For years now, scientists and the entire medical community have argued over what can be called a pandemic and what its exact definition is. The consensus is, it is a phenomenon where a particular disease has a widespread occurrence, which is more than what normally would have been in a set geographical region. Throughout human...Read More
Flying is still no easy business for many, and horror stories of airplane disasters don’t help our fears. But plane crashes help in making future flight travel safer. Here are some that changed aviation for the better. 30 June, 1956: TWA Flight 2 and United Airlines Flight 718 TWA Flight 2 took off from Los...Read More
Dancing Shiva Returns Home from Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia has repatriated the bronze statue of dancing Shiva that was allegedly burgled from a temple in India. The 600-year-old statue of Dancing Shiva was returned after about five years after rigorous questions as regards the origin of the statue was raised. According to a news report, the 600-year-old statue...Read More
The history of wars is full of strange and bizarre weapons. It isn’t just the World War ... Read More
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the most dreaded killer of our race today. As of 2012, approximately 35.3 million people across the world have been infected by HIV, with new infections coming in at the rate of 2.3 million a year. It kills almost 2 million people a year on average, much more than...Read More