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Flintoff’s decision to reject ECB contract will benefit Chennai Super Kings
Sydney, Sep 18 (ANI): The Indian Premier League would be benefited after Andrew Flintoff rejected the ECB contract, said Chennai Super Kings, the team the England all rounder plays for in the IPL.
Chennai Super Kings manager VB Chandrasekhar said [...]
Robbie Williams moving Down Under?
London, Sep 16 (ANI): It seems that Robbie Williams is shifting bag and baggage to Australia, all thanks to his ladylove Ayda Field.
The singer has revealed that he is searching for a farm or beachfront retreat Down Under because of his girlfriend.
Robbie divulged the details in an interview on Australia’s biggest breakfast radio show on [...]
NASA concludes tests for prototype Moon rovers
Washington, September 16 (ANI): NASA has concluded two weeks of technology development tests on two of the agency’s prototype lunar rovers.
“These tests provide us with crucial information about how our cutting edge vehicles perform in field situations approximating the moon,” said Rob Ambrose, Human Robotic Systems project lead at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. [...]
New air filter system can destroy up to 99.9 per cent of bugs on aircraft
London, September 16 (ANI): British researchers have developed an air filter system that destroys up to 99.9 per cent of infectious viruses and bacteria as well as pollutants that can circulate in the confines of an aircraft, especially on long-haul flights.
According [...]
Some animals can reflect upon, monitor, regulate their states of mind
Washington, September 15 (ANI): Conducting extensive research into animal cognition, psychologists at the University at Buffalo have found that some animals may share humans’ ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind.
“Comparative psychologists have studied the question of whether or not non-human animals have knowledge of their own cognitive states by testing [...]
Jupiter made comet its temporary moon for 12 years in mid-20th century
Washington, September 14 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has discovered that Jupiter had captured the comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu as its temporary moon in the mid-20th century, in an irregular orbit for about twelve years.
There are only a handful of known comets where this phenomenon of temporary satellite capture has occurred and the capture duration in [...]
Cyber security and laws, a draw among youth in Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Sep 13 (ANI): An increasing number of students are drawn to learn cyber security as they foresee a bright future in this upcoming field.
With information technology (IT) gaining popularity the security of data compiled, stored and transmitted is of utmost import.
According to a study, the requirement of employees to prevent cyber crimes in India [...]
US marks eighth anniversary of 9/11 terror strike
New York, Sep 11(ANI): The eighth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, which killed nearly 3,000 people, was observed here on Friday.
On September 11, 2001, four hijacked planes crashed into the twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a field [...]
New ‘Taliban killer’ sights for British troopers on Afghanistan frontier
London, Sep 9(ANI): After reports of British soldiers facing weapons’ shortage in the Afghanistan frontier, a range of new thermal weapons’ sights has been launched to enable soldiers to dominate the battlefield in Afghanistan.
According to reports, the British Ministry of Defence will buy almost 11,000 new sights for 150 million pounds, allowing the Army to [...]
Original Walt Disney drawings found in an attic office in Blackpool
London, Sep 9 (ANI): Original Walt Disney drawings have been recovered from an attic office in Blackpool, which could be worth up to 12,000 pounds each.
The 15 mint condition black and white and colour drawings were in the middle of hundreds of files gathered in over a century [...]
A docudrama plays a story of women cricketers’ struggle and triumph
Kolkata, Sep 9 (ANI): A docudrama titled ‘Indian Women’s Cricket team Poor Cousins of Million Dollar Babies’ highlights the disparity between men and women cricket players in India.
As the title suggests, the docudrama shows how while men cricketers hog all the limelight and bask in the glory of success and money, women cricketers are [...]
How females control sperm storage to pick the best dad
Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): University of Exeter researchers have found new evidence to explain how female insects can influence the father of their offspring, even after mating with up to ten males.
In the study, boffins found that female crickets are able to control the amount of sperm that they store from each mate to [...]
Delhi Court to hear Bofors pay-off case today
New Delhi, Sep 8 (ANI): A Delhi court will hear the Bofors payoffs case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi today. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may reveal its course of action following the withdrawal of Interpol’s Red Corner Notice against him.
The matter is to come up for hearing before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri [...]
Punjab authorities launch drive to uproot “Congress Grass”
Nag Khurd (Amritsar), Sep.5 (ANI): Farmers in Punjab are confronted with an unusual problem these days. A weed described as “Congress Grass” has covered all soil-bunds in the fields here and the administration is taking up measures to educate farmers about how to [...]
Army confers Honorary Brigadier Rank on Dr ArvInd Lal
New Delhi, Sep. 4 (ANI): Dr. Arvind Lal, Chairman and Managing Director of Dr. Lal Pathological Laboratories, has been awarded the Honorary Rank of Brigadier by the Armed Forces Medical Services.
President Pratibha Patil, the Supreme Commander of the Armed [...]
Soon, a portable optical atomic clock
Berlin, September 4 (ANI): In a new research work, a team of scientists has shown how optical atomic clocks in the future might become more compact and even portable, maybe even travel to space.
The research was done by scientists [...]
Enhancement of India, Russia trade ties
Moscow, Sep 3 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has expressed a desire to enhance bilateral trade ties with Russia.
While addressing a gathering of expatriate Indians and some prominent Russians during the course of her five-day visit, Patil said, the only area where India-Russia relationship is lagging is in the field of bilateral economic cooperation.
“When [...]
A unique story of parallel evolution in moths unraveled
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): A new revision of the taxonomic relationships among one group of moths, the subfamily Dioptinae, sheds light on the diversity of tropical moth species and presents a unique story of parallel evolution.
“These diurnal moths are a microcosm of butterfly evolution,” said James Miller, author of the new Bulletin of the American [...]
NASA’s Orion spacecraft passes significant design milestone
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): NASA’s Orion spacecraft has passed a significant design milestone by completing the Orion Project’s preliminary design review (PDR), and thus taking a major step toward building the next crew exploration vehicle.
Orion is being designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and other destinations.
The preliminary design review is one [...]
Scientists create world’s smallest semiconductor laser
Washington, August 31 (ANI): Researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, have created the world’s smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light in a space smaller than a single protein molecule, an invention that breaks new ground in the field of optics.
The UC Berkeley team not only successfully squeezed light into such [...]
