Everything you need to know about Killing Centre: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Killing Centre: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) There is new hope for those who are sick of their glasses but have been refused Lasik surgery for sight correction as their cornea was too thin or irregular. A new method now assures complete vision correction through a quick and ablation-free technique.
Washington, May 24 (ANI): Tomatoes, believed to be the most popular fruit in the world, could be made to taste better and have a longer shelf life.
London, May 23 (ANI): Teenagers are now turning to Twitter as their enthusiasm for Facebook is waning, a new study has found.
Thiruvananthapuram, May 20 (IANS) An international tobacco control survey has found that a ban on tobacco advertisements, especially where tobacco is sold, leads to lower sales of cigarettes.
Islamabad, May 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which is set to lead the government at the Centre, has reportedly told Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani that Pervez Musharraf should leave Pakistan before the elected government takes charge from the caretakers.
London, May 18 (ANI): Justin Bieber has been hit with a hefty bill by the quarantine centre caring for his pet monkey.
New Delhi, May 18 (ANI): The government is considering a proposal to raise the eligibility criteria of income for people availing minority welfare schemes.
London/Brussels, May 17 (ANI): Condemning the brutal murder of Kashmiri nationalist leader Arif Shahid on May 13 the Kashmir National Party (KNP) will observe a five-day long hunger strike outside Pakistani High Commission in London from May 20 (Monday).
New Delhi, May 15 (ANI): The Central Government willl launch Direct Benefit Transfer scheme for LPG in 20 districts from June 1.
Beijing, May 15 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Tibet in southwest China Wednesday, the China Earthquake Networks Centre said.
Abu Dhabi, May 15 (IANS/WAM) Abu Dhabi has been named among the top 100 busiest global destinations for meetings, in the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) rankings.
The Central Government has hiked the monetary assistance to the poor class by Rs.25,000 under its housing scheme with special primacy to Scheduled Castes, tribals and minorities.
New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): The Central Government has hiked by Rs.25,000 the monetary assistance under its housing scheme for the poor, giving primacy to Scheduled Castes, tribals and minorities.
London, May 13 (ANI): Climate change could lead to decline in more than 50 per cent of common plants and 33 per cent of animals can see this century, a research has suggested.
New Delhi, May 11 (ANI): Diesel prices have been hiked by one rupee two paisa per litre. This came into a effect from Friday night.
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Several human rights activists Friday demanded the abolishment of death penalty in India, saying that capital punishment is serving agenda of political class.
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University's Center of English Studies has once again been ranked amidst the top 100 English departments in the world by prestigious QS World University Rankings 2013.
Students, who have filled the application form for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2013 and have not received the CLAT Admit Card 2013 so far via speed post, can download it from the CLAT official website " http://clat.ac.in/clat/admit.php "
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Governments and businesses cannot build a sound future without co-opting the $2.7 trillion creative and culture industry that accounts for 6.1 percent of the world's output and eight million direct jobs, says a leading think tank that seeks to promote cultural diversity.
Washington, May 10 (IANS) As the US Congress opened a debate on comprehensive immigration reforms, a poll found wide variation in the Americans' views on how to deal with 11 million undocumented immigrants, including some 260,000 Indians.
New Delhi, May 9 (ANI): Former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday pointed out that the party founded by him four months ago got ten per cent votes in the assembly elections, and promised to build the newly-floated political outfit Karnataka Janata Party (KJP).
London, May 09 (ANI): The first draft of 50 pages of 'Sex and the City' author Candace Bushnell's unpublished novel have been leaked online by a celebrity hacker, who uses the pseudonym Guccifer.
Washington, May 9 (ANI): A bizarre 12-centimetre-long skeleton found in a pouch in a ghost town in the Atacama Desert of Chile ten years ago has confused scientists and UFO enthusiasts.
New Delhi, May 9 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) on Thursday filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) against the custodial death of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay at the PGIMER, Chandigarh due to multiple organ failure.
