MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday directed the Union government to set up a new building of AIDS Research and Treatment Centre in Navi Mumbai within a year. A division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud...

The only Ram temple in the Tri-State area, built at a cost of nearly $1.5 million, here consecrated a number of deities at a three-day ceremony that concluded on Sunday.At the only Hindu temple in Staten Island borough of New York, Hindu deities...

Kolkata has upstaged Delhi as the air pollution capital of India, accounting for more deaths due to lung cancer and heart attack than the capital city. More than 18 persons per one lakh people in Kolkata fall victim to lung cancer every year compared...

Microsoft Corp said that its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer unveiled the iPhone-like touch-screen feature at The Wall Street...

Ratan Tata, already named among the world’s most influential business people from India, has now made to a list of 30 most powerful in the British construction space with a ranking higher than even the UK’s minister for housing. The list compiled...

Experiencing hair loss? Now, you can blame it on air pollution, instead of only your genes, for a study has revealed that men living in contaminated areas are more likely to go bald that those breathing cleaner air. Male pattern baldness, which develops...

Imagine robotic insects tracking down enemy fighters in rugged mountain terrains, carrying out explosions and identifying nuclear or biological weapons. It may seem like science fiction but could soon be a reality, for scientists are developing a series...

Mozy, part of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division of EMC, on Friday announced the release of MozyHome for Mac, an unlimited online backup service for Mac. The service was in beta testing until its public release. The company claims that it...

The percentage of vacant homes for sale in the U.S. set a new record high in the first quarter of this year, the government said Monday.The Census Bureau report shows that shows that 2.9 percent of U.S. homes — excluding rental properties — were...

An exabyte is a lot of data. It is 1.074 billion gigabytes of data, to be exact. It would take 14 million laptops like mine to store an exabyte. Two exabytes equals the total volume of information generated back in 1999. Today, the internet is handling...