New Delhi: Babies who are breastfed gain less weight over their first year of life compared to babies fed either breast milk or formula from a bottle, according to a U.S. study. The report, in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, is one piece of a growing body of evidence that breastfeeding appears to be the best choice for a newborn and protect against obesity later in life. Lead...
03:47 PM, May 18, 2012
Utah: Ancestry.com Inc. will acquire rival family history website Archives.com for about $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities, the companies announced Wednesday. The two companies said they're combining their strengths and key employees but will maintain separate websites. Archives.com offers access to about 2 billion historical records, from birth records to obituaries. It has 380,000 paying customers. Ancestry has 1.8 million customers. It's the world's largest online family history...
07:50 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Lucknow: A query posted by a 10-year-old girl under the Right to Information Act (RTI) regarding father of nation status to Mahatma Gandhi has raised a piquant situation before the government. In February this year, Aishwarya Parashar, a class sixth student, sent an RTI application to the central public information officer of Prime Minister's office seeking a photocopy of the order through which Mahatma Gandhi was declared as father of...
03:37 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Palo Alto: In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley history - how they named their upstart computer company some 35 years ago. "I remember driving down Highway 85," Wozniak says. "We're on the freeway, and Steve mentions, 'I've got a name: Apple Computer.' We kept thinking of other alternatives to that name, and we couldn't think of anything better." Adds...
02:19 PM, Dec 29, 2011
Washington: 'Bambi', 'Forrest Gump' and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991), a harrowing psychological thriller about the cannibalistic serial killer Lecter, and 'Forrest Gump' (1994), starring Tom Hanks as the guileless hero who thinks "life is like...
11:48 AM, Dec 29, 2011
London: The BBC will soon introduce a new radio website, preliminarily named 'Audiopedia', that would contain the broadcaster's almost entire archives of radio programmes since the 1940s. The service will be launched "within the next 12 months", Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph. As well as searching and listening to the archival material, 'Audiopedia' users will be able to share programmes...
09:38 AM, Nov 04, 2011
London: Adolf Hitler who hated being watched enjoyed bread and marmalade alongside coffee for breakfast, a media report said Friday. He complained about his health and was prone to banging tables during meetings, according to documents released by the National Archives, Daily Mail reported on its website. Details about the Nazi leader's life come after an Austrian deserter gave a detailed description of the time Hitler spent at his retreat...
06:33 PM, Oct 29, 2010
Panaji: The 'reel' history of Indian cinema, spread over 87 years, would be showcased through posters at International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which gets under way on Monday. National Film Archives of India (NFAI) has taken up the task of showcasing some of the 'legendary film posters' at the venues in Panaji. The copy of posters of movies like Raja Harishchandra (1913), Kalyancha Khajina (1924), Sati Savitri are amongst...
01:12 PM, Nov 23, 2009
Institution which stores historic documents has fallen on hard times. ...
06:52 PM, Jun 10, 2009
Bangladesh rang the changes in a 14-man squad named on Sunday for next month's one-day series against Australia following their disappointing World Cup campaign. Former captain Mashrafe Mortaza and batsman Alok Kapali were recalled and Mohammad Ashraful, Junaid Siddique, Naeem Islam and Nazmul were dropped. Uncapped batsman Shuvagoto Hom was the only newcomer included for the three-match series beginning on April 9. World Cup co-hosts Bangladesh failed to reach the...
01:01 AM, Jan 09, 2008
Declassified documents say Islamabad aided, armed radical group. ...
04:40 PM, Aug 15, 2007
The French space agency will publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online. ...
11:13 AM, Dec 30, 2006
Google's new News Archive Search will enable users to search archived newspaper articles back to the 1700s. ...
10:02 AM, Sep 07, 2006
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