Bhubaneswar, May 9 (IANS) It's turning out to be a sizzling summer in Odisha with the the mercury touching 44.8 degrees Celsius in the towns of Sambalpur and Balangir, an official said Thursday. And the heat wave conditions will last for at least the next two days.
London, May 07(ANI): Lindsay Lohan is keen to leave the Betty Ford Centre, days after her newly rehired lawyer cut a last-minute deal to let her go there.
New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in a press release today stated that Delhi University has decided to introduce compulsory Hindi and other Modern Indian Languages (MILs) in its four-year course programme for undergraduates without assessing the capacity of the faculty on MILs.
Jaipur, May 4 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Saturday said India has been active in international forums relating to environmental protection, and is party to 94 multilaterals environmental agreements such as the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), among many others.
Panaji, May 4 (IANS) The Indian state appeared to have "over-reacted" over the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, a former top spy said Saturday.
Madrid, May 4 (IANS) Spain's consumer confidence in April increased by 4.6 points to 56.7, according to data published by the Sociological Research Centre (CIS) in Spain.
Sydney, May 4 (ANI): Young Australian cricketer Mitchell Marsh, who has been recalled to the squad for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy, has said that he has learnt from his mistakes made off the field, although he said that he felt that his lapses of the past year have been blown out of proportion.
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is paying a three-day visit to Iran from Friday, during which development of the Chabahar port that would provide India a vital link to transport its goods to Afghanistan is to figure prominently.
Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) Odisha continued to reel under intense heat, with one of its towns Thursday recording 43.7 degrees Celsius, the day's highest in the state, an official said.
Jaipur, May 2 (IANS) Cairn India is setting up a centre of excellence in Jodhpur that will provide world class training for upgrading skills of people engaged in the oil and gas industry.
New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence awarded to murder convict M N Das to life imprisonment.
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The 18th European Union Film Festival will screen movies like "Fast Girls", "Beyond" and "My Name Is Ki", which focus on different aspects of womanhood.
Washington, April 30 (ANI): It will be possible to forecast the outbreak of dengue fever up to 16 weeks in advance, with the help of a warning system which measures the risk of dengue incidence using precipitation and air temperature.
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) A six-year-old girl who was found unconscious near a public toilet in Badarpur, south Delhi, with critical injuries Friday is recovering, a doctor treating her said Sunday.
Bhubaneswar, Apr. 26 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday said the Biju Janata Dal has called for a peaceful 'hartal' through out the state against the Centre's continuous negligence.
Sydney, Apr. 26 (ANI): Children as young as eight years are suffering from severe back pain and headaches caused due to over-indulgence in iPads and smart phones.
Sydney, Apr 26 (ANI): Former Australian cricketers Stuart MacGill and Ashley Mallett, who have been appointed by Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence as coach and consultant respectively, are reportedly set to give a new direction to the country's spin attack.
In an another breakthrough over cancer, scientists from Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR) have revealed new findings that can help design new treatment methods for cancer. Scientists have found that why a particular cancer drug is so effective at killing cells.
Washington, April 25 (ANI): Scientists from the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR) have made a breakthrough that could be used to aid the design of future cancer treatments.
London, April 23(ANI): Heather Graham has written a play related to women's attitudes towards sex.
New Delhi, April 23 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) has cleared 13 power projects involving investment worth Rs.33,000 crore rupees.
Sydney, April 22 (ANI): A major scientific research project has found that warming over the 20th century produced the hottest global average temperatures in 1400 years.
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has demanded the sacking of policemen who failed to register a complaint about the rape of a five-year-old in the capital.
Toronto, April 18 (IANS) Toronto Raptors completed their 2012-13 season with a 114-90 victory over the Boston Celtics in NBA action.
Thiruvananthapuram, April 17 (IANS) Kerala will conduct a survey on the state's diaspora next month in association with the Indian government, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said Wednesday.
Tehran, April 16 (IANS) At least 40 people were killed when a powerful quake shook Iran Tuesday, a week after 32 people were left dead and 850 wounded in a temblor in Bushehr province which is home to Iran's nuclear plant.
Washington, April 15 (ANI): The ExoMars Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) structural model has been subjected to a series of intense shaker tests at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, to simulate the rigours of launching into space.
