Researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston found out that drinking moderate amounts of coffee could in all possibility reduce the likelihood of heart failure by 11 per cent. According to MedPage Today, the investigation looked at five previous studies that had involved nearly 1,50,000 participants. Chief researcher, Murray Mittleman, and his team [...]
Washington: A hormonal gel combo applied daily to the skin showed promise as a male contraceptive by reducing sperm production, say US scientists. About 89 per cent of men using the new combo of skin gels enriched with testosterone and a new synthetic progestin called Nestorone, reported very low sperm counts. “This is the first [...]
But… Seriously Ajay Hotchandani It’s Wednesday afternoon and I driving home from work when I get a craving for ice cream. Not just any ice cream, but New York Cheesecake ice cream with waffle cone. So, without hesitation, I take a different path home, a path that takes me in the opposite direction of my [...]
Mexican doctors say they have removed a 15kg benign tumour from the body of a two-year-old boy. Jesus Gabriel was born with a benign tumour that grew to cover the right side of his body from his armpit to his hip, the Associated Press reports. At the time of surgery on June 14, the tumour [...]
The saxophone is an instrument which when played well can lift anyone’s mood immediately. It has become a part of almost every style of music. In 1846, Antoine-Joseph Sax invented this instrument and also patented it. Since then no band or concert has been complete without it. But there are some other wind instruments which [...]
Shafiq Alam DHAKA: Unlike her Muslim compatriots, Tarulata Rani is unable to inherit anything from her family, cannot divorce and cannot claim maintenance from her absent husband — all because she is a Bangladeshi Hindu. Unlike Bangladeshi Muslims or Hindus in neighbouring India and Nepal, Bangladeshi Hindu women can’t divorce as the legal provisions do [...]
Seoul: North Korea has bestowed a posthumous award on a 14-year-old schoolgirl who drowned in a flash flood while trying to save portraits of the communist dynasty’s late rulers, official media said. Han Hyon-Gyong’s heroism earned her the Kim Jong-Il Youth Honour Award, and her school will be renamed after her, the ruling party newspaper [...]
Washington: People love social networks, which is quite obvious from Facebook’s 900 million active users and its reputation as one of the most visited websites, second only to Google. New research finds what people may really “like” about social networking are themselves. “Despite the name ‘social networks’, much user activity on networking sites is self-focused,” [...]
Attari: Held in Pakistan on spying charges in the early 1980s, Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh returned home after three decades on Thursday. Smiling and waving to family members, friends and supporters, Surjeet, 69, thanked Pakistani border officials as he walked across the zero line at the international border between both countries. He may have been [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to put on hold the service tax on remittances by non-resident Indians (NRIs). In his letter to the prime minister on Wednesday, Tharoor pointed out that the decision to impose 12.36 per cent service tax on remittances to India by NRIs [...]
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Ajay Hotchandani As is the routine every morning, I wake up, toss and turn for about an hour trying to find the motivation to get out of bed. Somewhere between eating and showering, I check my email and have a glance at the news on Google. Later that day I had to go pick my [...]
According to a survey of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials, there are about 620 buildings and another 100 on the outskirts that need immediate demolition in the twin cities. The GHMC engineers’ wing has certified that these 700 old buildings including 200 in Secunderabad could fall any time. Do we need to lose a [...]
The forest department has taken to task many of Hyderabad’s fortune-tellers for the alleged torture and cruel treatment of parakeets under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Raids were conducted by the State Forest Department officials and members of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in Chirkur, Kukatpally and Ameerpet areas that led to the rescue of [...]
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There are positive signals from the G8 summit regarding the plan of action that must be pursed in Syria. Russian leader Vladmir Putin, the man who is the main hurdle to the creation of some means formidable to bringing down Assad, has hinted that he may allow removing Assad provided there is a plan for [...]
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