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Exchange RatePatna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday won the trust vote in the assembly, proving his majority after dumping long-time ally the BJP. A total of 126 legislators voted for the motion moved by the chief minister while 24 voted against. The house has 243 members. Bharatiya Janata Party legislators walked out before the special session [...]
Archive for June 5th, 2012
Does he really need it?
The son of hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is attracting criticism for accepting a $54,000 athletic scholarship from UCLA, Reuters reported. Justin Dior Combs, who will be a defensive back on UCLA’s Division I football team starting this fall, is one of about 285 students to earn a full ride to the university this [...]
Celebrating donuts
National Donut Day, which falls on the first Friday of June every year, isn’t all sugar and spice and everything nice (though it does involve hefty doses of the first, and a sprinkle of the second.) Founded in 1938, National Donut Day commemorates the women who tirelessly offered up donuts to soldiers during World War [...]
Earhart did the Crusoe
Amelia Earhart mystery solved: She died on a Pacific island Amerlia Earhart lived with navigator Fred Noon for days or longer on a Pacific island, ending the theory that she simply vanished, new evidence suggests. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, the group investigating the disappearance, said on Friday that new evidence of SOS [...]
Is there any hope left for Yamuna?
The present state of the Yamuna river from Delhi to Agra, a distance of roughly 250km, is alarming. Described now as a huge sewage canal, Yamuna water is unfit for human consumption. It cannot even support bacteria or aquatic life. Yamuna finds mention in the Rig Veda. The founder of the Mughal dynasty, Babar, was [...]
Spider invasion spooks village in Assam
Guwahati: Panicked villagers in Assam complained on Monday of an invasion of giant venomous spiders that resemble tarantulas but are unknown to local specialists. The media said that a dozen people had been bitten and treated in hospital, with two unconfirmed deaths reported. “Initially we thought it was a prank, but later on we saw [...]
India for bigger role
New Delhi: With India increasingly looking to Central Asia for its energy security needs, external affairs minister SM Krishna left today (Tuesday) for Beijing, where he will pitch for a bigger role for New Delhi in the six-nation Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO). Krishna will also hold bilateral talks Wednesday with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi [...]
Heat has no rich-poor bias
New Delhi: For Pushpa Rani, 38, a labourer who works a 16-hour day, seven days a week, the blistering heat that keeps most Delhi citizens indoors is no reason to stop working. “My husband died due to cancer five years ago and I have three kids at home. If I don’t work daily, they will [...]
Microsoft links Xbox with smartphones, tablets
LOS ANGELES: Microsoft on Monday stepped up its quest to be at the heart of home entertainment by synching Xbox 360 videogame consoles to smartphones and tablets while adding more blockbuster content. Microsoft unveiled Xbox SmartGlass software for linking the world’s leading consoles to iPhones, iPads, Android-powered gadgets and, of course, devices powered by the [...]
Women who smoke give birth to lighter babies
Madrid: Women who smoke during pregnancy give birth to lighter and smaller babies, says a Spanish study. The findings were borne out by research conducted by the University of Zaragoza in Spain on 1,216 newly born babies. Such babies were between 180 and 230 grams thinner than the offspring of non-smoking mothers, which averages 216 [...]
Research shows promising treatments against skin cancer
CHICAGO: Two new experimental treatments against advanced melanoma have shown promise in keeping the deadly skin cancer at bay, according to research presented in the United States on Monday. The agents, known as Dabrafenib and Trametinib, are being developed by the British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline, and were tested in clinical trials against standard chemotherapy treatments. The trial [...]
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