A cruise ship, Diamond Princess, with 3,700 people on board has been quarantined in Japan's Yokohama. There are at least 64 people on board who have tested positive for coronavirus.

One of the most comprehensive genome mapping projects in the world is the Human Genome Project (HGP), which began in 1990 and reached completion in 2003.

On Friday, Pakistan’s parliament passed a non-binding resolution demanding the public hanging of those convicted of sexually abusing and murdering children amid increasing incidents of crime against them.

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (PEMSR) Act came into force in 2013. The law prohibits employing manual scavengers, manual cleaning of sewers and septic tanks without protective equipment and construction of insanitary…

Why they may not be able to avail budgetary allocation for debt waiver, and why the Punjab government has no idea how many of them exist.

Ehsan was involved in the firing on Malala Yousafzai in 2012 and the Peshawar Army school terror attack of 2014.

Pangolins are consumed for meat, while their scales are dried, “ashed, cooked in oil, butter, vinegar, boy’s urine, or roasted with earth or oyster-shells, to cure a variety of ills".

The 2019-nCoV belongs to a family of viruses responsible for diseases that range in severity from the common cold to severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which killed almost 800 people in a 2002-2003 outbreak.

Under Article 361, mandamus cannot be granted against the President or Governor of a State.

In Germany, the same storm is being referred to as ‘Sabine’.

The discovery that DNA is structured as a “double helix” by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953, for which they won a Nobel Prize in 1962, was the spark in the long, continuing quest for understanding how genes dictate life, its traits, and what causes…

The highest number of Indians abroad are living in the United Arab Emirates, where the 34,20,000 Indians comprise about one-fourth of all Indians abroad.

A 2019 study had discovered a fast-growing cavity in the glacier sized roughly two-thirds the area of Manhattan. Then last week, researchers from New York University detected warm water at a vital point below the glacier.

Police in India are subject to dual control — although their administration under The Police Act, 1861 is vested in the police hierarchy, the District Magistrate exercises general control within his jurisdiction.

Edible musical instrument made of fermented fruits

The Boeing 747-436 plane was able to achieve a speed of 1,327 kph as it was aided by a strong jet stream generated due to Storm Ciara. Other flights travelling across the North Atlantic from west to east also experienced shorter travel times.

Kota Rani is remembered as the last ruler belonging to the Hindu Lohara dynasty in Kashmir.

SARS is also caused due to a type of coronavirus. The virus first infected human beings in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002.

The Solar Orbiter mission, which will take the first pictures of the top and bottom of the sun, is worth approximately Rs11,700 crore.

Recent observations by the Supreme Court have put the spotlight back on the debate over a Uniform Civil Code. What would such a Code seek to achieve, and what have been the arguments for and against it?

PSA dossier compares former J&K Chief Minister to 14th-century Kashmir queen; a look at her life & times.