Kolkata: The Kolkata Gynaecological Oncology Trials and Translational Research Group received ICMR funding for the clinical trial of a PARP inhibitor, a costly anti-cancer drug for targeted therapy involving mutations in the BRCA gene. The clinical trial will involve 350 patients suffering from ovarian cancer, the second leading cancer among women.Launched on Friday at the 8th annual meet organised by...
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FBI foiled a suspected New Year's Eve terror plot in California, releasing surveillance footage of the extremists just before their arrest.Four alleged members of a far-left pro-Palestinian anti-government group called the Turtle Island Liberation Front were apprehended last week while travelling east of Los Angeles to test improvised explosive devices (IEDs), officials said. The group is suspected of...
CHENNAI: TVS Group on Saturday unveiled a Rs 100crore corpus scholarship for Tamil Nadu’s engineering students to mark the centenary celebrations of T S Srinivasan, one of the key founders of the group. The ‘TVS Cheema Scholarship’ was unveiled by Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin along with Venu Srinivasan, chairman emeritus, TVS Motor. It is designed to offer financial support to 500 deserving engineering...
MUMBAI: Almost 93% of 18-19 year-olds in Maharashtra are not registered as voters according to the latest draft revision of the state’s electoral roll published on Friday. Even more worrying, the figure is lower than it was on January 5, when the last final electoral roll was published. At that time, 84.5% of 18-19 year olds were not in the voters list.The number of voters in the 18-19 years age group...
BATHINDA: With data about hate crimes in the United States of America (USA) released on Monday, it has come to fore that the Sikhs still remain the second most targeted group under religiously motivated hate crime incidents. In the data for 2022 the highest ever Anti-Sikh hate crime victimisations have been recorded at 198. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) records such crime cases across...
GURGAON: Cyber police in Haryana’s Gurgaon, on Wednesday, arrested four fraudsters busting a gang, which allegedly cheated more than 800 women by luring them to invest in a mobile application and work from home. The gang recently duped a DLF Phase III woman of over Rs 2 lakh asking her to invest through a mobile app and promising her high returns, said police.The accused were identified as Tushar...