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A health worker collects a swab sample from a member of parliament a day before budget session at parliament in Kathmandu. (AP)

Nepal reports first coronavirus death

Nepal, which has a population of 28 million, has conducted only fewer than 100,000 tests so far

17 May 2020 8:48 AM IST

Britains prime minister Boris Johnson displaying his Get Well Soon cards sent in by children while he was ill with the novel coronavirus COVID-19. (Handout image released by 10 Downing Street)

UK had contingency plans for Boris Johnson death

Johnson returned to work on Monday, a month after testing positive for COVID-19

3 May 2020 11:45 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (centre) visiting the completed Suchon phosphate fertilizer factory in South Pyongan Province, North Korea on May 1st. (Released from North Koreas official Korean Central News Agency)

Kim Jong Un reappears in public after weeks of health rumours

The leader's recent absence from public events had triggered a series of fevered rumours and unconfirmed reports over...

2 May 2020 9:42 AM IST

Medics wearing PPE kits carry the body of a person who died of COVID-19 at a district hospital, in Noida. (PTI)

Half a million lives lost to the pandemic

The world has reached a grim milestone on the virus front while some countries are still grappling with only the first...

29 Jun 2020 8:34 AM IST

Zeev Sternhell. (AFP)

Israeli historian, activist Zeev Sternhell dies at 85

A publicly engaged academic, Sternhell headed the Hebrew University's political science department and was a professor...

21 Jun 2020 4:11 PM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)

Mongolian teenager dies of bubonic plague after eating infected marmot

The bubonic plague, known as 'Black Death' in the Middle Ages, is a highly infectious and often fatal disease spread...

16 July 2020 8:38 AM IST

A car leans against a building following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Monday, July 6, 2020. (AP)

Desperate searches as dozens feared dead in Japan floods

At least 36 people are feared dead after record rains lashed areas of western Japan in the early hours of Saturday

6 July 2020 8:53 AM IST

Studies should examine parallel biological pathways linking depression to cancer survival. (Photo: Pixabay)

Study finds cancer patients up to five times more likely to take their...

Researchers have warned that they need more support to identify and treat depression stemming from the condition.

16 March 2018 2:30 PM IST

He said he was morally guilty for what happened at the concentration camp (Photo: AFP)

The 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' dies aged 96 before starting his prison...

He gained attention in 2005 as he described in job in interviews for proving to Holocaust deniers that the killings did...

13 March 2018 6:10 PM IST

The risk of death from cardiovascular disease was 34 percent higher with febuxostat than with an older drug, allopurinol. (Photo: Pixabay)

Newer gout drug poses risk to heart patients

People with gout already face an elevated risk of cardiovascular and chronic kidney disease.

13 March 2018 9:45 AM IST

It produces a watery diarrhoea, which can cause life-threatening dehydration in infants. (Photo: Pixabay)

Saliva prevents traveller's diarrhoea: study

When examined under the microscope, significantly fewer bacteria were able to attach to the tissue in the presence of...

10 March 2018 2:06 PM IST

The risk of liver cancer dropped even more, by up to 50 percent, especially for men. (Photo: Pixabay)

Vitamin D linked to lower risk of cancer: study

The risk of liver cancer dropped even more, by up to 50 percent, especially for men.

8 March 2018 1:19 PM IST