Employers think it’s okay to pay women less

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Melbourne, March 15 (ANI): Employers think they can pay women less than men for the same work, according to a study. The research, by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, found education, experience or historical factors were far from being the reasons why women earned 17 per cent ...

Punishing players was necessary to maintain discipline: Butt

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Lahore, Mar. 15 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has said that punishing some players was necessary to end the culture of indiscipline in the national team. “For long now, the trend we saw in the team was that some players were only playing for themselves as individuals ...

Delay in potty training harms environment, kids: Oz study

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Sydney, Mar 15 (ANI): An Australian study has found that parents who delay their children''s potty training until they are three or older could be doing them and environment serious harm. According to the survey, children wore nappies for up to a year longer than earlier generations, with only about 50 ...

London, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, BNP

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Lahore, Mar. 15 (ANI): The National Standing Assembly’s Committee on Sports will grill top PCB officials on Monday about their decision to take disciplinary action against seven national cricketers. “We have invited the PCB chairman and other officials to attend the hearing because we want to know on what basis was ...

Aussie folks in Northern Territory love to have sex in public, finds survey

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Melbourne, March 15 (ANI): Folks in Australia’s Northern Territory love to have sex in public, be it beaches, bathrooms, offices or nightclubs, according to a new survey. Almost every second Territorian of the 10,000 men and women quizzed confessed they enjoyed getting intimate in public. And another 19 per cent ...

CT scans overuse linked to cancer

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Sydney, Mar 15 (ANI): Health experts have warned that unjustified use of CT scans is increasingly becoming a reason behind cancers. A latest medical research has claimed that more than 400 new cases of cancer a year in Australia occur due to diagnostic radiology. However, it has not reduced the ...

Deep Purple to perform in Malaysia in May

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Kuala Lumpur, March 14 (ANI): Deep Purple are set to rock Malaysia when they croon at the Genting Arena of Stars on May 16 as part of their Asia/Australia tour 2010. The Brit rockstars'' first Malaysia visit saw them performing in Kuala Lumpur in 1982 and even this time around fans ...

When Kris Smith tagged pregnant Dannii Minogue Monsters Inc’s Sully

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

London, March 14 (ANI): Dannii Minogue’s boyfriend Kris Smith was caught in a fit of laughter when the pregnant singer showed off her baby bump dressed in a furry outfit, it has emerged. “Kris says I look like Sully,” Dannii said referring to Monsters Inc’s blue monster. “Kris burst out ...

Gurshan’s body brought back from Australia for cremation

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

New Delhi, Mar 14(ANI): Three-year-old Indian toddler Gurshan Singh’s body was on Sunday brought back from Australia for cremation in a Sikh ceremony. According to reports, Gurshan’s father Harjit Singh Channa and mother Harpreet Kaur Channa arrived with the body at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital on ...

Study explores effectiveness of ACL knee reconstruction among males

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Washington, March 14 (ANI): A new study has found that 84 percent of male patients are still highly active 15 years after undergoing ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction. Moreover, these patients, who had had reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the ...