Suffering a traumatic brain injury from a blow to the head boosted dementia risk by 24 percent in a Danish study group of nearly three million people, researchers said Wednesday. The survey of 36 years’ worth of data — collected from the Danish national patient register — found that the risk of dementia rose with the number and severity of Read More

Earlier a minister was supposed to head the institution. PHOTO: FILE PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has amended the recently promulgated Private School Regularity Authority Bill-2017, allowing the regulatory body to be headed by the secretary elementary and secondary education department. Under the original bill passed by the provincial assembly, K-P Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education was supposed to head the Read More

Amazon India’s HR head Raj Raghavan. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint New Delhi: Summer internships give companies a long enough opportunity to asses a student, as compared to 15- to 30-minute interviews during campus placements. Additionally, it also helps a student to check out if the company is a good employer. E-commerce firm Amazon India converts 60% of their summer interns into Read More

Olivia Culpo’s street style look is so hot, she just raised the temperature in Miami by a few degrees. The 2012 Miss Universe winner strutted through the streets of Miami’s Design District in a blush pink dress and fur coat on Saturday October 22. The pink hued pleated dress included frills around her neckline and waist that accentuated her curvaceous Read More

Athletes from one sport should not be punished for the sins of those from another, the IOC president said on Wednesday, cooling speculation that Russia could be banned from the Olympics altogether for systematic doping. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is due to issue a report on Monday covering its investigation into allegations that a Russian state-run system helped doped Read More

A British Open caddie was taken to hospital after being hit on the head by a stray shot from former world number one Vijay Singh during a practice round on Tuesday. William Ciplinski, bagman for American veteran Marco Dawson, was lying flat out on a golf buggy when he was initially taken to the medical centre at Royal Troon. Open Read More

Retailer briefed staff about turnaround plan on Friday morning, with 220 jobs to go from stores and 150 from head office BHS is threatening to close up to half its stores if landlords do not agree to reduce the rents. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA BHS plans to make more than 350 people redundant as the struggling department store chain is forced Read More