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Himachal Pradesh Govt. moves to produce IT friendly business landscape
New Delhi, Sep.18 (ANI): Recognizing the enormous potential of Information Technology in acting as a catalyst for the Tier – II growth of Suburban India, The Government of Himachal Pradesh (GoHP) is moving to produce an IT friendly business landscape.
To close the technological gap [...]
Twitter Gate: Congress will take action against Tharoor at the appropriate time: Tewari
New Delhi, Sep.18 (ANI): The Congress party on Friday said it would take appropriate action against Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor for his “cattle class” comments through the medium of Twitter at the appropriate time.
Addressing a party news [...]
Farmers grew rice in China’s Yangtze Basin 4,000 years ago
Washington, September 18 (ANI): New findings in the form of carbonized rice have indicated that farming in the Yangtze Basin in China existed as early as 4,000 years ago.
According to a report in Epoch Times, excavation in the Xiezi Area of [...]
Natural hydrogel may boost spinal cord healing
Washington, Sep 18 (ANI): A jab of biomaterial gel into a spinal cord injury site may significantly improve healing, according to researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center.
Dr. Mark Preul and Dr. Alyssa Panitch have found in a study that injection of an engineered hydrogel [...]
Scientists find meteorite that came from innermost asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
Washington, September 18 (ANI): In a very rare finding, scientists have discovered an unusual kind of meteorite in the Western Australian desert and have uncovered that it came from the innermost main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Meteorites are [...]
Facebook crosses 300m users mark, cites rapid growth in profits
London, September 16 (ANI): Facebook has announced that it has crossed a benchmark of 300 million active monthly users from across the world and also started raking in profits ahead of schedule.
Founder of the world’s largest social networking site Mark Zuckerberg said the company had not expected to begin reaping financial benefits until sometime next [...]
Early man used crude version of ’sat nav’ system to navigate across England
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 [...]
Research team all set to explore sacred Maya pools of Belize
Washington, September 14 (ANI): A team of expert divers, a geochemist and an archaeologist is all set to become the first to explore the sacred pools of the southern Maya lowlands in rural Belize.
The expedition, made possible with a grant from the National Geographic Society and led by a University of Illinois archaeologist, will investigate [...]
Osama declares decades of war on ‘powerless’ Obama
Islamabad, Sep 14 (ANI): Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has said that US President Barack Obama is “powerless” to stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a transcript of a tape released by the terrorist organization’s media wing.
Al Qaeda’s As-Sahab Media released a video featuring a still image of Osama and audio [...]
London’s bridges clash over updates, tolls on Twitter
London, Sep 12 (ANI): Britain’s most famous bridges are at loggerheads on Twitter, by teasing each other not only for their updates, but also over toll prices.
The famous London Bridge is relentlessly teasing its neighbour Tower Bridge for the tedium and pomposity of its updates.
On the other hand, the Severn Bridge and Bristol’s Clifton Suspension [...]
Faster, simpler Facebook Lite site available in India, US
London, Sep 12 (ANI): Social networking site Facebook has launched a slimmed-down version of its site for people with slow or poor Internet connections, and it is currently available only in India and the US.
Facebook’s Lite site, which will be faster and simpler because it offers [...]
UN strongly warns Lanka over continued holding of civilians in refugee camps
London, Sep 12 (ANI): The United Nations has strongly warned Sri Lanka that the world body cannot continue funding indefinitely the huge refugee camps in the north of the country, and asked the authorities to allow the hundreds of Tamil civilians to leave.
The senior UN official in the country hardened their stand when they said [...]
CBI to visit YSR’s helicopter crash site today
New Delhi, Sep 12 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will visit on Saturday the site of the helicopter crash, where former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were killed, in order to probe the crash at Pavirallagutta in the dense Nallamalla forests.
The CBI multi-disciplinary investigation team [...]
US marks eighth anniversary of 9/11 terror strike
New York, Sep 11(ANI): The eighth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, which killed nearly 3,000 people, was observed here on Friday.
On September 11, 2001, four hijacked planes crashed into the twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a field [...]
Deputy Commissioner Leh visits border areas
New Delhi, Sep 11(ANI): The Deputy Commissioner of Leh, Ajit Kumar Sahu, had visited the site where the Chinese intrusion was reported recently. He is undertstood to be sending a report to the Government.
Defence authorities had disclosed that China had intruded into [...]
Migrating birds chill at stopovers to save energy
Washington, September 11 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have suggested that migrating birds drop their body temperature at night during stopovers to save energy and build up their reserves faster.
Scientists Michal Wojciechowski and Berry Pinshow carried out the research.
Collecting migrating blackcaps [...]
US Navy ship sunk in World War II battle located
Washington, September 11 (ANI): A research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a US Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by a German submarine during World War II.
Six sailors [...]
Oldest-known fiber materials used by humans date back to 34,000 years
Washington, September 11 (ANI): A team of archaeologists and paleobiologists has discovered flax fibers that are more than 34,000 years old, making them the oldest fibers known to have been used by humans.
The fibers were discovered during systematic excavations in [...]
Ancient Egyptian temples followed astronomy to set their calendars
London, September 9 (ANI): A new study has indicated that ancient Egyptian temples were aligned so precisely with astronomical events that people could set their political, economic and religious calendars by them.
According to a report in New Scientist, the study was of 650 temples, some dating back to 3000 BC.
For example, New Year coincided with [...]
1st century A.D. colossal statue of Greek God Apollo unearthed in Turkey
Washington, September 9 (ANI): Italian archaeologists have unearthed a 1st century A.D. colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey.
Colossal statues were very popular in antiquity, as evidenced by the lost [...]
