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Shares in Actelion (ATLN.VX), Europe’s biggest biotech company, tumble over 14 percent after the group’s key drug Tracleer failed to cut mortality rates in patients suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
“Positive BUILD-3 results were a cornerstone of our buy recommendation for Actelion. This miss removes a significant catalyst to being able to significantly increase revenue [...]

New Delhi, Sep.18 (ANI): Recognizing the enormous potential of Information Technology in acting as a catalyst for the Tier – II growth of Suburban India, The Government of Himachal Pradesh (GoHP) is moving to produce an IT friendly business landscape.

To close the technological gap [...]

Washington, Sep 18 (ANI): University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working towards developing better catalyst for fuel cells in a bid to make clean cars a reality.

If successful, the researchers could make a car that runs on hydrogen from [...]

Agartala (Tripura)/ Jorhat (Assam), Sep.16 (ANI): Banking services are playing a major role in transforming the lives of people in rural areas of the northeast India.

To upgrade infrastructure and attract more investment, banks have undertaken several economic upliftment policies and schemes.

In Tripura, a [...]

Washington, September 10 (ANI): Analysis of a rock type found only in the world’s oldest oceans has shed new light on how large animals first got a foothold on the Earth.

By analysing the isotopes of chromium in iron-rich sediments formed in the ancient oceans, a scientific team, led by Professor Robert Frei at the University [...]

New Delhi, Sep.9 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the two-day All India Annual Conference of the Chief Commissioners and Directors General of Customs and Central Excise here today.

The Conference is being organized by the Central Board of Excise and Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance from September 8 to 9 in [...]

Agartala, Sep. 6 (ANI): Thousands of tribal families turned out to participate in a financial outreach camp organized by the Reserve Bank of India in Pitra village of Tripura.

The camp was organised with the objective of bringing awareness among villagers about banking norms.

“Bank wants to lend for projects which would generate economic activity will lead [...]

New Delhi, Aug.28 (ANI): UNICEF recently celebrated the telecast of the 200th episode of its entertainment education serial Kyunki… Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai on Doordarshan National.

A serial with all the emotional and dramatic twists and turns that make soaps [...]

London, August 19 (ANI): In a new experiment, US navy chemists have processed seawater into unsaturated short-chain hydrocarbons that with further refining could be made into kerosene-based jet fuel.

According to a report by New Scientist, the process involves extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in the water and combining it with hydrogen – obtained by splitting [...]

Nancy Goodman Brinker | Breast Cancer Survivor | Catalyst | United States Ambassador to Hungary | President Barack Obama | Presidential Medal of Freedom | Nation’s Highest Civilian Honor
CONGRATULATION TO NANCY BRINKER

Nancy Goodman Brinker born on December 6, 1946, in Peoria, Illinois is the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization [...]

Washington, July 9 (ANI): Jermaine Jackson has been caught amid speculation that the time is right for him to re-launch his music career.

The former ‘Jackson 5′ member touched hearts all over the world with his perfect rendition of Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” at the memorial service of his [...]

New Delhi, June 19 (ANI): Former Australian skipper Steve Waugh launched his charity foundation called ‘Steve Waugh Global Foundation’ in New Delhi on Friday.

Addressing a press conference here, Waugh said that the foundation would manage and coordinate his charity work around the globe.

The first project of the foundation will be an extension of Waugh’s existing [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, May 25 (IANS) Companies based in Kerala’s Technopark, an IT park here, Monday launched a carpooling website for IT professionals in the state as part of its green computing initiatives.
The website, www.parkcarpool.in, was jointly launched by the Group of Technopark Companies (GTECH), a body representing the chief executives of the Technopark firms, and Palnar [...]

Melbourne, May 22 (ANI): Telling white lies can actually be good for business, says an expert.

Professor Stephen Teo, Associate Dean of Business at the University of Western Sydney, said that lying to boss or a client can actually strengthen the relationship and help businesses run [...]

Washington, May 18 (ANI): A team of chemists has designed a new sponge-like material that can remove mercury from polluted water, easily separate hydrogen from other gases and is a more effective catalyst than the one currently used to pull sulfur out of crude oil.

Hydrodesulfurization is a widely used catalytic chemical process that removes sulfur [...]

Sodial (Jorhat), Apr 28 (ANI): A self-help group (SHG) that mooted a weaving unit in Assam has facilitated a large number of women economically self sufficient by generating employment for them.his self-help group named ‘Bhogdoi’ and based at Sodial village in Jorhat region was the brainchild [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese children with AIDS, especially from rural families, are going without treatment because their families are too poor to afford it, despite a government policy of free treatment, an activist group said on Monday.
Some families don’t even know AIDS treatment programs exist, it said.
“China has made great progress in the fight against [...]

Hamburg – A senior European Central Bank (ECB) warned Wednesday that cutting interest rates below 1 per cent could severely hit money markets and result in lending between banks freezing up.
In a speech delivered in Hamburg, Axel Weber, the president of Germany’s influential central bank the Bundesbank, said that trimming rates in the 15-member eurozone [...]

New Delhi, Mar 18 (ANI): The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station at Nuh, Mewat, Haryana, by Seeking Modern Application for Real Transformation [...]

Washington, March 6 (ANI): A new study by Penn State University researchers has determined that dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power.

Burning fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal release large amounts of CO2, a greenhouse [...]