Silver Scorpio – International News | Spot News | Top News | Flash News | Live News

New Delhi, Sep. 1 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said that the new sugar season will begin with much lower stocks, as the production will be hit by lower sugar recovery from cane after the failure of monsoon rains.

“The production of sugar in India during year 2008 and 2009 sugar season has [...]

Long Live Smith & Hawken – Smith and Hawken Closing – smith and hawken outlet – smith and hawkin – smith and hawkins – smith hawken
Smith and Hawken is closing immiediately. The company CEO Jim Hagedorn  said that they will close all of their 56 stores, becuase the combination of a weak economy and the [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Verizon Hub, a new kind of home phone with some Web add-ons like weather and traffic reports, will soon come with an applications market, following a trend among cellphone makers such as Apple to open up to third-party apps.
Verizon Communications has been selling the Hub to its wireless customers since [...]

SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) – Oil-rig builder Sembcorp
Marine may be in focus on Wednesday after a large customer,
Petroprod, was placed under provisional liquidation. Petroprod
had placed orders worth over $500 million with the Singapore
firm, according to Business Times.
U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as a surprising drop in retail
sales dented hopes the recession was abating, [...]

New Delhi – Indian equities markets slipped in early trade on Tuesday, with the key Sensex index shedding nearly 3 per cent, tracking weak global cues.
The 30-share index, which had gained 5.98 points on Monday, lost 277.45 points to 9,052.12 at 11:10 am (0540 GMT), a loss of 2.96 per cent.
The 50-share National Stock Exchange’s [...]

Washington, January 20 (ANI): While a clinical trial was halted early following the observation that patients using a cream comprising a commonly used acne drug called tretinoin seemed more likely to die than those using a placebo, evidence does not show that the excess deaths were caused by the therapy.
“The potential of retinoid compounds to [...]

Washington, Jan 15 (ANI): Scientists have shown that Hardy’s paradox, a proposal that has confounded quantum physicists for over a decade, can be confirmed and ultimately resolved, a task which had seemingly been impossible to perform.
The team of scientists included University of Toronto quantum physicists Jeff Lundeen and Aephraim Steinberg.
“For nearly a century, the widespread [...]

Hyderabad/Mumbai, Jan 9 (ANI): The recent corporate fraud of inflated profits of Satyam Computer, the country’’s fourth-largest software company, has shocked investors in India.
Newspapers across the country on Friday carried the headlines screaming for the authorities to take action against the corporate fraud in order to reinstate the investor confidence.
Satyam employees shuffled into its Hyderabad [...]

London, Jan 8 (ANI): A team of scientists has observed a quantum effect that causes objects to repel one another, which could be used to lubricate future nanomachines.
According to a report in New Scientist, the team detected the weak repulsive force when they brought together a thin sheet of silica and a small gold-plated bead, [...]

Islamabad : The Mumbai terror attacks had strengthened military establishment and rightist ideology in Pakistan, putting democracy under threat, according to security analyst and columnist Dr Ayesha Siddiqua.
Speaking at an interactive session on ”Where to After Mumbai”, arranged by South Asia Policy Analysis Network (SAPANA) Pakistan, Dr Siddiqua said there was a weak political government, [...]

Washington, Jan 3 (ANI): A new research, using computer simulations, has suggested that if the size of the rain and hail drops in thunderstorms are big, they are likely to lead to the formation of tornadoes.
The research was undertaken by Nathan Snook and Ming Xue, from the School of Meteorology and Center for Analysis and [...]

Washington, Jan 1 (ANI): Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada have attributed regular tremors under Vancouver Island to trapped water in a portion of the fault area.
 
The Cascadia megathrust fault, named for its massive but infrequent earthquakes, runs along the length of North America’s western coast from northern Vancouver Island to [...]

Michael Jackson is reportedly in desperate need of an emergency transplant operation to save his life from a rare lung condition, according to the author of a new biography of the singer.
Best-selling author Ian Halperin has completed a book about Jackson’s life, which claims that the pop icon, 50, suffers from Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a [...]