Mumbai: Delhi-based businessman and aspiring producer Karan Kakkar pleaded for a peaceful death before his killer Vijay Palande, and that is why the latter forced him to consume sleeping pills. The Crime Branch investigating the case of Vijay Bhimajirao Palande who allegedly killed Kakkar and smalltime actor Anuj Tikkus father Arun, has learnt that Kakkar had begged Palande to spare him a painful end. According to Crime Branch sources, Palande...
12:09 PM, May 25, 2012
Srinagar: Tired of being found naked in his sleep every time soldiers searched his house during operations at the peak of militancy, Gulam Mohammad Mir, a farmer with no formal education, struck an idea to escape his tribulations. Mir, habitual to sleeping without clothes, developed a 'singing lantern', powered by a dry battery, fitted with a remote sensor that will alert him to human movement near his house in Sagaam...
12:04 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court took strong objection to the Delhi Police's mid-night crackdown on yoga guru Ramdev's supporters saying unlawfully depriving a person from sleep is a violation of his fundamental rights. "Deprivation of sleep has tumultuous adverse effects. It causes a stir and disturbs the quiet and peace of an individual's physical state. A natural process which is inherent in a human being, if disturbed, obviously affects basic...
09:56 AM, Feb 25, 2012
London: Ever wondered why new mothers wake up in the middle of the night when their baby stirs while the dads usually carry on fast asleep? The reason lies in the phase of attaining motherhood, suggests a new study. According to researchers at two California universities, pregnancy changes a woman's brain to allow her to cope with the demands of motherhood and be more attuned to her baby's needs, the...
12:16 PM, Dec 25, 2011
London: Day-to-day stress has triggered an unusual habit of sleep texting - where people text messages even while sleeping, according to researchers. People with this peculiar condition send incoherent messages while asleep to their friends and family - completely unaware of doing it, said researcher Frank Thorne, the Daily Mail reported. "Patients reported incidents of sleep texting - were advised to leave their mobile phones outside the bedroom, it is...
01:49 PM, Nov 24, 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
Los Angeles: A UCLA sleep expert described Dr. Conrad Murray's use of a cocktail of drugs on Michael Jackson as "unethical, disturbing and beyond comprehension." The combination of drugs used as Jackson struggled to fall asleep on the day he died was a "recipe for disaster" and ultimately caused his death, Dr. Nader Kamangar testified Thursday. Under questioning by Murray's attorney, J. Michael Flanagan, the witness was asked to tell...
06:32 PM, Oct 14, 2011
Mumbai: The 13th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI) that kickstarted Thursday has an impressive line-up of over 200 films from 60 countries, but one stunning difference. Of the films in the highly coveted international competition, almost half are from debut women filmmakers. From the 14 films in the highly coveted international competition, which is for first-time film directors, six films are by women filmmakers - truly a first....
02:35 PM, Oct 14, 2011
Gurgaon: Absence of security and basic infrastructure are some of the problems being faced by residents of Gurgaon. With names out of New York and names that sell well with the NRIs, Gurgaon is a little corner of America in the heartland of Haryana. A self sustaining and self contained community is what NRI Snehil Gambhir desired when he moved to 'The Laburnum' in Gurgaon two years back. "We tend...
08:55 AM, Sep 27, 2011
New York: A new book about the life of Coco Chanel published in the United States on Tuesday aims to strengthen claims the French designer collaborated with the Nazis during World War II as a spy code-named "Westminster." The book, "Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War," by Paris-based American journalist Hal Vaughan, claims that not only was the designer the lover of a German officer, Hans Gunther von...
10:43 AM, Aug 17, 2011
London: A security guard in Britain was axed after he filmed his supervisor asleep on the job. The supervisor, however, claims she was just "resting" her eyes. Security guard Darrell Welsh posted the 30 second film clip on Facebook, The Sun reported. The supervisor kept her job after she said she was not really sleeping, but just "resting" her tired eyes. Welsh had shot the short clip with his mobile...
09:55 PM, Aug 08, 2011
London: It's a finding which may not come as a surprise for your grand father -- people grown up watching black and white TV are likely see colourless dreams, scientists say. The Japanese study, which interviewed more than 1,300 people twice over a 16-year period from 1993 to 2009 about the brightness of their dreams, found that only one in five people in their 60s recalled having bright, vivid dreams....
11:34 AM, Jul 15, 2011
London: A man in Britain, who raped a teenaged girl, walked free from a court Monday after convincing the jury that he was actually suffering from 'sexsomnia', a sleeping disorder. Stephen Lee Davies, 43, told the jury he could not remember having intercourse with the teenage college student despite speaking to her at the time, and then leaving his bedroom to make a hot drink afterwards. The court heard that...
12:13 PM, Jul 06, 2011
London: The notion that a good night's sleep helps when making important decisions is now endorsed by scientists. They say that a good sleep enhances complex cognitive skills necessary for decision-making. In a first such study of its kind, researchers probed the effects of sleep on affect-guided decision-making - that is decisions on meaningful topics where subjects care about the outcome, Daily Mail reported Monday. Lead researcher Rebecca Spencer, of...
12:11 PM, Jun 21, 2011
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