May2017

News Hour: The government has drawn up massive programmes to celebrate the 156th birth anniversary of Biswakabi Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as art of Indian subcontinent with contextual modernism, on...

News Hour: A musical inspired by Russian novel “War and Peace” scooped 12 Tony Award nominations in New York on Tuesday, with 10 for “Hello, Dolly!” starring Bette Midler five decades after her Broadway debut. The...

News Hour: Targeted global marketing and closer relations with the betting industry are two weapons La Liga are deploying in their battle for football supremacy with the Premier League, the Spanish league’s marketing guru told AFP....

News Hour: Ireland begin their first-ever one-day international series against England in Bristol on Friday seeking to cause their hosts fresh embarrassment. The two-match contest, which concludes with Ireland’s first ODI at Lord’s on Sunday, comes...

News Hour: A ‘phishing’ scam that tricked people with what appeared to be Google Docs links was doused by the internet giant after spreading wildly on Wednesday. The purpose of the scam, and the culprits behind...

News Hour: Bangladesh’s Team Parasitica won the judges’ Worldwide Finalist and most popular team awards at the prestigious Microsoft Imagine Cup South East Asia Regional Finals. The team will now compete at the Imagine Cup World...

News Hour: Novartis announced today that it has notified Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc., of its exercise of the option to an exclusive license for the global development and commercialization of emricasan, under the option, collaboration and license...

News Hour: Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay 306 million euros ($334 million) to settle a tax dispute with Italy, the company and the country’s tax authority said on Thursday. Last year Italian tax police...

News Hour: An Egyptian woman widely believed to have been the world’s heaviest woman left an Indian hospital on Thursday more than 300 kg lighter for further treatment in Abu Dhabi. Eman Ahmed, who weighed more...

News Hour: The World Health Organization (WHO) is to launch a pilot project this year to assess cheap copies of expensive biotech cancer drugs in a bid to make such medicines more widely available in poorer...