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Holiday Inn hotel made of key cards is world’s first
Melbourne, Sep 18 (ANI): A Holiday Inn hotel made entirely of key cards has been unveiled in New York.
The 37-square-metre hotel, built by world record-holding Cardstacker Bryan Berg, is made from more than 200,000 key cards and weighs 1814 kilograms.
It includes a [...]
Durga puja celebrations on a modest scale in Siliguri
Siliguri, Sept 18 (ANI): The festival of Durga Puja is just round the corner. However, this time around, the festival may not be full of pomp and show as compared with previous years in Siliguri.
The festival is known for massive makeshift [...]
Police swoop on sellers of Jaswant Singh’s pirated book in Pak
Lahore, Sep.18 (ANI): Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh’s book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah has sent the Pakistani book piracy nexus working overtime, but it has also landed people in police custody.
Pakistani security agencies have arrested three [...]
Banking transforms lives in rural areas in northeast
Agartala (Tripura)/ Jorhat (Assam), Sep.16 (ANI): Banking services are playing a major role in transforming the lives of people in rural areas of the northeast India.
To upgrade infrastructure and attract more investment, banks have undertaken several economic upliftment policies and schemes.
In Tripura, a [...]
Gender row runner Semenya shattered by her predicament
Johannesburg, Sep.16 (ANI): Sex test runner Caster Semenya is “completely shattered” by claims she is half male, her spokeswoman said.
The 800m world champion has shut herself away at her university amid claims that International Association of Athletics Federations gender tests proved she had internal testes and no womb, reports The Mirror.
Athletics South Africa official Phiwe [...]
Cracks on Mars a result of evaporating lakes in ancient times
Washington, September 16 (ANI): Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter Martian past.
The findings were presented at the European Planetary Science Congress by PhD student M. Ramy El Maarry of the Max Planck Institute [...]
Artist recreates Taj Mahal – with toothpicks!
London, September 12 (ANI): An artist has recreated the Taj Mahal and other famous landmarks around the world using toothpicks.
It took Stan Munro six years, six million toothpicks and more than 170 litres of glue as he built his latest exhibition, entitled ‘Toothpick City II – Temples and Towers’.
The 38-year-old’s models at the Museum [...]
Men’s sweat ‘boosts their attractiveness in the eyes of women’
London, Sept 11 (ANI): A naturally present chemical in men’s sweat may act as a primitive love potion that increases their attractiveness in women’s eyes, says a new study.
The substance is derived from the male sex hormone testosterone.
To reach the conclusion, Tamsin Saxton of the University [...]
Statins may help treat ‘female sexual dysfunction’
London, Sept 9 (ANI): Cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs known as statins may help treat female sexual dysfunction (FSD), according to a new study.
Raised cholesterol levels, or hyperlipidemia, have been linked to erectile dysfunction in men, as the build-up of fats in blood vessel walls can reduce blood flow to erectile tissue.
Since [...]
Gilani’s silence suggests his involvement in massive corruption : PML-Q
Islamabad, Sep.8 (ANI): The Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) has condemned Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for refusing to take notice of involvement of his cabinet ministers in large scale corruption.
Senior PML-Q leader Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat said Gilani’s reluctance to take action on such charges against his ministers indicates that he too is a [...]
MKU displays Instavest Body Armour and Boltfree Ballistic Helmets at DSEi
ExCeL (United Kingdom), Sep 5 (ANI/Business Wire India): With their armed forces ever more heavily engaged in operations, from the full scale asymmetric combat of Afghanistan to counter-insurgency in Africa and post-war peace support in Iraq and Eastern Europe, [...]
Biggest earthquake in nine years hit Northeast
New Delhi, Sep 4 (ANI): A moderate earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale, the biggest in nine years, shook the North-East early on Friday, officials at the Central Seismological Observatory said.
The quake took place at 1:21 a.m. local time and was centered 96 km [...]
Spare gene in fish provides raw materials for evolution of new Traits
Washington, September 4 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have discovered that a duplicate copy of a gene involved in embryonic development of fish has taken up a newer role in the evolution of fish scales.
Scientists have suspected that spare parts [...]
Oz Deputy PM opens International Centre for Muslim-non-Muslim Understanding
New Delhi, Sep.2 (ANI): Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard, today announced in New Delhi that the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, located at the University of South Australia, will step up its cooperation with Indian partners.
Inspired by former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, the new research centre was announced at [...]
Brain function of earthquake survivors gets acutely affected
Washington, Sep 1 (ANI): The earthquake that jolted Wenchuan, China, in 2008 has had an acute impact on the brain function of physically healthy survivors, and even poses a risk to their mental health, according a new research.
Working with collaborators from universities in China, the US and Liverpool, researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry focussed [...]
Taliban claim successful sabotage of Afghan presidential vote
Kabul, Aug. 29 (ANI): Taliban fighters say they have successfully sabotaged the Afghanistan presidential voting process without sending in a single suicide bomber.
A Globe and Mail report says that their claim that the mere threat of violence suppressed turnout enough to cast doubt on the credibility of the vote, which is being increasingly undermined [...]
Nude model busted at Met wishes prudish New Yorkers accept some bare skin
New York, August 28 (ANI): A nude model, who was arrested on charges of public lewdness at the Met on Wednesday, has said that she wants New Yorkers to stop being so prudish, and start accepting some bare skin.
“I want people to [...]
Soluble fibre ‘effective in treating irritable bowel syndrome’
London, Aug 28 (ANI): A new study by researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands has suggested that a soluble fibre supplement called psyllium should be the first line of attack in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
In the study, researchers compared adding bran, psyllium and a [...]
Obama may cut his Martha’s Vineyard holiday short
Washington, Aug. 28 (ANI): US President Barack Obama and the First Lady, who are holidaying at an island of Martha’s Vineyard, will travel to Boston on Friday evening to attend Senator Edward Kennedy’s funeral.
Obama is scheduled to deliver a eulogy on Saturday morning.
The change in [...]
Slow motion testing probes how full-scale buildings collapse in earthquakes
Washington, August 26 (ANI): Scientists have recently tried an innovative “slow motion earthquake” testing that may provide a safer, far less expensive way to learn about how and why full-scale buildings collapse during quakes.
The method was developed by researchers at the University [...]
