May 16th, 2008 - 1:58 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 16 (ANI): Being put in a low-power role may damage a persons central cognitive functioning and hence, their ability to get ahead.
In their article, Pamela Smith of Radboud University Nijmegen, and colleagues Nils B. Jostmann of VU University Amsterdam, Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:57 pm ICT by admin
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Moscow, May 16 (DPA) Russian politicians stumbled over themselves to exalt St Petersburg club Zenit Thursday on their 2-0 UEFA cup victory over the Rangers in Manchester. Former president Vladimir Putin, who filled Moscow's government with allies from his native St Petersburg, was the first to offer praises on phone ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:44 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 16 (ANI): Researchers from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have revealed that obese people consume 18 percent more food energy than their leaner counterparts.
For the study, Phil Edwards and colleague Phil Roberts estimated the hypothetical difference in food consumption of 1 billion obese and 1 ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:25 pm ICT by admin
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Madrid, May 16 (DPA) Portugal midfielder Deco has announced his intention to leave troubled Spanish giants Barcelona. The veteran playmaker said Thursday evening that Barca had told his agent to start looking for a new club for next season.
"I will go to England or Italy, for sure," the 30 ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:21 pm ICT by admin
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Melbourne, May 16 (ANI): Australian Federal Police (AFP) considered placing Indian born doctor Mohamed Haneef on a control order or in preventative detention just three days after he was arrested, but were advised there was insufficient information to support their move.
Documents obtained by the Indian-born doctors legal team under ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:12 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, May 16 (IANS) Sameer Kochhar, TV anchor turned actor and host for IPL tournaments, says betting in cricket matches should be legalised. Sameer, who plays a cop in "Jannat", Mahesh Bhatt's film on match fixing, said there is nothing wrong in betting if it does not lead to match ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 12:42 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 16 (ANI): Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzls threats to his cellar family that he would gas them to death if they tried to escape their underground dungeon were a mere bluff, cops have revealed.
The 73-year-old electrical engineer, who kept his daughter Elisabeth, 42, as a personal ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 12:42 pm ICT by admin
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Attention editors: Sports schedule for May 16, 2008
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) The following is the sports schedule for May 16, 2008: Cricket: Indian Premier League: Mumbai Indians vs. Kolkata Knight Riders (D.Y. Patil Stadium, Mumbai); Previews of Delhi Daredevils vs. Kings XI Punjab (Feroze Shah Kotla, Delhi) and Rajasthan ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 12:09 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 16 (ANI): People of all religious groups organised a prayer meet, seeking solace for the victims who died in Myanmar cyclone, in Chinese earthquake and in Jaipur serial blasts.
The prayer meet in honour of the victims was organised by the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese and members of ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 12:09 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, May 16 (ANI): An eight-lane sea link with a twin carriageway and having a cable-stayed bridge design to be commissioned by January 2009 is poised to make for speedy road travel between Bandra and Worli suburbs of Mumbai.
