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New Delhi, Sep 16 (ANI): Taking into account the current spread of the swine flu in the country, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has decided allow retail sell of Oselatamivir Phosphate and Zanamivir in a regulated manner.

The Oselatamivir Phosphate and Zanamivir are only available drugs that can be used for [...]

New Delhi, Sep 11 (ANI): India and Nepal signed here a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for review of Air Service Agreement (ASA) and a technical accord.

As per the understanding reached between the delegation from the two countries, [...]

Melbourne, September 10 (ANI): A senior member of the Liberal Party of Australia has warned against children’s exposure to pornography at home, saying viewing of the restricted material is as dangerous as guns for kids.

Scott Morrison suggested that laws should be introduced Down Under forbidding parents from letting their kids watch the explicit content.

“It is [...]

Islamabad, Sep 7 (ANI): Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would actively participate in politics after November 30 when a two-year constitutional bar on him holding public office comes to an end, according to a former minister.

Addressing reporters in Islamabad, former federal minister and central leader of the PML-Q, Chaudhry Shahbaz, said on Sunday that [...]

Amritsar, Aug 28 (ANI): Anguished Indian villagers in Punjab, whose farms lie across the fencing along the Pakistan border have staged a protest over problems faced in tilling their fields.

The protest was staged under the banner of the Jamhuri Kisan Sabha (Democratic Farmers Council) and [...]

Washington, August 26 (ANI): A new study has shown that pregnant women with pre-eclampsia have unusually high levels of a chemical compound called ‘ergothioneine’, which is found in unpasteurised food, in the red blood cells.

The finding made by scientists at the University of Leeds attains significance because they suggest that ergothioneine is an indicator of [...]

New Delhi, Aug 24 (ANI): The Ministry of Railways has decided to reduce the tatkal charges with effect from October 1.

The new tatkal charges will be at the rate of 10 per cent of basic fare for second class and 30 per cent of basic fare for all other [...]

London, Aug 21 (ANI): A group of scientists has created a new “engineered” strain of bacteria – a development which could be described as a step towards the creation of “synthetic life”.

The team, including scientist J Craig Venter, a leading figure in the controversial field of synthetic biology, has successfully transferred the genome of one [...]

Islamabad, July 12 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the country lacks a proper governing system with neither the parliamentary nor the presidency having full authority.

Replying to a student’s question at the convocation ceremony of the International Islamic University here, Gilani said the prevalent system in Pakistan was a ‘hotchpotch’ of [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): In a new twist to the deadly swine flu pandemic, it has been found that the strain of influenza, A/H1N1, can now be transferred from humans to pigs, and can spread rapidly in a trial pig population.

For the study, Dr Thomas Vahlenkamp and a team of virologists from the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in [...]

Washington, June 29 (ANI): Dutch researchers say that complications early in pregnancy or in previous pregnancies can help predict further risk in current or subsequent pregnancies.

Dr Robbert van Oppenraaij, a medical doctor and PhD student in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Erasmus MC University Medical Centre (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), believes that the new [...]

Washington, June 25 (ANI): A new research has indicated that despite certain uncertainties, ‘up’ is precisely the direction an Iowa State researcher believes agriculture is headed for at least the next 10 years.

Wally Huffman, professor in agricultural economics and Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Life Sciences, predicts that supply will go [...]

London, June 25 (ANI): Scientists have long known that a restricted diet extends life. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified two enzymes that provide a new molecular explanation for how eating less leads to living longer.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Andrew Dillin and colleagues identified two proteins, WWP-1 and [...]

New Delhi June 19(ANI): The Union government has decided to extend ban on hoarding of sugar by six months till January, 2010, to check prices, and approved hike in minimum support price of jute to Rs 1,375 per quintal for 2009-10.

The decision was taken during the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economical Affairs [...]

Washington, May 29 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, San Diego claim to have identified a mechanism of oxidative stress that prevents cellular damage.

“We may drink pomegranate juice to protect our bodies from so-called ‘free radicals’ or look [...]

Washington, May 27 (ANI): A new study in mice has suggested that restricting carbohydrates could slow the growth of prostate cancer tumours.

“Previous work here and elsewhere has shown that a diet light in carbohydrates could slow tumour growth, but the animals in those studies also lost weight, and because we know that weight loss can [...]

Washington, May 27 (IANS) Cutting down on carbohydrates may slow prostate tumour growth, according to a study conducted on animals.
“Researchers believe that insulin and insulin-like growth factor contribute to the proliferation of prostate cancer,” said Stephen Freedland, urologist at the Duke Prostate Centre and lead investigator on this study.
“Previous work here and elsewhere has shown [...]

New Delhi, May 21 (ANI): The presence of hypertension doubles the already elevated risk of heart disease in diabetics, and at the same time, increases the risk for other vascular complications such as strokes, retinal damage and peripheral vascular disease.

Detailing the specifics on the subject, Dr. Vikas Ahluwalia, president of Diabetes Care Foundation of [...]

London, May 5 (ANI): Madonna’s lawyers are confident that the singer would succeed in her appeal against a ruling that crushed her dreams of adopting Malawian tot Mercy James.

Yesterday, the African country’s highest court heard arguments from the singer’s legal team over her bid to adopt the four-year-old from an orphanage in the village of [...]

SEOUL, South Korea–(Business Wire)–
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics
and information technology, today introduced their new 500-Gigabyte (GB)
2.5-inch hard disk drive with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. The
Spinpoint M7 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive with 250GB per platter features a rugged
base and cover design, offering better data protection for road warriors [...]