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CEE Kerala Entrance Results – Entrance test results today – KEAM 2009 Results – keralaresults.nic.in
Thiruvananthapuram: The results of the medical and engineering entrance examinations will be announced on Monday. The formal announcement will be made by Education Minister M.A. Baby at 9.30 a.m. Soon after the Minister’s announcement, the results will be available on www.keralaresults.nic.in, [...]

New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) India needs eight lakh more “modern medicine” doctors and 1.5 million additional nurses to keep pace with growing demands in the health sector, Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss said today. Replying to questions on compulsory rural postings of doctors, Ramadoss said the country was facing a shortfall of medics and required [...]

London, Feb 22 (PTI) A report that will further embarrass Gordon Brown led British government, UK security agents were “complicit” in torture of at least 10 Britons in collusion with Pakistan’s ISI and the network “run much deeper”. “The issue is not just British complicity in the torture of British citizens, it is the issue [...]

Islamabad, Feb 22 (PTI) Pakistan will proceed with its probe into the Mumbai attacks after getting India’s response to a set of 30 questions seeking more information on the terror strikes, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said. “We are waiting for their response and we will take our next step in light of the [...]

Helsinki – A Finnish appeals court Tuesday convicted the author and publisher of a kiss-and-tell book on Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, saying it violated his privacy.
Vanhanen had appealed a lower court ruling that in March 2008 cleared the book based on material provided by a woman, Susan Ruusunen, whom he had once dated.
Author Susan Ruusunen [...]

Bangkok – Myanmar will need nearly 700 million dollars in international aid over the next three years for ongoing relief efforts in the Irrawaddy Delta, where Cyclone Nargis left 140,000 people dead or missing last year, the United Nations said Monday.
“This is a small requirement in proportion to the magnitude of the disaster,” said Bishow [...]

Brussels – European Union Aid Commissioner Louis Michel said Tuesday he planned to travel on a humanitarian mission to Gaza and Israel later this week.
In a statement, Michel said the purpose of his two-day visit would be to “see for myself the suffering of the civilian populations in both Gaza and southern Israel.”
The commissioner, who [...]

Vienna – The price for oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) slid by 1.64 dollars Monday, continuing to meander above 40 dollars, according to data provided by the cartel on Tuesday.
One barrel (159 litres) of OPEC-produced crude stood at 40.53 dollars Monday, compared with 42.17 dollars on the previous day.
The [...]

Sydney – Two sailors from Myanmar rescued by an Australian coastal patrol boat claim they had drifted for 25 days in a polystyrene box without food and water, news reports said Tuesday.
Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Tracey Jiggins said the men were on a 12-metre Thai fishing boat with 18 others that it sank in [...]

Rome – Pope Benedict XVI welcomed Sunday Israeli’s unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza and called on the parties to take the opportunity to establish a lasting peace.
The pope in his Angelus prayers, said he stood behind all those on both sides of the conflict “who believe that there is room for everyone in the Holy [...]

Kiev – City managers in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday began energy conservation measures because of falling supplies of natural gas, officials at the power company Kievenergo said.
Kiev residents, for their part, were resorting to tried and true methods of beating the cold, as yet another gas war with Russia and a vicious [...]

Washington, Jan 08 (ANI): Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze, who is battling pancreatic cancer, has credited the pain he goes through for helping him attain an edge in his acting.

After Patrick was detected with an untreatable pancreatic cancer early last year (08), he found that his illness provided him an inner rage, which was required [...]

Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): It has been revealed that voters for both the Oscars and the SAG awards need not vote for the actors according to the categories the studios have put them in.
The voters can, as per reports, elevate an actor from supporting to lead or send a lead down to supporting, as they [...]

London, January 8 (ANI): A multinational research team, led by scientists at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, has lent more force to the suggestion that smoking is a significant risk factor for mortality and disease.
The study has provided an estimate of the number of premature deaths in China in 2005 that [...]

Islamabad, Jan.8 (ANI): After accepting that the lone surviving Mumbai gunner is a Pakistani national, Islamabad has now refused to give any official support to Ajmal Amir Kasab.
“Kasab has committed a heinous crime. He will not be provided any official support or consular access,” the Daily Times quoted Pak Foreign Office Spokesman Muhammad Sadiq, as [...]

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): The conservatorship overseeing Britney Spears” personal and financial affairs was officially made permanent on January 5 (09), when court papers were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The agreement filed in the court places the singer’s finances under the permanent control of her father Jamie Spears and attorney Andrew Wallet, with her [...]

Islamabad, Jan 7 (ANI): The Pakistan National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs has asked the government to send parliamentary delegations to different countries to present Islamabad’s case regarding the Mumbai terror attacks.
Members of the committee were of the view that Pakistan has not presented its case successfully at the international level, adding that the [...]

Wellington, Jan 6 (ANI): Owner of a strip club in New Zealand has challenged a council ban on his club’s raunchy billboard.
Craig Trevenna, boss of New Plymouth’’s Crave Club, was forced to remove the billboard featuring Lisa Lewis because of a bylaw that forbids commercial sex premises from advertising anywhere but on their own premises.
Trevenna [...]

London, Jan 6 (ANI): If scientists have their way, future astronauts would be literally going into space by a broomstick, in the form of a 100,000km long tether anchored to the Earth as a “space elevator”.
According to a report by BBC News, Raymond Riise of the European Space Agency demonstrated the device at a space [...]

Islamabad, Jan.6 (ANI): Pakistan has been beating the drum about insufficient evidence regarding its complexity in the Mumbai attacks, and has once again rejected the proof provided by India terming it as ‘insufficient’.
Pakistan has reportedly told the US that the evidence provided by India is insufficient and no action can be based upon it.
“India’s [...]