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India Reliance Cap mulls health JV with Swiss Re-report

April 5, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

NEW DELHI, April 5 (Reuters) – India’s Reliance Capital (RLCP.BO) is in talks with Zurich-based reinsurer Swiss Re (RUKN.VX) for a proposed foray into health insurance, The Economic Times newspaper reported on Monday.

Financials

The report said the discussions for a joint venture health insurance company was taking place alongside talks for Swiss Re’s equity participation in Reliance Life, a unit of Reliance Capital.

Last week, the Mint newspaper had reported Reliance Life may sell a 26 percent stake to Swiss Re for at least 7 billion rupees ($157 million.) [ID:nSGE62S01Y] ($1=44.6 rupees) (Writing by Devidutta Tripathy; editing by Malini Menon)

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Credit Agricole nears Intesa branch deal -paper

April 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) – Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA) could conclude talks to buy 150-200 branches from Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.MI) this month following a deal with Italy’s antitrust authorities, La Tribune newspaper said on its website.

Financials

The purchase was first announced in February, and the paper said on Friday that Credit Agricole was now in advanced negotiations to purchase 85 branches of Intesa unit Cassa di Risparmio della Spezia, in Liguria in northwest Italy.

In addition, the French bank will buy a further 80-100 branches chosen for their proximity to the others to help Credit Agricole strengthen its position in the richer northern part of Italy, the newspaper said.

A final decision should be taken shortly before Intesa’s annual meeting on April 30, La Tribune said.

Credit Agricole declined to comment on Friday.

Under the terms of the February deal, the French bank said it had agreed with Italian regulators to take control over an additional 150-200 Intesa branches, bringing its total to around 900 branches in Italy. [ID:nLDE61H2MA] Under the February agreement, designed to help Intesa avoid paying a hefty antitrust fine, the Italian authorities said Credit Agricole was required to reduce its shareholding in Intesa to 2 percent by the end of 2011 from 5.8 percent.

Italy’s antitrust body was worried that the presence of Credit Agricole in Intesa Sanpaolo would distort competition in the country’s banking sector, given that the French bank already controlled Italian regional bank Cariparma. (Reporting by James Regan and Julien Ponthus; editing by Simon Jessop)

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Pak’s ambivalence in cracking down on Saeed clear : NYT

September 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, Sep.19 (ANI) : Pakistani authorities may have filed cases against Lashkar -e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafeez Mohammad Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, but Islamabad’s actions are being considered as a mere ‘hogwash’.

The New York Times, while reporting the actions taken against Saeed, said the ambivalence of Pakistani authorities in cracking down on the LeT’s fouder leader was clear.

The newspaper highlighted that the Pakistan government has never been serious regarding putting a check on Saeed and his covert terror activities being run under the LeT’s charity organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).

“Even after he was placed under house arrest in December, the government took steps to soften the blow, allowing him, for instance, to hold a defiant news conference before his confinement began,” it said.

While the Pakistan government has been maintaining that it is seriously carrying out the probe regarding the 26/11 massacre, and tried to show the same to the international community especially the US by booking Saeed under the anti-terrorism act, its ‘bluff’ was laid bare when Saeed’s lawyer disclosed that the case registered against his client were ‘very weak’.

“I have gone through both the FIRs against Saeed thoroughly. The charges against my client are very weak. He has expressed his views like any other Pakistani,” Saeed’s lawyer AK Dongar told a private television channel.

Pakistani authorities also revealed that they have not received any instructions for arresting Saeed despite the registration of two cases against him. (ANI)

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2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre discovered in Israel

September 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 19 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has discovered a 2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre near Tiberias in Israel.

According to a report in the Haaretz newspaper, Archeologist, Doctor Valid Atrash, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, said that the remnants of the Roman amphitheatre peaks from 15 meters below ground.

The 1990 findings came as a surprise to the archeologists digging near Mount Berniki in the Tiberias hills as there are no references to such a place anywhere in scriptures.

Only at the beginning of 2009, 19-years after the primary discovery, did the uncovering of the theatre in its entirety begin.

The late Professor Izhar Hirshfeld and Yossi Stefanski, the archeologists heading the excavation, initially assessed the remains to belong to the 2nd or 3rd century CE, but quickly realized that they go all the way back to the beginning of the 1st century CE, closer to the founding of Tiberias.

“The most interesting thing about the amphitheatre is its Jewish context,” said Hirshfeld upon the discovery.

