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London, May 23 (ANI): Visitors at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show were asked by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to donate their unwanted underwear for its summer Grow Your Own campaign at Hampton Court Palace.

The clean unwanted bras, briefs and boxer shorts donated would be used in display of how to grow your own fruit [...]

Mussoorie, May 20 (ANI): Ruskin Bond, a stalwart of children’s literature, celebrated his 75th birthday with children here on Tuesday.

The famed writer who wrote more than hundred short stories, essays, novels in his writing career of forty years, chose a bookstore to celebrate his platinum birthday.

School children from various schools have presented Bond with [...]

Washington, May 12 (ANI): Kylie Minogue wants to get into serious acting career, and is even begging directors to give her a chance, just like the one rocker Nick Cave gave her when they both teamed for an anti-pop ballad ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’.

The Aussie pop star, best known for her catchy dance [...]

DUBLIN, Ireland–(Business Wire)–
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/283b91/clothing_and_footw) has
announced the addition of the “Clothing and Footwear in Singapore” report to
their offering.
The Clothing and Footwear in Singapore report offers a comprehensive guide to
the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest
retail sales data (2001-2006) and analysis by distribution format allowing you
to identify [...]

London, Feb 23 (IANS) The coming Indian general elections are likely to lead to a Left-leaning government led by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and supported from the outside by either the Congress or the BJP, a leading pollster predicted Monday.
Yashwant Deshmukh, who runs the Team Cvoter polling firm and has covered more than 100 [...]

A joint study by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and KPMG estimated that the media and entertainment industry will grow at 12.5 percent over the next five years to cross the Rs 1,00,000-crore mark by 2013. The report showed that it grew 15 percent annually since 2006 into an $11.68-billion [...]

London: Fish may be smarter than you thought, for a new study has suggested that their three-second memory is actually a myth — in fact, they can remember things for up to five months.
Researchers at the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel have carried out the study and found fishes have hidden depth and can [...]

London, January 8 (ANI): Porn baron Larry Flynt says that the US Government should help rejuvenate the industry, which has been bearing the brunt of the ongoing global economic crisis, with a financial assistance of five billion dollars.
The Hustler magazine founder has even joined forces with ‘Girls Gone Wild’ video series’ creator Joe Francis to [...]

Beijing – Chinese-owned computer maker Lenovo on Thursday said it plans to lose about 2,500 staff, or 10 per cent of its global workforce, in the next three months.
The redundancies are a key part of a restructuring package designed to save Lenovo some 300 million dollars in its next financial year, which begins on April [...]

Kondh (Orissa, India), Jan.7 (ANI): A blockade mounted by more than 50 protestors stopped British mining company Vedanta entering the land of the Dongria Kondh and other Kondh tribes under cover of darkness last night.
According to a press release issued by Survival International, the FTSE 100 company plans to mine bauxite on the Dongria Kondh’s [...]

London, Jan 7 (ANI): The myth that fish’’s memory span is only three seconds has been debunked by a new research, which shows that they can remember things for up to five months.
For the study, researchers at the Israeli Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa spent a month schooling young fish to associate a certain [...]

London, Jan 6 (ANI): Budget hotels in the UK have been found to be contaminated with blood, mould, urine and even faeces, an investigation has revealed.
In fact, the “most disturbing” discovery was made in a room at the Ibis hotel on Charles Street in Manchester—there the mattress was so badly soiled that the cover had [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have identified a new tumour suppressor that may help in the development of more targeted drug therapies to fight lung cancer.
Proto-oncogenes are genes that play a role in normal cell growth (turnover of cells and tissue) but, when genetically modified, can cause the out-of-control [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics.
The researchers included Rosanne D’Arrigo, a scientist at the Tree Ring Lab at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Rob Wilson of Lamont and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland; and Alexander Tudhope [...]

Nokia India announces its “recycling campaign” for the Indian region. The programme encourages mobile phone users to dispose of their used handsets and accessories, irrespective of the brand, at any of the 1,300 green recycling bins put up across Nokia priority dealers and Nokia care centers. This effort is to make the users aware of [...]

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 [...]

London, Jan 4 (ANI): The latest battleground for hospital superbugs, such as Clostridium difficile (C diff) and MRSA, is the humble mobile phone, as scientists reveal the bacteria thrive on handsets.

A photograph released by Richard Brady, a surgical research fellow at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, and his colleagues reveals colonies of bacteria grown [...]

London, Jan 2 (ANI): Scientists have suggested that oil spills could be cleaned up with the help of organisms that grow at the bottom of the world’s deepest lake in Siberia.
According to a report in the Telegraph, in this regards, a team of scientists is investigating how microbes ‘eat’ naturally occurring crude oil that seeps [...]

Washington, Jan 1 (ANI): Researchers claim to have identified the reason why prostate cancer patients fail hormone deprivation therapy.

Prostate cancer cells rely on androgens, male hormones that include testosterone, to survive and grow.

This hormone deprivation therapy causes tumours to shrink, however, it’’s never a cure. They tumours eventually regrow into a stronger [...]

Bangalore, Dec. 29 : While markets across the world are stated to be affected by the global slowdown, the Indian rose industry is doing good business even after Christmas.
With New Year and Valentines round the corner there is enthusiasm in the rose industry here. The cut flower industry of Bangalore city is reaping profits from [...]