The Arab League declared Iran ally Hezbollah a terrorist group, after Gulf monarchies adopted the same stance over the Lebanese Shiite movement`s support for the regime in Syria`s war.
The move reflects the worsening tensions between Shiite Iran and the six-nation Sunni-dominated Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), of which regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia is a key member.
This decision was endorsed by the majority of foreign ministers of the pan-Arab body except for Lebanon and Iraq which expressed reservations.
The United States, Canada and Australia have listed Hezbollah as a "terrorist" group. The European Union has also blacklisted its military wing.
Astronomers have discovered of the BOSS Great Wall, a group of superclusters that span roughly 1 billion light-years across and represents the largest structure ever found in space.
The BOSS Great Wall stands for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and is a string of superclusters connected by gases lying roughly 4.5 to 6.5 billion light-years away from Earth.
Search for Life on Mars
Europe and Russia are set to launch an unmanned spacecraft to smell Mars\' atmosphere for gassy evidence that life once existed or may still exist on the Red Planetl.
ExoMars 2016, the first of a two-phase Mars exploration, will see an orbiter hoisted from Kazakhstan on a Russian Proton rocket.
With its suite of high-tech instruments, the Trace Gas Orbiter or TGO, should arrive at the Red Planet on October 19.
Its main mission is to photograph the Red Planet and analyse its air.
As per reports, India has 21.17 lakh people living with HIV, the third largest in the world after South Africa (68 lakh) and Nigeria (34 lakh).
To facilitate this, the government has decided to revamp its National AIDS Control Programme and extend free anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to those with a CD4 cell count of less than 500, earlier this was at 300.
At presen there are 524 ART centres and 1,094 link centres in the country providing free anti-retroviral therapy, treatment for opportunistic infections and counselling services to 9.25 lakh people living with HIV.