Working towards more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccinations, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of mycobacteria with "kill switches" that may be activated to stop the bacteria after they elicit an immune response.
Delhi Court on Tuesday awarded life sentence to the accused Sajjan Kumar in a case related to killing the father-son duo in the Saraswati Vihar area during the 1984 Anti Sikh riots.
The Dawn, in its recent report about the Darweshta attacks, said, "Four security personnel were killed in a terrorist attack on a checkpoint in Spinwam tehsil of North Waziristan on Monday, according to their sources
London-based group the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) in its new investigation has said that many people were subjected to abuses including being trapped at sea for years on Chinese vessels involved in illegal fishing and the killing of dolphins.
In a killing rampage, a 23-year-old man murdered five people, including his family members and lover, and injured his mother near Venjarammoodu police station area in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram, officials said on Tuesday.
Leading Baloch human rights body, Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) shared on Tuesday that the protests organised against the rise in targeted killing of Baloch youth saw an internet shutdown along with Pakistani paramilitary forces blocking and hampering the protest rally.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) organized protests in Gomazi Tump, Dalbandin, and Noshki on Sunday, condemning the surge in targeted killings of Baloch youth by state-backed death squads in Kech and other areas of Balochistan.
The accident took place on National Highway 152D when a family from Rajasthan's Makrana was going to Haridwar to immerse their grandfather's ashes. However, the car's tyre got punctured, and it rammed into the pickup, which was parked on the other side.
The incident took place when Velli (80) and his wife Leela (72) both residents of Block 13 at Aralam farm, were attacked and killed by a jumbo elephant while they were collecting cashew nuts on their land, just 600m from the Rapid Response Team (RRT) office.
"On the reported presence of Khwarij, an intelligence-based operation was conducted by the Security Forces in general area Daraban," ARY News quoted the military's media wing as saying.
Delhi Police arrested a 50-year-old man in connection with the murder of a young woman whose body was found wrapped in a jute sack inside a public toilet near Bilal Mosque in Ashok Vihar, said Delhi Police.