Global study finds 44 genetic risk factors for major depression

'There are enough funds to solve this problem.' Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters The tragic death of 13 schoolchildren on Thursday, April 26, in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, has once again brought the issue of unmanned railway crossings to the forefront. In the wake of the accident, Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani has said that all such crossings will be eliminated by March 2020. Statistics, says Haldwani-based Right to Information activist Gurvinder Singh Chadha, reveal that 613 ...

IMAGE: Paul Pogba. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Reuters Manchester United playmaker Paul Pogba believes his performances are judged on goals and assists unlike other midfielders but said the harsher assessment motivates him to improve. The France international has scored five goals and provided 10 assists in 23 Premier League appearances this season but has been criticised on multiple occasions as United fell behind ManchesterCity in the title race.   United were also knocked out of the ...

New Delhi: Global shipping and logistics conglomerate Transworld Group announced its digital transformation project, "Innovation in Motion", driven by Oracle India and KPIT Technologies. To this effect, Transworld Group signed an agreement with the two ...

Seoul: Samsung's first entry-level device in the "Galaxy J" series powered by "Android Go" has been spotted online, listed in the "Geekbench database" that lists upcoming devices. The unannounced device is expected to come with 1GB RAM, coupled with Android ...

A Management Change at IndusInd Bank Changed Its Future Apr 27, 2018 A management change can often turnaround a company. A recent Indian example is IndusInd bank. IndusInd bank saw a management change somewhere in 2008-09 and rest is the history. The new ...

'Sudhir Mishra takes us into the dreams and fears of our politicians, into their self-deceiving pitches, and he shows us their demons and angels,' says Sreehari Nair. Now where did that come from? Has Sudhir Mishra just given us Indian Cinema's first Soap Opera Classic -- a Soap Opera for all our daytimes and all our nightly longings? In its essence, his latest, Daas Dev, is a reimagining of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel with more than one plot-point plucked from Hamlet. But what Mishra ...

This is the time when the US would need the conceptual strategic thinking of a Henry Kissinger, able to ally diplomatic skills with a well-conceived worldview of what the emergence of a new balance of forces will mean for a US whose ability to shape global events has definitely declined but still exists, says Claude Smadja.  IMAGE: Donald Trump is playing to his core electorate and this core electorate loves it. He is playing the tough guy, inflicting sanctions on China and on strategic ...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today released the party's election manifesto for the Karnataka Assembly polls. Interestingly, the manifesto promises the creation of one crore jobs over five years. The BJP's ally Shiv Sena had hit out at the party last month saying while the PM promised had one crore jobs every year, not even 1,000 people actually got employment and on the contrary, even those employed became jobless.Job creation has remained a bugbear for the government.  Gandhi ...

Weather patterns can influence how we express ourselves on Facebook and Twitter, according to a study which found that people are less likely to post positive sentiments when the temperatures soar above 30 degrees Celsius. Previous research has identified a ...