Jamaat-ud- Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed has sent a legal notice to two Pakistani journalists for publishing the news about his alleged meeting with American Ambassador Cameron Munter....
Air India on Wednesday began international operations to the U.S. and Europe as part of its contingency plan, despite the pilots' strike entering its ninth today. ...
A day after he walked out of Tihar Jail after securing bail in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, former Telecom Minister A. Raja went to Parliament on Wednesday....
Stressing on the need to have nuclear power plants, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Wednesday said that it was imperative to ensure safety of such vital installations. ...
Sony is said to have signed on master screenwriter Aaron Sorkin for a just-announced Steve Jobs biopic, which will rival the film already in production starring Ashton Kutcher....
Tyra Banks has spoken out in support of Vogue's decision to ban rail thin models from its pages and praised the fashion glossy's 19 editors for banding together to put a stop to "thinspirational" editorial and called for a toast "over some barbecue and burgers"....
Kim Kardashian, who has shared much of her life with the cameras over the past few years, intends to be more private as far as new boyfriend Kanye West is concerned. ...
General Motors plans to stop advertising on Facebook after deciding that paid ads on the social networking site have little impact on consumers' car purchases....
Tokyo, May 15 (Xinhua-ANI) Leading Japanese convenience store chain Lawson Inc. aimed to expand the number of stores in China and extend its business to other Asian countries, especially the Southeast ones, the president of the company said Tuesday....
Scientists have proved that mouse lifespan can be boosted by gene therapy. The therapy has been found to be safe and effective in mice.
The results are published today in the journal iEMBO Molecular Medicine/i. The CNIO team, in collaboration with Eduard Ayuso and Fatima Bosch of the Centre of Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), treated adult (one-year-old) and aged (two-year-old) mice, with the gene therapy .......
Biologists produce potential candidates for malarial vaccine from algae.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by infection with protozoan parasites from the genus Plasmodium. It affects more than 225 million people worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, resulting in fever, headaches and in severe cases coma and death. While a variety of often costly antimalarial medications are available to travelers in those regions to protect against infections, .......
Men find vegetables unmanly and stick to meat, shows study.
In a number of experiments that looked at metaphors and certain foods, like meat and milk, the authors found that people rated meat as more masculine than vegetables. They also found that meat generated more masculine words when people discussed it, and that people viewed male meat eaters as being more masculine than non-meat eaters.
Most of the studies took place in the United States .......
Study says that girl child marriages have significantly declined since 1991.
Writing in the May 16, 2012 issue of IJournal of the American Medical Association,/I Anita Raj, PhD, professor of medicine in the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues, report that marriage rates for girls under the age of 14 in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh - the South Asian countries with the highest historical rates - have significantly .......
Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger cranked up pressure on Chelsea ahead of their Champions League final by claiming that the Germans always win in the penalties....
Shane Warne expressed his ignorance over the squabble between his ex-wife Simone Callahan and fiance Elizabeth Hurley, saying that he "thought everyone was getting along pretty well."...
