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The Pastoralists and Graziers Association says livestock theft continues to affect many farmers across Western Australia.
The Department of Agriculture’s Livestock Compliance Unit was introduced in June last year after the police-operated Rural Crime Squad was disbanded in 2008.
Six staff members were trained by WA police to take over the role.
However, the association’s Rob Gillam says [...]

London, September 16 (ANI): People’s updates on popular social networking websites such as Twitter about having coughs and colds could help health officials track early warning signs about flu outbreaks.

The Health Protection Agency annual conference at Warwick University, UK, heard that such websites could indicate an outbreak of flu earlier than conventional disease surveillance methods [...]

London, Sep 9(ANI): After reports of British soldiers facing weapons’ shortage in the Afghanistan frontier, a range of new thermal weapons’ sights has been launched to enable soldiers to dominate the battlefield in Afghanistan.

According to reports, the British Ministry of Defence will buy almost 11,000 new sights for 150 million pounds, allowing the Army to [...]

London, Sep.8 (ANI): New evidence put before a British jury during a retrial of three Brit Muslim convicts suggests that the men used code words to discuss their plans with an al-Qaeda fixer based in Pakistan.

The e-mails and conversations suggest that the plot was in its final stages, possibly days away from execution in [...]

Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): Prostate cancer patients, who also suffer from heart conditions, have increased death risk if they undergo hormone therapy, revealed a study led by an Indian-origin scientist.

Dr. Akash Nanda, from Boston, has found that when men with coronary artery disease-induced congestive heart failure or heart attack receive hormone therapy before or along [...]

Lahore, Aug 24 (ANI): The US Air Force has said it is now training more drone operators than fighter and bomber pilots as part of an expanding programme battlefield automation, and signalled that the end of the era of the fighter pilot is in sight.

In a controversial shift in military thinking – one encouraged by [...]

Washington, Aug 24 (ANI): They may joke that marriage raises their blood pressure but married people have the best chance of surviving cancer, a new study has found.

What’s more, those going through the pain of separation have the poorest survival rates, the study claimed.
The research will be published in the November 1, 2009 issue of [...]

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is alleged to have operated Predator drones out of two bases in Pakistan.

According to the New York Times and The Guardian newspapers, the CIA had in 2004 hired outside contractors from [...]

New Delhi, Aug 20(ANI): Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju on Thursday called upon the private industry in IT and Engineering Design for meeting the needs of the Defence Forces.

Inaugurating a two-day seminar on ‘Emerging Technologies for Sub-Conventional Conflict and Homeland Security’, [...]

London, Aug.19 (ANI): Intelligence agencies are building up a Facebook-style databank of international terrorists in order to sift through it with complex computer programs aimed at identifying key figures and predicting terrorist attacks before they happen.

According to The Independent, the aim is to amass huge quantities of intelligence data on people – no matter how [...]

New Delhi, Aug 9(ANI): The Delhi Police has increased its vigil on illegal Bangladeshi migrants following intelligence inputs of a possible terror strike on August 15.

Sources said surveillance has been increased as many migrants are allegedly working as sleeper cells for terror groups.

It is believed that thousands of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants have taken shelter [...]

London, July 14 (ANI): English actress Myleene Klass has had to step up security outside of her home after she became the target of peeping toms.

Klass, 31, feared being spied upon after it was reported that people were sneaking on to a golf course behind her 1.2million pounds house hoping for a glimpse of her [...]

Jammu, July 9 (ANI): Satellite images of Jammu and Kashmir taken by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) have led to shocking revelations.

Tracts of forest areas and uncultivated patches of land in the region are found to be under illegal poppy cultivation. This [...]

New Delhi, July 4 (ANI): Late King of Pop Michael Jackson, who died of a suspected cardiac arrest last week, had reportedly employed a “day team and night team” of nannies to look after his eldest son Prince Michael.

The ‘Thriller’ sensation was said to be desperate to ensure that Prince Michael was properly cared for [...]

Melbourne, July 2 (ANI): A leading expert on swine flu has warned that twice as many children will die of the disease in the next 12 months compared to the number of deaths from regular influenza.

Professor Robert Booy, however, said the number of deaths would still be fairly small – around 10 or 12 in [...]

New Delhi June 25 (ANI): Defence Minister A K Antony assured the top brass that funds will never be a constraint for the modernisation of the Armed Forces and their welfare.

Antony however asked them on improving efficacy and efficiency of our delivery mechanisms at [...]

Lucknow, June 24 (ANI): In the wake of several cases of swine flu (H1N1 virus) reported from various places in India, authorities in Uttar Pradesh have intensified surveillance along the India-Nepal border.

Addressing media persons here on Tuesday, Dr. I S Srivastava, Director General, Health Services, Uttar Pradesh, said that a team of immigration unit [...]

Beijing, June 23 (ANI): Chinese government officials will soon be required to think twice before connecting their flash-disks loaded with State secrets into unsecured computers, as they are likely to come under tighter surveillance to prevent leaks of confidential information.

The top legislature was informed on Monday during briefings on amendments to the Law on [...]

London, Jun 20 (ANI): The shooting of Brazilian national Jean Charles de Menezes by the police on a Tube train at Stockwell station has now been adapted into a screen play by a London fringe theatre.

The show, ‘Stockwell: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes’, will be staged at the Landor Theatre [...]

Washington, May 26 (ANI): Virtual reality game ‘Second Life’ is not just about sex and pornography, it also educates its users about a wide range of health related problems, according to researchers at the University of Toronto and the [...]