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Scientists have long been working on CRISPR, a technology that could modify DNA and help cure diseases like cancer or Hepatitis B. While many have expressed concerns over the abuse of this technology, a group of researchers has taken a major step forward in the gene-editing category - human trials.

Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman's return to India was delayed due to the heavily edited video, which Pakistan released just an hour before he crossed over the border, claimed reports.

The Oscars (also known as the Academy Awards) are United State awards for achievements in the film industry. The achievers are blessed with the statuette. This special award ceremony is also the oldest entertainment awards event. The 86th edition of this ceremony will be take place on 2nd March 2014. This auspicious ceremony will be celebrated at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. An American stand-up comedian, television host and actress DeGeneres is hosting the star-studded ceremony, which will broadcast on ABC. In 2007, she first time hosted in this ceremony.

Could it ever be imagined that a metallic idol of Lord Nataraja would fill the mouth with water? But it's true just a bit of alteration is needed that is exhibited in the ninth edition of 'Culinary India Art Fair' of Pragati Maidan in Delhi. And that creativity is a crop of chefs and cooks who carve some eatables in magnificent shapes that surely fascinate the lookers-on.

Young left-handed opener Manjot Kalra, who scored a hundred in the final of the last edition of U-19 World Cup, has been suspended by outgoing DDCA Ombudsman for one year from playing Ranji Trophy, for an alleged age-fraud during his U-16 and U-19 days.

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Alec Baldwin's addiction to the cell phone game "Words with Friends" got him booted from an American Airlines plane parked at a Los Angeles International Airport gate Tuesday afternoon, the actor's spokesman said.

India Inc believes the move by the Barack Obama administration to reduce tax breaks for US firms that ship jobs overseas will hit American companies more than impact on the Indian outsourcing industry. "It's a more US-US issue rather than one aimed at stopping outsourcing, or off-shoring, or anything to do with India," said Som Mittal, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), a representative boddy for the industry.

Mumbai will house the 2011 World Cup secretariat and India will host 29 matches of the quadrennial extravaganza, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said here on Tuesday. The secretariat was earlier based in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

A new national poll suggests that President Barack Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, two days before Obama marks 100 days in the White House, indicates that three in four Americans feel Obama has the personal qualities a president should have. But when asked if Obama agrees with the respondent on the issues, that number drops to 57 percent. The survey also indicates that 63 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president. One in three questioned in the poll disapprove.