“Unlike Tzipori, which was a multi-cultural city, Tiberias was a Jewish city under Roman rule. The findings demonstrate the city’s pluralistic nature and cultural openness, a fact uncommon in those days,” Hirshfeld added.

According to Atrash, in light of the findings, Tiberias appears as particularly liberal for a city that was established over 2000 years ago.

He added that “the theatre was enormous, and being so it attracted a lot of attention. It seated over 7000 people, and appears to have been a prominent landmark for the entire area.”

Zohar Oved, Mayor of Tiberias, said that the discovery of the amphitheatre is undoubtedly “one of the most important findings in the history of the Jewish people” and is planned to open to the public as part of Tiberias archeological gardens in the near future. (ANI)

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South African officials withhold findings of Caster Semenya’s gender test

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep. 19 (ANI): Even before South African star athlete Caster Semenya’s gender was questioned at the World Championships in Berlin, Athletics South Africa (ASA) had found out and withheld the fact that she had internal testes, an e-mail exchange has revealed.

According to the e-mail exchanges published in the Mail and Guardian newspaper, ASA officials were aware of the findings of a Pretoria clinic that Semenya had internal testes and produced abnormal amounts of testosterone for a woman, Times Online reports.

It was ASA’s chief medical officer and team doctor, Harold Adams, who had suggested the need carrying out the tests on Semenya, 18, because of her deep voice, muscular body and facial hair, which later became a subject of controversy in Berlin.

Another email exchange shows that Adams later suggested that the results to be kept confidential while the South African team was in Berlin.

“Thinking about the current confidential matter, I would suggest we make the following decisions. 1. We get a gynae opinion and take it to Berlin. 2. We do nothing and I will handle these issues if they come up in Berlin,” the report quoted from Dr Adams’ email to ASA President Leonard Chuene and General Manager Molatelo Malehopo, as saying.

Following the IAAF establishing that Semenya was a hermaphrodite, South African officials not only angrily denounced it, but also denied carrying out their own tests.

Taking matters a step further, South African Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile lost his temper at a press conference and threatened to start a “third world war” if Semenya was banned from international competition because of her gender.

Earlier, Semenya’s ex-coach Wilfred Daniels had said the ASA had duped Semenya into thinking the gender test carried out on her were routine drug tests. (ANI)

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Henry attacks French coach Domenech for boring training session

September 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 8 (ANI): French striker Thierry Henry has attacked national coach Raymond Domenech, and said that Les Bleus are bored in training and are lost on the pitch with “no style or guidelines”.

Henry, who is France’s record goal scorer with 49 goals in 112 appearances, launched his attack at the national team’s training camp last Friday.

“Coach, we have something to tell you, I am speaking in the name of the squad. We are getting bored during your training sessions. In 12 years with the French team, I have never been in such a situation,” he told the Le Parisien newspaper.

“We do not know how to play, where to be on the pitch, how to organise. We do not know what to do. We have no style, no guidelines. It is not working,” he added.

The French football federation declined to comment on the matter, The Mirror reported.

Coming from Henry, the comments are a serious blow to the authority of Domenech, who has enjoyed the full support of the French Football Federation despite tumbling out of the Euro2008 at the group stage. (ANI)

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Boy George plans comeback after prison release

September 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 8 (ANI): Former Culture Club frontman Boy George is drawing plans to head back to the studio and resurrect his career just fourth months after he walked free from jail.

The fallen pop star, real name George O’Dowd, was jailed in January for falsely imprisoning a male escort in his flat and beating the 29-year-old after a drug-fuelled nude photo shoot in 2007.

The 48-year-old was granted early release in May for his good behaviour, but was let off with a curfew and an ankle monitoring tag that was recently removed.

And now, the singer has revealed that he is preparing material for a new album of cover songs.

“I’m choosing songs that speak to me and have lyrics that reflect my personal journey and experiences,” Contactmusic quoted him as telling British newspaper The People. (ANI)

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Lennon’s tape reveals Macca was most important person to him

September 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, September 7 (ANI): A new tape of late singer John Lennon’s interviews has him saying that fellow Beatles member Paul McCartney was the most important person to him apart from his wife.

“I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner,” the New York Post quoted the Times of London as reporting as to what Lennon said in the tape.

“One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles,” Lennon claims in the tape.

However, according to the newspaper, their friendship didn’t last long and, when the band broke up, he told Paul: “I want a divorce.”

Rock journalist Ray Connelly recorded the tapes, in which Lennon even mentions early death.

He said: “[wasting] my life as I have been. I have to learn to do that because I don’t want to die at 40.”

