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NEW DELHI: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday accused Shiv Sena of “politicising” the Jaitapur nuclear power plant issue and frequently changing its stand on him on environmental issues. “Shiv Sena has a long track record of politicising all issues. This is the same Shiv Sena, which had vowed to throw the Enron project into [...]

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): Scientists at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan have discovered a protein that could help in the development of approaches to treat age-related osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is characterized by reduced bone mass and increased risk of fracture – an imbalance created by decrease in formation of bone forming osteoblast cells from mesenchymal [...]

Seoul, Sep 27 (DPA) US and South Korean warships Monday kicked off a round of anti-submarine drills aimed at showing strength against Stalinist North Korea. Ten ships and 1,700 troops from both nations were taking part in the five-day manoeuvres off South Korea’s west coast, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The United [...]

Beijing, Sept. 20 (ANI): Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya summoned Japanese ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa on Sunday evening to express his strong indignation and protest against Japan”s prolonged detention of a Chinese skipper. “The incident created by the Japanese side has severely damaged China-Japan relations,” said Wang. According to a Xinhua news report, [...]

Mumbai, Sep 18 (IANS) A benchmark index for Indian equities surged almost 800 points in this week’s trading, the sharpest rally in over a year, as foreign institutions invested heavily on the back of strong macro-economic outlook. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) rallied 795.09 points or 4.23 percent in [...]

New Delhi, Sept.14 (ANI): Leading Korean Peninsula experts have ruled out the possibility of a “succession crisis” in North Korea. During a session open to international media on what if there is a “succession crisis” in DPRK, in Davos, leading experts from China, South Korea and Japan agreed that the hypothetical question raised by some [...]

Washington, Sep 9, (ANI): Scientists have discovered two genes whose mutations appear to be linked to ovarian clear cell carcinoma, one of the most aggressive forms of ovarian cancer. Clear cell carcinoma is generally resistant to standard therapy. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found an average of 20 mutated genes per each [...]

London, Sep 8 (IANS) Animal activists have taken aim at pop star Lady Gaga for posing in nothing but raw meat for a fashion magazine cover. The pop star posed in a bikini made entirely of slabs of red meat for the cover of Japan’s Hommes Vogue and campaigners at the People for the Ethical [...]

London, Sep 4 (ANI): With bad behaviour, dire dressing sense and drinking habits, British women tourists have been named the ugliest in the world in an international poll. Many have been accused of being “rude”, “drinking pints of beer like men” and “ending up drunk in the gutter”. To the question: Which country has the [...]

New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) Amid dissonance in relations with China, India is looking to expand strategic and economic ties with Japan as the two sides hold the final round of negotiations next week to finalise a key economic pact ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Tokyo in October. Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar [...]

New York, Sep 3 (DPA) Results Thursday at the 23-million-dollar US Open (x indicates new result). Women’s singles, second round x Caroline Wozniacki, 1, Denmark, def Chang Kai-Chen, Taiwan, 6-0, 6-0 Vera Zvonareva, 7, Russia, def Sabine Lisicki, Germany, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) x Svetlana Kuznetsova, 11, Russia, def Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, 6-2, 6-3 Yanina Wickmayer, [...]

Seoul, Sep 2 (DPA) Typhoon Kompasu made landfall in northern South Korea early Thursday, leaving two dead and causing the worst disruption to power and transport networks in the capital for a decade, a report said. Winds of over 100 km per hour knocked down trees and utility poles and blew out windows across Seoul, [...]

Singapore, Sep.2 (ANI): Indian animated movie maker Compact Disc India and software company Micro Technologies continue to members of Forbes Asia’s “Best Under A Billion” list, even as 151 new companies have made their maiden appearance on the list this year. This year, China and Hong Kong have once again outdone the rest of Asia [...]

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): If you were planning to fly in a developing country, the results of this new study might change those plans, for the risk of airplane crashes is 13 times more than that in US and other First World countries. The more economically advanced countries in the Developing World have better overall [...]

Beijing, Sept 1 (ANI): China”s special envoy for Korean peninsula affairs Wu Dawei, who is on a visit to Japan, has said that Beijing plans to put forward “new proposals” to the countries involved in the six-party talks on North Korea”s nuclear disarmament. Wu, who chairs the six-party talks involving Democratic People”s Republic of Korea, [...]

Melbourne, Sept 1 (ANI): The Australian immigration department has found that young Asian women who come to the country on student visas are instead working in brothels. In its investigation, it found that the women are earning up to 10,000 dollars a week as sex workers, and that brothel websites openly advertise “new fresh girls” [...]

Beijing, Aug 27 (IANS) A homemade submersible has reached a depth of 3,759 metres, making China the fifth country to acquire deep-diving technology, a media report said Friday. The Jiaolong, which is 8.2 metres long and weighs nearly 22 tonnes, was designed to reach a depth of 7,000 metrse and operate in most of the [...]

Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): A new study has revealed that people with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop plaques in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer”s disease. Insulin resistance, or the stage before diabetes, happens when insulin, a hormone in the body, becomes less effective in lowering blood sugar. [...]

Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): A new study has revealed that people with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop plaques in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer”s disease. Insulin resistance, or the stage before diabetes, happens when insulin, a hormone in the body, becomes less effective in lowering blood sugar. [...]

Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): A survey has suggested that tobacco companies may be using web 2.0 media, such as YouTube, to market their products to young people. Even though tobacco companies have denied advertising on the Internet, researchers searched through the first 20 pages of video clips on YouTube containing any reference to five tobacco [...]