To the graduating students of WMA - it really is an honour to address you today. To begin with, Congratulations! I am sure you must ...
09:13 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) Results for 2012 will be announced on Tuesday by 14 National Law Schools/Universities. Candidates seeking admission into the under-graduate and post-graduate programmes can check their results at www.clat.ac.in. The institutes under CLAT are: National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (NALSAR) National Law Institute University, Bhopal (NLIU) The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata...
09:58 AM, May 29, 2012
London: Sexting has become a favourite pastime of many, including celebrities. Now, scientists have claimed that the desire to share intimate pictures with others may actually not be their fault - it could be hardwired into their brains. Recent studies have found that more than half of women's sexual fantasies reflect their desire to be sexually irresistible to men. In one recent survey, 47 per cent of women reported the...
02:21 PM, May 26, 2012
London: As human rights campaigners alleged that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had pulled out of a lecture scheduled at Brighton on Monday, his aides insisted that there were no plans for a lecture at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). V K Pandian, private secretary to the Chief Minister, said that the plan was to share experience and benefit from inputs from IDS experts on malnutrition and poverty reduction...
08:36 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: An increasing number of teenagers in India are using social networking sites to remain in touch with each other with mobiles as their favourite gadget, said a study. The GenY Survey 2011-12 by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) covered 12,000 high school students aged between 12-18 in 12 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Kochi, Pune and Lucknow between July and December 2011. "While 84 per cent of the respondents had internet...
11:57 AM, May 24, 2012
London: Britons seem to be doing away with their traditional good manners, as a survey has found two out of three people in Britain wouldn't mind answering a call on their cellphone despite being on a dinner date. According to a poll, carried out by mobile phone firm Recombu, once revered for our good manners, Britain has become more 'Rude Britannia' since the introduction of smartphones. Almost two third of...
10:38 AM, May 17, 2012
London: Scientists claim to have finally solved the mystery why zebras evolved their distinctive black and white stripes - to keep blood-sucking flies at bay. Researchers from Hungary and Sweden, who detailed their study in the Journal of Experimental Biology, said that this pattern of narrow stripes makes zebras "unattractive" to the flies. And the key to this effect is in how the striped patterns reflect light, said Susanne Akesson,...
07:50 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New York: The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though. A new study out Friday found that the average user of the world's biggest online social network gets more than they give. That means more messages, more "likes" and more comments. Yes, even more "pokes." Behind all that is Facebook's relatively small group of "power users," who...
01:05 PM, Feb 04, 2012
New York: Facebook's 721 million active members have only four degrees of separation from each other, according to researchers of the social networking website. The data team of the social media website pored through the records of all 721 million active users, who collectively have designated 69 billion "friendships" among them, the 'New Scientist' reported. The number of friends differs widely. Some users have designated only a single friend, probably...
06:24 PM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: Recently concluded Mumbai International Film Festival had seen heated discussions over a variety of subjects from bad screenwriting to the role of cinema in nation building. One such debate was about the role of film critics. The director of Bheja Fry and Bheja Fry 2, Sagar Ballary was not happy with the way film critics rejected his latest film Hum Tum Shabana. He was of the opinion that...
05:59 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Washington: Hate mornings, especially on Mondays? You may be surprised to know that much of the world doesn't share that grumpy feeling. Twitter shows people are more cheerful in the morning, get gloomier as the day wears on and rebound in the evening, with a peak right before bedtime. They're also happier from December to late June, when days gradually lengthen in the Northern Hemisphere. Using the micro-blogging site Twitter...
08:05 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Chicago: Can a computer tell when it hurts? It can if you train it, US researchers said on Tuesday. A team at Stanford University in California used computer learning software to sort through data generated by brain scans and detect when people were in pain. "The question we were trying to answer was can we use neuroimaging to objectively detect whether a person is in a state of pain or...
11:35 AM, Sep 14, 2011
London: The effects of the global economic crisis could be felt in Britain for as long as 10 years, says a new report. A report released on Monday by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the government has 'cushioned' Britons from the adverse effects of the recession, according to the Daily Express. The report warned that household incomes will suffer more and more "as the Treasury unfolds its deficit-busting...
09:56 AM, Sep 13, 2011
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04:44 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: Anna Hazare is an unlikely icon. But the frail 74-year-old in a Gandhi topi has captured India's mindspace, awakening images of integrity and the power of the common man. Future Brands MD and CEO Santosh Desai said, "Brands have woken up to the fact that consumers are not just consumers but they also have a stake in society and in the politics of the day. They have woken...
08:59 AM, Aug 25, 2011
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