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Beyond belief: Doctor saves man's life by sucking urine out from his bladder

When the aircraft was about six hours away from its destination, the elderly man suddenly suffered dysuria, a painful condition characterised by difficult and painful urination.

Nov 23, 2019

How sleep deprivation affects your performance

The research showed that sleep deprivation doubles the odds of making placekeeping errors and triples the number of lapses in attention.

Nov 23, 2019

Brazil creates over 8,41,000 jobs in 10 months

According to the ministry's labour secretariat, the Brazilian economy generated 70,852 jobs in October, the best figure for the month since 2016.

Nov 23, 2019

Modi distributes black money? SBI customer receives lumpsum amount, believes PM gave away recovered cash

Hukum Singh from Madhya Pradesh was freeloading the amount deposited in his account every month without questioning it, believing that PM Modi was fulfilling his election promise of distributing black money.

Nov 22, 2019

India's Balakot-proven eye-in-the-sky fleet to get a boost with new platforms

DRDO will acquire two more Airbus A330 and modify them by mounting advanced radar and electronic suite to see deeper into Pakistan while remaining on the Indian side.

Nov 22, 2019

'Share India's concerns': US on China's One Belt One Road project

On the grounds of territorial sovereignty, India is the only major country in the world to have opposed the OBOR project.

Nov 22, 2019

Karnataka CM Yediyurappa inaugurates Kalaburagi airport; Star Air to operate flights

The airport will be operational from Friday and Star Air headed by Sanjay Ghodawat group will operate flights between Kalburgi and Bengaluru thrice a week, Monday, Friday and Sunday.

Nov 22, 2019

Global prosperity index: Bengaluru tops as India's highest-ranked city; Delhi, Mumbai make it to list

Bengaluru stood at No.83 of the world's 113 cities in terms of social and economic inclusivity. Zurich in Switzerland topped the Global Prosperity Index

Nov 22, 2019

CBI grants clean chit to Karnataka MLA KJ George, senior IPS officers over DySP Ganapathy's suicide

The CBI had submitted a report to Madikeri JMFC court in October 2019, exonerating charges against MLA KJ George and senior IPS officers Pranav Mohanty and AM Prasad.

Nov 22, 2019

Andhra Pradesh: 35 injured after bus overturns in East Godavari

No casualties were reported at the time of filing the report but all the passengers sustained injuries.

Nov 22, 2019

IIT Guwahati suicide: Japanese student commits suicide, found dead inside hostel

The deceased, Kota Onoda, hails from Japan and was in IITG on an exchange programme for three months from Gifu University in Japan.

Nov 22, 2019

India may escape US sanctions for buying Russian S-400 missile defense systems

The US had earlier warned that the deal could prompt a sanction imposed on India under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).

Nov 22, 2019

Maharashtra power deal: Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress leaders to meet at 4 pm in Mumbai

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut confirmed today that all three parties have decided that a Shiv Sena chief minister will have a full five-year term after the Maharashtra government formation.

Nov 22, 2019

Womb for rent: Govt to refer surrogacy bill to 23-member panel of RS Select Committee

The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, mandates that only a close relative can be a surrogate mother and intending couples should be married for five years.

Nov 22, 2019

Sydney gasps for air as Australia bushfire smoke reaches record levels

Sydney woke up to a thick haze, and blood-red sun, for the fourth consecutive day even as a cooler change brought some relief for firefighters battling scores of wildfires across the country's southeast.

Nov 22, 2019