He was shot to death at that age in 1980. (ANI)

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Joseph Fiennes all set to become first time father

September 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sept 7 (ANI): British actor Joseph Fiennes’ family is all set to become a first time father soon, say reports.

Sources have revealed that the ‘Shakespeare In Love’ star’s Swiss model wife, Maria Dolores Dieguez, is pregnant.

“She’s three months pregnant. They kept the news quiet until Maria reached the three month mark but now they are telling everyone,” the Daily Express quoted a source as having told the Mail.

The couple had got married in Tuscany, Italy last month.

The newspaper says that the couple are “utterly delighted” with the news. (ANI)

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‘The American’ leading al Qaeda in Somalia awaits terrorism charges back home

September 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep 5 (ANI): The man who grew up in Daphne, Alabama, as Omar Hammami, but is now reported to be a member of al Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab under the name Abu Mansour al-Amriki, told a school newspaper after 9/11 attacks that it was “difficult to believe a Muslim could have done this”.

According to FOX News, eight years later he is professing to launch attacks himself and calling on others to join the fight, as terror-related charges await him at home in Alabama.

Abu Mansour al-Amriki or “The American” has become one of the most recognizable and outspoken voices of terrorist propaganda, the report said.

He has been in war-torn Somalia for several years, fighting the secular government there with a group known as al-Shabaab, which has ties to Al Qaeda and was labeled a terrorist organization by the US Government last year, but only recently has he taken on a starring and jarring role in al-Shabaab’s outreach efforts the report added.

The FBI has been looking into him for several years. In fact, a grand jury in Mobile, Alabama., has already indicted him on charges of providing material support to terrorists, a source said.

Al-Amriki first surfaced in October 2007, when Al-Jazeera TV aired a report about the “common goal” of al Qaeda and hard-line militants in Somalia. The report described al-Amriki as a fighter and military instructor, but he concealed his face with a cloth wrap throughout the report.

In April, he showed his face for the first time, during a highly polished, 30-minute recruitment video posted online. It featured anti-American hip-hop and sporadic images of Osama bin Laden.

In the video, he purportedly led a group of al-Shabaab militants in an ambush of pro-government forces in Somalia.

Speaking about one man killed in the fight, he said: “We need more like him, so if you can encourage more of your children and more of your neighbors, anyone around, to send people like him to this jihad, it would be a great asset for us.” (ANI)

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Arushi Talwar’s vaginal swabs tampered: CBI

September 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep 4 (ANI): One and half years after the sensational Aarushi Talwar murder case, another twist has emerged following reports that the swab sample taken from Aarushi’s body was swapped with an unidentified woman’s sample.

According to reports, during the tests conducted by the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in Hyderabad, it was noticed that vaginal swabs drawn from teenage murder victim Aarushi were substituted with samples taken from an unidentified woman, who has no connection with the double murder case which took place on May 15, 2008.

Earlier, Dr Sunil Dohere, who had taken Arushi’s vaginal swabs, had said that the swabs contained a white discharge, which was suggestive of seminal fluid. But later, senior doctor S C Singhal had rejected the claim and had said that the swabs had tested negative for semen.

Meanwhile, a national newspaper reports from the account of “highly-placed sources” that “the Central Bureau of Investigation said the CDFD’s findings make clear that there was a conspiracy to destroy evidence that Aarushi might have been sexually assaulted or might have engaged in consensual intercourse on the night of her murder.” (ANI)

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Berlusconi-Vatican rift widens

September 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sept 2 (ANI): Relations between the Vatican and Silvio Berlusconi soured further after top church figures rallied to defend Dino Boffo, the Catholic editor, whose personal life was attacked by the Italian PM’s family newspaper.

Il Giornale yesterday continued with its campaign to expose Boffo as a homosexual with a police record. The newspaper, which is owned by the premier’s brother Paolo, had earlier alleged that the chief editor of the Avvenire, the newspaper of the Conference of Italian Bishops, the CEI, had a homosexual scandal in his past.

The paper alleged that Boffo had been fined several years ago for harassing the wife of a man in whom he was purportedly interested. Boffo has denied the allegations, reports The Times.

Berlusconi quickly distanced himself from Il Giornale’s claim, but the incident damaged the premier’s church ties, already frayed by the scandal.

Following the revelations, cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State and deputy to Pope Benedict XVI, telephoned Boffo to offer his “solidarity”.

