A S Kashyap Private sector HDFC Life today launched a health plan that provides financial support on diagnosis of early or major stages of cancer.
“The plan is distinct from standard critical illness policies as it provides a fixed lump sum benefit on diagnosis of early and major stages of cancer, waives future premiums and also pays regular income on diagnosis for treatment of cancer,” HDFC Life senior executive vice president Sanjay Tripathy said here.
A new study has suggested that certain host cell environments make malaria parasites resistant to drugs.
Of the two species of Plasmodium parasites commonly infecting humans, P. vivax grows exclusively in immature red blood cells called reticulocytes. P. falciparum can infect reticulocytes, but it grows primarily in mature red blood cells (called erythrocytes) which make up 99% of red cells in circulation.
Sandra Bullock has recently revealed that she “ovulates” when she watches stars stripping off in ‘ Magic Mike XXL’ trailer, while appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres show.
The 50 year-old is amongst the legions of fans excited for the upcoming sequel starring Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello, the Mirror reported.
Not surprisingly, the trailer has been a huge hit as the stars bare their bodies in the sexy sequel. (ANI)
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelling to Bangladesh on a two-day official visit on June 6, Dhaka has been decorated in honour of the visiting dignitary, with banners and placards welcoming the Indian leader.
Posters with pictures of Prime Minister Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina are currently adorning all the major streets and junctions across the city, with preperations for the former’s visit in full swing.
Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to attend many programmes in Dhaka, including the visit of the memorial of the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelling to Bangladesh on a two-day official visit on June 6, Dhaka has been decorated in honour of the visiting dignitary, with banners and placards welcoming the Indian leader.
Posters with pictures of Prime Minister Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina are currently adorning all the major streets and junctions across the city, with preperations for the former’s visit in full swing.
Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to attend many programmes in Dhaka, including the visit of the memorial of the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war.
Caitlyn Jenner has reportedly spent around four million dollars over her transition into a woman.
A plastic surgeon shared that the 65-year-old reality TV star, who recently unleashed her new look on Vanity Fair cover, had spent around 81,000 dollars, including 10,000 pounds on a boob job, the Mirror has reported.
The reports also details that Jenner’s Trashy Lingerie bustier that she wore on the cover cost 200 dollars, whereas the Zac Posen gown was worth 7,000 dollars.
She also remodeled her closet with 150,000 dollars of dresses. (ANI)
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has reportedly voted to retain restrictions on American citizens travelling to Cuba, despite a recent thaw in ties.
While rejecting proposals to permit regular scheduled flights to the Caribbean nation, the House also called for a rule that would require Americans to get a special licence before going to Cuba, reported the BBC.
They were voting on a transport funding bill which has provisions related to Cuba. U.S. President Barack Obama has threatened to veto the bill.
Steven Spielberg revealed that original ‘ Jurassic Park’ was a benchmark in technology for Hollywood.
According to the Universal Pictures India, the 68-year-old said that the characters that were digitally created on a computer looked completely authentic in any form of lighting or even atmospheric condition.
About the upcoming movie ‘Jurassic World,’ American director added that they wanted to fulfill this dream in Jurassic World: to have a truly working theme park that was devoted to this miracle of creating dinosaurs from DNA.
A new study suggesting that like humans, rats too offer help without self-benefit has shed light on what drives us to help others.
Researcher Cristina Marquez said that people would not hesitate about helping an older person trying to cross the road and this type of actions is called prosocial behavior that means you are acting to benefit someone else.
Marvel’s latest issue of ‘Star Wars’ has suggested that Han Solo was married before he met Princess Leia.
In the comic, Sana Solo introduces herself to her husband’s new love with the line: “The name is Sana Solo. I’m his wife. Now who in the hell might you be, lady?’ the Independent reported.
In the ‘Star Wars’ movies, Solo, played by Harrison Ford and recently named the fourth greatest movie character of all time by Empire magazine, ended up hitched to Princess Leia.
Delegation-level talks between India and The Netherlands have begun in New Delhi.
Prime MInister Narendra Modi is leading the Indian delegation at the talks, while the Netherlands delegation is being led by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
It will be followed by a round table of the Dutch and Indian delegations with representatives of large companies from both the countries.
On the second day of his visit, Rutte will lay wreath at Mumbai’s Hotel Taj Mahal Palace for remembrance of 26/11 attacks.
The death toll from a flash flood caused by heavy rainfall in Khuzdar district’s Sarona area in Pakistan has risen to 14, while another six are still missing.
The 20 victims were travelling in a vehicle which was washed away in the floods caused by torrential rain that started in Balochistan on Wednesday night, reported The Express Tribune.
