Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Washington, May 9 (ANI): A monkey communication expert at the University of Pennsylvania has suggested that baboons benefit from strong social networks.
Robert Seyfarth came up with this proposition while delivering a lecture on May 5, the kick-off of the University of Delaware's Year of Darwin celebration, where he told ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): Congress leaders are heading for Tamil Nadu to calm down Chief Minister and DMK President M Karunanidhi over the issue of a separate Eelam for Tamil people.
"As a next step, Sri Lankan Tamils should get Eelam. I assumed responsibilities of making all efforts to ensure ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Washington, May 8 (ANI): Hoping to some day develop new tools for diagnosing mental health disorders and monitoring the progress of their treatments, scientists have now turned to uncovering new information about the mind by studying brains while they are at rest.
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University are running ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Washington, May 8 (ANI): A new study may allay fears that Facebook use is related to lower college academic grades.
Last month, an unpublished study suggested that using the popular social networking site could lead to diminished grades.
However, those findings did not replicate in the new research.
"We found no evidence ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Chennai, May 8 (ANI): With Tamil Nadu holding elections on May 13, both Chief MInister M.Karunanidhi and his key political rival and AIADMK chief J.Jayalalithaa are seeking to gain the maximum political mileage from the Lanka Tamil sympathy wave among voters in Tamil Nadu.
While Karunannidhi said on Thursday: "As ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
New Delhi, May 4 (ANI/Business Wire India): Avaya GlobalConnect (AGC), India's leading business communications solution provider, has appointed Anil Nair as the New MD.
Prior to this, Anil was the President at AGC.
Nair has been with the company since 1997; initially as its sales leader and in later years ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
New York, May 4 (ANI): UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed serious concern over the current political crisis in Nepal centered on the relationship between the Maoist-led Government and the Chief of Army Staff, General Rookmangad Katawal.
In a statement issued at the UN headquarters in New York, the Secretary-General ...
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): Over 17,000 airline passengers have been screened at various airports around the country for swine flu in the wake of the Indian Government ordering a health screening of all passengers coming from countries affected by the virus.
Senior Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
London, April 30 (ANI): Scientists have demonstrated the fastest imaging system ever devised, a camera that snaps images less than a half a billionth of a second long, capturing over six million of them in a second continuously.
According to a report by BBC News, a research team from University ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
London, Apr 29 (ANI): An American woman has revealed how she pledged a year of sex to her husband as a gift for his 40th birthday, and how it changed their lives.
Charla Muller, 42, from North Carolina, USA, ...
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