A scientist of Indian origin has been identified by Moderna as the primary contributor to its Covid-19 vaccine. A filing by the company for its patent application for the coronavirus vaccine using the revolutionary RNA technique listed Pune-educated bioinformatics scientist Mihir Metkar as the “first named inventor”, a designation thatRead More

A woman wades through a waterlogged street following heavy rain at KM Garden in Chennai on November 10. (Photo credit: PTI/R Senthil Kumar) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for many districts of Tamil Nadu for the next two days as a low-pressure area has formedRead More

As many as 222 fibroids were successfully cleared from the uterus of a 34-year-old woman in Bengaluru without getting the uterus removed. Patient Ritika Acharya suffered from abnormal menstrual bleeding, which was later found to be because of multiple fibroids of various sizes in the uterus. Doctors said the fibroidsRead More

OTTAWA — Health Canada has approved a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 18, though third doses have already been given to high-risk people across the country. The booster is designed to help people with their first two COVID-19 vaccine doses maintain their protection against theRead More

Are you a fitness enthusiast, a runner perhaps? Well, this Instagram famous duck is no different. Wrinkle the duck is known to go on the most wonderful and amusing of adventures. It is yet again captured in this video that shows the bird taking part in the New York CityRead More

If you also spend a lot of your time on your mobile phone then we have a useful piece of news for you! There are a lot of apps on the Google Play Store which pay you to play games.

Several areas are inundated in Chennai due to heavy rains. (Photo credit: PTI) There was a bit of relief for residents of Chennai on Monday evening as the city & suburbs saw a slight reduction in rains. While the daytime saw mostly dry conditions, there was a moderate to heavyRead More

Virat Kohli and Clive Lloyd. (Photo Source: Getty Images)Virat Kohli’s journey as India’s T20I leader ended on a low when the men in blue couldn’t qualify for the semi-finals stage of the T20 World Cup 2021. Though Kohli’s tenure is still devoid of an ICC Trophy, he bows out ofRead More

With elections just a few months away, Punjab is the first, and so far only, Congress-ruled state to have cut Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel, days after the Centre cut excise duty on fuel. The effective drop in fuel prices is the latest in a series ofRead More

The Kandivli police have arrested a 25-year-old woman for allegedly mentally harassing her fiance and driving him to suicide. The complaint was filed in July by 58-year-old Lakshman Kokare after his son Ankit Kokare hanged himself at their home in Charkop. Sources from Charkop police station said Ankit was anRead More