Authorities here said that the 5.6-kilometer long Bandra-Worli sea link expected ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 2:48 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Amit Mishra claimed the second hat-trick of the Indian Premier League (IPL) here Thursday night to guide Delhi Daredevils to a thrilling 12-run win over Deccan Chargers. Mishra picked up five for 17 and became the third bowler after Sohail Tanvir (6/14) and Lakshmipathy Balaji ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 2:46 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) With their thrilling 12-run win over Deccan Chargers here Thursday night, Delhi Daredevils consolidated their position in the Indian Premier League (IPL) standings and also strengthened their claim for a semi-final berth. The standings have been tabulated under matches played, won, draw, loss, tied, points ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 2:33 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Leg-spinner Amit Mishra took a hat-trick as Delhi Daredevils ended their losing streak with a 12-run victory over Deccan Chargers in a thrilling Twenty20 match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) here Thursday. Put into bat, Daredevils scored 194 for six with half centuries from ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 2:32 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Deccan Chargers skipper Adam Gilchrist minced no words in criticising Delhi Daredevils' ploy of bringing an unfit Mohammad Asif for bowling and replacing him with a substitute for fielding in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Thursday night. Asif, who was suffering from an ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:45 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match in which Delhi Daredevils defeated Deccan Chargers by 12 runs at the Feroze Shah Kotla stadium here Thursday: Match No.37, Indian Premier League, Twenty20, Delhi Daredevils vs. Deccan Chargers, Feroze Shah Kotla, May ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:15 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Leg spinner Amit Mishra took a hat-trick as Delhi Daredevils beat Deccan Chargers by 12 runs in their Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Feroze Shah Kotla stadium here Thursday. Chasing a target of 195, Deccan Chargers scored 182 for the loss of ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 12:09 am ICT by admin
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Ahmedabad, May 15 (IANS) The Indian cricket board's inquiry commissioner Sudhir Nanavati Thursday expressed sympathy for off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, saying that no player has lost Rs.30 million for a single offence on field. "Never in the history of cricket or for that matter in any sporting event in the world ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:56 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Following is the scoreboard of the Delhi Daredevils innings against Deccan Chargers in their Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Feroze Shah Kotla stadium here Thursday. Delhi Daredevils :
Gautam Gambhir st Gilchrist b Ojha 79
Virendra Sehwag c Singh b Vijaykumar 0
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May 15th, 2008 - 11:26 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Half centuries from Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan helped Delhi Daredevils post a mammoth total of 194 runs for the loss of four wickets in an Indian Premier League match at the Feroze Shah Kotla stadium here Thursday. Gambhir was the top scorer with 79 ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 10:25 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) Thursday announced the Players Championships, a series of four events, which will be held in the four zones of the country every season. The first Players Championship, a Rs. 3 million event, will be played at the Chandigarh ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:54 pm ICT by admin
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By Sarada Lahangir
Puri, May 15 (ANI): A five-day folk fair organized to promote various facets of the art and culture, which are facing extinction with the growing influence of modernism, captivated a huge number of people here recently.
The main objective of the annual fair was to promote and ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:53 pm ICT by admin
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By Lokendra Singh
Jaipur, May 15 (ANI): Terrorism has no religion. The serial bomb blasts, which created havoc in old Jaipur on Tuesday, devastated a Muslim family that lost three of its daughters in the incident.
The bomb blasts suspected to have been carried out by Bangladesh-based terrorist outfit Haraka ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:23 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who will be on a two-day official visit to Bhutan, today said that India traditionally enjoyed a unique relationship with Bhutan.
It is a partnership rooted in close historical and cultural linkages between two friendly sovereign neighbours. Our relations ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 9:13 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, May 15 (IANS) The focus will be on Shoaib Akhtar and Sanath Jayasuriya when Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians face each other in an exciting clash in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Wankhede Stadium here Friday. Going by the last performances, Shoaib shone for ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 8:19 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Top seed Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) swept aside Australian Colin Ebelthite to storm into the semi-finals of the $50,000 SAIL Open ATP challenger at the DLTA complex here Thursday. Ebelthite was no match for the World no.90 Taiwanese who registered an easy 6-1,6-4 ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 7:47 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The under-14 Indian football team will leave for Tehran early Friday to take part in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-14 Festival to be held in the Iranian capital from May 18-23 Besides India and hosts Iran, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal ar ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 6:49 pm ICT by admin
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London , May 15 (ANI): Leakage of credit card and bank account details on the internet has been a regular scenario, but the latest entrant in this virtual world of identity frauds involves hackers tapping into voice-over IP telephony accounts.
