Aspirin binds to an enzyme called GAPDH which is believed to play a major role in neurodegenerative diseases. “The enzyme GAPDH, long thought to function solely in glucose metabolism, is now known to participate in intra-cellular signaling,” said study co-author Solomon Snyder, professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. “The new study establishes that GAPDH is a target for salicylate drugs related to aspirin and hence may be relevant to the therapeutic actions…

Microsoft, as promised, launched its first Windows 10 Mobile handsets – the Lumia 950 Dual SIM and Lumia 950 XL Dual SIM in India. The new Lumia flagships will be available from December 11 with ‘best buy’ prices of Rs. 43,699 and Rs. 49,399 respectively. Pre-order bookings start Monday, and the smartphones will be available to buy both online and via physical retail stores. The Microsoft Display Dock, which has been launched at Rs. 5,999,…

Google has received the government of India’s permission to start testing Project Loon in the country, under which the company will beam internet from balloons in the sky. The projects aims to provide affordable internet access without the high costs involved in setting up traditional infrastructure. Here are 6 things you should probably know about Google’s Project Loon in India… 1. 20-kilometre up in the sky Google’s Project Loon balloons float 20-kilometre above the Earth’s…

Namit Khanna uploaded this video on YouTube which shows Delhi Metro officials beating a man. According to the video, the man was arguing with a metro official at the exit gate, which soon enraged the official. He then beat up the man savagely, and other metro officials soon joined in. Only after 45 minutes, during which the man was beaten, and a crowd of 300-400 people gathered, did the officials let go. At 9 in…

The latest Transparency International survey has ranked India less corrupt than China, a momentous win for India, which has consistently been ranked higher than China since 1996. India rose 10 places, and ranked 85 (out of 175 countries), while China fell by 20 points to 100. However, India hasn’t actually won anything in its war on corruption. “A country’s rank indicates its position relative to the other countries included in the index,” Transparency International told…

Climate change is threatening to derail India’s fast-growing economy, a top aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week. Erratic monsoon rain patterns have left crops parched, jeopardizing India’s nearly $370 billion agricultural sector and hundreds of millions of jobs. “The No. 1 risk we face is global climate change, because we are still very dependent on the monsoon,” Jayant Sinha, the country’s junior finance minister and a Harvard Business School graduate, told Bloomberg…