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Melbourne, September 10 (ANI): A new research has found that Australian lacewings build tougher silk than silkworms.

Scientists at CSIRO Entomology have learnt that silk made by the common Australian green lacewing can be stretched up to six times further than silkworm silk.

Moreover, its unusual structure makes it potentially much [...]

Mumbai, Sep.9 (ANI): Police inspector Prakash Bhoite on Wednesday told a special trial court here that the terrorists involved in the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, had planted two powerful bombs with timers in metal boxes at different places near the Taj Hotel [...]

London, September 7 (ANI): ‘X Factor’ winner Leona Lewis recently refused to open a clothing line’s sale, as they use fur in their items.

The singer believes if she had opened the Harrods’ sale and given the money to charity, it would still have been meaningless.

“I got a lot of flak for that. There were people [...]

Washington, Sep 5 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that there is a need to regulate the financial market, but it should not be used to devise any kind of protectionism.

In an interview to CNN, Mukherjee said: “We have to strike a balance. There is a need of regulating the financial market. We [...]

Gangtok, Sep 3 (ANI): An art school is preserving the oldest form of traditional and religious art of statue making, influenced by Buddhist teaching in Sikkim.

The Traditional Arts School for Thangka Painting at 5th mile, a half an hour drive from state capital Gangtok, is under [...]

New Delhi, Aug.31 (ANI): ‘Lateral entrants’, a term coined for non-RSS workers, are in for tough days ahead in the Bharatiya Janata Party.

In the wake of recent wrangling in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) followed by the exit of senior leader Jaswant Singh [...]

London, August 30 (ANI): A group of Michael Jackson fans in Leicester attempted a world record for the most number of people dancing to the singer’s ‘Thriller’ in one place on his 51st birthday.

Some 475 people dressed as zombies packed into Orton Square participate in the event.

The current record is held by 242 dancers, who [...]

New Delhi, Aug.29 (ANI): Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani’s nearly two-hour-long meeting with Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat ended on Saturday a short while ago.

Sources, however, did not reveal what had been discussed at the meeting.

Advani had arrived at the RSS’s Delhi [...]

New Delhi, Aug.29 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and senior BJP leader L.K.Advani has arrived at the RSS’s Delhi headquarters – Keshavkunj – for a meeting with its chief Mohan Bhagwat.

The meeting is taking place amid reports that the RSS has readied a succession [...]

New Delhi, Aug.29 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, has joined other party colleagues at the residence of Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani to reportedly discuss a viable succession plan.

According to a Times Now television report, Swaraj’s visit to the Advani residence is [...]

Washington, August 29 (ANI): A series of experiments conducted as part of the Academy of Finland’s Neuroscience Research Programme (NEURO) have shown that the brain uses the same neural networks to process both familiar and newly learnt words.

In one experiment, participants learnt the name and/or purpose of 150 ancient tools. They had never heard those [...]

New Delhi, Aug.21 (ANI): It is learnt that the Sangh leadership has revisited Jaswant Singh’s controversial book — Jinnah – India, Partition, Independenc-and has raised severe objections to many of its contents other than the eulogizing of Jinnah and the denigration of India’s first Home Minister [...]

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 20(ANI): A photo exhibition highlighting the ill effects of global warming and pollution on wildlife and human beings was held at the holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday (August 19) on the occasion [...]

New Delhi, Aug.13 (ANI): China continues to remain reluctant about supporting India’s proposal at the United Nations to place sanctions on the Jaish-e-Mohammad.

ANI has learnt that in the recent meeting between the Special Representatives of the two countries led by National [...]

Gangtok, July 15 (ANI): A visually impaired bamboo artisan in Sikkim imparts training to many other disadvantaged people like him and help them gain self-reliance in life.

The 37-year-old Chandra Singh Gurung is one of the visually challenged workers offering training [...]

Melbourne, July 12 (ANI): Australia’s Financial Services Minister Chris Bowen has warned that the country’s business people may not want to work in China in the wake of Australian origin Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu being arrested in the country on espionage charges.

“The Chinese Government will be very aware that it is not good [...]

Islamabad, July 10 (ANI): While Pakistan has vowed that it is sincerely probing the Mumbai attacks and would soon start the trial of the six men accused of masterminding the November 26-29, 2008 carnage, documents regarding the case and the details of the evidence against the suspects have still not been handed over to the [...]

Kuala Lumpur, July 8 (ANI): A woman has turned to MCA Public Services and Complaints Department for help after her former boyfriend emailed her nude pictures to her friends, colleagues, and family members.

Chen, a company executive, said that the man had plagued her with numerous calls, begging for reconciliation after the two split in September [...]

Beijing, July 4 (ANI): With more than 176.5 million motor vehicles in the country, a whopping 14 percent of Chinese nationals have obtained a driving licence, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security has revealed.

According to the ministry, over 188.8 million Chinese have learnt driving by the end of June.

More than eight million people learned [...]

Washington, July 3 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California-San Francisco (UNSF) say that they have identified a particular region of genes on human chromosome eight that is linked to perfect pitch, the rare ability to recognize and name musical notes without any reference pitch for comparison, at least in people of European ancestry.

Reporting their [...]