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We recently spotted the Nepali beauty at Rohit Roy’s bash and for a moment we thought she was the actor’s not-so-good-looking older sister! Seen in a body-hugging black T-shirt teamed with an insipid long grey jacket, Manisha Koirala looked haggard and pale. The wrinkles and double chin showed and the zest to party was clearly missing. If not presentable, this once-upon-a-time bootilicious [...]
Why did Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra jump into the election fray in Uttar Pradesh, breaking her long absence from active politics? Is it to give Rahul Gandhi a helping hand or to let everyone know that she, a one-time favourite of the masses, is also preparing for 2014, the year of the general election? This is one of the teasers which makes [...]
THE Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 (PESA) was the first to assert the rights of panchayats over minor forest produce (MFP). However, hardly any state implemented the provisions of this act seriously, and the Left and other organisations fighting for tribal rights continuously demanded that forest produce gatherers must be given ownership rights and minimum support prices (MSP) [...]
Key facts Schistosomiasis is a chronic disease caused by parasitic worms. Over 230 million people require treatment for schistosomiasis yearly. The number of people treated for schistosomiasis rose from 12.4 million in 2006 to 33.5 million in 2010. People are at risk of infection due to agricultural, domestic and recreational activities which expose them to infested water. Hygiene and play [...]
When India rejected the two US contenders for its prestigious and much awaited $10 billion order for medium multi-role combat aircraft, many in the US raised shrill protests that India was not living up to US expectations and gratefully repaying the US for the Indo-US nuclear deal and for helping India break the international nuclear embargo and related impediments in [...]
Steel in India is an industry that has spurred national development since the very infancy of the IndianRepublic. From supporting the infrastructure development requirements of the nation to aiding growth by catalyzing the economy, its role has been much more than that of a morbid alloy. Despite all the multi pronged development that has been possible because of Steel, its uses have not [...]
We recently spotted the Nepali beauty at Rohit Roy’s bash and for a moment we thought...
Why did Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra jump into the election fray in Uttar Pradesh, breaking...
THE Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 (PESA) was the first to assert...
Key facts Schistosomiasis is a chronic disease caused by parasitic worms. Over 230...
When India rejected the two US contenders for its prestigious and much awaited $10...
Steel in India is an industry that has spurred national development since the very...
‘Apart from female foeticide, malnutrition is a major cause’ Raising concerns over declining sex ratio in the country, Minister of State...
China and Korea have outstripped India in steel production over the decades, although all of them began on nearly the same footing. If India...
The debate on education reforms has been severely hampered by the lack of reliable data, particularly on learning outcomes. The government data...
India’s apex child rights panel Friday sought a report from Delhi Police on the status of an abandoned two-year-old baby admitted in critical...
At least 1,45,000 people live jampacked in the area that houses the famed 16th-17th century Lahore Fort and Badshahi Mosque, crowded into...
A small asteroid with the size of a city bus came much nearer than the moon Friday (Jan 27), just days after its discovery, but it never posed...
We recently spotted the Nepali beauty at Rohit Roy’s bash and for a moment we thought she was the actor’s not-so-good-looking older sister! Seen in a body-hugging black T-shirt teamed with an insipid long grey jacket, Manisha Koirala looked haggard and pale. The wrinkles and double chin showed and the zest to party was clearly missing. If not presentable, this once-upon-a-time bootilicious [...]
Why did Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra jump into the election fray in Uttar Pradesh, breaking her long absence from active politics? Is it to give Rahul Gandhi a helping hand or to let everyone know that she, a one-time favourite of the masses, is also preparing for 2014, the year of the general election? This is one of the teasers which makes [...]
A small asteroid with the size of a city bus came much nearer than the moon Friday (Jan 27), just days after its discovery, but it never posed a threat to our planet, space scientists said. The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 36,750 miles (59,044 kilometers) of Earth. The space rock is about 37 feet (11 meters) wide and would [...]
Technology giant Apple has launched a probe into a report that said factories in China that manufactured its products employed child labour and had 24-hour working days and unsafe conditions, a media report said. In an email sent to around 60,000 employees, the company’s chief executive Tim Cook said Apple “cares about every worker in its supply chain”, the Telegraph [...]
Male mice are able to sing melodic tunes to attract female partners, a study has said. The tunes are sung at ultrasonic range beyond human hearing, and each mouse has its own individual signature song, said the study by the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. “It seems as though house mice might provide a new model organism for the [...]
