Sharks’ remarkable skin boosts swimming
February 10th, 2012 - 1:45 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) Swimming comes effortlessly to sharks, thanks to their streamlined shapes and coating of razor sharp tooth-like scales, called denticles. Experiments with the intact shark skins accelerated ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Special ‘Gitanjali’ to mark Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary
February 4th, 2012 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) A special edition of "Gitanjali", the Nobel Prize-winning anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's poems, was Saturday launched by union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as part ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Facebook to become publicly-listed company
January 30th, 2012 - 7:40 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 30 (IANS) Social network Facebook will soon become a publicly-listed company, valued at $75-100 billion, Sky News reported Monday.According to the Financial Times and The Wall Street ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Padma for Singapore ex-minister with Nalanda connect
January 25th, 2012 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Former Singapore foreign minister George Yong-Boon Yeo - named for a Padma Bhushan award Wednesday - is helping set up an international university in Bihar's ... Read more...
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Show tact and compassion: Kashmir police told
January 23rd, 2012 - 10:00 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Jan 23 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir Police Monday wrapped up a five-day training programme to learn how to deal with mobs with skill, tact and compassion.The training was ... Read more...
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India low on global homicide, violence scale: Steven Pinker
January 23rd, 2012 - 1:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, known for his radical theories about the evolution of language and violence in society, has a good word for India: the ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Gaga to take own foundation to Harvard
January 20th, 2012 - 3:40 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 20 (IANS) Pop star Lady Gaga will launch her Born This Way Foundation at Harvard University next month.The 25-year-old set up the youth anti-bullying charity with her mother, ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Lokpal bill is well thought out: Amartya Sen (Lead, superseding earlier story)
January 3rd, 2012 - 2:35 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Amid fiasco in Parliament over the Lokpal bill and strong criticism of some of its clauses on Lokayukta by different political parties, Nobel laureate, economist ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Lokpal bill not well thought out: Amartya Sen
January 3rd, 2012 - 1:05 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 2 (IANS) Amid fiasco in Parliament over the Lokpal bill and strong criticism of some of its clauses on Lakayuka by different political parties, Nobel laureate, economist ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
New tool to pick out hidden patterns in vast data sets
December 16th, 2011 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 16 (IANS) Researchers have developed a statistical tool that can pick out unsuspected or hidden patterns in mountains of data in a way that no other software programme ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Harvard decision a dangerous precedent, says Swamy
December 8th, 2011 - 4:39 pm ICT by IANS
Washington/New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The Harvard University in the US has cancelled Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy's summer courses over his controversial article in a Mumbai newspaper, prompting him ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Lionel Richie to get humanitarian award
December 5th, 2011 - 4:18 pm ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, Dec 5 (IANS) Singer Lionel Richie will be honoured with a humanitarian award by the Harvard University for helping quake-hit Haiti.The singer will be honoured with the Peter ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Prejudice rooted in survival instincts of man
December 2nd, 2011 - 4:12 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Dec 2 (IANS) Prejudice is a trait that might be rooted in sheer survival as our ancestors avoided outsiders who might have been carriers of disease or plague, reveals ... Read more...
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Facebook to be valued at over $100 bn in 2012
November 29th, 2011 - 7:47 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 29 (IANS) Social network Facebook is preparing to allow private investors to invest in the website next year, and hopes its first offering will value the company ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Gaga likes educated men
November 26th, 2011 - 4:05 am ICT by IANS
London, Nov 26 (IANS) Pop star Lady Gaga says that any guy trying to date her must have a degree from Harvard university."Talent and perseverance and pushing the boundaries of ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Mozambique selects students to study in India
November 16th, 2011 - 9:36 am ICT by IANS
Maputo (Mozambique), Nov 16 (IANS) The southwest African nation of Mozambique is selecting students to study in India under a scholarship programme recently provided by an Indian university.The scholarships are ... Read more...
Posted in World |
New material can help extract ketchup easily
November 13th, 2011 - 5:57 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 13 (IANS) A slippery material that causes water, oil and even jam to slide off easily could also help extract the last drops of ketchup out of its ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Occupiers finally arrive at Harvard too!