Sydney, Apr. 12 (ANI): Child pornography laws that mean teenagers could be charged for sharing revealing images 'excessive and hyped' of themselves on cell phones need amending, according to a report.
London, Apr 11 (ANI): An Iranian scientist has claimed that he has successfully invented a machine that allows users to fast forward up to eight years into the future.
London, April 10 (IANS) A 5,300-year-old iceman -- dubbed Otzi -- whose remains were found frozen in the Italian Alps, probably never cleaned his teeth, and suffered from bad breath as a result, researchers have said.
London, Apr. 6 (ANI): Madonna has explained to her Malawian critics that her motive for being in the country was because she "cared deeply" for the children there.
New Delhi, Apr 5 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved a proposal to abolish the levy-sugar mechanism, under which private millers have to sell a specified quantity of the sweetener to the government at concessional rates.
Sydney, Apr 5 (ANI): Former England batting enigma Graeme Hick will be mentoring emerging Australian batsmen from this winter and teach them the lost art of playing marathon innings.
New Delhi, Apr.4 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in its press release today stated that President Pranab Mukherjee has reduced the President's Office to a rubber stamp of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) while rejecting mercy pleas of the death-row convicts as per the advice of the latter.
Lucknow, Apr. 3 (ANI): Taking potshots at the Congress-led UPA Government, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday said fighting with the Centre is not easy as it can use Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and put one in jail.
Washington, April 3 (ANI): People with mental illnesses are more than seven times more likely to use cannabis weekly compared to people without the condition, US researchers say.
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Space almost feels like home, Indian American Sunita Williams, who holds the record of the longest spacewalk by a woman astronaut, said here Monday.
Milan, March 31 (IANS) Juventus avenged their loss to Inter early in the season in the Derby d'Italia as they won 2-1 at San Siro.
Washington, Mar. 29 (ANI): An international team of physicists has proposed a telecommunications technology inspired laser system to produce the next generation of particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The Hague, March 29 (IANS) Ajax Amsterdam has the most productive youth academy in European football, according to a survey done by three researchers from the International Centre for Sports Research (CIES) from Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Washington, Mar. 29 (ANI): Angelina Jolie, who set the rumours mills spinning about her marriage after she was spotted sporting a simple gold band instead of her diamond engagement ring, has rubbished the rumours that she has gotten married to her fiance Brad Pitt.
Kuala Lumpur, March 28 (IANS) India's top squash players Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal lost their respective matches in the KL Open here Thursday.
Kuala Lumpur, March 28 (IANS) India's top squash players Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal lost their respective matches in the KL Open here Thursday.
London, Mar. 28 (ANI): Italy's would-be Prime Minister has said only a mentally ill person would want to govern the country now, as the eurozone's third biggest democracy continues to tie itself in knots.
Washington, Mar. 28 (ANI): 80 new regions of the genome associated with an increased vulnerability to developing breast, prostate and ovarian cancers have been identified by European Collaborative Oncological Gen-Environmental Study (COGS) by using mass sequencing techniques.
Beijing, March 27 (IANS) China had more than 170,000 government microblogs by the end of last year, according to a report issued Wednesday.
Helsinki, March 27 (IANS) Five bottles of beer that had been well preserved for 170 years in a shipwreck will be reproduced and introduced to the market, reports Xinhua.
Beijing, March 27 (IANS) A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has jolted Nantou county in Taiwan Wednesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre.
New Delhi, Mar. 26 (ANI): With the UPA Government looking into the demands for special status for Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said the Nitish Kumar-ruled state does deserve a special status to get rid of its deprived status, but added that it should not be mixed with the ruling Congress Party's strategy to stay in power at the Centre.
London, March 25 (IANS) Scientists in Britain have shown that a popular Parkinson's disease drug can better older people's decision making abilities that are affected with age, says a study.
Washington, Mar 25 (ANI): A drug widely used to treat Parkinson's Disease can help reverse age-related impairments in decision making in some older people, a new study led by an Indian researcher has found.