American intelligence agency FBI is reportedly developing new software to scan social networks Twitter and Facebook to look for emerging threats and predict crimes. The FBI has asked technology firms to create software that can effectively scan the websites for words, phrases and other suspected behaviour, the Telegraph reported. It will also be able to translate from foreign languages as [...]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will act against banks that do not implement its guidelines on electronic security of their transactions and operations by October 2012, a senior official said Friday. A working group, under the chairmanship of RBI Executive Director G. Gopalakrishna, has recommended strengthening the informattion technology architecture of banks and security measures to tackle cyber fraud. [...]
Social network Facebook has made compulsory its Timeline feature through which all of a user’s photographs and wall posts would be seen by friends on their homepage. The feature had been voluntary till now and Facebook has given all of its 800 million users a seven-day period to delete content before Timeline goes online, The Sun reported. Timeline makes everything [...]
Some of the viruses are real con artists. They trick new bugs with genetic material filched from their previous bacterial hosts into working for them, reveals a study. The con occurs when a grifter virus injects its DNA into a bacterium living in a phosphorus-starved region of the ocean. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) researchers are the very first to [...]
Global tablet shipments reached nearly 27 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 with Android jumping to a record share of 39 percent, said a new research released Thursday. According to the research by consulting firm Strategy Analytics, global tablet shipments reached a record high of 26.8 million units in the last quarter of 2011, surging 250 percent from [...]
A patent application published by the US Patent and Trademark Office Thursday showed that Apple is working on a universal touchscreen remote capable of controlling multiple devices, shedding lights on the company’s much-anticipated plan on a smart TV product. The patent, titled “Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control” was filed Sep 30, 2011, said that the remote will [...]
A 190 million-year-old dinosaur nesting site – the oldest ever – has been unearthed in South Africa. The discovery of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus has revealed significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behaviour in early dinosaurs. Led by University of Toronto (Mississauga) palaeontologist Robert Reisz, with co-author Eric Roberts from James Cook University and a group of international [...]
Mexican scientists inaugurated Latin America’s No. 2 supercomputer by size and speed, with the ability to process 24.9 trillion operations per second, authorities said. The computer, along with others at two major Mexican universities, is part of the new high-performance network Lancad, said the Center for Research and Advanced Studies, or Cinvestav in a communique. Cinvestav chief Rene Asomoza explained [...]
India’s Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme will facilitate the advancement of Trinidad and Tobago’ s objective of becoming the ICT hub of the Caribbean and Latin America, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communications Surujrattan Rambachan. He told the 62nd anniversary function to mark India’s Republic Day at the residence of the Indian High Commissioneri Malay Mishra on [...]
A majority of tweets in Africa are made by young people from their mobile devices, thus driving the growth of Twitter Africa, new research has revealed. The study “How Africa Tweets” said African users of Twitter aged 20-29 are also active across a range of social media, including Facebook, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn. The research by Portland Communications and Tweetminster [...]
India’s apex child rights panel Friday sought a report from Delhi Police on the status of an abandoned two-year-old baby admitted in critical condition to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). “We have sought an inquiry report from the Delhi Police on the investigation within ten days,” National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) chairperson Shanta Sinha [...]
Muscle endurance tests can detect abormalities in the early stages of multiple sclerosis, according to the latest findings, reveals a study. Multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurodegenerative disease, is characterised by symptoms such as loss of balance, muscle spasms, numbness or abnormal sensation in any area, problems of moving arms or legs, etc. While MS patients’ walking abilities and muscle strength [...]
With a fresh outbreak of bird flu at a government-run farm in western Tripura, authorities Friday started culling more than 1,600 poultry birds to contain spread of the infection, officials said here. “In addition to culling poultry birds, destruction of eggs and feed material also has begun at the ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research) farm at Lembuchara in western [...]
Asian women who consumed an average two cups of coffee daily had elevated estrogen levels as compared to those who consumed less. However, Caucasian women who consumed an equivalent amount of caffeine a day had slightly lower estrogen levels than women who consumed less. Estrogen is the main sex hormone in women, essential for the menstruation and reproduction. Total caffeine [...]
As a two-year-old abandoned baby suffering from multiple injuries battled for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Friday, police were still trying to find her parents. Baby girl Falak, who was admitted to AIIMS Jan 18, is showing signs of recovery, but her chances of survival are only 50 percent, say the doctors. Falak was brought [...]
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