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he World Health Organisation (WHO) describes antibiotics as medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections.

Alarm over antibiotics

The rising rates of antibiotic resistance the world over are fast turning into a major health concern for doctors and...

10 Jun 2019 6:52 AM IST

Cancer immunotherapy is a treatment that uses certain parts of a persons immune system to fight the disease.

Immunotherapy, The future of cancer treatment

Scientists are at present studying newer types of immune treatments which will impact how cancers are treated in the...

4 Jun 2019 6:08 AM IST

After the month of fasts, the feasts

Eid and Ramadan are incomplete without its spectacular spread of mouth-watering traditional recipes.

4 Jun 2019 12:08 AM IST

Jeetendra (left) and Pratemesh (right) years back, on a sponsored trip to Japan that they had been on with batchmates, while studying at Welingkar Institute.

When destiny picks on merit

Prathamesh acknowledges that all the pain points were dealt with suitably to ensure sustainability of the project.

2 Jun 2019 12:00 AM IST

The report, which was released in London on Thursday, found India at sixth place for people getting drunk in a list mostly dominated by English speaking countries.

In high spirits

The institution, which is more than 50 years old in the city, gets an average of four calls a day.

19 May 2019 4:36 AM IST

Sagar Dhara with two of his students, Karnika and Chetna, both are engineers who interned with him and later went to doing Masters in climate change in Sussex University and Yale. The little one is his daughter and the man is the guide. This picture was taken in the Western Ghat forests in Belgaum.

Clean earth crusader

Though the 67-year-old has 30 defamation cases filed against him in courts across India, he does not let them bog him...

14 May 2019 11:27 PM IST

Raising the big concern

While this is not the first time that the mosque has faced a threat, heritage architects decode the situations's...

6 May 2019 2:19 AM IST

Of people and their stories

A tale of violence, toxic masculinity and hope, Raj Kamal Jha's fifth novel 'The City and The Sea' makes for a...

28 April 2019 6:11 AM IST

Mahatria Ra at one of the events by his organisation Infinitheism.

Spirituality goes suave!

Spirituality today is both a booming business and balm for the soul, as growing numbers of people seek out educated...

28 April 2019 12:00 AM IST

The devastating news of seven students ending their lives after the announcement of the first and second year Inter results has put the scanner on the education system in India once again.

Killer exams

As the board exam results are announced, cases of youngsters being depressed and committing suicide surface.

22 April 2019 11:19 PM IST

A blazing fire gutted the iconic spire

A Monumental loss

A massive fire destroyed large parts of the iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral on Monday evening.

16 April 2019 10:41 PM IST

Have a vegan meal: A platter of vegan kababs, soya leg piece and vegetarian shawarma.

Go vegan for a greener planet!

The world is apparently set to run out of food by 2050 if we don't cut down on meats.

11 April 2019 12:24 AM IST