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Heaven on Earth, Andaman 2008-06-08 07:52:00 There’s beauty all around in Andaman and Nicobar: on land, under water and in the monuments that tell you fascinating stories about its history. Although the region is famous mostly for its spectacular islands, there’s a lot more to see and do.
And, a good place to discover these options is tourism. Their home page is refreshingly clear-cut and offers you information on Read more:Earth
, Heaven
Top 10 Hell on Earth 2008-06-08 07:45:00 The top 10 hells on earth to prove how much more dire it could have been.
1. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Type of hell: Disease
With over 115 new HIV and AIDS cases diagnosed every month, the capital of Papua New Guinea is in trouble. With the population expanding at an uncontrollable rate, unemployment levels have rocketed, income levels plummeted and gang members, known as raskols, have Read more:Earth
Reverse imperialism in India! 2008-06-08 07:35:00 In Asia, India
is still labelled an emerging market, but the Forbes magazine has argued that the country’s economy has already emerged. And as the economy spreads its wings, its companies are turning to new international markets, perhaps beginning a reverse imperialism.
For proof, the US business magazine lists not only the recent high profile acquisitions by Indian firms, but also facts such as Read more:Reverse
India Capture US Mango market 2008-06-08 07:29:00 Considering United States vast mango market, India
has launched a major drive to get non-Indians hooked to the taste of the king of fruits by lining ten restaurants that will serve mangoes.
Though the Indian mangoes are among the costliest in the US, the biggest importer of the fruit with the annual consumption 250,000 tons, officials have suggested several measure to the US regulators to cut Read more:Mango
Greatest Gift to the world is Mahatma Gandhi 2008-06-08 07:23:00 In a moving ceremony, India’s UN Ambassador Nirupam Sen presented a bust of MahatmaGandhi
to President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, who described the apostle of peace as a "great gift" to the world.
"This is the best present that I have ever got and I will cherish it forever," Father d’Escoto, who has been greatly influen Read more:Greatest
, Mahatma Gandhi
World Food Programme- Call for Revolution 2008-06-07 03:30:00 The high-level meeting in Rome to deal with the world food crisis bogged down in bickering over statements about biofuel.
Delegates not admitted to the closed bickering sessions, however, heard about something that may turn out to be more important - the world’s biggest food donor says it is on the verge of a revolution in food aid.
Most people think of food aid as a good thing. The traditional Read more:Programme
, World
How to Keep BEER Fresh? 2008-06-07 03:14:00 Many people in asia still feels that drink beer is hazardous to health and in some occasions its true too. But, Scientists in Venezuela are reporting an advance in the centuries-old effort to preserve the fresh taste that beer drinkers value more than any other characteristic of that popular beverage.
In the new study, Adriana Bravo and colleagues point out that past efforts to keep beer fresh
Top 10 Restaurants 2008-06-07 03:07:00 The food at a top restaurant may be note-worthy but what about the view? Food and Wine Magazine has come up with a list of the top 10 restaurants where the food is delicious but the view is as memorable.
This list was compiled by foodandwine.com
1.The Aquarium, Dubai (Dubai’s Creek) A floor-to-ceiling aquarium stocked with hundreds of exotic fish is the centerpiece of this stylish restaurant,
Eat less and Live Longer 2008-06-07 02:53:00 TO LIVE longer, skip lunch rather than skipping off to the treadmill. In rodents, eating less prolongs life and now we know one of the key molecules involved.
It’s probably down to depressed insulin levels, which regulate blood glucose. While at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Derek Huffman kept mice on a variety of diets and exercise regimes. He found that insulin was lowest in animals Read more:Eat less
Sudden Death Syndrome 2008-06-07 02:51:00 Bacteria is linked to the cause of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or cot death. But, there are now more reasons that links to SIDS.
The link was proposed decades ago, but evidence was scarce. Now researchers from the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, who trawled through the results of about 500 autopsies, have shown that Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli are more Read more:Sudden
, Sudden Death
, Syndrome
Drugs like Washing power, Beware! 2008-06-05 06:43:00 Advertising drugs directly to patients by pharmaceutical companies claim provide valuable health information? They just make certain drugs seem attractive, even if they aren’t necessarily the best choice for the person concerned?
A study based on marketing theory suggests the latter - at least for antidepressants.
Advertisements tend to fit into one of two categories. With goods like washing Read more:Beware
, Drugs
, power
PM's comment on Petrol price hike 2008-06-05 06:30:00 Under all-round attack for hiking petroleum price
s, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the increase is “bare minimum” and “inevitable” to ensure uninterrupted fuel supply.
“It must be appreciated what has been done is the bare minimum with a substantial burden being borne by the government and the oil companies,” the Prime Minister said in an address to the nation.
Singh Read more:Petrol
Warning: Food Crisis 2008-06-03 18:46:00 The UN Food and Agriculture Organization asked the world’s countries today for $30 billion a year to "re-launch world agriculture" and deal with food shortages that have caused soaring food prices, hunger and unrest worldwide.
The call came at the start of a three-day intergovernmental meeting at FAO headquarters in Rome to deal with the doubling of average world food prices since 2000 Read more:Crisis
Circumcision Safe for Men! 2008-06-03 18:38:00 Research results on Circumsition in Rakai district of Uganda, Ron Gray of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University and colleagues found approximately a 3% rate of moderate or severe surgical complications - primarily infections - in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative men, when circumcision was performed under optimal conditions. Healing was slower in the HIV-infected men,
Most Dangerous Beaches 2008-06-03 18:35:00 Vacation in a beach usually makes up to enjoy with images of lying on white sand relaxing not dicing with death but do you know the list of the world’s most dangerous beaches.