Cardinal Stanislao Dziwisz, former secretary to the late Pope John Paul II and now Archbishop of Krakow in Poland, said it was “the first time a Catholic paper has been attacked with such violence”.

He added that he was “very worried by the moral decadence into which Italy is sliding because of the behaviour of certain important political leaders”.

Berlusconi has been on the defensive since his wife announced in spring she wanted to divorce the premier, citing his alleged relationships with young women. (ANI)

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German paper gives Auschwitz blueprints to Israel PM

August 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Berlin, Aug. 28 (ANI): Germany has handed over 29 yellowing blueprints of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The blueprints give chilling details, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing facilities and watchtowers drawn to scale. Over a million people, mostly Jews, died in the gas chambers or through forced labor, disease or starvation at Auschwitz, which the Nazis built after occupying Poland.

“There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened. Let them come to Jerusalem and look at these plans, these plans for the factory of death,” Fox News quoted Netanyahu as saying as he accepted the documents as a gift to Israel’s Holocaust memorial, where they will go on display next year.

Netanyahu lingered over the large sheets spread on a table.

Stamped with the Nazi abbreviation for concentration camp “K.L. Auschwitz,” one of the largest featured multi-colored sketches, with barracks and even latrines drawn in detail. Other smaller sheets showed architectural designs of individual buildings, drawn from various angles.

His wife, Sara, whose father was the only member of his family to survive the Nazi genocide that killed six million Jews during World War II, accompanied the Israeli leader. She watched somberly as the documents, which date from 1941 to 1943, were unfolded.

Also present was Yossi Peled, an Israeli Cabinet minister and former general whose father was killed by the Nazis and whose mother survived Auschwitz in one of the barracks detailed in the blueprints.

A family in Belgium who raised him as a Christian hid Peled himself until age 7. He discovered his Jewish roots in 1948 and was taken to Israel two years later.

In Germany for a visit that combined talks on the Mideast conflict with acknowledgments of the painful past that binds the two countries, Netanyahu drew a clear parallel between the events of the Nazi era and the present day. The world did not do enough to stop the murder of Europe’s Jews, he said, and must be careful now to take rapid action against “armed barbarism.”

Axel Springer Verlag, the publisher of the mass circulation Bild newspaper, obtained the Auschwitz blueprints last year from a German man who said he found them when cleaning out an apartment in what was formerly East Berlin.

The publisher and Germany’s federal archive have confirmed the documents’ authenticity. (ANI)

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Lovelorn lady gorillas at London Zoo go wild over new guy

August 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, August 28 (ANI): Just like posters showing football ace David Beckham stripped to his briefs leave his women fans drooling, lovelorn lady gorillas at London Zoo were also found to have a similar reaction to pictures of a continental hunk.

The keepers of Mjukuu, 10, Effie, 16, and Zaire, 34-who have lacked male attention since the death of their silverback mate Bobby in December-recently gave the girls their first glimpse of 20-stone Yeboah, 12, who is due to arrive from France within weeks.

Judging by their reaction to the pictures, they hope that sparks should fly when the new boy arrives at London Zoo.

According to them, Zaire was the most appreciative, as she carefully wedged her pictures into the bark of tree to show them off to best effect.

Teenager Effie was found to tenderly clutch one of the photos to her bosom, but she later ate it.

Youngster Mjukuu also appeared to be delighted at the prospect of a new boyfriend, for she threw her head back and roared with joy.

“It would be nice to think they’ll recognise him. I wouldn’t be surprised if the penny drops when he arrives,” the Daily Express quoted keeper Tracey Lee as saying.

The newspaper further revealed that German-born Yeboah was being shown pictures of the girls by staff at La Boissiere Du Dore zoo in the Loire, so that he would feel at home when they meet.

Lee said: “We think Yeboah will go for Mjukuu first because she’s very pretty and she’s a big flirt.” (ANI)

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Dr A Q Khan clarifies

August 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Aug.28 (ANI): Pakistan’s former chief nuclear scientist A Q Khan has given a clarification to the recent spate of reactions to his article on the importance of computer technology.

The News quotes him as saying: “The acknowledgement as to the source was put at the end of Part II because it was originally written as one long article. Had Mr Dogar, who initiated this controversy, waited for the second part (Part I clearly said “To be continued”), all this would have been avoided.”

“However, I would like to point out that a newspaper article is not the same as a research paper in a reputed magazine, which does, indeed, require full referencing. Since I had been receiving numerous requests from students to write on this topic I used notes I had made about seven years ago from various well-known university syllabuses, not even remembering which notes were from which university.”

