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Age at smoking initiation and cessation, both key components of smoking duration, are important predictors of mortality. (Representational Image)

Quitting smoking in 60s can still extend life

Moreover people aged 70 or older currently smoking were more than three times more likely to die than never-smokers.

1 Dec 2016 9:45 AM IST

In people with type 2 diabetes, the short stimulus triggered by GLP-1 is not sufficient to maintain a proper blood sugar balance. (Representational Image)

Platypus venom may help treat diabetes

This may pave the way for potential new treatments for Type 2 diabetes in humans.

1 Dec 2016 9:35 AM IST

Virginie Routis,

France: The woman who decides what wine presidents drink

Virginie Routis is also responsible for serving and impressing the monarchs and heads of state who regularly dine at...

1 Dec 2016 9:30 AM IST

Those sleeping less than six hours a night 13 per cent more likely to die than those sleeping between seven and nine hours. (Photo: Pixabay)

Sleep deprivation costs UK 40 billion pounds a year

The calculation is based on tired employees being less productive or absent from work altogether.

1 Dec 2016 9:27 AM IST

Industrialist Nusli Wadia. (Photo: PTI)

Wadia to file defamation case against Tata group

Wadia also said that as an independent on the board he has no fiduciary duty towards the undefined Tata Group.

1 Dec 2016 9:24 AM IST

The disaster on Monday night killed 71 people and sent shock waves round the global football world. (Photo: AP)

Football plane in Colombia crash was running out of fuel

Of the players, goalkeeper Jackson Follmann was recovering from the amputation of his right leg, doctors said.

1 Dec 2016 9:00 AM IST

Supporters of peace agreements between rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, with the government watch the Congressional debate in Bogota. (Photo: AP)

Colombia ratifies peace accord with rebels

The 310-page revised accord was approved unanimously by the lower house.

1 Dec 2016 8:54 AM IST

US President-elect Donald Trump ants to erect a wall on the southern border of the United States to curb immigration. (Photo: AFP)

US ethics office tweets sarcasm at Donald Trump

The Twitter messages applauded US President-elect for selling off his assets.

1 Dec 2016 8:48 AM IST

Women migrants fleeing wars, political instability and poverty are taking contraceptives in the expectation of being raped. (Photo: AP)

Women migrants fearing rape take contraceptives

New York-based Human Rights Watch said women and girls take contraceptive injections before journey as a precautionary...

1 Dec 2016 8:43 AM IST

New Zealand has issued half as many new study visas to Indian students in the past five months as in the same period last year. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

New Zealand drops new study visas for Indian student

The fall was because too many students were arriving with too little money to support themselves and too little English...

1 Dec 2016 8:35 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks to media after meeting President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata's flight delays landing, TMC claims plot to kill her

A senior ATC official said he was not aware of any such incident.

1 Dec 2016 8:14 AM IST

A major fire broke out in a five-storey building near Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in South Mumbai on Wednesday. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Fire in 5-storey building near BSE in south Mumbai

The blaze started from an office on the third floor in JK Somani building in Fort.

1 Dec 2016 8:09 AM IST