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Australia’s first female Winter Paralympic Games medallist Jessica Gallagher is not doubting her ability to contend for giant slalom gold in Vancouver on Wednesday.
Gallagher took out bronze in the visually impaired women’s skiing at Whistler on Monday morning (AEDT), Australia’s first medal of the Games.
She posted a time of 0:57.77 to finish third behind Austrian [...]

The CSIRO says it hopes to tackle the deterioration of mathematics in Australian education.
A report earlier in the week conducted by the Group of Eight universities found that maths had deteriorated to dangerous levels, with a 15 per cent drop in enrolments in Australian universities between 2001 and 2007.
But the CSIRO has announced several initiatives [...]

Doda (J and K), Sep.10 (ANI): Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti suffered minor facial injuries on Thursday when her car was involved in an accident.

The mishap occurred soon after she told a PDP workers’ convention that the spate of fatal road accidents in the Chenab [...]

Srinagar, Sep 7 (ANI): Kashmir’s heritage Emporium Garden is all set to get a facelift with the state government planning to spend rupees 15 million to restore the garden to its lost glory.

Located in Srinagar, the garden used to be under the British residency during the state’s erstwhile Dogra era, and the Britishers had [...]

Washington, July 13 (ANI): A compound called NIC5-15 has been found to be a safe and effective treatment to stabilize cognitive performance in Alzheimer’s disease patients, according to a study.

The two researchers in the study, Dr. Giulio Maria Pasinetti, and Dr. Hillel Grossman, have [...]

On Board special flight, July 11 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said India should be able to sustain with little bit difficulty growth rate of 8 to 9 per cent notwithstanding difficulties on the international front.

Addressing a press conference onboard after attending the G8-G5 summit at L’Aquila in Italy, Dr. Singh said, [...]

Washington, July 9 (ANI): The restoration of a 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture of the famed ancient Greek athlete Apoxyomenos may help modern scientists understand how to prevent metal corrosion, discover the safest ways to permanently store nuclear waste, and understand other perplexing problems.

That’s the conclusion of a new study on the so-called “biomineralization” of Apoxyomenos.

Best known [...]

Melbourne, June 29 (ANI): It was greed that killed the King of Pop Michael Jackson, says a journalist, who predicted last December that the singer was in such poor health that he had six months to live.

According to the London Daily Mail, Ian Halperin spent five years inside the Jackson camp and saw the mental [...]

Washington, June 19 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have found that a rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels 200 million years ago led to a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity.

The evidence for the collapse in the plant biodiversity was unearthed by scientists in the form of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East [...]

Tripura, May 23 (ANI): Tension prevailed along the India-Bangladesh border on the outskirts of Akhwara region, in Tripura, over the construction of a barbed wire fencing by the Border Security Force (BSF).

The villagers are concerned as the newly constructed barbed wire fence will block free access to the graveyard, which would now fall on the [...]

Washington, May 13 (ANI): A new study has found a link between elderly people’s appetite and mortality rates.

The study by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher has demonstrated a link between the Daily Activity Energy Expenditure (DAEE– an accurate [...]

London, May 4 (ANI): Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has admitted he gets so close to his players he ends up loving them like family.

This, he adds, makes the eventual parting of the ways so painful.

As he prepared United for tomorrow’s showdown with Arsenal, Ferguson said: “I’m at a great club and the [...]

Sydney, May 2 (ANI): Acknowledging that the supremacy of the United States has begun to fade, Australia’s new defense plan prepares the country’s forces to be less reliant on America.

In a fundamental shift in defense plans, the Kevin Rudd Government has clearly stated that US primacy in the Asia-Pacific – the bedrock of the nation’s [...]

Islamabad, Apr.27 (ANI): Responding to concerns of the United States and the international community over its nuclear arsenal, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said all nuclear installations in the country are safe.

“All Pakistani nuclear installations are under extra security. I [...]

Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): Researchers from Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the University of Navarra have found a key enzyme in the development of cardiac insufficiency.

The enzyme is involved in the accumulation of fibrous tissues in the hearts of patients with chronic [...]

HONG KONG, April 21 (Reuters) – Hong Kong shares are expected
to drop on Tuesday amid a global sell-down in banking stocks
after Bank of America (BAC.N) raised concerns about credit
quality deterioration.
The stock plunged more than 24 percent on Monday despite
reporting a rise in profit for the first quarter as its chief
executive warned the bad [...]

HONG KONG, April 21 (Reuters) – Hong Kong shares opened 4.4 percent lower on Tuesday in a broad-based sell-off with shares in HSBC sharply lower after Bank of America (BAC.N) reignited concern over credit quality deterioration at global banks.
HSBC (0005.HK) opened 6.37 percent lower at HK$51.45, while China Mobile (0941.HK) started down 5.79 percent [...]

Washington, Apr.23 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has accused the Government of Pakistan of “abdicating” to the Taliban and other extremist groups by ceding large tracts of territory.

She said that the country’s instability is a “mortal threat” to world peace.

“I think that the Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taliban and [...]

US is trying to prevent the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan from using radio stations and websites to intimidate civilians and plan attacks, pushing deeper into “psychological operations” against the militants who have an edge in the “information war”, a media report said on Saturday.
Under the broad effort launched by the Obama Administration, US military [...]

Washington, Apr.16 (ANI): The United States is planning to jam all the radio and website links of the Taliban, the two most famous tools which the insurgents use to plan attacks, and broadcast their threat and diktat.

According to The News, the Pentagon is working to jam the Taliban’s illegal FM radio frequencies in Pakistan’s ungoverned [...]