“I did not go online to any source. Obviously the syllabuses have not changed much in all these years! I purposely left the text in the same simple-to-understand original language because it was meant for students and laymen, not professionals. A university brochure is neither someone’s personal intellectual property, nor does it require referencing,” Khan says further.

“My friend and former colleague, Engineer Nasim Khan, provided information on various related American websites with comments-what is wrong with that? Those who insinuated negatively about his professional capabilities are ignorant and disparate,” he concludes. (ANI)

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Newspapers, other media lead entrepreneurs astray

August 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Entrepreneurs should remain wary of what they read in newspapers and other written sources, for they might lead them off track, according to University of California researchers.

Dr. Susan Glover said that public information from both informal and written sources, like newspapers, lead entrepreneurs astray.

In a study Glover took as an example how newspaper propaganda shaped the ore foraging strategies of the late nineteenth century Colorado silver prospectors.

She said that it is still not clear why individuals would allow questionable information from the media to dictate their economic strategies.

Still, she said that it was not uncommon for investors to be overenthusiastic during mass economic events, including the dot.com boom and the recent economic crisis.

She used the Colorado silver rush as a case study to investigate the role of the media and public information in shaping economic strategies, by comparing actual and optimal foraging behaviors (known as central place foraging, or CPF, behaviours) – in this case, of silver prospectors in Gothic, Colorado.

Central Place Foraging (CPF) models are designed to investigate optimal foraging strategies of individuals.

The data was gathered from the newspapers of the time, since the information in them is a “fossilized” version of what the public would have known from more informal sources, such as saloons.

She found that the information in the local newspapers exaggerated ore concentrations and led prospectors to underestimate the actual risk and investment of time and energy they were taking.

As the “payoff” was not worth the risk, (part of which was the distance from the town to the mines – not CPF behavior) prospectors ended up over-risking their investment.

The case showed that while the media can exploit the public by appearing to supply accurate information, the media themselves are being misled.

The study also teaches that in an environment where decisions are based on information provided (and presumably manipulated) by others, risk management is practically impossible and has a high potential for failure.

A very extreme case of this is the recent global financial crisis – individuals were underestimating their economic risk (subprime mortgages) based on what media and economic specialists were reporting.

And based on the CPF model, they wandered very far away from their home base with the false hope of a bigger payoff or a better life.

The study was published online in Springer’s journal Human Ecology. (ANI)

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DNA analysis key for solving mystery of King Tut’s origins

August 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, August 26 (ANI): Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt, has said that harvesting DNA from ancient mummies would be the key to solving the mystery surrounding Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen’s origins.

According to an article authored by Dr Hawass in the Asharq Alawsat Newspaper, he was in for a surprise when he entered the royal tomb of Tutankhamen with Professor Zakaria, and managed to get DNA samples.

Previously, there was hardly any hope in obtaining DNA samples from mummies, and Dr Hawass believed that he would prove to the world that mummies did not have any DNA suitable for analysis.

“For the first time, I saw that it is possible to harvest DNA from a mummy, and I believe that this will be the key to solving the mystery surrounding King Tutankhamen’s origins,” he wrote in the article.

Tutankhamen, the golden pharaoh, continues to bedazzle the entire world.

The discovery of King Tut’s tomb, which took place around 85 years ago, remains the most important archeological discovery of our time, not just in Egypt, but in the entire world.

This was the first time that a royal tomb of one of Egypt’s pharaohs was discovered untouched, and with the complete set of funeral furniture which was buried with the King.

In addition to this, there was also the treasures and jewelry which blinded anybody who set eyes on them.

“In an attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding King Tut’s family and discover the identity of his father, we find that there are some archeologists who strongly suggest that this is most probably King Akhenaton,” said Dr Hawass.

Akhenaton was the first Pharaoh to advocate monotheism, not just in ancient Egypt, but in the world. Others believe that Akhenaton’s father, King Amenhotep III is a more likely candidate for Tutankhamen’s father.

As for King Tut’s mother, “If we follow the speculation mentioned above with regards to Tutankhamen’s father, his mother is most likely either Queen Tiye, the consort of King Amenhotep III or the extremely famous, Queen Nefertiti, the consort of King Akhenaton,” said Dr Hawass.

These questions are enigmatic, and archeologists are having a hard time trying to answer them.

