London: Although pop-ups on a computer screen may only last a few seconds, they tend to set back our performance, say researchers. Helen Hodgetts and Dylan Jones, professor of psychology at Cardiff University, examined the cost of such interruptions in terms of the time taken to complete a simple seven-step computer task. “Our findings suggest [...]
December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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After the poor attendance in Lok Sabha last week, some members in Rajya Sabha too bunked the session on Tuesday. When 6 MPs against whom questions were listed did not bother to show up for the Question Hour, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari was left to wonder if the virus had spread to [...]
December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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NAGPUR: Having crowned themselves the number one team in Test rankings, India would look to assert their supremacy in the shortest format as well Dhoni when they clash against Sri Lanka in the first Twenty20 International on Wednesday. The 2-0 triumph and the number one Test ranking also gives India a psychological edge over the [...]
December 8, 2009 | Posted in
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Panaji : The politician accused of raping a Russian in Goa has been granted anticipatory bail. John Fernandes unsuccessfully contested the Assembly elections in 2007 as a candidate for the Save Goa Front. The alleged victim says Fernandes spiked her drink and then raped her in his car on the first of December. The victim, [...]
December 8, 2009 | Posted in
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The first episode of NDTV Imagine’s new sensational reality show ‘Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka’ aired on Monday night. Bhopal’s Swati Singh was taken back to her past life by noted psychologist Dr. Trupti Jayin. Swati Singh got the explanation for her fear of height and air travel when she was taken back to past life [...]
December 8, 2009 | Posted in
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SALTA: Tushar Khanderkar (30th) and Shivendra Singh (51st) scored for India while the Kiwis replied through Dean Couzins (47th) and Andrew Hayward (58th) on Sunday. In a hotly contested match, New Zealand were on the attack with a very active Ryan Archibald prompting the moves. However, the Indian defence was vigilant and never let the [...]
December 7, 2009 | Posted in
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San Francisco: Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service. A new “translated search” tool lets people direct Google to seek results from Web pages written in an array of languages and then deliver results in a searcher’s preferred tongue. The feature has been available at the Google Translate [...]
December 4, 2009 | Posted in
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New Delhi: Hollywood director James Cameron wants to blow the audience away with adrenaline-pumping visual effects in the Rs.1,200 crore ($240 million) sci-fi epic “Avatar”, releasing Dec 18. It’s one of the costliest movies ever made. “I like to blow an audience away. I like to show ‘em stuff they’ve probably seen in a dream [...]
December 3, 2009 | Posted in
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Chicago : A Chicago court has adjourned the hearing on the bail application of Tahawwur Hussain Rana till December 15. Rana is one of the two LeT operatives caught by the FBI in October on charges of plotting a major terror attack against India that left 166 people dead in Mumbai. During the one-and-a-half-hour long [...]
December 3, 2009 | Posted in
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Hyderabad : Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao has been shifted from a government hospital in Khammam to Hyderabad’s Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, after his daughter Kavita appealed to the state Human Rights Commission. His son, K T Rama Rao, an MLA and TRS leader, too had demanded that Rao be shifted saying: [...]
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