Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China next week, Beijing said on Tuesday, as New Delhi tries to balance its trade deficit with its neighbour despite a simmering border dispute. This will be Modi’s first visit to China as prime minister. In a statement posted online, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Modi will visit during May 14-16. ...

Climbing Mount Everest this season is “almost impossible” because the routes have been damaged by avalanches triggered by last month’s earthquake, officials in Nepal say. They warn that it will take time for the routes to be remade. The government has not announced an official decision. At least 19 people were killed in the avalanches. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake is now ...

Thai officials say they have found two skeletons possibly linked to people smuggling, days after the discovery of 26 bodies in a mass grave. Both skeletons were found in abandoned camps in Phang Nga province, the local governor said. One was tied to a tree. Phang Nga is several hundred kilometres away from the site in Songkhla Province where 26 ...

There is a risk of serious outbreaks of disease in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, aid agencies have warned. A lack of shelter, contaminated water and poor sanitation could lead to cholera, dysentery and other water-borne diseases, the charities said. The UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said in some areas people were living and defecating in the open. The ...

France’s National Front party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen says he is “ashamed” his daughter – current party leader Marine – still bears his surname. Amid a growing feud, Mr Le Pen said he hoped she “would get married as quickly as possible so as to change her name”. He added he would not support Marine in presidential elections in 2017. ...

Using disinfectant wipes in the kitchen can cut the risk food poisoning by a whopping 99.2 percent, says a new research. Dr Gerardo Lopez and his colleagues at the University of Arizona in the USA used antibacterial wipes on typical counter top materials – granite, laminate, and ceramic tile – to see if they reduce the risk of the cook ...

If you thought smoking cigars is less harmful than smoking cigarettes, your are wrong. New research associates many of the same fatal conditions as cigarette smoking. Researchers from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) carried out a systematic review of studies about cigar smoking and all-cause and smoking-related mortality to gain more comprehensive information about the long-term public health ...

If you suffer from asthma then you know that controlling the condition is the key to ensuring good quality of life. Now, scientists have come up with a bunch of tips and to help you do just that. Allergist James Sublett, MD, at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), said that patients were prone to hospitalization because ...

Scientists have shown that prolonged use of statins may reduce the risk of death from lung cancer. Recently there has been much interest in the potential for exploring new therapeutic uses for existing drugs, in part, because existing medications are relatively inexpensive and have known side effect profiles, according to Cardwell. This study investigated whether lung cancer patients who received ...

For the first time popular TV and film actress Aruna Biswas, singer Dishad Nahar Kona and actor Mishu Sabbir took part in a cooking related programme titled Food Caravan. They took part in ‘Family Recipe’ segment in the programme, which is being telecasted on NTV at 8:15pm every Wednesday. They took part in shooting of the programme recently. Play director ...