A group of scientists from the city now plans to develop a virus that is partly alive and partly dead in an attempt to wipe polio off the country’s map. The city-based Ella Foundation, which bagged a

With mosquitoes — carriers of a range of diseases — increasingly becoming resistant to insecticides, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has decided to evolve a common protocol to deal with

Researchers have identified five superhero foods that will save the world, and incidentally all of them have strong links to the state. Green gram, disease-resistant bananas, drought-tolerant maize, s

In a rare celestial event, Venus, the planet of love, will transit the Sun on June 6. It will appear as a small spot slowly moving across the Sun, and people in AP and other parts of India can witness

City scientists have decoded the impact of the El Nino phenomenon, which causes less rain, thereby affecting overall farm productivity in Andhra Pradesh. El Nino triggers changes in climate at the reg

Those with a family history of Type-2 diabetes are more prone to metabolic syndrome, now increasingly recognised as a silent killer. Metabolic syndrome is a combination of health factors, including ob

Ram Sethu or Adam’s Bridge may have raised political controversy, but a type of bacteria that lives in the vicinity holds promise to treat multi-drug resistant and extensive-drug resistant strains of

Ram Sethu or Adam’s Bridge may have raised political controversy, but a type of bacteria that lives in the vicinity holds promise to treat multi-drug resistant and extensive drug resistant strains of

Can the nuclear race in the Indian subcontinent lead to a major famine in the world, with even big nations like the United States of America and China being hit by an acute shortage of food?

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Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday raked up a a controversy when he announced at Jorhat in Assam that tea would be declared as national drink by April next year.

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