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The chief executive of the Houseboat Hirers Association says increased flows below Lock One are great news for the River Murray and the houseboat industry.
Floodwater from the January rains in northern New South Wales are now reaching the lower Murray, with hundreds more gigalitres expected over the next few months from floods in Queensland.
The association’s [...]

A meeting was held in Darwin last night to try to ease ongoing tensions between Indigenous and African youths in the city’s northern suburbs.
Fears about an escalation in racial tensions were sparked last month after Sudanese soccer players were allegedly attacked by Indigenous youths.
African community leaders say there have been several more incidents since then.
Last [...]

London, March 19 (ANI): Russian footie Andrey Arshavin is now offering advice to people – he has unveiled a column on his website where fans can ask him about anything, from love to the reason for rain.
When replying to fan’s questions on the Ask Andrey section of his website, the Arsenal star, 28, frequently draws [...]

London, September 15 (ANI): In a new research, a scientist has found that prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a crude version of a satellite navigation system, which was based on stone circle markers.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the research, by historian and writer Tom Brooks, shows that Britain’s Stone Age [...]

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 [...]

Washington, September 9 (ANI): A British study suggests that the ability to identify a face, when it is shown for only a fraction of a second, reduces as people age.

Lead researcher Guillaume Rousselet, from the University of Glasgow, came to this conclusion after analysing electric activity from the brains of young and old people [...]

Washington, Sep.9 (ANI): Though Obama administration officials are reluctant to confirm that there has been wholesale fraud in the presidential elections in Afghanistan, they have recognised that with President Hamid Karzai getting a slim majority, that they will have to keep dealing with him for another five years.

While there are clearly numerous egregious instances of [...]

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): “Seeing is believing” goes the old adage, but scientists have now said that “believing is seeing” also holds true when it comes to perceiving other people’s emotions.

Psychologists from the US, New Zealand and France have found that the way we initially think about the emotions of others biases our subsequent perception [...]

New Delhi, Sep.2 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has on Wednesday said that the Chief Justice of India is a public authority under the RTI Act, which means that asset declaration is covered by the RTI under Section 8 1 (A).

This comes after SC judges had decided tp make their assets public. The only [...]

Melbourne, Sep 2 (ANI): In a groundbreaking innovation, scientists have created an electronic device that may allow blind people to “see” using their tongues.

The extraordinary technology works by taking pictures filmed by a tiny camera, and turns the information into electrical pulses, which can be felt on the tongue.

Tests have shown that the nerves send [...]

Rawalpindi, Sep 1 (ANI): Pakistan troops and people were conveyed only fabricated stories about the Kargil War by then Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf, according to a senior Pakistani commander having long experience of serving on the Line of Control.

Former Quetta corps commander Lt. General (retired) Tariq Pervez said: “At the beginning of the Kargil [...]

New Delhi, Aug.28 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat said on Friday that what his predecessor K.S. Sudarshan had said two days ago about Pakistan Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah is right.

“What Sudarshanji said is right, RSS holds all in high esteem,” said Bhagwat

He further said that the perception of the Muslim community about RSS [...]

New Delhi, Aug 27 (ANI): Political parties and legal experts on Thursday welcomed the move of Supreme Court judges to make public the details of their assets.

Welcoming the move, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said: “I am afraid that this decision could have been taken earlier and the unfortunate controversy over [...]

Washington, August 26 (ANI): A New study ahs shown that the brain predicts what one is going to see before the eyes take in a new scene.

Published in the Journal of Vision, a research article on the study reveals that people participating in it were asked to shift their eyes to a clock with [...]

London, Aug 23 (ANI): Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Frazier, who is famous for his trilogy of Heavyweight Championship fights with Muhammad Ali, has said that he still retains a disdain for the treatment he received from Ali.

Frazier, [...]

Washington, Aug 21 (ANI): Our nostrils may look like a happy pair, but according to a new study, when they pick up conflicting scents, the nose holes become deadly rivals.

The study, published online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, explains that when the nose encounters two different scents simultaneously, the brain processes them [...]

Washington, Aug 21(ANI): It’s true: When people are lost, they walk in circles. That’s the conclusion of a new research which has also found the reason behind it.

Scientists in the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, led by Jan Souman and Marc Ernst, have presented the [...]

New Delhi, Aug 20(ANI): Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju on Thursday called upon the private industry in IT and Engineering Design for meeting the needs of the Defence Forces.

Inaugurating a two-day seminar on ‘Emerging Technologies for Sub-Conventional Conflict and Homeland Security’, [...]

Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): Researchers have found that the nerve fibres that link perception and motor regions of the brain are disconnected in tone-deaf people.

According to experts’ estimates, at least 10 percent of the population may be tone deaf – unable to sing in tune.

The new finding has pinpointed a particular brain circuit that [...]

New York, Aug.19 (ANI): The United States is pushing Pakistan to continue operation against Taliban in the wake of reported death of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud.

However, senior American administration officials believe that Islamabad is still caught between a ‘clear’ and ‘hold’ situation when it comes to Swat and Waziristan.

According to them [...]