Kolkata: The men's compound trio of Rajat Chauhan, Ritul Chatterjee and Chittibomma Jignas ensured India another gold medal after the fancied recurve archers flopped in the first Asian Grand Prix that concluded in Bangkok on Sunday. The men's compound archers contributed three gold medals as India ended the tournament with a bountiful haul of four gold, five silver and two bronze medals, finishing atop the medal standings. The trio of...
09:44 PM, Feb 19, 2012
London: The Bank of England will introduce a new-style 50 pounds banknote into circulation on November 2, official sources said on Friday. The note will feature the renowned 18th century business partnership of entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and engineer James Watt. A range of new and enhanced security features have been incorporated into the design of the Boulton and Watt 50 pounds banknote, the sources said. Full details of these will...
06:31 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Tripoli: The gold-plated cutlery and crystal champagne glasses, the Versace and Armani suits and rows of unworn designer shoes, are all that remain at the luxurious seaside compounds of the children of Muammar Gaddafi. The fancy beach villas are testimony to the fact that the Gaddafis not only ruled Libya, they owned it, and treated its oil wealth as their personal patrimony. Yet the cars now parked outside these gilded...
12:29 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Washington: Using gold as a potential treatment for cancer could soon become a reality, thanks to a combination of imaging techniques. An international team, led by University of Western Australia and Griffith University, has described how using two imaging techniques can allow scientists to see where gold complexes used in potential chemotherapeutic treatments end up in cells, the 'Metallomics' journal reported. They are also able to monitor the gold's effects...
02:07 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Toronto: Packing on pounds is riskier for Indians and other South Asians than white people, says a study. While white Caucasian people store their extra body fat in their waistlines, Indians and other South Asians carry this extra fat into their internal organs like liver and abdomen affecting their normal functioning. It is this disruption of normal organ functions among Indians and South Asians that triggers diabetes and heart problems,...
05:43 PM, Aug 02, 2011
London: Women never change. They spend more than 100,000 pounds (Rs 7.2 million) on make-up during their lifetime, a new study has found. That's a shade over 2,000 pounds for every year of adulthood, or nearly 40 pounds in an average week. And, 57 per cent say they would ditch their partner rather than go without make-up, according to the study in Britain. Two thirds of the 2,200 women surveyed...
11:59 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Few people in the West had even heard of the small town in Pakistan where Al Qaeda leader bin Laden was hiding. ...
09:37 AM, May 30, 2011
Washington: Pakistan has agreed to allow a CIA forensic team to examine the compound in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed and the US agency will use sophisticated equipment to search for possible Al-Qaeda materials hidden inside walls at the site. US officials said the CIA team may arrive in Pakistan within days and head to the compound in Abbottabad, 120 kms from capital Islamabad, with an objective to...
12:25 AM, May 27, 2011
Islamabad: Al Qaeda has acknowledged that Osama bin Laden is dead, dispelling the doubts of some Muslims over whether the militant group's leader had really been killed by US forces, and vowed to mount more attacks on the West. The announcement on Friday by the Islamist militant organisation, which promised to publish a taped message from bin Laden soon, appeared intended to show its followers around the globe that the...
01:36 PM, May 07, 2011
While US special forces ambushed bin Laden, Obama got live feeds coming in from the helmet cam of the Navy seals. ...
12:16 PM, May 05, 2011
CNN's Nic Robertson shows how close Osama's compound was to the Pakistan's military academy. ...
09:43 AM, May 05, 2011
Tokyo: Asian shares fell on Wednesday, with Tokyo's Nikkei shedding more than 1 per cent, and oil rose as investors worried about Japan's nuclear crisis in Japan, violence in Libya and unrest in the Middle East. The euro hovered below a 4-1/2-month high as worries about debt problems in Portugal and Ireland halted its recent gains, while the yen hugged a tight range near 81 to the dollar amid caution...
09:11 AM, Mar 23, 2011
London: The UK will continue to provide India over 1 billion pounds until 2015 despite political pressure to reduce aid to the booming Asian giant, amidst deep cuts in public spending at home. British aid to India would remain at 280 million pounds a year until 2015, but will shift to more investment in private enterprise, UK's international development secretary Andrew Mitchell was quoted as saying by the Financial Times....
03:37 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Kuala Lumpur: Scientists in Malaysia have claimed to have isolated a natural compound from a local plant which could prevent and treat the dreaded cervical cancer in women. A team of researchers from Universiti Putra Malaysia has discovered a natural compound, isolated from a local herbal plant named "lempoyang" which it claims can prevent and treat cervical cancer. Lempoyang is a flowering plant from the ginger family which is commonly...
07:12 PM, Jan 19, 2011
London: A caravan equipped with a luxury Italian kitchen, top-of-the range flat screen television and iPhone controlled heating system has been sold for a whopping 550,000 pounds. The luxury three-bed roomed static holiday home has become the most expensive caravan in the country after being sold to a millionaire couple last month, Daily Mail reported Thursday. Nestled on the seafront in Abersoch, North Wales, the chalet has spectacular views over...
02:13 PM, Jan 15, 2011
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