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September 21st, 2008 - 10:09 am ICT by IANS
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Ranchi, Sep 21 (IANS) In her own little way, Jharkhand resident Magdali has broken into a male bastion. She repairs flat bicycle tyres for a living - a skill she was forced ...
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September 17th, 2008 - 3:55 pm ICT by ANI
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Lahore , Sept 17 (ANI): Thousand of families who used to earn their bread by plying tongas in Lahore are on the brink of starvation, as, after the ban imposed by ...
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September 15th, 2008 - 12:33 am ICT by IANS
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Rameshwaram, Sep 14 (IANS) Sri Lankan defence authorities released 38 Indian fishermen they had held captive and handed them over to the Indian Coast Guard authorities late Sunday, but the fishing community ...
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September 14th, 2008 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
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Rameshwaram, Sep 14 (IANS) Despite Sri Lanka's decision Sunday to release 38 Indian fishermen held captive there, fishing community in Tamil Nadu is not impressed."The imminent release of some 38 of ...
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September 4th, 2008 - 10:23 pm ICT by IANS
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Salem (Tamil Nadu), Sep 4 (IANS) Driven by abject poverty and starving for the past three days, a woman allegedly drowned her three small sons, including an infant, and attempted to kill ...
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August 14th, 2008 - 6:57 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Aug 14 (ANI): An American man held his wife and four children captive in a filthy trailer for three years.
Raymond Thurmond, from Georgia has been arrested for keeping his family ...
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August 6th, 2008 - 5:46 pm ICT by IANS
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Dubai, Aug 6 (IANS) Around 100 Asian workers of a Saudi Arabian company, Indians included, are in a crisis after their employer did not pay their salaries for months and kept them ...
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July 17th, 2008 - 10:33 pm ICT by IANS
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Xinhua
Beijing, July 17 (Xinhua) China warned Thursday that the move by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest Sudanese president on genocide charges would complicate the situation in Darfur. Any attempted prosecution ...
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June 28th, 2008 - 12:19 am ICT by IANS
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Ahmedabad, June 27(IANS) Asserting that there is no magic cure for obesity but help is at hand, leading surgeons, on the eve of a two-day meet Obesity 2008, Friday said bariatic surgery ...
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June 27th, 2008 - 1:30 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 27 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that chronically high levels of a liver-produced starvation hormone, known as FGF21, significantly stop the growth ...
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June 24th, 2008 - 11:21 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Berlin, June 24 (DPA) Joining a series of leading German institutions that have uncovered their wartime collaboration with the Nazis, the German Red Cross admitted Tuesday its failure to help concentration-camp inmates. ...
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June 22nd, 2008 - 8:45 pm ICT by IANS
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Bhubaneswar, June 22 (IANS) A tribal man in Orissa has been jailed for keeping a sloth bear at his home although he pleaded that he did so simply because the animal refused ...
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June 16th, 2008 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, June 16 (IANS) Ghrelin, the "hunger hormone", might help ward off stress-induced depression and anxiety but it will cause you to put on weight. A new study on mice has found ...
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June 14th, 2008 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, June 14 (ANI): Former premier Nawaz Sharif today said that Pakistanis now wanted President Pervez Musharraf's trial instead of impeachment, and asked the parliament to take decision according to peoples ...
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May 27th, 2008 - 5:05 pm ICT by admin
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TANVEER JAFRI
Terror or terrorism is one of the oldest disasters on the earth. It can be said that this system named terrorism is, for the centuries, here on this earth. But ...
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May 19th, 2008 - 3:38 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 19 (ANI): Biologists have determined that the Etruscan shrew, which is one of the worlds smallest predators, hunts for its prey predominantly with its sense of touch.
About four centimetres ...
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May 17th, 2008 - 3:45 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 17 (IANS) Don't go by its size. The Etruscan shrew, one of tiniest known mammals that weighs just two grams, ranks among the quickest, most ruthless and adaptive predators. It ...
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April 7th, 2008 - 8:22 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) A Jharkhand lawyer, banned from practicing in any court in the state following his conviction for contempt, failed to get relief from the Supreme Court Monday. A ...
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April 6th, 2008 - 10:31 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court is to examine Monday if a high court has the power to bar a lawyer from practising before it and in the lower courts ...
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April 1st, 2008 - 2:36 pm ICT by admin
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New York, April 1 (IANS) Fasting has uses other than cleansing the human system of toxins - it protects healthy cells against chemotherapy, according to a study. In the study, mice that ...
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March 25th, 2008 - 8:02 pm ICT by admin
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Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), March 25 (IANS) A Buddhist monk has died of starvation in a monastery as Chinese forces have blocked food supplies to it, the Tibetan government-in-exile said here Tuesday. "Monk ...
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March 10th, 2008 - 2:55 pm ICT by admin
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London , Mar 10 (ANI): Jockeys trying to slim down for races to reach riding weights, are at a risk of developing eating disorders and feeling depressed, say researchers.
In a new expert ...
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March 5th, 2008 - 8:25 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): Hundreds of family members of State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) employees today staged a protest in Jammu and Kashmir, demanding immediate disbursal of their salaries.
The protestors came ...
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March 3rd, 2008 - 9:16 pm ICT by admin
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Colombo, Mar 3 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Navy has rescued 71 Burmese and Bangladeshi migrants from a wooden trawler adrift in the Bay of Bengal and found that at least 21 of ...
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March 3rd, 2008 - 6:02 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Colombo, March 3 (DPA) The Sri Lanka Navy rescued 71 illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh suffering from dehydration on a wooden trawler found drifting off the northeast coast following engine trouble, ...
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February 18th, 2008 - 1:10 pm ICT by admin
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Kolkata, Feb 18 (ANI): Snake charmers in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal have said that they are on the verge of starvation following a government order to ban the keeping ...
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January 29th, 2008 - 4:17 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, January 29 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles have discovered a method to extend the lifespan of yeast cells tenfold, and believe that further research on ...
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January 21st, 2008 - 3:26 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Jan 21 (ANI): A new study has found out that captive-born carnivores have a low survival rate if they are released in the wild, with only one in three able to ...
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January 15th, 2008 - 12:34 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Jan 15 (ANI): Scientists have paved way for helping humans live longer and healthier by creating bakers yeast capable of living up to 800 yeast years without apparent side effects.
Since yeasts ...
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