Mysskin who is known for his bold films and speech vents his anger on how certain good films and filmmakers aren't encouraged. Watch to know his take on Kollywood's latest hit 'Vazhakku Enn 18 / 9', Balaji Shakthivel and Lingu and a lot more. Do you think his anger is right? ...
10:48 AM, May 31, 2012
The heart cells created from patients' skin are at the same stage of development as those of a newborn baby. The study is exciting for ...
04:47 PM, May 24, 2012
Mumbai: Distressed with an ailment that plagued him for two years, a 45-year-old man committed suicide by strangling himself with a towel in the verandah of JJ Hospital on Sunday. Shyam Narayan Vishwakarma, resident of Mankhurd was undergoing treatment for a severe skin ailment, pemphigus vulagaris (blistering and sores on the skin), with diabetes, and was admitted to the hospital since March 30. A case of accidental death has been...
01:02 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Advertisement for a new skin whitening product for private parts has sparked outrage on the Internet with people blasting the commercial as an "ultimate insult to women." This is the latest in a long list of skin whitening products to have earned the wrath of women including a wide range of fairness creams. The television commercial for the "intimate" product promises its "special pH-balanced formula cleans and protects...
02:46 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Chennai: Here's some welcome news for burn victims. With the opening of a skin bank in the city on Wednesday, help is now at hand. The bank would harvest cadaver skin for use as biological dressing for burn victims, informed Dr S Murugusundaram, director of Chennai Skin Foundation and Yesudian Research Institute. The skin bank has been set up in association with Eurobank of Netherlands and Dr Dilip Shah of...
11:27 AM, Mar 08, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood actress Dia Mirza has posed as a snake to raise her voice against animal skin trade in an ad for animal rights organisation People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The caption of the ad reads: "Face It: Exotic Skins Kill. Wild Animals Belong in the Wild, Not in Your Wardrobe." Dia said: "Skinning animals alive or beating them to death for a pair of boots or...
02:40 PM, Mar 01, 2012
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12:59 PM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: Ruskin Bond, one of the best known English writers in India, once said that 'pen, in honest and gifted hands, is mightier than the grave'. The author, now 77, lives by this philosophy and says he has many more stories to tell. "By and large I have had a fulfilling life. I am a writer without regrets. But I would say that there is a long way to...
05:06 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Mumbai: The auditors of India's biggest carrier Jet Airways have warned the company required to raise funds or generate cash flows in the future to meets its obligations, including financial support to its subsidiary JetLite. Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Chaturvedi & Shah said in a report dated November 11 that raising money is crucial if Jet's accounts have to be prepared on a "going concern basis" in the future,...
10:36 AM, Nov 22, 2011
Kolkata: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Monday downplayed his frisking by US security officials at New York's JFK Airport, saying it was not worth talking about. "Forget about it. It is not worth talking about," Kalam said while responding to a question on the sidelines of an IIMC event in Kolkata. Kalam, 80, was frisked twice at the JFK Airport by security officials who even took off his jacket...
03:35 PM, Nov 14, 2011
Bangalore: The US needs to observe protocol in treating Indian dignitaries visiting that country, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said in the wake of American security agencies frisking former president APJ Abdul Kalam on board an aircraft. "The US government has to take into account certain protocols when dealing with our distinguished dignitaries visiting America," a miffed Krishna told IANS on Sunday after India protested the Kalam episode. "We have...
01:13 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked not once but twice at an US airport in September, an act that violates protocol followed by almost every other country. The US has apologised to former President APJ Abdul Kalam for subjecting him to frisking at New York's JFK Airport, an incident that had provoked sharp reactions from India which threatened retaliatory action. In a written apology to Kalam...
10:25 AM, Nov 13, 2011
New Delhi: A study of the murky water politics in Asia, a compilation of gastronomic delights, Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif's story of a Catholic choohra and a short-story collection by Ruskin Bond -- the book-cart this week is excitingly distinct. 1. 'Water: Asia's New Battleground'; Written by Brahma Chellaney; Published by Harper Collins; Priced at Rs.699 The battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy....
02:35 PM, Sep 29, 2011
There is only one Indian living writer I know who still manages to evoke my childhood memories that either seem long time gone or buried for good. That writer is Mr Ruskin Bond. Though his stories are primarily set in Dehradun, everyone who reads them can successfully conjure the picturesque beauty in his or her mind and that is the power of good writing. My stint with Mr Bond's works...
11:08 AM, Sep 26, 2011
London: People with extra copies of certain genes are much more likely to be very skinny, scientists said on Wednesday in the first finding of a genetic cause for extreme thinness. In a study in the journal Nature, researchers from Britain's Imperial College London and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland found that a duplication of a part of chromosome 16 is associated with being underweight. Previous research has found...
12:19 PM, Sep 01, 2011
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