Newport Networks, one of the major VoIP equipment makers has ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 6:38 pm ICT by admin
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By Naveen Kapoor
Yekatarinburg (Russia), May 15 (ANI): Raising concerns over the illicit drugs trade going on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Russia-India-China troika in the joint communique has called for the creation of a security belt around Afghanistan to halt the spread of heroin.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did not ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 6:27 pm ICT by admin
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Sydney, May 15 (IANS) The International Cricket Council's elite panel of umpires might face a crunch if the highly-rated Simon Taufel decides to call it a day, tired of the constant travel. The ICC does not allow its umpires to stand Test matches in their own countries and that has ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 6:13 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 15 (ANI): Though he might be fancied by every woman, Hollywood actor George Clooney has just been declared less hotter than soccer star David Beckham by the latters wife, Victoria.
Posh had just recently become friends with Clooney, who had been named People's Sexiest Man Alive, twice.
"He was ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 6:13 pm ICT by admin
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Lahore, May 15 (ANI): An election tribunal on Thursday accepted the nomination papers of Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif to contest election from NA-123.
The tribunal also accepted the nomination papers of PML-N covering candidate Hamza Shahbaz, The News reported.
The nomination papers of Nawaz Sharif were rejected during ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 5:07 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) As part of its Vision India project, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is launching a revamped league in Kerala. After a meeting between officials of Vision Asia, of which Vision India is a part, and Kerala Football Association (KFA) in Calicut it was decided to ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 4:18 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi , May 15 (ANI): A little known militant group Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for Tuesdays blasts in Jaipur through a mysterious e-mail to various television channels and warned India to stop supporting the US in the international arena or else will face more attacks at other ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 3:09 pm ICT by admin
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Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) A photograph of a boy in suspension moments before plunging into a pond has won photographer Anindya Majumdar $5,000 and a trip to the Beijing Olympics with his wife. Visa International, the official partner for Beijing Olympics, announced the winner from India of the international pre-Games ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 2:32 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, My 15 (ANI): The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) today inked an agreement with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to promote mutual cooperation in civil aviation between the two organisations.
The Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) was signed by Lim Kim Choon, Director-General and Chief Executive ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 2:11 pm ICT by admin
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New York, May 15 (ANI): American actress Jodie Foster has split with her long-time girlfriend Cydney Bernard, according to reports.
The rumours that Foster was having a relationship with the 54-year-old film producer had become public recently, although those in Hollywood, who are close to Foster, had known about the ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 1:57 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 15 (ANI): It is widely believed that violent video games have a negative impact on kids, leading to increased aggression. But now a researcher at the University of Essex, England, suggest that there is no obvious link between the two.
In fact, Patrick Kierkegaard of the University of ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 1:32 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Leander Paes and his new partner Tommy Robredo moved into the quarterfinals of the Hamburg Masters tennis tournament, stunning third seed Israeli pair of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in the second round. The unseeded Indo-Spanish pair had to stretch themselves to the full to ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 1:10 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 15 (ANI): A new study has shed light on heroin addiction, by identifying a factor that may play a key role in the development of the habit, by manipulating the adenosine A2A receptor, which regulates the brains reward pathway.
Using mice specifically bred without the adenosine A2A receptor, ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 12:50 pm ICT by admin
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Washington , May 15 (ANI): Owing to their 85 percent identical genomes, mouse act as the best substitute for humans in medical research. But, evolutionary biologists at University of Michigan have indicated that these identical genes may behave differently in mouse and man.
The results of this study by Ben-Yang ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 12:38 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 15 (ANI): A shocking biography of the Nobel laureate Sir V.S.Naipaul, The World Is What It Is, which exposes his cruelty towards those closest to him, is tipped to win the Samuel Johnson prize.
Patrick French's The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 12:18 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 15 (ANI): Geographic risk models developed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College in the US have estimated that as many as 3.2 million Burmese have been affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis.
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), ...
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May 15th, 2008 - 12:17 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 15 (ANI): India could use Tuesdays serial bombings in Rajasthan capital Jaipur to create a crisis with Pakistan, Americas private intelligence gathering agency STRATFOR has claimed.
In a commentary published here and accessed by the Daily Times, STRATFOR writes that prior to the diplomatic process that took off ...
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