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Bangalore Open Air 2015 brings taste of Heavy Metal Music
Bangalore, June 4 (IANS): India's only dedicated open air heavy metal music festival, the Bangalore Open Air (BOA), is back in its heaviest and loudest avatar yet. Started in 2012, the festival, which aims to bring the best heavy metal…
Weird! Pets outnumber Children by 7 Million in Brazil
Rio de Janerio, June 3 (IANS): Pets have outnumbered children in Brazilian households, according to an official report released on Tuesday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), a media report said on Wednesday.…
India confused about Policy on Pakistan: Kargil Martyr’s Father
Shimla, June 1 (IANS): Feeling let down by the successive Indian governments, the father of Captain Saurabh Kalia is now pinning hopes on the Supreme Court. Saurabh was the first to report Pakistani incursion in Kargil in 1999. He was taken…
AAP Govt not to table Jan Lokpal Bill in Budget Session
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS): In what is seen as an attempt to mend fences, Delhi's AAP government wants the centre to vet its anti-graft Jan Lokpal Bill before it is tabled in the assembly - a process it did not follow in the measure's…
Why Congress doesn’t give Manmohan the Credit He deserves
The Narendra Modi government's chief economic advisor, Arvind Subramanian, has said that the rate of poverty reduction from 2005-06 to 2011-12 was the fastest in the country's history. The reason, according to him, was "fast GDP growth".…
Suffering from ‘Piku’ syndrome? Don’t sit on it
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS): If you ask about the one thing that Amitabh Bachchan-starrer and now a Rs.100-crore-club member 'Piku' has done to the Indian masses, apart from entertaining them, is bringing into the public domain a topic that is…
A doctor’s ‘Jihad’ to popularize Birth Control among Assam’s Muslims
Guwahati, May 28 (IANS): Any talk of birth control had once been taboo for Muslims, particularly the uneducated Muslims living in remote areas of Assam. This has changed, thanks largely to Ilias Ali, a professor of surgery at the Gauhati…
Scientists discover ‘key’ Ebola virus needs to Infect Cells
Washington, May 27 (IANS/EFE): Scientists have found a protein that acts like a "key" allowing the Ebola virus to infect cells, according to an article published in the journal mBio.
A study by a group of scientists from the Albert…
Women’s Power extends beyond Banking: Naina Lal Kidwai
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS): Women have broken through the glass ceiling not just in India's financial services space, holding top positions in top banks, but have also made a significant mark in a host of other industries, says Naina Lal…
Learn from Nepal Quake, stop Illegal Construction: HC
Shimla, May 25 (IANS): Taking notice of haphazard development and encroachments in the state capital, where "most buildings are precariously hanging", the Himachal Pradesh High Court has observed that the devastating earthquake in Nepal…