Driver hits a deer in rally motorcycle, yet drives on
August 10th, 2012 - 9:46 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Laconia, Aug 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Charlie St, Clair who is the executive director of the Laconia Motorcycle Week is suffering from injuries which he got a day before his 37th ride after ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Pakistani Taliban threatens Myanmar over Muslim attacks
July 26th, 2012 - 6:41 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, July 26 (IANS) The Pakistani Taliban Thursday warned of taking revenge if Myanmar fails to stop the alleged killing and arbitrary detention of Muslims in that country.Right groups ... Read more...
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Tribal belt in central India not shared fruits of growth: Ramesh
April 21st, 2012 - 12:13 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The tribal belt in central India has not shared fruits of high economic growth witnessed by the country over the past few years, Rural Development ... Read more...
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GE gives $1.6 mn to Indian NGO
April 10th, 2012 - 10:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) The charitable arm of American conglomerate General Electric has pledged $1.6 million in aid to the school education programmes run by Pratham, an NGO working ... Read more...
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Planning Commission to set up panel to measure poverty
April 7th, 2012 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, April 7 (IANS) Facing criticism over the methodology being adopted to measure poverty, the Planning Commission will soon set up a technical committee comprising experts to look into the ... Read more...
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Two Indians among 2012 Yale World Fellows
April 4th, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 4 (IANS) Yale University has selected 16 World Fellows for 2012. Two of them are from India, bringing the total number of fellows from India to 11 since ... Read more...
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Sex ‘predator’ strikes in Cambridge
June 2nd, 2011 - 10:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 2 (IANS) A bike-riding sex maniac, who is targeting female students in Cambridge, has caused a scare here.Each time he has struck, the man has prowled the streets ... Read more...
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Narayanan condemns killing of boy protesting eve-teasing
February 17th, 2011 - 11:59 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) Condemning the Feb 15 killing of a 16-year-old lad by three men when he tried to prevent them from misbehaving with his sister, West Bengal Governor M.K. ... Read more...
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Denise Richards to star in raunchy flick about cougars
January 6th, 2011 - 6:21 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Denise Richards is reportedly starring in a new raunchy flick entitled 'Cougars INC'.According to Fox News, the movie tells the 'story of a young high school student who, ... Read more...
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Modern-day genomes used to reconstruct evolution of 3bn-yr-old microbes
December 20th, 2010 - 3:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 20 (ANI): MIT scientists have used modern day genomes to reconstruct the evolution of ancient microbes.The scientists traced thousands of genes from 100 modern genomes back to those genes' first ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Medics on Facebook could be threatening doctor-patient relationship
December 16th, 2010 - 2:14 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 16 (ANI): A new research has found that doctors with a profile on the social networking site Facebook may be compromising the doctor-patient relationship, because they don't deploy sufficient ... Read more...
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Cher regrets not dating Brando and Presley
November 13th, 2010 - 5:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 13 (ANI): Pop icon Cher has revealed that she has two big regrets about her love life-missing out on romancing Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando.'The Believe' hitmaker, has enjoyed ... Read more...
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John Abraham: The Humane Touch That Saved The Macho
October 16th, 2010 - 1:57 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
October 16, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): John Abraham, the macho hunk of Bollywood, may have a tough exterior, but deep down within, he does own a soft heart.This fact has literally saved ... Read more...
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Army WAGs strip to raise money for wounded heroes
October 15th, 2010 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 15 (ANI): Wives and girlfriends of several army men have stripped for a sexy calendar shoot in a bid to raise money for wounded heroes fighting at the border.A barmaid, ... Read more...
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‘The Wire’ creator David Simon wins the $500,000 worth MacArthur ‘genius grant’
September 29th, 2010 - 1:13 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sep 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) ‘The Wire’ creator David Simon has won the $500,000 worth of MacArthur ‘genius grant’. He has won this honor along with 2 other recipients who are novelist Yiyun ... Read more...
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Kerala’s priest turns actor for south Indian films
September 23rd, 2010 - 7:26 pm ICT by ANI
By K S AashikThiruvananthapuram, Sep. 23 (ANI): Johnson Karoor, a former Catholic priest in the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church here, left his calling to fulfill his passion for acting in films.Karoor was a ... Read more...
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Limbless Man Philippe Croizon Swims English Channel 10 Hours Early!
September 20th, 2010 - 9:33 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Sep 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) After spending two years in preparation, a forty-two year old French man has managed to not only swim the English Channel, but to arrive a full 10 hours ... Read more...
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Now, women find men sexy right up to the age of 55
September 16th, 2010 - 1:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 16 (ANI): A new study has shown that women now find men sexy right up to the age of 55.It means fellows in that age range can still pull in ... Read more...
