Encouraging Results Offer Hope To Lakhs

Risha Chitlangia | TNN

New Delhi: If everything goes as per the plan, in next three years India would get a shot in the arm in its fight against diarrhoea. With encouraging results from phase 2 trials, experts are confident that an indigenous rotavirus vaccine would prevent rotavirus infections and bring down cases of severe diarrhoea among infants and children.

New Delhi: Your humble driving licence is all set to go high-tech.
The state cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to the introduction of smart card based driving licences in Delhi as per the instructions of the Union ministry of road transport and highways (MORTH). What's more, the fees is also set to come down from Rs 370 to Rs 280.

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New Delhi: A day after it won the trust vote, the UPA government on Tuesday acquiesced in the DMK's position in the Sethusamudram case to a question in the Supreme Court about the existence of Ram Sethu by citing the scriptures and Puranas.

Your happiness matters to earth
Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Overall, people around the world have grown happier during the past 25 years, according to the most recent World Values Survey (WVS), a periodic assessment of happiness in 97 nations. But the survey, based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, also underscore that, beyond a certain point, material wealth doesn't boost happiness.

: Renting a twobedroom luxury flat in Mumbai is more expensive than that of Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur or even Seoul. The cost of petrol is higher than that of Tokyo. And the price of 1 kg long grain white rice in a medium priced establishment is more than that of Singapore or Beijing. Mumbai is catching up with the biggest metros of the world in more ways than one. The cost of living in the city has risen considerably since last year.

Debate on nuclear deal spills into political mudslinging as parties fight to gain the edge

Pranab makes a spirited defence

Given the rumours that have repeatedly dogged Pranab Mukherjee about his commitment to the deal, or whether he was

Obliquely referring to the India-US civilian nuclear deal, which has put the Manmohan Singh government in peril, Indian ambassador Ronen Sen has defended India's efforts to augment power generation and criticised those who oppose the use of technology.

What is it that brings a dairy technologist, a law student, a former corporate secretary, an interior decorator and a librarian, among scores of others, to the office of an NGO on a Monday morning?

Activists, professors and students came together on Monday to hold a candlelight rally at Jantar Mantar against the killing of a stray dog by a student in JNU on July 7. They were demanding that JNU should bar the student from submitting his thesis and launch an animal protection movement.

Maruti Suzuki, the country's top carmaker, reported a 6.7% drop in the first quarter (April-June, 2008-09) profit on Monday at Rs 465.8 crore against Rs 499.6 crore in the same quarter last financial year (2007-08), due to higher depreciation charge, royalty outgo and manufacturing costs.