Teotihuacan (Mexico): A robot that weighs just 25 kg is helping scientists explore the underworld of Teotihuacan, an archaeological complex. The complex is located some 50 km north of Mexico City. The robot is exploring a tunnel built by Teotihuacan’s residents under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, the third-largest pyramid at Teotihuacan, leading archaeologists [...]
The test is expected to play a majot role in keeping the virus out of the country. Melbourne: Australian scientists have for the first time developed a test for the new H7N9 bird flu strain which will be vital in keeping the disease out of the country. Scientists from Queensland have developed the test at [...]
Washington: In an unusual move, US Justice Department secretly obtained two months’ of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press, an action termed by the global news wire as a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how it gathers the news. The Justice Department obtained secret records as part of a year-long investigation into [...]
A US abortion provider was found guilty of murdering three babies with scissors after they were born alive in his filthy Philadelphia clinic. NEW YORK: A US abortion provider was found guilty Monday of murdering three babies with scissors after they were born alive in his filthy Philadelphia clinic. Kermit Gosnell, 72, could face the [...]
Islamabad: Forty-nine polling stations in Pakistan achieved the impossible — the votes polled were more than the total number of voters. Data gathered by Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) observers at polling stations have shown voter turnout greater than 100 percent, reported News International. Pakistan went to the hustings Saturday and unofficial election results [...]
London: British scientists say they have developed a new type of wheat which could increase productivity by 30%, reports the BBC. The Cambridge-based National Institute of Agricultural Botany has combined an ancient ancestor of wheat with a modern variety to produce a new strain. In early trials, the resulting crop seemed bigger and stronger than [...]
The prototype, to be outlined in Physical Review Letters, contained a 5cm-wide flat region impervious to heat flowing around it. London: Researchers have built and tested a form of invisibility cloak that can hide objects from heat, reports the BBC. Similar cloaking efforts are underway to make objects invisible to light and even sound waves, but [...]
Squeals ricocheted down the halls as the 28-year-old inspected a photo exhibit. Robert MacPherson WASHINGTON: Britain’s Prince Harry broke hearts in Washington’s corridors of power, showing more interest in landmines than in the excited fans who greeted him at the start of a week-long US visit. Squeals ricocheted down the halls of the Russell Senate [...]
London: Exposing skin to sunlight may help reduce blood pressure, cut the risk of heart attack, stroke and even prolong life, a new study has claimed. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have shown that when our skin is exposed to the sun’s rays, a compound is released in our blood vessels that help 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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