One Retired major Ramesh Upadhyay and printing press employee Sameer Kulkarni were arrested by Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad (ATS) for their suspected role in Malegaon blast on Tuesday.

More than 100 people killed and thousands injured when a strong earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday. Hundreds of homes were destroyed by the quake.

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Awami National Conference (ANC) announced on Tuesday that they would join the electoral process in Jammu and Kashmir.

Judicial probe demand into October 21 Bomb blast in Imphal has gained momentum in Manipur. The blast killed 17 people and 30 other were injured.

Washington, Oct 29 : A new research, which found racial and ethnic disparities in patient health-care experiences, claims that Asians have worse experiences than white patients in US.

The survey involving 49,000 patients showed that Asian and Pacific Islander patients have worst experiences than white patients, within the same practices.

"Our findings suggest that there are statistically significant ethnic disparities in physician-patient communication, access to care, and care coordination, even among comparably insured patients in a variety of health-care markets," said Dr. Hector Rodriguez, lead author and assistant professor of health services at the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

London, Oct 29 : While sunlight can cause wrinkles, the red glow from LEDs may help smooth them out, finds a new study.

A light-emitting-diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction of the device, as in the simple LED circuit.

The red LEDs do this by altering the interactions between water and elastic proteins in the skin.

In a new study, Andrei Sommer and Dan Zhu of the University of Ulm in Germany, found how water molecules in the skin interact with different substances.