Washington: At least 51 people, including seven children at an elementary school, were killed as a massive tornado slammed Oklahoma City in south central US leaving widespread destruction in its wake. Emergency personnel were scouring the rubble at flattened Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, hours after the tornado struck Monday afternoon, a video [...]
Sensational Sue made the headlines in May, 2000. Sue, is 42 ft long and 65 million years old. She’s the world’s most complete, best preserved, and largest Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, who went on permanent display at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Its towering personality encouraged us to check some of its own kind.
With his administration under fire over intrusion into media call records, he stressed that leaks could endanger soldiers and intelligence officers. Washington: US President Barack Obama has emphasised on maintaining a balance between national security and media freedom, as his administration is in the middle of a controversy related to intrusion into the phone call [...]
Melbourne: A 21-year-old Australian man was sentenced to 45 years in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 30 years for the “planned and premeditated” rape and murder of Indian student Tosha Thakkar, who he strangled to death, stuffed into a suitcase and dumped in a canal. Daniel Stani-Reginald raped and strangled 24-year-old Thakkar to [...]
Washington: Testosterone levels increase when men defeat rivals in competitions, but not after they compete against friends, a new study claims. A University of Missouri study has found that testosterone levels during group competition are modulated depending on the relationships among the competitors. “One interesting thing about humans is that we are the only animal [...]
Washington: Fish oil could minimise the damaging effects that junk food can have on the brain, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Liverpool analysed several research papers to substantially confirm the aiding of weight loss by omega-3s Previous research has indicated that high-fat diets could disrupt neurogenesis, a process that generates new [...]
London: Most women want their friendship with male friends to stay platonic, says a research. The research carried by dating site Canoodle.com reveals that only 27 per cent of women would say yes to something more than friendship with their closest male friend, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Most women are completely happy for their friendship with a [...]
Washington: What could be a World War II era recipe for Coca-Cola’s secret formula found a buyer Wednesday on eBay — a 15-year-old who now has three days to come up with $15 million to pay for it. Georgia antiques dealer Cliff Kluge listed the yellowing typewritten document with an opening bid of $5 million [...]
MOSCOW: The tomb of Russia’s revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin reopened Wednesday after major repairs for water damage to its foundation, media reports said. The project underscored that authorities are in no hurry to respond to calls for the communist icon’s remains to be buried, a debate that began with the fall of communism in 1991. [...]
BEIJING: A wealthy Chinese Maserati owner hired four sledgehammer-wielding men to smash up his $420,000 supercar in protest at poor customer service, reports said Wednesday. The car owner, identified only by his surname Wang, had the group attack the Maserati Quattroporte at the opening of an auto show in the eastern city of Qingdao, in [...]
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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 [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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