Supaul (Bihar), Sep 18 (IANS) Thirty days after Kosi, a young, unsettled and ever-angry river, breached a barrage on the India-Nepal border and shifted its course 120 km eastward, the over four million survivors in eastern India’s Bihar state are bracing themselves for tougher times ahead.

Abu Dhabi, Sep 18 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) national health insurance company Daman has offered free prostate cancer screening for all its male customers above 45.

New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) A debt-ridden real estate developer has been arrested here for killing his wife and two-and-half-year-old daughter and attempting suicide in his rented south Delhi home, police said Wednesday.

New York, Sep 17 (IANS) Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, has joined the global advisory board of Nanobiosym, a leading nanotechnology company in the US.

New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on appeals challenging the national consumer commission’s order awarding a compensation of Rs.1.5 million to an Infosys engineer, a medical negligence victim who was paralysed below the waist.

New York, Sep 17 (IANS) An Indian American doctor, Mathew L. Thakur has been conferred the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s 2008 Benedict Cassen Prize, often called the ‘Nobel’ of nuclear medicine.

Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) Advances in cellular imaging are allowing scientists to spy on how live cells are supporting formation of tumours, according to researchers.

Raipur, Sep 17 (IANS) The Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco), which is a part of the Vedanta Group, will spend Rs.3 billion in building a cancer hospital and research centre here, officials said Wednesday.