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Chief ‘meter maid’ accuses Microsoft of telling fibs over promotional stunt
August 27th, 2010 - 5:30 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Aug 27 (ANI): After Microsoft's tactic to hire "meter maids" to titillate attendees of its TechEd conference on the Gold Coast backfired, the chief meter maid has come forward to accuse ... Read more...
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‘Too much cricket destroying current fast bowling generation’, says Holding
August 9th, 2010 - 5:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 9(ANI): West Indian fast bowling legend Michael Holding reckons that too much cricket is destroying the current fast bowling generation.Holding also said that the Pakistani fast bowling trio of ... Read more...
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10 militants killed in Afghan clash
June 26th, 2010 - 7:53 am ICT by IANS
Kabul, June 26 (IANS/AKI) Ten Taliban fighters, including two Pakistanis, and a police commander were killed in a gun battle in southwest Afghanistan, an official said.
The clash erupted in Nimroz province ... Read more...
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OkCupid To Segregate Good Looking Users From Others
June 19th, 2010 - 7:31 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
June 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Online dating and social networking sites are quite popular among the web users and people who lead hectic lives often resort to these sites to make ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Counter-terrorism flaws need to be removed: Sharif
June 5th, 2010 - 7:12 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, June 5 (ANI): Emphasizing that terrorists have neither religion nor state, former Pakistan Prime Minister and chief of the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif, on Saturday said ... Read more...
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SWAGs bare all to help war heroes
April 21st, 2010 - 2:39 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, April 21 (ANI): Service Wives and Girlfriends (SWAGs) have raised 26,000pounds through their racy charity calendar to help injured war heroes and women wounded in strife-torn Afghanistan and Iraq.The effort saw ... Read more...
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British troops to use Call of Duty-like communication technology
March 28th, 2010 - 3:00 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar. 28 (ANI): A futuristic communication technology used in popular computer games such as Call of Duty will soon be used by British troops, enabling them to see what their comrades ... Read more...
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Garner pasting has Windies in performance mode
December 10th, 2009 - 2:25 pm ICT by ANI
Perth, Dec. 10 (ANI): Former West Indies fast bowler Joel Garner is reported to have given a pasting to the current national squad led by Chris Gayle after its capitulation to the ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Ex-great Garner demands review of Windies Test preparations
November 30th, 2009 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Nov.30 (ANI): West Indies team manager and former fast bowling great Joel Garner has called for a review of national team's Test preparations and blamed an over-abundance of limited-overs cricket for ... Read more...
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The Royal Society releases historic papers online on 350th anniversary
November 30th, 2009 - 2:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 30 (ANI): The Royal Society, one of the world's oldest scientific institutions is commemorating its 350th year by putting 60 of its most memorable research papers online.Founded in London in ... Read more...
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Culture ministry fellowships for Indian, foreign scholars
November 25th, 2009 - 8:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The culture ministry will award fellowships to Indian and foreign scholars for research projects in the fields of art, culture and heritage, Minister of State for Planning ... Read more...
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Queenless army ants join neighboring colonies to survive
November 5th, 2009 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 5 (ANI): A new research has shown that in some cases, the colonies of army ants can be cooperative instead of combative, by joining neighboring colonies after the death of ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Ford Foundation fellowships to end in 2010
October 11th, 2009 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 11 (IANS) The International Fellowships Programme (IFP) run by the US-based Ford Foundation will end in 2010, an organisation official said Sunday.
"The IFP was launched in 2001 to ... Read more...
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Mayawati’s rural cleanliness project bridges social divide
October 3rd, 2009 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
By Brij Khandelwal
Agra, Oct 3 (IANS) When Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati launched a rural cleanliness scheme in 2008, not many realised the revolutionary potential of "this seemingly innocent and unattractive scheme" ... Read more...
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Learn how to ’speak’ from songbird genes
September 30th, 2009 - 6:07 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 30 (IANS) The ability to manipulate songbird genes may yield secrets of vocal learning and how nerve cells (neurons) are replaced.
For the first time, researchers have devised a way to ... Read more...
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Brad Pitt gets architecture accolade
September 24th, 2009 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 24 (ANI): Brad Pitt has been awarded a fellowship into the Design Futures Council.The actor was amongst the 13 individuals who were honoured for their contribution to design."We are ... Read more...
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Identify preserve Guru - Shishya culture; President Patil
July 14th, 2009 - 8:25 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 14 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil called on the Sangeet Natak Akademi to identify and provide assistance to teachers of folk traditions living in penury to preserve the country's ... Read more...
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