A million British workers pumped up with drugs
July 3rd, 2012 - 12:24 am ICT by IANS
London, July 2 (IANS) Over a million people in Britain are pumped up with drugs, a study suggests.Statistics from a drug-testing firm have revealed that around one in 30 employees ... Read more...
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Six Indians among top 100 global thinkers
November 29th, 2011 - 7:48 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 29 (IANS) Social activist Anna Hazare, software czar Azim Premji and four other Indians have been named in the US-based Foreign Policy magazine's list of the top ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Indians among most vacation deprived: Survey
April 5th, 2011 - 6:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) "All work, no play" may be the credo India's young workforce swears by. The youth may be India's demographic dividend, but they are also among ... Read more...
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Middle class professionals ‘more likely to binge drink’
January 28th, 2011 - 12:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 28 (ANI): A new UK study has revealed that middle class professionals are much bigger drinkers than blue-collar workers.According to the Office of National Statistics lifestyle survey of 13,488 people ... Read more...
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Britons head out to Middle East, other regions to beat recession
June 28th, 2009 - 4:22 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 28 (IANS) Fed up of the recession and bad weather, large numbers of Britons are moving out to the Middle East and other sunnier regions abroad to find jobs and ... Read more...
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Millions of middle-class Brits face health risk due to evening tipple
January 23rd, 2009 - 3:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 23 (ANI): Britons who are used to enjoying evenings at home with a bottle of wine should now thing twice before taking that extra sip of alcohol, for a ... Read more...
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Bush’’s drugs tzar blasts actors, models for glamorising cocaine use
September 12th, 2008 - 5:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 12 (ANI): Cocaine use is being glamorized by models and actors, according to George W Bush''s drugs tsar, who warns that the effect is encouraging young middle class professionals ... Read more...
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Somnath Chatterjee always an “outsider” in CPI-M
July 21st, 2008 - 7:48 pm ICT by IANS
By Monobina Gupta
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Though a high-profile face in the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has always been somewhat of an "outsider" within his ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Women-only polling stations do not attract many Pakistanis
February 19th, 2008 - 12:43 am ICT by admin
By Devirupa Mitra
Rawalpindi, Feb 18 (IANS) Farzana Bushara, a housewife and a die-hard supporter of slain former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, had a novel way of expressing her admiration. She cut ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
World media condemns ‘black Saturday’ in Pakistan
November 14th, 2007 - 8:23 am ICT by admin
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Posted in World |