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New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday sought to know the fate of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the May 2008 murder of Noida’s teenaged girl Aarushi Talwar and her family’s domestic help at her home in Delhi’s suburb.
“What’s the update on the case?” asked a bench of Justice Altmas [...]

Karachi, Feb 22 (IANS) Pakistan took three quick wickets even as Sri Lanka extended their total to 614-6 at tea on the second day of the first cricket Test here at the National Stadium Sunday.
Shoaib Malik removed Mahela Jayawardene for 240 and then scalped Tillekaratne Dilshan for a duck while Danish Kaneria got rid of [...]

Seoul – South Korea’s exports took a record dive of 32.8 per cent in January as the global economic downturn saw demand in China, Europe, the United States and Japan plunge, the government said Monday.
The export-driven economy recorded the year-on-year fall in its goods sold abroad to 21.7 billion dollars, their third-straight month of [...]

London, Jan 29 (ANI): A 29-year-old mortgage advisor in Britain is in demand these days – because he resembles US President Barack Obama.

After Obama’s historic win, Ryan Skeggs has been snapped up by a doubles agency, and is enjoying his instant popularity.

“I first started getting recognised when he was running against Hillary Clinton,” The Sun [...]

NewYork – The plane that spectacularly crashed into the Hudson River in New York already had problems before the accident, the news channel CNN reported Tuesday citing three passengers.
The three reportedly said that they had already heard loud blows on the same US Airways plane two days before the accident last Thursday. The crew announced [...]

Federal Bank was immensely helped by the sharp rise in other income and lower interest income to approximately double its net profit for the third quarter ending December 31, 2009 to Rs 203.89 cr from Rs 102.92 cr the previous fiscal.
The net profit of the bank had a rise by 45.67% to Rs 386.32 crore [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): Anti-psychotic drugs prescribed to treat aggression in Alzheimer’’s patients can double their risk of dying, according to a study published in the journal Lancet.
The study, funded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, was led by Prof Clive Ballard’s King’s College London team.
To reach the conclusion, researchers reviewed 165 Alzheimer’s patients who were [...]

London, Jan 8 (ANI): Patients treated for melanoma are more than twice as likely to develop other, unrelated cancers than the general population, a new research suggests.
According to the research, which was led by Queen’’s University Belfast, the risk was also elevated – although not as much – for patients with other forms of skin [...]

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Smokers who are trying to gradually kick the butt can effectively to so with the help of nicotine gum, according a new study.
Nicotine gum has been in use for over 20 years to help smokers quit abruptly however, the new study suggests that smokers wanting to quit by gradual reduction can [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Researchers at The University of Nottingham have found that expecting mothers produce less aggressive sons with more efficient immune systems, when there is a threat of disease during pregnancy.
This study is the first of its kind to have revealed the transgenerational effect on immune response based on environmental cues — with [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): In a new study, astronomers have suggested that Jupiter-like planets may easily form around certain types of twin star systems.
A disk of molecules discovered orbiting a pair of twin young suns in the constellation Sagittarius strongly suggests that many such binary systems also host planets.
“We think the molecular gas orbiting these [...]

Kabul – The fledgling Afghan national army was to grow to more than 100,000 troops by the end of this year, a spokesman said Monday.
The troops are to be trained by US-led international forces, as NATO commanders in Afghanistan demand additional soldiers to effectively combat the resurgent Taliban militants.
So far a total of 85,000 army [...]

Islamabad, Jan 5 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that unity among all political forces is required in Pakistan, and added that he did not want to be a party to the conflict between the PML-N and the PPP.

“We don’t want to be a party to the conflict between the PML-N [...]

London, Jan 4 (ANI): The French film industry has been branded ‘racist’ after it banned black actors from dubbing white stars in Gallic versions of English-language movies.
An investigation revealed that casting directors regularly expelled black applicants in the belief that they had a distinctive tone of voice unsuitable for dubbing white parts.
The findings come amid [...]

London, Jan 4 (ANI): Danny Jones, the lead singer of McFLY, has reportedly dumped his girlfriend of two years for Miss England.
According to sources, the crooner of the hell-raising band was caught snogging with Laura Coleman after performing at the Miss World pageant in South Africa.
He then admitted about the clinch to his loyal girlfriend [...]

The approval to circulate an ordinance to raise the salaries of judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts to give immediate effect to the hike proposed in the Bill introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 22, 2008 was made in the Union Cabinet meeting.
Since the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries [...]

Ace Tollywood actor Rajinikanth has undergone various facial treatments to improve his looks in order to match up with Bollywood hottie Aishwarya Rai’s beauty.
This gorgeous jet-setting diva is doing the role of an actress in Rajinikanth’s upcoming flick ‘Endhiran.’
Rajini will be seen doing a love-scene with Ash inside a top model Benz car at Kulu [...]

London, Want to get rid of those extra pounds? Well, then all you need to do is simply write down your daily food intake, for it can double your weight loss, according to a new study.
The study, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed 1,700 overweight people over six months, and revealed that those who wrote [...]

Los Angeles – LeBron James now has a clear understanding of why the New Orleans Hornets signed James Posey in the off season.
Posey sparked a fourth-quarter surge with a strip of James and a dunk Saturday night as the New Orleans Hornets pulled away from the Cleveland Cavaliers for a 104-92 victory in an early [...]