Washington: Loss of sleep impairs brain regions where food choices are made, possibly helping explain the linkage between sleep loss and obesity. A group of healthy adults participated in two sessions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), one after a normal night’s sleep and a second after a night of sleep deprivation.In both sessions, participants [...]
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s national volleyball coach Radostin Stoychev and star player Matey Kaziyski announced their shock decision to quit the team on Monday, just a day after qualifying for the Olympics. Stoychev had earlier pressed for the resignation of federation chief Dancho Lazarov and vowed that it was either Lazarov or him after the Olympics qu-alifier [...]
Chicago: A Chicago court has dismissed a retrial plea by Pakistan-born-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, convicted of providing material support to Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT), blamed for November 2008 Mumbai terror attack. His sentencing was set for December 4. While a jury acquitted Rana on June 10, 2011 of involvement in the 26/11 attack that killed [...]
Lady Gaga has been struck on the head by a pole while performing a concert in New Zealand. The singer was hit on Sunday during the third of three shows in Auckland. Clips posted online show a backup performer accidentally striking Gaga with the set prop while removing it from the central stage. Gaga, holding [...]
Working with newcomers is no longer risky! The box office success of two recent releases Vicky Donor and Ishaqzaade is a pointer to this. Filmmakers say audiences crave for freshness on screen and new talent helps bring growth to the movie business. From highlighting absolutely unconventional themes to revisiting classic genres, the new breed of [...]
CYCLING: According to popular legend, the first ever bicycle race was held in Paris in 1868 and was won by a 19-year-old cyclist from Suffolk named James Moore. It goes without saying that the sport has grown since these humble beginnings. At the 2012 games, Rocky paths, tricky climbs and technical descents provide plenty of [...]
Europe’s debt and economic crisis isn’t exactly the stuff of exciting headlines. But here’s the problem: what happens in Europe does not stay in Europe. The EU is the largest economic entity on the planet — home to about 500 million and a GDP of some $17 trillion.It’s a major market for US companies like [...]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s well-known social entrepreneur Achyuta Samanta has been conferred an honorary doctorate by a university in Taiwan, said his office here Monday. The National Formosa University, considered one of the best public universities of Taiwan, conferred the Degree of Doctorate (Honoris Causa) on Samanta at its annual convocation ceremony June 9. The university honour [...]
Scottish fencer Keith Cook appealed on Monday against his exclusion from the squad for London 2012 – claiming British Fencing had failed to follow their written Olympic selection policy and procedures. Cook, the 2010 British champion and five-times Commonwealth Games medallist, was not named in the seven-strong group for the individual events, with five of [...]
Washington: A new biochip — appropriately named SMART — can reliably and speedily detect the flu virus, can be carried in a first aid kit and can used as easily as an iPhone.The biochip, designed by Brown University researchers, zeroes in on the infected RNA sequence and separates it from the larger strand with the [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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