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BARNALA: Coinciding with the centenary of Ghadar Party, some American Punjabis are out to showcase the lives of Ghadarites, including legendary martyr Kartar Singh Sarabha, in a celluloid form. Ghadar Party was formed away from India in USA in 1913 with a motive to get India out of imperial forces’ clutches and many Ghadarites had [...]

London, Sept 27 (ANI): Marilyn Monroe was an enigma, but a series of her pictures in her most intimate moments discovered recently has made the sex symbol less of a mystery. According to the Telegraph, more than 100 such black and white images shot by John Vachon, on assignment for LOOK magazine at the time [...]

New Delhi, Sept.27 (ANI): Around 550 athletes and officials are expected to arrive in Delhi today to participate in the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi. The largest contingent is from South Africa with 113 athletes and officials followed by Scotland with 77 athletes and officials those who arrive today. Among the other large contingents arriving [...]

London, Sep 27 (ANI): Global actors” unions have advised their members to avoid taking roles in the new Hobbit movies amid a row over pay. Cate Blanchett, Sir Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis are among the stars who have been linked with the two big-budget ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequels. But seven unions in the [...]

Delhi, Sep 27 (ANI): Rubbishing security concerns over Australia’s warnings that its citizens in Delhi should not fly national flags, Australian Commonwealth Games Federation chief Perry Crosswhite has said the Games venues are secure and there would be no issue there. Security experts warned Australians travelling to India not to wear Aussie colours or T-shirts, [...]

Kolkata, Sep 27 (IANS) Recession may have ebbed, but artisans of the potters’ colony Kumartuli here say export orders for idols for next month’s Durga Puja festival have picked up only marginally compared to last year. ‘We in Kumartuli have received a slightly higher number of orders compared to last year,’ Babu Pal, who is [...]

Toronto, Sep 27 (IANS) Playing video games for hours on end may not be that bad after all. It could perhaps prepare your child to become a skilled surgeon one day. Playing video games gives one an advantage not only in the games themselves but also in performing other tasks requiring visuomotor skills – connections [...]

London, Sep 27 (IANS) Parkinson’s disease could be identified years before it begins to show symptoms. Researchers have identified key markers that may indicate whether a patient is at risk of developing the neurodegenerative disease. Currently its patients are diagnosed through an evaluation of symptoms, by which time the disease is already well advanced. Scientists, [...]

Washington, Sep 21 (ANI): A new study has found that men and women react to anti-HIV drugs in a similar way. The study demonstrated it is possible to recruit large numbers of women into a clinical trial evaluating treatments for HIV infection and found no significant gender-based differences in response to the anti-HIV drugs darunavir [...]

New Delhi, Sep 21(ANI): Commonwealth Games Federation President Michael Fennell has expressed grave concern about the athletes’ village in New Delhi, saying that the facility is “seriously compromised”. Fennell said that the state of the village has “shocked” many team officials ahead of the October 3-14 Games. “Many issues remain unresolved,” The Age quoted Fennell, [...]

Washington, Sep 20 (ANI): A new study in North America has shown that children exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water performed worse on tests of intellectual functioning than children with lower exposures. This metal is naturally occurring in soil and in certain conditions is present in groundwater. In several regions of Quebec [...]

London, Sep 20 (ANI): Scientists have apparently discovered new genetic variants in five regions of the genome that affect the risk of ovarian cancer in the general population. The consortium, including scientists from the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia, based the new work on their earlier research comparing 10,283 women with ovarian cancer to 13,185 [...]

Wellington (New Zealand), Sept.20 (ANI): Prime Minister John Key has expressed confidence about New Zealand’s athletes attending the XIXth Commonwealth Games in Delhi, despite Sunday’s shooting of two Taiwanese tourists in the Indian capital. “We are providing the best advice we can to the New Zealand Olympic Committee who have to make that decision by [...]

Toronto, Sept.14 (ANI): Having been warned eight months ago about a sudden rush of Lankan Tamil refugees, the Stephen Harper-led Conservative Government in Canada is likely to discuss and decide next week options for discouraging future vessels of refugee claimants. Measures under consideration are believed to include intercepting ships at sea, enacting harsher penalties for [...]

Toronto, Sep 14 (ANI): Health officials have warned that a new gene that can turn many types of bacteria into superbugs resistant to nearly all antibiotics has sickened people in three states and is popping up all over the world. The U.S. cases and two others in Canada all involve people who had recently received [...]

Auckland, Sep 14(ANI): The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) has said that the decision of Netball New Zealand (NNZ), Hockey New Zealand (HNZ) and the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) to engage their own security advice ahead of next month’s Delhi Commonwealth Games defies logic. According to reports, that three sports bodies had commissioned independent [...]

Washington, Sep 13 (ANI): Pop star Lady Gaga took the MTV Video Music Awards by storm as she won in eight of the 14 categories in this year”s event. The categories in which Gaga took the moon man home are Video of the Year, Female Video, Pop Video, Collaboration, Dance Video, Choreography, Editing and Direction [...]

London, Sep 13 (ANI): An unknown singer, who invited girls on Facebook to feature on the video and artwork for his debut single, ‘Miss Pretty’, was taken aback by the overwhelming response. Jonathan Haselden was expecting “only around a dozen” girls to respond, but 10,000 young women all wanting a share in the limelight suddenly [...]

Chandigarh, Sep 13 (IANS) Security around major gurdwaras in Haryana has been tightened after Jagdish Singh Jhinda, a Sikh leader from the state, set a Sep 15 deadline for taking over control of these shrines from the Punjab-based Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). Armed personnel from Haryana Police have been stationed outside major gurdwaras in [...]

Melbourne, Sept 9 (ANI): If you are obsessed with your status updates and picture uploads on Facebook, you are probable an online narcissist, says a new research. Researchers at Canada’s York University said that this obsessive updating on Facebook is related to egotism and low self-esteem. “They probably show that narcissist trait offline as well, [...]