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A benchmark index of Indian equities markets on Wednesday surged 131.16 points or 0.50 per cent up as metal stocks gained.

One million babies each year died within 24 hours of birth from mostly preventable causes.

NASA will award contracts to build commercial spaceships that will send the country's astronauts to space soil by 2017.

Air India also transported 20 tonnes of relief material, mostly medicines, drinking water, blankets, cooked food and chlorine tablets, on its two flights from Delhi to Srinagar.

A woman student was dragged to the men's hostel and sexually assaulted by a group of ten men after a college fest in August.

Mourinho insists Chelsea must do "everything" they can to qualify for the next stage of the Champions League and avoid the chance of dropping down into the Europa League.

The incident happened at a panchayat primary school in the Surakudi near Nanguneri.

"We are trying to find where thought exists in the mind," said John Hart, Medical Science Director at the Center for BrainHealth.

Four Indian judokas, who won medals at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, have made the cut for the Asian Games in Incheon, starting September 19.

Developed by scientists at the University of Birmingham, "Boris" is capable of intelligently manipulating unfamiliar objects with a human-like grasp.

New format of 4 quarters of 15 min each, barring the goal-celebration time and penalty-corner-execution time, will be in force at the Games.

The team has been surprisingly rewarded with a bonus for only losing 5-0 to hosts South Korea in their opening match of the Asiad.

Safarova was a set down but came back to beat the American teenager 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 at the Pan Pacific Open.

Microsoft is buying buy the Swedish group behind the hugely popular video game 'Minecraft' for $2.5 billion.

India has also witnessed the rise and fall of many empires and dynasties in the long and eventful course of its history.

The so-called Antikythera Mechanism, a 2nd-century BC device known as the world's oldest computer, was discovered by sponge divers in 1900.