Strong currents and deadly jellyfish are among the dangers that spring to mind but the biggest fear is sharks, in Miami beach and there were only 112 incidents globally of shark bites in 2007.
Following is a list of the Read more:Beaches
Plastic bags banned in china 2008-06-03 18:28:00 World highest populous China is now trying to kick a 3 billion-a-day plastic bag habit. But breaking the addiction, in a bid to save energy and protect the environment, will be easier said than done.
China will join a growing list of countries, from Ireland to Bangladesh, that are aiming to change people habits when a ban on the production of plastic bags comes into force.
Shopkeepers will also Read more:Plastic
Rising Acidity in Oceans alarming! 2008-06-03 18:18:00 Rising acidity in the ocean caused by seas absorbing greenhouse carbon dioxide could make low-lying island nations like Maldives more vulnerable to storms, say scientists.
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest level in the past 650,000 years, possible 23 million years, and half has now been dissolved into the oceans making them more acidic. Ocean acidification, which is projected to Read more:Oceans
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IPL should be Globalized: Sachin Tendulkar 2008-06-03 17:54:00 Sachin Tendulkar
feels that the glamorous twenty20 series should be used for globalising the game.
"I don’t personally feel that, you know, (IPL is) dumbing down the game. It’s just another version of cricket," Tendulkar said.
"Test cricket is there and then they started one-day cricket many years ago and one-day cricket has been a tremendous success and if the game is going to Read more:Sachin
, Sachin Tendulkar
Top 10 Hotels for Leisure 2008-06-02 19:20:00 Travel magazine has come up with its third annual list of the top 30 best new hotels of 2008 with ten top hotels listed below. So, planning to go for a tour, pick the best hotel that suits your needs.
1. Banyan Tree Maldives Madivaru (beach hotel)
Banyan Tree, accessible by seaplane, is built in safari style: elaborate tents, a jungle setting, and its own aquarium lapping from the shore. The Read more:Hotels
, Leisure
Shane Warne as Indian coach? 2008-06-02 19:04:00 Shane Warne
, Captain of Rajasthan Royals of IPL have offered his services to mentor the country’s spin bowlers but the Cricket Board feels it’s too early to give a thought to the leg spin legend’s proposal.
"It’s too early to even think about this when we are yet to come out of the hangover of IPL," said BCCI officials.The day after brushing aside the challenge of Delhi Daredevi Read more:Shane
Driving While on Cellphone so Dangerous 2008-06-02 18:50:00 "It’s really an attention problem, not really about holding the phone in your hand," said Dr. Amit Almor, an associate professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina.
Why is driving while talking on a cellphone so dangerous? American researchers have shown that language interferes with visual tasks and why speaking is more taxing on the brain than listening.
Almor and his Read more:Driving
LEAD makes us to Crime 2008-06-02 18:33:00 Exposure to the toxic element during development makes
people more likely to get into trouble with the law as adults.
We have heard that paint, exhaust fumes and plumbing have contaminated the environment with lead, which is known to interfere with the formation of children’s nerve synapses and parts of the brain involved in arousal, emotion, judgement and inhibition. Epidemiological studies
How Alcohol Is Bad For Pancreas? 2008-06-09 10:27:00 We already know that excessive alcohol consumption causes damage to organs such as the liver, heart, and brain. Now, the study has been conducted to understand how excessive alcohol consumption causes damage to the pancreas, and new insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying pancreatic damage in mice following alcohol exposure has now been provided by Herbert Gaisano and colleagues at the Read more:Alcohol
Waterless Washing Machine discovered 2008-06-09 10:19:00 An environmental friendly washing machine that uses as little as a cup of water for each washing cycle could go on sale to in Britons next year.
Xeros Ltd to commercialize the technology, and said that the new machines would use less than 2 percent of the water and energy of a conventional washing machine.
Plastic chips are used to remove dirt and stains from clothes, leaving them dry and Read more:Machine
World Bank prices Carbon offset Bond 2008-06-09 10:14:00 The World
Bank priced a $25 million bond linked to UN-approved carbon emission offset credits, the market’s first such bond, lead manager Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe said.
Payments on the bond are linked to CERs (Certified Emissions Reduction credits) , which are issued under the Clean Development Mechanism, a trading scheme that allows rich nations to invest in clean energy projects in Read more:Carbon
, World Bank
16th Century Ancient temple Discovered 2008-06-09 10:07:00 Kaginele Development Authority (KDA) had taken up excavation work in April at Bada, the birthplace of Kanakadasa to find historical evidence of his life. A team of archaeologists from Shimoga unearthed an ancient palace belonging to the 16th century Vijayanagar Empire at Bada in Haveri district.
Archaeologist S G Samak and his team including KSIDC AEE Jagadish, journalist Sripad Bichchugutti Read more:Ancient
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Stamps on Tirupathi Laddus 2008-06-09 10:04:00 In a year from now, nobody in India except the Tirumala Tirupati Devesthanam (TTD) would be allowed to sell laddus in the name of Tirupati laddus.
The TTD has applied for geographical indications registry (GI) of its sacred laddus at the Intellectual Property India here. The TTD prepares over 1 lakh laddus everyday as prasadam for thousands of devotees who throng the hill shrine of Sri Balaji. Read more:Stamps
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