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Amritsar, Sep.10 (ANI): An endeavour is underway to preserve various heritage buildings of Punjab State in a bid to treasure the cultural heritage including historical monuments, which can help in boosting tourism in Punjab.

The palaces and Havelis across Punjab bespeak glorious heritage. These [...]

Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): Scientists from University of California have identified a gene in anthrax-causing bacteria that could be used as a potential therapeutic target for the deadly disease.

The ClpX gene in bacterium Bacillus anthracis not only contributes to the severity of the anthrax disease but also makes it more difficult for a patient’s immune [...]

London, Aug 29 (ANI): American film director Steven Spielberg has obtained the film rights to late Michael Crichton’s final novel, ‘Pirate Latitudes’.

Spielberg, 62, who has previously directed Crichton’s ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘The Lost World’, is set to produce and possibly direct the adventure film, set in [...]

Peshawar, Aug.24 (ANI): An editorial in a Pakistani daily has claimed that intelligence outfits of India and Afghanistan funded late Tehrik-e-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.

It says that his death in South Waziristan has sparked off a battle among various Taliban warlords to control two billion rupees worth of Taliban funds and own arms and ammunition worth [...]

Mumbai, Aug 15 (ANI): Eminent personalities from Bollywood extended their greetings on the occasion of India’s 63rd Independence Day.

Actors and singers from exhibited with spirit and patriotism on the occasion.

During a music launch here, eminent Ghazal [...]

London, July 12 (ANI): Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding is set to star in the sequel of the film St Trinian’s.

She was spotted on the sets of the film in a variety of skimpy schoolgirl outfits, hot pants, chunky biker boots or sandals, according to shot changes.

The new film, St Trinian’s 2: The Legend [...]

London, July 12 (ANI): Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding is set to star in the sequel of the film St Trinian’s.

She was spotted on the sets of the film in a variety of skimpy schoolgirl outfits, hot pants, chunky biker boots or sandals, according to shot changes.

The new film, St Trinian’s 2: The Legend [...]

London, July 4 (ANI): Legendary playwright William Shakespeare-known for his plays like ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘Hamlet’, etc.-has officially been named Britain’s greatest national treasure in a new poll.

The poll was sponsored by ice-cream makers Mivvi.

Buckingham Palace grabbed the second spot, while position three went to fish and chips.

Fourth on the list was Big Ben, while [...]

Agra, May 29 (ANI): A unique and a precious library housing highly significant literature and manuscripts of medieval period, remains in a shambles due to authorities’ apathy, in Uttar Pradesh.

Maluna Sayeed Ahmed established the library named ‘Qutab Khana’ in the year 1906.

The library, which earlier used to boast of more than one hundred thousand books, [...]

Washington, May 12 (ANI): The United States should support Pashtun demands to merge Pakistan’s NWFP and FATA, and follow it up by a consolidation of those areas and Pashtun enclaves in Baluchistan and the Punjab into a single unified “Pashtunkhwa” province that enjoys the autonomy envisaged in the inoperative 1973 Pakistan constitution, feels a US [...]

Washington, May 10 (ANI): Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd, Tom Green and Drew Barrymore, Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson, Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley are some of the names that have made it to the list of shortest celebrity marriages in Hollywood.

Fox News has put together a list of famous couples who headed for [...]

London, May 7 (ANI): Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson kept vigil beside his gravely injured grandson’s hospital bed, as the kid fought back from the brink of death.

Ferguson clutched Charlie’s hand and whispered words of support as the sedated ten-year-old recovered from a five-hour [...]

Washington, April 23 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has discovered artifacts that date from 3700 B.C. to 600 A.D., during a three-month dig at Miraflores Park, east of Brackenridge Park, in San Antonio, Texas.

The dig was conducted by the UTSA Center for Archaeological Research (CAR).

CAR researchers were hired by the San Antonio design firm Rehler [...]

Washington, April 23 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has discovered artifacts that date from 3700 B.C. to 600 A.D., during a three-month dig at Miraflores Park, east of Brackenridge Park, in San Antonio, Texas.

The dig was conducted by the UTSA Center for Archaeological Research (CAR).

CAR researchers were hired by the San Antonio design firm Rehler [...]

Washington, Apr 17 (ANI): Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes gave a small party to celebrate their daughter Suri’s birthday No. 3.

The pair organized a princess-themed birthday party for their little princess, and ordered a cake-featuring Belle [...]

Washington, April 17 (ANI): NASA’s Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.

The new images show the mission’s target patch of sky, a vast starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy.

One image shows millions of stars in [...]

Washington, April 12 (ANI): A 1,500-year-old tomb of the Moche Indian “king of bling”, found in Peru at the base of an eroded mud-brick pyramid, has yield a treasure trove of artifacts, which are shedding light on ancient times in the country.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the finds include 19 golden [...]

London, Apr 3 (ANI): Pop star Lily Allen recently challenged her fans with a treasure hunt, which would win them tickets to her concert.

The ‘Not Big’ hitmaker revealed on the social networking site Twitter.com that she had hidden two sets of seats for her sold-out performance at the House of Blues in San Diego, California.

“I’m [...]

Washington, April 1 (ANI): Archaeologists have recovered a treasure trove of artifacts from a recently recovered ship of the infamous 18th-century pirate Blackbeard.

According to a report in the National Geographic News, some of the newfound relics add to evidence that the ship belonged to the pirate.

“We feel pretty comfortable that that’s what this is,” said [...]

London, March 20 (ANI): An amateur treasure hunter has unearthed rare Iron Age artifacts buried as part of a religious offering in Newport, South Wales.

Two bronze bowls and a bronze wine strainer, described by an expert as of “great importance for the UK,” were found by Craig [...]