Toronto: Scientists have developed the first-ever vaccine for gut bacteria common in autistic children that may also help control some autism symptoms. Researchers from the University of Guelph in Canada have developed a carbohydrate-based vaccine against the gut bug Clostridium bolteae. C bolteae is known to play a role in gastrointestinal disorders, and it often shows up in higher numbers in the GI tracts of autistic children than in those...
12:41 PM, Apr 26, 2013
As the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G scam stays divided with opposition members asking for PC Chacko's resignation, former telecom minister A Raja insists he should be allowed to depose. ...
09:43 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Ahmedabad: The lawyer of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), which has given a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 post-Godhra riots case after investigating complaint filed by Zakia Jafri, on Thursday said that "Modi has never said that go and kill people". Opposing the protest petition filed by Jafri against SIT's closure report, its lawyer RS Jamuar said, "(social activist) Teesta Setalvad and others...
08:53 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Providence: A body pulled from waters off a Providence park was that of a 22-year-old Brown University student missing since last month, the Rhode Island medical examiner's office said on Thursday. Sunil Tripathi was identified through a forensic dental exam, but a cause of death has not been determined, said Dara Chadwick, a spokeswoman for the state health department. Tripathi's family, of Bryn Mawr, Pa, said it was overcome with...
09:59 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Insensitive attitude of police in handling cases like rape on Thursday came under the scanner of the Delhi High Court which asked the city police to take a cue from its judicial academy and impart training to sensitise them. "Take the module of the Judicial Academy for the sensitisation of police officers. Give them intensive training on how to handle heinous crimes particularly the issue of rape. One...
08:26 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notices to 21 convicts who were awarded life term by a designated court in 2012 in the post-Godhra Dipda Darwaza riot case on a petition filed by the SIT seeking condonation of delay in filing appeals against the verdict. A division bench of Justices MR Shah and SH Vora also issued notices to 57 accused whose acquittal by the designated court in the...
02:10 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Ahmedabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday strongly contested the protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri against its closure report giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 post-Godhra riot case. The day-to-day hearing on the petition filed by Zakia earlier this month, began in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra on Wednesday. In a three-point rebuttal, the SIT, represented by its...
07:49 PM, Apr 24, 2013
London: The bereaved father of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar has vowed to take legal action against the Irish hospital where his daughter died after being denied abortion last October, saying he is not satisfied with the probe outcome. "I believe we will never get justice from the Irish government so we are definitely going to take legal action against the hospital (University Hospital Galway)," Andanappa Yalagi told the 'Irish Daily...
05:20 PM, Apr 24, 2013
London: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been accused of "sexualising" children by selling bikinis for four to eight-year-olds on her website. The 'Iron Man' star's lifestyle company site showed pictures of a little girl wearing one of the two-piece creations designed by her new designer Melissa Odabash, reported Daily Star. The outfits, which are described as "great for girls who want to look grown up", have sparked outrage among campaigners who...
12:41 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is voted as the most "Most Desirable Man" by a survey conducted by online matrimonial site Shaadi.com. With season six of Indian Premier League underway, Shaadi.com recently conducted a survey to find out whom do Indian women consider to be the "Most Desirable Man" duirng the series. A whopping 61 percent Indian women voted for Dhoni followed by master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who...
11:59 AM, Apr 24, 2013
San Francisco: Google Inc has acquired Wavii, the Seattle-based startup behind a news summarisation app, for roughly $30 million in cash, a person with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday. Google's successful bid came after Apple Inc had expressed interest in buying Wavii to incorporate the startup's natural language technology into Siri, Apple's voice-activated personal assistant feature, said the person, who declined to be named because the deal has not...
08:25 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Amid growing public outrage over an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme run by Saradha group, market regulator has begun a fresh probe into the fund-raising activities of the Kolkata-based entity. The capital market regulator is looking into whether its Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) regulations were violated while raising funds from the public, a senior official said. ...
11:45 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Amid growing public outrage over an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme run by Saradha group, market regulator has begun a fresh probe into the fund-raising activities of the Kolkata-based entity. The capital market regulator is looking into whether its Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) regulations were violated while raising funds from the public, a senior official said. ...
11:30 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Ahmedabad: A protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri seeking rejection of the SIT report giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the post-Godhra riots case is likely to come up for hearing in a local court on Wednesday. Zakia, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the Gulbarg Society riots along with 68 others, had filed...
10:39 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Amid growing public outrage over an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme run by Saradha group, market regulator has begun a fresh probe into the fund-raising activities of the Kolkata-based entity. The capital market regulator is looking into whether its Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) regulations were violated while raising funds from the public, a senior official said. Sources said that Sebi began the latest round of investigation after certain complaints...
01:42 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Sitapur: A five-year-old was among two minor girls raped in different parts of Uttar Pradesh, police said here on Tuesday. A 14-year-old Dalit girl was abducted and raped allegedly by one Meraj (22) in Leharpur area in Sitapur district on Sunday night, they said. Police said that an FIR was lodged after which Meraj was arrested on Monday. In Deoria district, a five-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a 15-year-old...
11:31 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Paradip/Bhubaneswar: Land acquisition for the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel project resumed in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district on Monday after being suspended for about two-and-a-half months. The restarting of the demolition of betel vines at Gobindpur village at the proposed plant site near Paradip coincided with Posco-India CMD YW Yoon meeting Development Commissioner JK Mohapatra at the state secretariat in Bhubaneswar. Though Yoon described the meeting as a courtesy call, sources...
12:24 AM, Apr 23, 2013
As Budget Session resumed on Monday, the UPA government once again came under attack by the Opposition. While former telecom minister A Raja accused the PMO of being in the know of 2G decisions, the growing instances of rape in the capital also pushed the Centre on the backfoot. The coal revelations could not have also come at a worse time for the government. ...
11:56 PM, Apr 22, 2013
As lakhs of investors in West Bengal lose their savings in a chit fund scam following the collapse of the Saradha Group, the state government on Monday formed a special investigation team (SIT) and instituted a high-level inquiry into chit fund companies operating in the state. ...
11:55 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: CPI(M) Politburo Member Brinda Karat reiterated the Left party's demand to send the Land Bill back to a Select Committee. Karat was speaking to CNN-IBN's Rupashree Nanda. Here's the transcript of the interview: CNN IBN: The signal that came out of the all party meet that was held on the April 18 was that the Left had agreed not to send the Land Bill back to the Select...
10:27 PM, Apr 22, 2013
