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From January 2015 to August 2017, Panagariya served as the first Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog, in the rank of Cabinet Minister.

Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan is living it up in New York. The actress has now also shared the reason behind frequenting New York.

Wallace Smith Broecker was 87.

People as old as 79 may still generate new brain cells, US researchers said Thursday, stoking fresh debate among scientists over what happens to our brains when we age.

Researchers have found that rising temperatures would mean increased weight restrictions on a significant number of flights, potentially imposing increased costs on the aviation industry in the next century.

They argued that Trump`s Twitter account was a public forum, and banning users from viewing or engaging with his tweets based on their viewpoints suppresses free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment.

 The study shows how individual-level prevention may be used to control the potential pathways underlying adverse effects of PM2.5, particles with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5 micrometres.

We've witnessed earthquakes from outside, but we don't exactly know how they emerge from deep inside the Earth's core and what they actually look like while they're deep down there.

A smog outbreak in Southeast Asia last year may have caused over 100,000 premature deaths, according to a new study released Monday that triggered calls for action to tackle the "killer haze".

Describing Madhya Pradesh as an "ideal investment destination", CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said he would seek investment from US companies.

More temperature could mean increased snowfall in Antarctica which could in turn help reduce the global sea-level rise by 51 to 79 millimetres by 2100, according to a new study.  

Due to lack of historical data, geologists cannot predict the exact timing of the quake, however, they claim that it can reach up to a magnitude between 8.2 and 9.

Eighty two per cent of shares, and 61 per cent of clicks, of the tweets in the study sample referred to content readers found on their own.

The research also suggested that watching internet-based sexually explicit media showed no evidence of emerging public health issues.

This area of the brain plays a key role in working memory -- the system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks. 

Following the health metrics of Life's Simple 7 can reduce the risk of strokes and heart attacks, even among the elderly," said study lead author Hannah Gardener from the University of Miami.

The report by researchers from the National Centre for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University illustrates the severity of economic instability and poverty conditions faced by more than 31 million children throughout the US.

Families should rethink about seniors' decision of giving up driving as a new study suggests that older adults, who keep driving, are healthier than their non-driving counterparts.