Chennai: The Madras High Court adjourned till March 27 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentences, while the Tamil Nadu government filed an additional affidavit in support of their pleas. The court had on August 30 last year stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This trio...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Artificial Leaf When chemistry professor Daniel Nocera at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that a device the size of a poker card could split water into hydrogen and oxygen, he was merely taking a leaf out of Mother Nature's playbook, except that he called it 'artificial leaf'. Fashioned from silicon, electronics and catalysts, Nocera's leaf mimics photosynthesis. When placed in about three litres of water, this 'leaf' produces a...
04:05 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Los Angeles: With dramatic courtroom testimony, attorneys for Michael Jackson's doctor have dropped the bombshell they've been hinting at for months - an expert opinion accusing the singer of causing his own death. Dr. Paul White said Jackson injected himself with a dose of propofol after an initial dose by Dr. Conrad Murray wore off. He also calculated that Jackson gave himself another sedative, lorazepam, by taking pills after an...
01:59 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Chennai: DMK Chief Karunanidhi on Thursday appealed to the Centre to release former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassins. Three of the assassins of the former prime minister have been in jail for 20 years. The hanging of the killers was earlier slated in August. However, it was stayed by the Madras High Court. The former Tamil Nadu chief minister appealed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
02:37 PM, Oct 06, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Wednesday termed as "unfortunate" Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's comments on Afzal Guru and maintained that a responsible leader like him should not speak the "language" of Hurriyat leaders. Abdullah had tweeted that if J&K Assembly had passed a resolution against the death sentence given to Afzal Guru as was done by the Tamil Nadu Assembly for the killers of Rajiv Gandhi, the reaction...
05:49 PM, Aug 31, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed CCTV footage that shows the alleged four of the seven accused involved in the daylight murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. The video shows four of them closely trailing J Dey on a bike before gunning him down. But this footage might not have much evidentiary value in the court of law, as the faces of the accused are not visible due to rain. The...
06:53 AM, Jun 29, 2011
Sonepat: In a horror incident in Sonepat, a man was killed by supari killers, who he had himself hired. He had paid them Rs 4 lakh to eliminate his family and his children. It is a murder plot that went horribly wrong. 30-year-old Yogesh allegedly hired two contract killers to get his family killed because they were against his affair with a woman. But he became the target instead, when...
10:27 AM, May 25, 2011
London: It may sound a bit strange, but swearing may actually help you beat the pain, a new British study has claimed. Researchers at the Keele University in the UK found that bad language can act as a powerful painkiller -- at least, for those who don't normally use expletives. For them, the researchers said, swearing in the face of genuine pain is up to four times more effective than...
10:11 AM, Apr 19, 2011
London: Common painkillers such as ibuprofen and diclofenac as well as branded pain drugs from Pfizer Inc, Merck & Co Inc and Novartis AG can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, a review found on Wednesday. Scientists from Bern University in Switzerland analyzed data from 31 trials involving more than 116,000 patients taking either naproxen, ibuprofen, diclofenac, Pfizer's Celebrex, or celecoxib, Merck's Arcoxia, or etoricoxib, Merck's Vioxx, or...
10:50 AM, Jan 12, 2011
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03:55 PM, Mar 07, 2010
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08:49 AM, Feb 13, 2010
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04:35 PM, Jan 03, 2010
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