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Washington, Sept 20 (ANI): As cold and flu season approaches, giving up junk food for more healthy options would help maintain a strong immune system.

Dr Ara DerMarderosian, professor of pharmacognosy for University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and an expert in nutraceuticals and natural foods, have provided guidance to change how you eat and break [...]

Melbourne, Sept 18 (ANI): An Australian woman whose father allegedly raped her every day for 30 years had taken out a restraining order against him in 2007 – two years before he was eventually charged.

She was also reportedly pursued [...]

Washington, September 15 (ANI): Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have found that a popular stomach-acid reducer, which is used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients who need breathing machine support, triples the likelihood of contracting pneumonia among such patients.

Hospital-acquired pneumonia-the leading cause of infection-related deaths in critically ill patients-increases [...]

New Delhi, Sep.13 (ANI): A Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) coach on the Indraprashta-Yamuna Nagar line derailed early on Sunday morning.

Though the cause of the 6 a.m.derailment was not immediately known, several routes along the metro line were disrupted. o casualties were reported.

Earlier, a DMRC train going towards Yamuna Bank from Dwarka [...]

London, September 12 (ANI): The world’s oldest person has died at the age of 115.

According to doctors, Gertrude Baines may have suffered a heart attack.n autopsy will be conducted to confirm the cause.

Baines died on Friday in Los Angeles.

She was born in 1894 in Shellman, Georgia, the Telegraph reports.

Baines became the world’s oldest living person [...]

London, Sept 11 (ANI): Diet drugs work because they make people eat more healthily, claim psychologists.

In the study, presented at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Health Psychology conference in Birmingham, researchers found that dieters who lost the most weight [...]

Washington, Sep 10 (ANI): An Indian origin researcher in Malaysia has confirmed the potentially deadly nature of an emerging new form of malaria, mainly found in monkeys, by identifying key laboratory and clinical features of the disease.

Researchers at the University Malaysia Sarawak, led by Professors Balbir Singh and Janet Cox-Singh, showed that Plasmodium knowlesi, a [...]

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): A strong association between the common sexually transmitted infection, Trichomonas vaginalis, and risk of advanced and lethal prostate cancer in men has been found by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

The study appears online on September 9, 2009, on the Journal of the National [...]

Lahore, Sep.9 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has discontinued its enquiry against controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for criticizing the team management on a television chat show.

PCB chairman Ijaz Butt told media persons here, that since Akhtar has admitted his mistake and apologized for the same, board has also decided to drop the [...]

London, September 8 (ANI): British actor Hugh Grant is doing all he can to promote his father, James, as an artist.

The ‘Notting Hill’ star recently helped James, 81, launch his new art exhibition in Southampton, New York.

James, who describes himself as an “amateur painter”, had a star-studded opening of his watercolour works’ exhibition at [...]

London, Sep.8 (ANI): The Supreme Council of the KNP held an important meeting in Luton on September 6, which was presided by the party Chairman Abbas Butt. The meeting discussed and analysed the current situation of the Kashmiri struggle and made important decisions.

The Supreme Council strongly condemned the government of Pakistan’s latest attempts to [...]

Washington, Sep 7 (ANI): By using protease inhibitors, researchers at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) have restored to normal levels a key protein that is involved in early brain development, and causes the rare brain disorder lissencephaly.

Reduced levels of the protein called LIS1 have been shown to cause lissencephaly, which is characterized by brain [...]

Skopje (Macedonia), Sep.6 (ANI): At least fifteen tourists, all of them Bulgarians, drowned as their overcrowded pleasure boat sank in the Lake Ohrid in Macedonia on Saturday.

The boat named Iliden was 200 metres from shore when it capsized in the lake famous for its deep turquoise waters, reports Sky News.

“More than 70 passengers were on [...]

Nag Khurd (Amritsar), Sep.5 (ANI): Farmers in Punjab are confronted with an unusual problem these days. A weed described as “Congress Grass” has covered all soil-bunds in the fields here and the administration is taking up measures to educate farmers about how to [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 5 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Saturday said that education reform is the need of the hour, as the teachers in the country are facing professional disempowerment.

“We have a situation today in which teachers are politically empowered and professionally disempowered. This is a disservice to the cause of education. The [...]

Bangalore, Sep 5 (ANI): Cricketer Rahul Dravid graced a weeklong fund raising campaign called ‘Joy of Giving Week’ for the poor and downtrodden in Bangalore.

The scheme has been conceptualised by ‘Give India’ an organization, which works with voluntary groups all over the country.

The stars and celebrities from all walks of life including Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, [...]

Amritsar, Sep 4 (ANI): Socially and economically deprived women in Punjab’s Amritsar district have found a saviour in Shree Lakshmi Narayan Stitching School, which has come ahead to help those women who are aspiring to become self-reliant.

The school established by Shri [...]

New Delhi, Sep 4 (ANI): Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor on Friday said that if Pakistan tries to disrupt the peace and tranquility in Kashmir and violates the ceasefire, India would not hesitate to retaliate.

Talking to reporters here, General Kapoor [...]

Lahore, Sep. 2 (ANI): Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has invited ‘Nazims’ (elected officials of local governments) to meet him in Abu Dhabi in order to gain his support against government’s move to scrap the existing local government system.

Nazims already have support of the PML-Q and the MQM.

“Former president after concluding his visit to Saudi [...]

Islamabad, Sep 1(ANI): A Q Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist, widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear program, is a free man again and many consider that he may share the secrets with establishments around the world.

In January 2004, Khan had confessed to having been involved in a secret international network of nuclear weapons [...]