The deputy commissioner (DC) of Khuzdar, Abdul Waheed Shah, said the victims were all locals who were drowned in “nullah” (hill torrent) in Wadh Sarona.
Britney Spears has revealed that she likes to wind down by putting on new greatest hits album of fellow pop Queen with a Vegas residency, Mariah Carey, get naked and paint in her “art room.”
In an interview, the 33-year-old singer revealed that while she and Carey have not yet crossed paths in Vegas, she’s totally still a Carey fan and loves her, E! Online reported.
Caitlyn Jenner will now be legally allowed to keep her Olympic medals that she had won before transition as Bruce Jenner.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that they had no issue with the former athlete’s gender transformation and since she had received the accolade after competing in decathlon as a man in 1976 Olympic Games, it was all hers, the Independent reported.
Sharp images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed that three supernovae discovered several years ago exploded in the dark emptiness of intergalactic space, after being flung from their home galaxies millions or billions of years earlier.
Most supernovae are found inside galaxies containing hundreds of billions of stars, one of which might explode per century per galaxy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged citizens to change their attitude to ensure a greener India and better world for themselves and for the generations to follow.
Speaking on the occasion of World Environment Day, he urged Indians to grow trees as well as take care of nature, terming the care for the natural world as the duty of every citizen.
Novak Djokovic, who defeated nine-time grand slam champion Rafael Nadal in the French Open quarter-final, has come in support of the player, saying that he is still among the best players in the world.
The world number one said that Rafael was still among the best players in the world and should not be ruled out, adding that there was no player like the Spaniard, the BBC reported.
Times have certainly changed, as now Barbie will be stepping out in flats for the first time in 56 years.
According to Cosmopolitan, Mattel is giving the iconic doll a makeover with their Barbie Fashionista line, by changing the shape of their feet and ankles, which were previously designed to fit only heels.
Kim Culmone, vice president of design for Barbie said in an interview that Barbie was never designed to be realistic, and was always meant to be easy for girls to dress and undress them.
Facebook is reportedly introducing a new feature that will make it easier for users to share locations, along with a map, with their friends, family and colleagues inside Messenger app.
While Messenger already had a feature that allowed users to see friends’ locations by just tapping on a message sent by them, the new feature, which will replace the old one, will let people share any location such as, a meeting spot at a music festival or a restaurant, inside the conversation, reported The Verge.
Though old rocks hold on to their secrets, a geophysicist has unlocked clues trapped in the magnetic signatures of mineral grains in those rocks.
These clues from the study led by Michigan Technological University’s Aleksey Smirnov will help clear up the murky history of the Earth’s early core.
The work took him Down Under, where he drilled into rock outcrops in Australia’s Widgiemooltha dike swarm that are more than two billion years old.
Studying rocks this old and extracting data from them is tricky but helps unravel the core’s mysteries.
Juston Street is the latest to join cast of Peter Berg-directed ‘ Deepwater Horizon.’
According to Deadline.com, the film, which already stars Mark Walberg, Kurt Russel, Kate Hudson, and Dylan O’ Brian, is based on the New York Times article, and highlights the bravery of workers on the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico when it blew up in April 2010.
Street, who’ll soon be seen in Aaron Eckhart starrer ‘My All American,’ would be playing the role of Gervasio, a rescue boat worker who is called into action after the blast. (ANI)
Greenpeace India campaigner Priya Pillai on Friday termed her meeting with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi as ‘positive’, and said that the latter assured that he is with her
organisation in their struggle.
“A delegation of 17 organisations met Rahul Gandhi. It was a very nice and a positive meeting. He has agreed and shared some of the concerns we have raised: that NGOs being targeted and larger democratic space of this country and dissent has been shrinking,” Pillai told ANI
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Friday directed Nestle India to withdraw nine variants of Maggi noodles found unsafe from the market and to stop the further production and sale of the same.
Chief of Army Staff General Dalbir Singh has arrived here to review the situation on ground with locally deployed senior army officers a day after militants ambushed and killed 18 soldiers and injured 11 others who were part of an army convoy that was passing through Manipur’s Chandel District.
President Petro Poroshenko has asked the Ukraine military to prepare to defend against a possible “full-scale invasion” by Russia, as clashes intensified in eastern Ukraine.
Poroshenko told parliament that there was a “colossal threat” that large-scale fighting would resume. He also claimed that Moscow had deployed 9,000 of its troops in the conflict-torn region, the BBC reports.
The surge in violence in the government-held towns of Maryinka and Krasnohorivka, was the worst since the Minsk ceasefire took effect in February.