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MELBOURNE: A hairdressing college in Australia has permanently shut down leaving many overseas students including Indians fate hanging in balance, apparently due to amended migration skills programme.
The Sydney college that charged $7000 each as fees and equipment three weeks ago from the overseas students finally announced its closure.
A 24-year old hairdressing student Neil Ahuja of [...]

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Leicester and Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Portugal have found that vitamin C can help protect DNA damage of skin cells and lead to better skin regeneration.

Previous research has shown that DNA repair is upregulated in people consuming vitamin C supplements.

In the new [...]

New Delhi, Sep 8 (ANI/Business Wire India): Microsoft India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – a leading IT services, consulting, business solutions and outsourcing firm today announced a strategic alliance between the two companies to launch Microsoft-TCS virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) in Chennai.

Designed to help customers experience the right approach to applying and [...]

Washington, September 6 (ANI): Scientists have attached the world’s smallest satellite tags to the members of the rare and rapidly declining Kittlitz’s Murrelet seabirds, in order to track them.

Most of these birds are found in remote, glaciated regions of Alaska, but their wintering grounds have long been unknown.

Thanks to tiny solar-powered satellites tags that [...]

London, Aug 21 (ANI): From animals to humans, everybody requires a good night sleep. However, the function of sleep still remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of science, say researchers.

While many theories suggest that sleep helps in brain “maintenance” – including memory consolidation and pruning- reverse damage from oxidative stress suffered while awake and [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): A new study has indicated that seals can quickly respond to gain and loss of habitat under climate change.

The study was conducted by an international research team, including post-doctorate Dr Mark de Bruyn and collaborators from the US, South Africa and Italy, led by Professor Rus Hoelzel from the School of [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): In a new research, scientists at the University of Illinois, US, have determined that a toxic molecule, ’superoxide’, known to damage cells and cause disease may also play a pivotal role in bird migration, as it allows them to ’see’ Earth’s magnetic field.

According to principal investigator Klaus Schulten, who holds the [...]

Darjeeling, July 9 (ANI): The massive construction of buildings, a majority of them illegal, has led to degradation of soil texture in the Darjeeling Hills area of West Bengal and making the place vulnerable to landslides.

A series of landslides hit Darjeeling and its surrounding areas in May, triggered by overnight torrents.

Local builders, however, have ignored [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): A study has determined that snow and ice trapped inside dunes on Mars does not entirely stop their movement, a finding which indicates that other factors are limiting the dune movement.

Planetary scientists have monitored some Martian sand dunes for more than 30 years, and the dunes have not moved during that [...]

Washington, July 7 (ANI): Glycans, the carbohydrates that anchor cells into place, have been found to act as tumour suppressors in breast and prostate cancers, according to scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham).

These specialized complex sugar molecules (glycans) play a critical role in cell adhesion in normal cells, and their decrease or loss [...]

Washington, July 3 (ANI): A piece of research has shown that it is possible to eliminate stem cells related to human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a notoriously treatment-resistant blood cancer, using a new targeted therapy.

Associate Professor Richard Lock, from the Children’s Cancer Institute Australia and the University of New South Wales, has revealed that the [...]

Melbourne, July 2 (ANI): A social analyst in the US has come up with evidence of class divisions between the users of networking websites like Facebook and MySpace.

Danah Boyd, who works with Microsoft Research New England, reckons that most Facebook users are white and wealthy, while MySpace users are uneducated and obnoxious.

She says [...]

Washington, June 23 (ANI): In a new research, scientists at the University of Illinois, US, have determined that a toxic molecule, ’superoxide’, known to damage cells and cause disease may also play a pivotal role in bird migration, as it allows them to “see” Earth’s magnetic field.

According to principal investigator Klaus Schulten, who holds the [...]

Washington, May 26 (ANI): It’s the parasites that make the immune proteins in the body to adapt themselves to turn into inflammatory defenders, says a population genetics study.

Conducted by a team of researchers in Italy, the study also suggested that parasites also influence some of those genes to turn into risk factors for intestinal disorders.

Usually [...]

Washington, May 21 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that global warming did not destroy the ancestral Puebloan civilization in North America.

Dr. Eric Skopec, lead researcher, demonstrates that global warming did not destroy the Ancestral Puebloan civilization. [...]

London, May 20 (ANI): Seven in 10 Britons would like immigration slashed by 80 percent, a recent survey has concluded.

The YouGov poll, which was commissioned by Migrationwatch for the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration, found that majority of the public want net migration to be cut down to less than 50,000 people a [...]

Peshawar, May 12 (ANI): Experts have warned the Pakistan Government that the failure to rehabilitate internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Malakand region may nix the achievement of the military offensive against the Taliban.

“I fear that successes against the Taliban, may be washed [...]

Srinagar, May 6 (ANI): Buoyed up by its demand from around the world, food processing units in Kashmir are planning to cash-in on the popularity of their most famous cuisine Wazwan and offering it in tinned packs to increase its reach.

These recently introduced Wazwan tins have already become a craze in the Kashmir valley. [...]

Jakarta – Two wild elephants went on a rampage in Lampung province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, trampling an elderly resident to death, state-run media reported Monday.
The elephants entered the Belimbing Bengkurat village early Saturday, trampling 70-year-old Punirah, said Kurnia Rauf, head of the Bukit Barisan National Park.
Rauf was quoted as saying by the [...]

Valletta – Responsibilities of the EU’s border patrol agency should be widened to include repatriation of immigrants who fail to qualify for refugee and humanitarian protection, according to proposals made Italy and Malta that were disclosed Friday.
Frontex should be roped in to get such immigrants the necessary documentation for repatriation, the Maltese and Italian governments [...]