isolate individual cancer cells from patient blood samples. The device may one day enable rapid, cheap liquid biopsies to help detect cancer and develop targeted treatment plans. read more

In August 2000 Kondrashin was confined to a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with homicidal schizophrenia and ruled to be incapable of understanding his actions, a local newspaper reported at the time. read more

A 24-year-old pregnant woman, who was accidentally transfused with HIV positive blood in Tamil Nadu last November, has delivered a baby girl in Madurai. read more

The HIV positive blood had been donated by a young man on November 30 and given to the woman on December 3 after technicians at a government blood bank’s laboratory found nothing wrong in the tests. read more

Police also found a duck with its neck severed along with a buffalo calf with injuries on its neck. read more

Rajan Shukla, 56, principal secretary, Civil Defence, donates blood every three months, inspiring many others and continuing a ‘drill’ that has been part of his life since 1980 when he first became a blood donor at the age of 18. In a span of 38 years,... read more

None of the victims bothered to lodge a complaint because they were all given Rs 500 after the illegal procedure. read more

The FIR alleges that a former president of Rotary Club, Noida illegally transferred 7,000 units of blood to a blood bank in Kanpur and 1,087 units of blood to a blood bank in Gorakhpur. read more

Kuchibhotla is possibly the first casualty of the religious, racial and ethnic divisiveness sweeping the United States following the election of Donald Trump as president. read more