November 12th, 2011 - 3:35 pm ICT by IANS
Cambridge (Massachussetts), Nov 12 (IANS) The Occupy Wall Street movement against corporate greed has finally arrived at Harvard University, which as one activist put it ironically produces the very one ... Read more...
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Coming soon: Pop a pill to stay young
November 3rd, 2011 - 5:03 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 3 (IANS) Scientists have found a way to slow down ageing in individual cells, a breakthrough that could leave people feeling young well into old age.They believe their ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Lady Gaga to launch foundation to help youth
November 3rd, 2011 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 3 (IANS) Pop star Lady Gaga, who recently visited India, is all set to launch a foundation to improve youth confidence and empowerment.Contactmusic.com reports that Gaga has set ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Mindfulness is the best antidote to stress
November 1st, 2011 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 1 (IANS) The best antidote to stress is mindfulness, existing in the here and now, not in the past or future, suggest meditation gurus. Researchers have now drawn ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Obama names Indian-American to communications body
November 1st, 2011 - 10:44 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 1 (IANS) President Barack Obama has named an Indian American lawyer Ajit Varadaraj Pai, a Republican, and Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, as Commissioners on the bipartisan Federal ... Read more...
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Rights activist Cornel West arrested
October 17th, 2011 - 10:47 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Oct 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Rights activist and critic Dr. Cornel West has been arrested. He was standing in front of the US Supreme Court where a memorial for Dr. Martin ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Two Americans share Nobel Prize for Economics
October 10th, 2011 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 10 (IANS) The Nobel Prize for Economcis will be shared by Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent of the US "for their empirical research on cause and ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Amartya blames ‘bureaucratic control’ for delay in Nalanda varsity
October 8th, 2011 - 12:31 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Noble Laureate Amartya Sen, who heads the interim governing board of Nalanda University, has blamed excessive bureaucratic control and difficulty in getting the money as ... Read more...
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Teaching a tortoise to yawn, now that’s research!
October 6th, 2011 - 6:29 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 6 (IANS) After spending six months teaching a tortoise to yawn, a professor in Britain remarked: "Training the tortoise to yawn was very hard."Anna Wilkinson spent a good ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Intuitive thinking may explain greater faith in god
September 21st, 2011 - 3:00 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 21 (IANS) Intuition may explain why some people seem to place a greater faith on god than others.Intuitive thinking is about going with one's first instinct and reaching ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
10,000 steps, gym work-out increases productivity: Study
September 15th, 2011 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 15 (IANS) Office workers who walk 10,000 steps a day and work out in the gym thrice a week can help their employers with increased productivity of $2,500 ... Read more...
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Indian varsities slip in global ranking
September 6th, 2011 - 11:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Indian universities have slipped in the prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) global ranking with not even a single one making it to the top 200.The Indian ... Read more...
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Harvard invite for Mamata
September 4th, 2011 - 6:38 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 4 (IANS) Months after forming the West Bengal government by defeating the communists, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has received an invitation from Harvard University to give a ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Man cooked food on fire far earlier than originally thought
August 23rd, 2011 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 23 (IANS) Cooking food with fire may date back two million years, far earlier than originally thought, a study suggests.According to the research, there is evidence that this ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
India will get more prominence at Harvard
August 7th, 2011 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Harvard alumni in India will join hands with the growing Indian student community to make India the professional, academic and cultural focus at America's ... Read more...
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US civil liberties group cautions Harvard on action against Swamy
July 30th, 2011 - 12:50 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 30 (IANS) As the controversy over an article written by Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy snowballed, a US civil liberties group cautioned Harvard University on taking action against ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Rohinton Nariman is Solicitor General of India (Lead)
July 23rd, 2011 - 11:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Senior Supreme Court lawyer Rohinton Nariman was Saturday appointed the Solicitor General of India, the second topmost government lawyer.Nariman will assume charge Monday and represent ... Read more...
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Have to be smart in role selection: Vir Das
July 9th, 2011 - 2:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) He has been overloaded with scripts ever since his role in "Delhi Belly" received rave reviews, but stand-up comedian and actor Vir Das doesn't want ... Read more...
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