A government housing society with a single occupant. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint Time has stood still for the ghost housing societies of Greater Noida. Three years ago when this correspondent walked the broad roads of Sector MU-I in Greater Noida, with their lovely service road trees leading to gated communities, he had found few people actually living in the fully finished Read More

A new kind of bed net can emerge as a potent weapon against malaria as a two-year trial involving more than 15,000 children has shown that it can significantly increase protection against the mosquito-borne disease. The trial in Tanzania showed that a long lasting insecticidal net treated with a chemical called piperonyl butoxide (PBO LLIN) reduced the prevalence of malaria Read More

Women, who have recently experienced one or more traumatic events or those who have undergone several negative events in the last few years, are at a higher risk of developing obesity, warns a new study. Such events may also enhance cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer. A recent study said that underweight or obese women are more Read More

A new large-scale UK study has found that preterm babies are at a higher risk of developing cognitive, motor and behavioural difficulties in later childhood, which could affect school performance. Previous research showed that preterm babies are more likely to sleep independently but perform poorly in academics. Led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), the research looked at 74 separate studies which Read More

If you can not resist pasta, go order any other crimson-sauced one as contrary to famous belief, ingesting pasta does now not add fat however actually help shed more pounds. In line with researchers, consuming pasta – the fundamental aspect of Italian Mediterranean subculture – can lead to a lower in the body mass index (BMI) as well as lower Read More

Justice S N Dhingra fee, who is probing supply of land licences to a few corporations together with that of Robert Vadra’s in Gurgaon, these days stated he sought more time to submit the record if you want to go through fresh files. Justice Dhingra said that he became prepared along with his record but he had to postpone it Read More