Islamabad : The US can “just encourage” India and Pakistan to resume their stalled composite dialogue but it “cannot dictate solutions,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Islamabad on Friday. Clinton, who was on a three-day official visit to Pakistan, stated this during an interaction with women civil society leaders. Her remarks came a [...]
People who suffer from chronic pain can greatly improve their condition just by looking at the area where the pain is occurring, reveals an Anglo-Italian study . For the study, thirty healthy subjects were invited to look at their own hand, the experimenter’s hand, or an object, while their hand was subjected to laser-induced pain. [...]
And even walking is not your cup of tea? Well, then dance yourself to a healthy body. Dance also has many advantages over exercise. You can set your own pace, a slow foxtrot is no more energetic than walking, while a salsa will really get your heart pumping. It’s great fun too. Dancing… Protects your [...]
New Delhi: The Congress party has planned a series of events to mark the 25th death anniversary of the former prime minister Indira Gandhi. An exhibition on the life and times of Indira Gandhi, national integration rallies across the country, blood donation camps and the screening of a short film – are some of the [...]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday sent out a strong message: politics will not come in the way of the war against the Naxals. The PM said as much referring perhaps to the Mamata Banerjee-Left tiff over the Rajdhani train crisis. Home Minister P Chidambaram too drove the point home with a simple, [...]
Mumbai: Get ready to laugh as “3 Idiots” is likely to come out on December 25, 2009. The movie, which is a comedy, revolves around three friends. According to sources, they are fast friends. But one of them goes missing. Two friends launch an intense search for him. The flick is likely to be a [...]
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan knows the trick to feel the pulse of audience. Therefore the movie in which he acts becomes a hit one. Directors know it well. A movie like Aladdin was impossible without him. He took up challenging role of a genie and efficiently played it. In yet another movie, he proved it that [...]
Miami: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal both voiced their displeasure at Andre Agassi after the former world number one revealed he took the recreational drug crystal meth in 1997 and lied about the reasons for a positive test. “To me it seems terrible,” world number two Nadal said at an awards ceremony in Madrid on [...]
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by their emphatic victory in the last game, a confident India will seek to keep the momentum going when they go into the third Dhoni, Sehwag One-dayer against Australia on Saturday, hoping to exploit a slow and low track. With the seven-match series tied 1-1, both the teams will be keen to [...]
Kolkata: IT giant Wipro Technologies has requested the West Bengal government to allot 50 acres to it at concessional rates for setting up its unit in the state, the IT department said here on Friday. “It is really good news for the people of West Bengal that Wipro has formally communicated its willingness to take [...]
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