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India enter the final phase of their preparations for next month’s World Twenty20 with the Asia Cup, but a cloud of uncertainty over skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s availability threatens to disturb the side’s momentum going into...

By Aneesa Malik A new development in the way cancer cells are detected has been made by a Pakistani electrical engineer at the University of Texas at Arlington. Samir Iqbal outlined the tool works by tracking...

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said there was no truth about female parliamentarians being subjected to any kind of sexual or other harassment in Parliament as claimed. “On the basis of media reports, I conducted a fact-finding inquiry...

Tobacco companies won’t admit that smoking is an addiction but everyone knows it is so. And it is an addiction that’s powerful enough to keep millions smoking tobacco and jeopardizing their health. The tar in cigarette...

There are many advantages to eating fruit and vegetables raw. Water-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin C) are destroyed by heating, so there will be less vitamin C in a cooked carrot than in a similar raw...

More than twice as many Muslim soldiers supported Allied forces in World War One than was previously thought, according to new research into the Islamic contribution to the conflict.   Dr Islam Issa, Lecturer in English...

In the tiny hamlet of Mawlynnong in India’s far north east, plastic is banned and spotless paths are lined with flowers — but its reputation as Asia’s cleanest village has proved a mixed blessing. Until 2003...

In the wake of campaigns against rising intolerance in the country, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said everyone should accept people of different beliefs and ideologies to achieve the organisation’s motto of serving the nation selflessly to...

ZAYN Malik, formerly of boyband One Direction, turns 23 today. The Bradford-born singer (pictured) first found fame on The X Factor in 2010 and then shot to global fame as a member of the group. However,...

A chilling Islamic State manual has emerged online in which the dreaded outfit advised would-be jihadis from the West to trim their beards and wear western-style clothes to avoid being identified by security services while plotting...