India aims to reduce its hydrocarbon imports by 10 percent by 2022 through increasing domestic output, fuel efficiency and the use of alternative energy, its oil minister said on Friday. India currently imports 70-75 percent of its energy requirements, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan told ... Read More »
Saskatchewan is inching closer to fewer health regions. Health Minister Dustin Duncan announced on Thursday the review of the province’s health authorities, appointing a three-person review panel. Their task is to recommend a structure with fewer health regions. Duncan also wants suggestions on how to improve front-line service delivery. “I want to be clear: ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Goods and Services Tax(GST) could bring in transparency in the functioning of the real estate sector and even reduce the cost of ownership of homes for buyers, especially if the GST rate is lower than all the current rates put together, said builders and tax consultants. These ... Read More »
Ford has introduced new technologies into its new Ford Everest SUV to prevent fatal crashes. According to the WHO’s Global status report on road safety for 2015, reflecting information from 180 countries, the total number of road traffic deaths worldwide has reached 1.25 million per year since 2007. The latest ... Read More »
The participants in the study, published inPLOS One, were shown a picture of an adolescent girl who had been physically beaten by an adolescent boy, and their emotional responses to the image were measured. “Most people would look at these images and say the girl pictured has to be terrified,” ... Read More »
Study coauthor Man Yee (Mallory) Leung, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University School of Medicine, and colleagues publish their findings in the journalPLOS One. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the proportion of women in the US who have their first child after the ... Read More »
China’s leaders sound more confident that the world’s second-largest economy has arrested a slide in growth to quarter-century lows, but their policy advisers caution it is too early to call an end to a cycle of easing that began in 2014. Signs the economy is picking up give the central ... Read More »
KINGSTON, Ontario, April 14 — The penises of circumcised men are just as sensitive as those of uncircumcised men, according to researchers in Canada. Theories about sensitivity, health and ethics have dominated on-and-off debates about circumcision, however researchers at Queen’s University say the one-third of men around the world who ... Read More »
FRIDAY, April 15, 2016 — Metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes drug, may reduce the risk of dying from some cancers for postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. The study found that for women with type 2 diabetes and cancer, the odds of dying from cancer appeared ... Read More »
CHENNAI: Credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday said India’s rising foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows reduces the current account deficit and also the external financing needs. In a statement Moody’s said it does not expect widening of India’s current account deficit based on its assumptions that commodity prices ... Read More »
India and Pakistan need to make progress in reducing their nuclear arsenal and ensure they do not “continually move in the wrong direction” while developing military doctrines, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday. “One of the challenges that we are going to have here is that it is very ... Read More »