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Fancy bonding over a fragrant dark brew to discuss your problems and find solutions? Head for the Ethiopian Cultural Centre here where the East African nation's traditional coffee ceremony is there for the partaking.
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed two-part series "Gangs Of Wasseypur" will be screened at the ongoing 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) An estimated 10,000 new cases of eye cancer are diagnosed every year in the country, eye care expertsd and doctors said here Friday.
Washington, Mar. 21 (ANI): Sheryl Crow is staging an intimate gig in her native Missouri, to raise funds for a friend, who is suffering from cancer.
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Dynamic opener David Warner has said he harbours ambitions of captaining the Australian Test team one day.
London, Mar 20 (ANI): Legendary comedian John Cleese has blasted Cbosses saying that they have no idea how to make comedies any more.
Johannesburg, Mar 19 (ANI): A lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department (NYPD) to be racist has gone underway, with a lawyer claiming that NYPD officers have been wrongly stopping many young men based solely on their race.
Dubai, Mar 19 (ANI): One of the greatest Latin American singer Julio Iglesias is coming for a one-night-only concert at the Dubai World Trade Centre's Shaikh Rashid Hall on Thursday, March 21.
New Delhi, Mar 18 (ANI): The anti-rape bill, aimed to provide stricter punishment for crimes against women, is currently being discussed in an all-party meeting here.
Washington, Mar. 18 (ANI): Kate Middleton, who is still playing coy about whether her royal bundle of joy will be a baby girl or baby boy, reportedly said that she is prepared for the sleepless nights that will come with her child's arrival.
Melbourne, March 16 (ANI): Women are more likely to use cannabis to maintain their social circles, according to an addiction expert.
Washington, Mar 16 (ANI): A donated human liver has been kept alive, warm and functioning outside a human body for the first time in medical history on a newly-developed machine and then successfully transplanted into the patient.
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) There has been no specific threat to the Sriharikota Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh but security of India's satellite launch centre was constantly being reviewed, parliament was told Thursday.
New Delhi, Mar 14 (ANI): Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V. Narayanasamy on Thursday informed that the security situation at Sriharikota is being continuously observed and there has been no specific security threat against the Space Centre.
Washington, March 14 (ANI): A team of physicists has looked at the conditions necessary for the formation of carbon and oxygen in the universe, the two elements crucial to life.
London, March 11 (IANS) Late actress Amy Winehouse's father Mitch Winehouse will launch a drugs education programme in schools in the honour of his late daughter.
Washington, March 11 (ANI): Tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass - plants and plant material - in response to greenhouse gas emissions over the twenty-first century than may previously have been thought, a study has suggested.
Washington, March 9 (ANI): Women who are obese during pregnancy put their offspring at four times the risk to have frequent wheezing, a symptom associated with susceptibility to asthma during infancy that manifests as sharp, whistling sounds when breathing, a new study has warned.
Moscow, March 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Two asteroids, one of them bigger in size than the celestial body that burst over Russia last month, will fly by the Earth Saturday, though not as close as to threaten collision.
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The central government will work with states to evolve broad consensus on the proposal to create the anti-terror hub NCTC, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the Rajya Sabha Friday and hoped that all parties will speak with one voice on the issue of combating terrorism.
New Delhi, Mar. 8 (ANI): Asserting that all political parties need to speak with one voice in dealing with terrorism, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in an endeavour to break the deadlock over the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) today offered to work with states to evolve a consensus on this vital security measure.
Los Angeles, March 8 (IANS) What makes us happy? Family? Money? Love? How about a peptide? For the first time, scientists have found a link between happiness and levels of a chemical within the body, which could offer hope for patients with psychiatric disorders, says a study.
New Delhi, Mar 8 (ANI): Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari on Friday said it is the collective responsibility of Centre, State governments and every individual to ensure safety and security of women at public places.
Los Angeles, March 8 (IANS) Actor Colin Firth has become vice president of a speech therapy charity in Britain.
Moscow, March 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The state-run construction company set up to build most of the facilities for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics has been accused by Russian auditors of unjustified cost escalation to the tune of $506 million.
