Forest Dept. steps up vigil to prevent poaching
Base camps, check-posts set up as part of the drive
Data | Sudden spike in cases results in fastest COVID-19 doubling rate in Punjab in the past week
The State has a low testing rate relative to India's avg despite cases doubling quickly in the last week
State is ahead of others in scale of testing: CM
‘A record 2,500 tests are being done per million; need for higher level of preparedness’
People from Karnataka stranded abroad to start arriving on May 8
All the 10,823 persons from Karnataka stranded in other countries, who will be arriving in the State from May 8, will be quarantined and compulsorily
Higher daily step count linked with lower all-cause mortality
In a new study, higher daily step counts were associated with lower mortality risk from all causes. Researchers found that the number of steps taken each day, but not the intensity of the stepping, had a strong association with mortality.
NCI statement on clinical trials during COVID-19 pandemic
Statement from the National Cancer Institute providing information regarding treatment of cancer patients and participation in clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NCI study provides genetic insights into osteosarcoma in children
A new study offers insight into genetic alterations associated with osteosarcoma, the most common bone tumor of children and adolescents, and the findings have implications for genetic testing of children with osteosarcoma and their families.
In NIH trial, selumetinib shrinks tumors, provides clinical benefit for children with NF1
An NCI clinical trial finds the drug selumetinib improves outcomes for children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), shrinking inoperable tumors called plexiform neurofibromas, reducing pain, and improving function and overall quality of life.
Annual Report to the Nation: Cancer death rates continue to decline
The 2020 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds overall cancer death rates continue to decline in the United States for all cancer sites combined. A companion study looked at Healthy People 2020 targets for four common cancers.
Testing with combined biopsy method improves prostate cancer diagnosis in NCI study
Testing for prostate cancer with a combined biopsy method led to more accurate diagnosis and prediction of the course of the disease in an NCI study. The method is poised to reduce the risk of prostate cancer overtreatment and undertreatment.
Immunotherapy drug improves outcomes for some children with relapsed leukemia
For children and young adults with certain relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the immunotherapy drug blinatumomab is superior to standard chemotherapy, an NCI-sponsored Children’s Oncology Group trial shows.
Study quantifies impact of NCI-sponsored trials on clinical cancer care
Nearly half of phase 3 cancer clinical trials carried out by the NCI-sponsored SWOG Cancer Research Network were associated with clinical care guidelines or new drug approvals, a study in JAMA Network Open shows.
NCI study finds long-term increased risk of cancer death following common treatment for hyperthyroidism
Findings from a new NCI study of patients who received radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment for hyperthyroidism show an association between the dose of treatment and long-term risk of death from solid cancers, including breast cancer.
Annual Report to the Nation: Overall cancer mortality continues to decline; Special section on adults ages 20 to 49 shows higher cancer incidence and mortality for women than men
The 2019 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds overall cancer death rates continue to decline and cancer incidence dropped in men and remained stable in women. A special section reports on recent cancer trends in younger adults.
‘Guruvayur Devaswom donation subject to final outcome of cases’
Division Bench refers petition to Full Bench
Evacuation ends a youngster’s nightmare
Felix’s condition deteriorated into pneumonia while he was still in Abu Dhabi
e-autos for Kochi: union leaders, drivers meet experts online
Many of them created their first email ids to take part in event
Portal launched for Lakshadweep islanders
The Lakshadweep Administration has launched a portal on its website where people who are stranded in Kerala and Mangaluru, and on islands away from th
Two, including cop, held with illicit liquor
The Ernakulam Excise Special Squad seized 14.50 litres of suspected illicit Indian Made Foreign Liquor and arrested two people, including a policeman,
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic-and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.
Flights, Olga Tokarczuk
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)
The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
Trick Mirror
From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television. - Recommended by Emma
My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE
United States of Distraction, Mickey Huff,Nolan Higdon
A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and how we can fight back.
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Deer Trails, Kim Shuck
San Francisco's new poet laureate-a Native American and native San Franciscan-explores urban space and the natural world.
The Grave on the Wall, Brandon Shimoda
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.
Troublemaker for Justice, Jacqueline Houtman,Michael G. Long,Walter Naegle
This biography of Bayard Rustin for young readers depicts his life of nonviolent activism and resistance.
More Fun in the New World, John Doe
Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene, with 50 rare photos.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
Written as a son's letter to his mother who cannot read, this novel is raw and achingly beautiful. Vuong's writing is both visceral and sublime with lines that will render you awestruck. - Andy
America Is in the Heart, Carlos Bulosan
A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo -- Recommended by Paul
East Goes West, Younghill Kang
"A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature. --Recommended by Paul
The Hanging on Union Square, H. T. Tsiang
A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice. --Recommended by Paul
The Impeachers, Brenda Wineapple
"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America - Recommended by Paul
Mr. Know-It-All, John Waters
No one knows more about everything-especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling-than John Waters.
No-No Boy, John Okada
The first Japanese American novel: a powerful, radical testament to the experiences of Japanese American draft resisters in the wake of World War II. --Recommended by Paul
Lot
In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. - Recommended by Paul
Tears of the Trufflepig, Fernando A. Flores
One of The Daily Beast's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com's Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books' Best New Books of May. --Recommended by Paul
Amateur, Thomas Page McBee
"Thomas Page McBee is this generation's essential and desperately needed voice on masculinity because he understands the crucial connection between power and trauma that constructs (and deconstructs) gender. This book is written with love and vulnerability about what literally makes a man fight."--Recommended by Chris C., City Lights Publishers
Lanny, Max Porter
"Max Porter does damaged psyche well. . . . Porter's winning new novel, Lanny, despair and unsettling entities are again on the menu, as are hard-won grace and beauty."-New York Times Book Review - Recommended by Paul
More Gone, Edmund Berrigan
From New York School scion and memoirist, a new book of poems considering domesticity in the heart of the city.
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang produces a short story so rarely, each tale is a celebration of exactitude. With an architect's eye for structure, the patience and temperament of a chemist, and a physicist's understanding of the order and chaos that underlines our world and our lives, these stories are each a carefully wrapped creation. -Daven & Christopher P
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
Arcana, Stephen Jonas
Stephen Jonas is a crucial missing piece of the postwar American poetry puzzle.
Normal People, Sally Rooney
"Fresh and accessible . . . There is so much to say about Rooney's fiction-in my experience, when people who've read her meet they tend to peel off into corners to talk."-Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Ascend Ascend, Janaka Stucky
Equal parts Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain,' Ascend Ascend documents the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine. --Recommended by Caitlyn
Dark Constellations
Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac's wildly ambitious second novel investigates humanity's quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the 19th century mania for scientific classification to present-day mass surveillance and the next steps in human evolution. - Recommended by Josiah
Auto drivers in Kozhikode in dire need of help
Curbs on services push them into serious financial crisis