Going to bed earlier is associated with weight loss in people with prediabetes, according to a randomized controlled trial led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.
Narayana Health founder receives the Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite for extending medical and logistical support to the French community in Bengaluru during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kolkata: A three-year-old tigress that wandered from West Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve into Assam was tranquilised in Kokrajhar district on Tuesday and is being brought back, officials said.
Delhi’s annual pollution crisis appears to have arrived earlier than usual, with air quality deteriorating sharply to the ‘very poor’ category days before Diwali.
With Diwali approaching, air pollution is once again becoming a major concern in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). The city's deteriorating air quality has prompted the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to enforce Stage-II restrictions under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) across the entire NCR with immediate effect.
Bhubaneswar/IBNS: The Odisha government on Monday evacuated people from vulnerable areas as Cyclone Murasu intensified into a severe cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal, media reports said.
Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC) on Sunday confirmed the country’s eighth polio case this year.
Barbados has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced, marking a major public health milestone resulting from years of sustained efforts to ensure babies are born free of HIV.
Small habits like walking up flights of stairs or carrying your shopping instead of using a trolley could be the key to preventing Type 2 Diabetes, according to world-first research led by Monash University.
Bhubaneswar/IBNS: Demonstrating its unwavering commitment to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) undertook extensive relief operations in the aftermath of Cyclone Arnab to provide timely assistance to communities affected in Ganjam district, Odisha.
The ocean absorbs around 30 per cent of human-caused carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and 90 per cent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. But climate change has already reduced its capacity to absorb carbon by approximately six per cent, a new UN report warns ahead of the COP31 climate conference in November.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday successfully launched NVS-03, India's next-generation navigation satellite, strengthening the country's indigenous navigation capabilities and marking another significant milestone in its space programme.
Climate inaction continues to harm and kill people in all countries with a record 710,000 estimated deaths globally from heat in 2023, a UN-partnered report warned on Wednesday. For the first time, more than seven in 10 fatalities were attributable to human-caused climate change.
Children who eat more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) show stronger responses in the brain’s reward network when viewing images of appetizing foods—and these brain responses are linked to increases in body fat one year later. The findings, just published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that the brain may become more sensitive to food cues when children consume more UPFs.
A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in Bhutan has left a section of a highway blocked by debris, cutting off the remote Laya region from the rest of the country, according to media reports.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday, October 28, said that very severe cyclonic storm Arnab was lying over the west-central Bay of Bengal, off the Andhra Pradesh coast, and had remained stationary for the previous three hours.
New Delhi: The Centre has sent a high-level team to Madhya Pradesh to investigate the death of a 19-month-old cheetah from firearm pellet injuries, the government said on Wednesday.
The Indian government has committed ₹116 crore to Navi Mumbai-based Manastu Space Technologies Private Limited to advance the development of indigenous green propulsion technology for satellites and launch vehicles.
Satellite images have captured Cyclone Arnab swirling over the Bay of Bengal as the storm intensifies and moves towards the Andhra Pradesh coast, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red-level cyclone warning for Andhra Pradesh and adjoining parts of southern Odisha.
Paris/IBNS: The first reported human case of Shamonda virus has been recorded in France, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday.
Two earthquakes, including a powerful magnitude 7 tremor, struck Tibet on Thursday evening, followed by another magnitude 5.2 earthquake in China, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).
Plastics are supposed to be chemically inert. It’s the reason they’re used so frequently to package food, bottle water, and create children’s toys: They’re safe.
Samsung Electronics has announced a major update to its Samsung Health app, making Sleep Coaching easier to access by reducing the amount of sleep data required to get started.
Eating sweets while taking antibiotics may worsen the harm done by the drugs to the normal community of bacteria in the gut, a new study found.
India’s space economy, currently valued at around $9 billion, is expected to grow to $40–45 billion over the next seven to eight years, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh said at a media roundtable in New Delhi.
More than one in five adults in the United States experience mental illness each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Mental health challenges also affect children and adolescents, with more than one in seven young people aged 6–17 experiencing a mental health disorder.
A short-term oat-based diet appears to be surprisingly effective at reducing the cholesterol level.
A man has died after being attacked by a tiger after entering its enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England, police said.
A flash flood struck Nepal’s Gorkha district on Sunday, leaving at least five people missing, months after a devastating deluge in the Himalayan nation claimed hundreds of lives.
New research suggests that peanuts may do more than provide calories, with specific fatty acids associated with peanut consumption linked to a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
