AFC chief Hammam to challenge Blatter for FIFA presidency
March 18th, 2011 - 6:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 18(ANI): Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Mohamed Bin Hammam has confirmed that he will challenge Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency.Hammam has spent the past two months weighing up possible ... Read more...
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Tri-Valley won’t affect Indian enrolment in US: Experts
March 7th, 2011 - 10:57 am ICT by IANS
New York, March 7 (IANS) As another season of US education fairs comes around, educatioin experts say the Tri-Valley University incident will not deter Indian students from coming to ... Read more...
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Parents give birth to twins - one ebony, the other ivory!
February 25th, 2011 - 5:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): An Ohio couple has given birth to twins but this is no ordinary pair, because one baby is white, and the other is black.Triniti has ebony-coloured skin and ... Read more...
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Song From Jackie Leaked?
August 6th, 2010 - 10:04 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
August 6, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): The leaked out song of the film Jackie is doing the rounds. The movie stars Puneet Raj Kumar and Bhavana. The song is making waves all ... Read more...
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Lava likely made river-like meandering channel on Mars
March 5th, 2010 - 3:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 5 (ANI): New research indicates that flowing lava can carve or build paths very much like the riverbeds and canyons etched by water, which probably explains at least one of ... Read more...
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Ethiopian desert rift likely the beginning of new sea
November 3rd, 2009 - 4:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 3 (ANI): Scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world's oceans, ... Read more...
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196 Indian languages endangered, experts to mull revival
October 21st, 2009 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Some 196 Indian languages are endangered, according to a recent Unesco study, and a worried lot of linguists, scholars and policy-makers are meeting in a two-day international ... Read more...
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No link between pets and childhood asthma: Study
October 14th, 2009 - 2:24 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, October 14 (ANI): The traditional belief that childhood asthma is linked to pets or the modern obsession with hygiene has been established as untrue by a new study.The study 'Asthma in ... Read more...
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Falling readership forces closure of Far Eastern Economic Review
September 22nd, 2009 - 5:33 pm ICT by IANS
Hong Kong, Sep 22 (DPA) The Hong Kong-based monthly magazine Far Eastern Economic Review will cease publication in December due to falling readership and advertising revenue, the publisher confirmed Tuesday.
The magazine, which ... Read more...
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New gene linked to familial testicular cancer identified
June 30th, 2009 - 1:11 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 30 (ANI): Scientists at the National Institutes of Health claim to have identified the second gene that can increase a man's risk of familial, or inherited, testicular germ-cell cancer.Men ... Read more...
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UK varsity to honour King Khan on July 10
June 28th, 2009 - 5:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 28 (ANI): The University of Bedfordshire will honour Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan with an honorary doctorate in the field of arts and culture on July 10.The actor ... Read more...
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Shah Rukh to receive honorary doctorate from British university
June 27th, 2009 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has been nominated to receive an honorary doctorate in arts and culture from Britain's University of Bedfordshire.
Shah Rukh, the first foreign ... Read more...
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Mexico doesn’t know origin of swine flu virus
April 30th, 2009 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, April 30 (EFE) The origin of the swine flu outbreak provisionally blamed for 159 deaths in Mexico could be either Asia or the US, the chief epidemiologist of the Latin ... Read more...
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Now, a UFO over Sydney Harbour Bridge spotted on Google Maps
December 11th, 2008 - 6:10 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Dec 11 (ANI): In the latest UFO riddle to grip Australia, a reader has spotted what appears to be a flying saucer hovering directly above Millers Point while checking out ... Read more...
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Dino dance floor may be potholes eroded in sandstone
November 8th, 2008 - 1:33 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A group of paleontologists have suggested that the dinosaur dance floor found in northern Arizona, US, is actually a dense collection of unusual potholes eroded in the ... Read more...
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ViScope - a stethoscope that shows heart beats
July 1st, 2008 - 10:44 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, July 1 (IANS) Diagnosis is set to become more accurate now with the launch of ViScope 100, an innovative auscultation device that enables doctors to "see" heart beats. HD Medical Group ... Read more...
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Ancient trade in New World may have been carried out using rafts
March 20th, 2008 - 4:10 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 20 (ANI): New findings by MIT researchers has suggested that oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried ... Read more...
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