“Supervised aerobic exercise has large antidepressant treatment effects for patients with major depression.”—Depression and Anxiety Source  : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/healthline-ritesh-kumar/article25276296.ece

U.S. regulators on Tuesday approved a modernized version of a decades-old antibiotic used to treat a number of infections. Paratek Pharmaceuticals’ Nuzyra was designed to overcome the problem of resistance to tetracycline, an antibiotic widely used until recent years. The company said the Food and Drug Administration approved Nuzyra for …

Normally, this is a reference you would find in Gothic novels or discussions on medieval mythology. Archaeologists have found ancient skulls with a rock clamped between the jaws, and this was supposedly done to prevent the dead from returning as vampires. However, the recent discovery of a body of a …

There is ‘an essential truth in the old saying that it takes a village to raise a child. The logic that the collaborative efforts of a community are required to teach a person all the skills they need comes to mind’ when considering India’s hugely ambitious target of rolling out …

More data is needed to prove that intermittent fasting can reverse diabetes Planned, intermittent fasting may reverse type 2 diabetes, suggest doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports . This was after three patients in their care were able to cut out the need for insulin treatment altogether. Findings from …

They represent the collective wealth and clout of India’s corporate titans. When they speak, even Prime Ministers listen. Which is why the silence of India’s powerful industry associations like the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of …

Five years ago, when Alice Munro got the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was a long overdue recognition not just of the sort the Canadian writer deserved, but also of the short story form. It was not clear if the Nobel Committee for Literature, which is now in such bad …

It’s a running joke among my friends and it’s difficult to stop them laughing mercilessly about it, especially when life loads the dice in their favour. The thing is, there is this idea — not at all outlandish — that a writer needs quiet in order to write. Wherefore, in …

In the absence of explicit harm to any group of persons, the wisest course of action in matters of religion is to let communities of believers evolve norms on their own Midway through a documentary ( Kettukazcha ) by the filmmaker and scholar, Madhu Eravankara, a deep truth emerges: “The …

Tuberculosis patients in India are frequently ignorant of drug side-effects Last June, Sunil Kumar, 28, a Delhi-based vegetable vendor, was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB). The government hospital he visited for treatment prescribed a drug called bedaquiline. That year, even though India was giving bedaquiline to patients as part of …

Pulls and pressuresWorkers pull a line from a cargo ship as it prepares to berth at a port in Qingdao in China’s eastern Shandong province. China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in nine years in the third quarter, as a campaign to tackle mounting debt and trade frictions with …

Tens of thousands of supporters of the European Union (EU) began marching through London on Saturday as part of what organisers say will be the largest ever demonstration to demand that the British government holds a public vote on the terms of Brexit. The protesters waved the blue and gold …

As we go about our daily routines on Earth, Japanese robots are literally hopping about on the surface of a primitive asteroid called Ryugu, some 280 million km away. The data they are collecting might unlock some of the most fundamental mysteries of our solar system. The asteroid-exploring spacecraft, Hayabusa …

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lost three National Assembly (NA) seats in the October 14 byelections, two of which were won by Mr. Khan in the July general election and vacated later, in what is widely seen as a reality check for the Prime Minister. Byelections took place …

The newly-appointed U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, recently concluded a trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar aimed at setting the stage for talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Mr. Khalilzad met with Taliban representatives in Qatar in early October, following several statements made by …