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Kuala Lumpur, Sep 18 (ANI): The Malaysian Government has allocated RM1 million to the Sri Murugan Centre to help poor and deserving Indian students excel in their education.

The centre’s director and founder, M. Thambirajah, informed about the grant after receiving the cheque from Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak in Putrajaya on Wednesday.

The centre was established [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): To empower soldiers educationally and to provide them with an opportunity of a second career option after retirement, the Indian Army has come out with a plan according to which soldiers who join service after school can study for a degree in market driven [...]

Washington, August 9 (ANI): Money may help people feel better about their lives, but it may not necessarily improve their quality of life, say two of the world’s leading psychological experts on happiness.

Dr. Ed Diener, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, of the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology in Milwaukee, [...]

Washington, July 16 (ANI): They might be fond of chanting ‘I don’t care’ slogans every now and then, but deep down inside younger adolescents or “tweens” care a lot about what others think about them, a new study has found.

The study confirmed this using brain-mapping techniques that shed new light on this complex period of [...]

Sydney, July 13(ANI): Former Australian tennis player Todd Woodbridge has been given the job of coaching Australian men’s tennis team and the Davis Cup team.

Woodbridge would be expected to oversee the process of entire male player development and would also be expected to assist Davis Cup captain John Fitzgerald.

“I am excited by the challenge ahead. [...]

London, July 11 (ANI): There’s more to Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe’s creative aspects than just acting, the teenage heartthrob is also a published poet, it has emerged.

Four poems written by the 19-year-old actor have been published in an underground fashion magazine, under the pen name Jacob Gershon.

Radcliffe’s pseudonym- Jacob Gershon- is a combination of [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): A new study has found that taking a lot of stress can cause people to pack on pounds.

The study looked at the relationship between weight gain and multiple types of stress-job-related demands, difficulty paying bills, strained family relationships, depression or anxiety disorder-in the U.S. population.

“Today’s economy is stressing people out, and [...]

New Delhi, July 6 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said that the provisions for the Scheme ‘Mission in Education through ICT’ has been substantially increased to Rs. 900 crore.

Presenting the Union Budget proposals for the year 2009-10 in Lok Sabha, he said: “Similarly, for establishment and up-gradation for Polytechnics under the Skill [...]

London, July 1 (ANI): St Andrews University researchers in Scotland have shown that chimpanzees can be learn how to make their own tools by watching demonstrations on video.

For this work, the researchers trained a chimpanzee to make a long pole for prizing out-of-reach fruit from a tree, and then filmed the animal constructing the handy [...]

Washington, June 29 (ANI): A new study has divulged into the secrets of what makes a great footballer.

While most fans are in awe of what football players can do with a football, the source of their remarkable skill remains strangely mysterious, with speculation rife that there must be something else than just physical training that [...]

London, June 28 (ANI): Australia’s fast bowlers hold the key to which way this year’s Ashes will go, feels former Australian cricketer, captain and noted commentator Richie Benaud.

In an article for The News of The World, Benaud believes England would be indulging in wishful thinking if it thought their spinners could make Australian batters dance [...]

Peshawar, June 24 (ANI): Pakistan speedster Umar Gul has said that reverse swing is an ‘art’ and critised the foreign teams, who had leveled ball tampering charges on their Asian counterparts.

Gul said western teams lacked skill and [...]

London, June 21 (ANI): Jordan is drawing plans to host her own polo tournament after she was reportedly banned from attending the highlight of the polo season last year for being “too chavvy”.

The glamour model spit fire over the “pure snobbery” of the organisers of the Cartier International last year after they reportedly told her [...]

Mohali, June 19 (ANI): The telecom revolution in India has proved to be a boon for the related firms of this sector.

One such company is Mohali-based Masterline Telebiz, which is producing mobile recharge cards for most of the mobile telecom operators in India. It is now foraying into mobile telephone SIM cards for international [...]

Jorhat (Assam), May 28 (ANI): Fifty-year-old Jadab Mahanta in Assam’s Jorhat district is drawing attention from all over India for his skills in traditional arts, crafts and wooden ornaments.

Hailing from a small village in Assam, Mahanta carves fascinating wooden ornaments, masks and wooden craftwork at his home in [...]

London, May 20 (ANI): Three quarters of British kids do not know how to boil an egg, new research has found.

The poll for supermarket chain Morrisons found that almost half of the youngsters in the UK never or rarely help prepare their family’s evening meal.

The survey of 1,000 children and 1,000 parents showed that 37 [...]

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Harvard University researchers have bolstered the claim that “super-recognizers”-people with extraordinary face recognition ability who never forget someone they met in the past-do exist.

Richard Russell, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Harvard, has found in a study that skill in facial recognition may vary widely among humans. [...]

Washington, May 15 (ANI): Examining the feasibility and effectiveness of doctor-patient interaction through videoconferencing, a study has shown that such virtual doctor visits are similar to face-to-face visits on most measures.

“There is growing evidence that the use of videoconferencing in the medical environment is useful for a variety of acute and chronic issues. Videoconferencing between [...]

New York, May 7 (ANI): Model Kendra Spears has emerged as a serious bone of contention between two rival modelling agencies, with Ford Models suing Next Management over the leggy stunner who is billed as “the next Cindy Crawford”.

Ford has accused Next of poaching the “All-American beauty”, who was a finalist in its Supermodel [...]

London, May 5 (ANI): England Twenty20 captain Paul Collingwood believes that future generations of players could choose to play T20 cricket rather than go through the ‘mental torture’ of an Ashes series.

In a major feature interview in the June issue of The Wisden [...]