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London, Sep 18 (ANI): Brit musician Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, is back into the limelight, with West End theatres fighting it out to host his new musical.

The 61-year-old singer is planning a series of concerts as well as his show, ‘Moonshadow’.

The production is [...]

London, September 18 (ANI): A computer system is under development that can automatically combine images of the Martian surface, captured by landers or rovers, in order to reproduce a three-dimensional view of the red planet in minutes.

The resulting model [...]

Kolkata, Sep.12 (ANI): The former Communist Party of India (Marxist) member Somnath Chatterjee on Saturday hit out at CPI(M) leadership terming the charges it levelled against him were “a character assassination” and the current political culture of the present leadership made the party [...]

Washington, Sept 4 (ANI): A Wisconsin cosmetic surgeon is raising eyebrows – thanks to the expert’s buy one, get one free breast implant offer!

A large billboard along Highway 41 has been erected by Hotchandani Laser and Vein Center in Appleton promoting the “unique” offer.

“In today’s economy we’re trying to come up with creative ads that’ll [...]

Beijing/Tokyo, Aug 26 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that the Chinese and the Japanese are seeing each other a bit more positively than last year.

The survey, jointly sponsored by the China Daily and Genron NPO, a Japanese think tank, found that a majority of people in both countries believe Sino-Japanese relations are important.

The [...]

Washington, Aug 25 (ANI): In a new study, researchers at George Mason University and Oklahoma State University showed that apologizing for negative outcomes could lead to more favourable verdicts for auditors in court.

Assistant accounting professors Rick Warne of Mason and Robert Cornell of OSU found that remedial tactics such as apologizing or first-person justification can [...]

Lahore, Aug 24 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the ‘minus-one’ formula was just a ploy to weaken and dislodge the PPP government at the centre.

During an informal meeting with his close associates here on Sunday, a source quoted Gilani as saying: ‘I am well aware of the designs of the [...]

London, Aug 22 (ANI): People use musical preferences to express their own identity and form opinions about others, researchers have said.

According to Dr Jason Rentfrow, of Cambridge University, musical preferences along with lists of favourite bands on profiles on social networking sites were “clear public statements of who we are and how we should [...]

London, Aug 21 (ANI): A University of St Andrews scientist has made fresh advancement in bringing Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak closer to reality.

Professor Ulf Leonhardt, who has won funding to develop a real version of the magical device, describes his work as the “ultimate optical illusion’.

He is planning to use refractive metals to make light [...]

London, Aug 18 (ANI): Charities have pointed fingers at Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning depiction of the Joker in ‘The Dark Knight’, claiming that the character gives the public the wrong impression of people with mental health problems.

A new report for the Time to Change Campaign, backed by the Mind and Rethink charities, has claimed that Hollywood [...]

Beijing, Aug 13 (ANI): China’s Industry and Information Technology Minister Li Yizhong has said that the “Green Dam Youth Escort” software would now be “voluntary”, providing users an opportunity to decide if they want to install it or not.

“When users [...]

Melbourne, Aug 13 (ANI): Victoria Beckham took private lessons to soften her English accent and work on her facial expressions before appearing on American Idol, sources say.

“Victoria knows she has a very thick British accent and is sometimes misunderstood in America,” News.com.au quoted a [...]

Islamabad, Aug. 9 (ANI): The Pakistan People’s Party has accused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership in Punjab of ‘widespread corruption’, while the PML-N has rebuffed the allegation, charging the federal government of [...]

Mumbai, Aug 7 (ANI): Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of last year’s Mumbai attacks, on Friday (August 07) backtracked in court once again, pleading guilty to all charges an hour earlier.

Kasab, 21, a Pakistani citizen, has been charged [...]

Islamabad, Aug 4 (ANI): Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold talks in New York in September when the foreign ministers of both countries attend the United Nations General Assembly session.

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said he would like the foreign secretaries of the two countries to meet as soon as possible.

Talking to [...]

Lahore, Aug. 2 (ANI): Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has advised the present government to take the route of justice and not vengeance in the case of former president Pervez Musharraf.

The Daily Times quoted Kasuri, as saying that those who referred to Article 6(2) clearly stated that those who helped in the execution or [...]

Islamabad, Aug.2 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the final decision regarding the fate of former President General Pervez Musharraf would be taken by Parliament.

Commenting on the Supreme Court’s verdict that declared Musharraf’s November 3, 2007 actions as ‘extra-judicial and unconstitutional’, Gilani said Parliament is the appropriate forum to take decisions [...]

Washington, August 1 (ANI): A group of astronomers might be pushing for Pluto to be given back the status of a ‘planet’, but many experts feel that the definition will remain the same, that is, of a ‘dwarf planet’.

The debate surrounding the demoted planet [...]

Bangalore : If you’re a CET candidate whose application has been rejected, don’t lose heart. You have time till April 30 to fix all
problems in your application form, now that the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) ah reset the April 10-deadline to the month-end.
At least 227 applications were found incomplete for various reasons as candidates [...]

NEW DELHI: It’s again a callous case of two government departments working on different tangents on the same project, resulting in criminal waste
of taxpayers’ money. Two weeks after it was repaired by the Public Works
Department (PWD), Narwana Road in Patparganj has been dug again, for the sixth time in one-and-a-half years by the Delhi Jal [...]