Hyderabad : The students at the Osmania University in Hyderabad, which has emerged as the nerve centre for the agitation for a separate Telangana state movement, took their self-chosen role as revolutionaries struggling for a separate state rather seriously. “Beat us, sir, beat us,” Osmania University students dared the police, pleaded with them, even fell [...]
New Delhi : Lok Sabha will continue its discussion on the Liberhan report on Tuesday. On Monday the report on the Babri demolition was finally debated in where it essentially boiled down to a blame game. The spirited day-long debate on the Liberhan Commission report on the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya saw [...]
MUMBAI: In yet another volatile trade, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex on Friday fell by over 84 points, as funds indulged in profit selling after an unexpected contraction in the US job data revived their fears about the fledgling global recovery. The Sensex, which remained flat from Wednesday after the massive rally on the [...]
San Francisco: Microsoft has released a revamped version of Bing Maps with street views and other features already offered by rival Google’s free online mapping service. The Bing Maps upgrade released in beta, or test, form also boasts a gallery for applications, such as live traffic data feeds or input from travel webcams or Twitter [...]
Melbourne: Publishers of adult magazines are gradually witnessing a slow demise in their businesses, thanks to the unlimited moving pictures available on the Internet. Magazines such as Playboy that reigned the previous eras are allegedly finding it hard to keep up with the net onslaught. The sector was said to have received another blow with [...]
NEW DELHI: State-owned telecom MTNL on Tuesday raised the bar for competitive tariffs by announcing a half paise-per-second plan for mobile calls on its 2G as well as 3G network in Delhi and Mumbai circles. For calls made to other networks, the tariff is 1 paise-per-second, MTNL chairman and managing director RSP Sinha said. Under [...]
Mumbai: Aamir Khan is well known as the Mr. Perfectionist in the Indian Cinema. Thus, he gave a reel shoot for his forthcoming flick with the real shots. This is all from his forthcoming segment 3- idiots. For one of the scene in the flick, actors Aamir Khan, R Madhavan and Sharman Joshi were to [...]
New Delhi: Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury’s house in Khammam, Andhra Pradesh was allegedly attacked by Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) workers late Tuesday night. “They tried to pour kerosene on my house and tried to burn it down but luckily it didn’t catch fire. The incident has now made our resolve stronger to not give into [...]
Arecent study has proved that certain junk foods contain good amounts of antioxidants and they can in fact be good for the heart. While it isn’t Junk food recommended that one thrive on these foods, indulging in some of them, in limit of course, may do you a whole lot of good. Some examples of [...]
What’s more, there is no harm in including eggs in a heart patient’s diet, the experts added. Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith said that avocados can lower bad cholesterol and raise good cholesterol. And CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton agreed with the fact. “Avocados are a good source of fat/cholesterol. They have the [...]
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