According to Dr Hawass, “We have embarked upon the quest to solve the mysteries surrounding King Tut thanks to the two DNA analysis laboratories that we have access to, as well as the availability of a CT-Scan machine, through which we are able to know every single detail about a mummy.” (ANI)

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Pressmart delivers newspapers on Kindle and Sony eReader

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 25 (ANI/Business Wire India): Pressmart, a leading provider of multi-channel news publishing services, today announced the availability of eEditions compatible for reading on eReader devices like Kindle and Sony.

This unique technology enables news publishers to attract new subscribers who wish to read news and access their favorite newspaper content on the eReader screen in its original format.

With this latest addition to Pressmart on-demand digital delivery platform, publishers can go digital on web, mobile, eReader, podcast and RSS in a matter of minutes even if they do not have any technical knowledge.

Additionally, Pressmart offers access to state-of-art marketing, subscription and advertising tools using which publishers can start monetizing from digital delivery from almost day one.

Publishers can also benefit from Pressmart’s content delivery partnerships with news aggregators, telecom carriers, leading distributors and handset majors such as Motorola, Airtel, Curtis, BSNL, Spice and Samachar.com.

Some of the leading publishing titles such as Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Birmingham Post, Bangkok Post, theSun, Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle and Indian Express have partnered with Pressmart for repurposing content on new media delivery channels.

“Today’s product launch is an important milestone for Pressmart, reinforcing our position as a leading innovator in the digital publishing market and setting a new technology benchmark.” said Sanjiv Gupta, Chairman and CEO of Pressmart.

“It is our goal to continue to lead the evolution of the industry whilst delivering a first-class reading experience through our ‘Digital Editions’ in a format that today’s generation can use,” Gupta added. (ANI)

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Dannii Minogue extremely happy with new love

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Aug 25 (ANI): Australian singer Dannii Minogue has confessed that she is extremely happy with her new found love, Kris Smith, a British male model.

“I’ve never been happier. I am just so, so in love. For the first year, we’ve been working out how to be together because our jobs are so crazy and all over the place,” the Daily Telegraph quoted her as having told the Daily Mirror newspaper in the U.K.

She said: “But I know he’s The One. That’s all I can say – he is The One. I adore my boyfriend.”

She apparently met Smith, a former British rugby league player, while on a holiday in Spain a year ago.

“We’ve just had our one-year anniversary. I surprised him and flew out from London to Sydney for his birthday,” the beauty who is a judge on the Seven Network’s Australia’s Got Talent and Britain’s X Factor added.

“He had a big fashion show there and it took a month of planning. It’s hard to surprise someone when there are people reporting where you are. But it worked – I did surprise him.

“It was just incredible. And then to go into midnight when it was his birthday and our anniversary was awesome – he got me a beautiful necklace,” she added.

The couple have even discussed marriage, but they intend to take it slow.

“I guess we’ve talked about marriage but we’re trying to take things slowly. I think it’s a guy’s thing to propose, although I haven’t really thought about the details.

“I guess at my age I have to start thinking about babies at some time. But to be honest, I’m just enjoying being so wildly in love and being so happy.

“I honestly never thought this would happen to me. So I haven’t been thinking too far ahead, just enjoying every day as it happens. But it will come when it comes.”

Minogue has divorced from Australian actor Julian Mcmahon fame, apart from being engaged to former Formula 1 racing driver Jacques Villeneuve in the past. (ANI)

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Vidic vows to prove his commitment to Man U

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 25 (ANI): Star defender Nemanja Vidic has vowed that he will prove his commitment to Manchester United with his performances in the coming weeks.

Vidic’s advisor Paolo Fabbri was quoted last week as saying that the centre-back would welcome a switch to Barcelona.

It set alarm bells ringing at Old Trafford, as Vidic has become one of Europe’s top defenders since joining three years ago. His wife was also reported as being unhappy in Manchester.

But Vidic insists he is focused only on United’s title defence and Fabbri denied making the comments.

“I’ve never said anything about Barcelona, or Real Madrid or AC Milan – or any club. I never speak about my future so I don’t know why someone else does. I showed at Wigan on the pitch how happy I am at this club. Any fan of United only has to see how I played to know how committed I am,” The Sun quoted Vidic, as saying.

The 5-0 win at Wigan on Saturday was Vidic’s first game back after an ankle injury.

He spoke to Fabbri about the story to voice his concern at the timing of it, after United lost Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez.

“I don’t want it to have an impact. I’m here and committed. I’ll show that with how I play. It’s not true that my wife is not happy. I don’t know how that rumour came out; she’s not what you’d call a famous wife. She’s never spoken to a newspaper,” he added. (ANI)

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