Everything you need to know about Nilgiri College: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Nilgiri College: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Chennai, June 9 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has strongly urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to instruct officials to send back two Sri Lankan defence officers undergoing training in Tamil Nadu.
Washington, May 27 (ANI): A new Florida State University study has offered managers practical ways to help workaholics stay healthy and effective on the job.
Kotagiri (Tamil Nadu), Feb.24 (ANI): India's diverse and rich culture was on display recently, when 435 students and locals performed the Badaga dance for eleven minutes and created a new world record in Kotagiri, which is located in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri District.
Nilgiri Hills (Tamil Nadu), Feb 3 (ANI): Five generations of a family recently came together to celebrate the 110th birthday of Rujam, believed to be the oldest woman in the Toda tribal community of Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu.
London, Jan 30 (ANI): Data captured by smartphone sensors can help criminals determine codes used to lock the gadgets, security researchers have warned.
Chennai, Jan.17 (ANI): Addressing a gathering at a function organised in Kodanadu in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri District to mark the 96th birth anniversary of AIADMK founder and former chief minister M.G. Ramchandran on Thursday, Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa vowed to put an end to the "arrogance" of the opposition DMK in the 2014 general elections.
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) India has managed to protect nearly 1,504 species of butterflies discovered in the subcontinent despite threats to their survival by sporadic forest fires and depleting green cover, says leading butterfly researcher and environmentalist Peter Smetacek.
London, Dec 19 (IANS) While making new friends on the social networking sites like Facebook, not many of us realise it could actually define our life. A study has suggested it actually reveals a lot about us.
London, November 26 (ANI): By keeping your heart healthy and blood pressure under control, you could avoid Alzheimer's disease, say scientists.
Chennai, Nov 17 (IANS) Happy days are ahead for elephants belonging to temples and 'mutts' in Tamil Nadu as they will head for a special rejuvenation camp starting this month as ordered by Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa Saturday.
Chennai, Nov 17 (IANS) Happy days are back for elephants belonging to temples and 'mutts' in Tamil Nadu with the state government reviving the special rejuvenation camps for the pachyderms.
Washington, November 11 (ANI): Scientists from Ireland have discovered a brain region that plays a major role in romantic decision-making.
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Washington, November 1 (ANI): Researchers at Baylor University's Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory have found that clinical hypnosis can effectively reduce hot flashes and associated symptoms among postmenopausal women.
Washington, October 23 (ANI): Researchers including one of an Indian origin have found that it's much easier for consumers to justify continued support of a celebrity or politician disgraced by scandal when they separate moral judgments about a public figure from assessments of their professional performance.
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Over two decades back, visually impaired student Dipendra Manocha stood outside Delhi University's Hindu College waiting to get an application written. After the life-altering struggle of finding a writer, Manocha set himself on a mission - helping the blind read and write.
Washington, Aug 3 (IANS) In television classic "I Love Lucy", Ricky Ricardo switched into rapid-fire Spanish whenever he was upset, despite the fact that Lucy had no idea what her Cuban husband was saying.
London, July 17 (ANI): The Tea Board of India is organizing a series of special events during the London Olympics.
Washington, July 4 (IANS) Children exposed to community violence may be traumatised up to a year after the event, which may carry long-term negative consequences for health, says a study.
Washington, June 28 (ANI): A condition that temporarily causes heart failure in people who experience severe stress might actually protect the heart by stopping the organ being pumped with too much adrenaline, a new study has revealed.
Washington, May 24 (ANI): Animals first moved from sea to land using a crutch-like movement, where the front limbs hoisted the rest of the body, according to a new study.
London, May 7 (IANS) Injecting a protein into the brain could protect its nerve cells from prion disease, a condition which causes the brain to wither away, says a new study.
The research was carried in rats at Imperial College London showed that the effect of heart failure on the cardiac muscles is not permanent as people generally think. The findings of the research could help the scientists to discover new treatment strategies.
Washington, April 2 (ANI): A new study has revealed that structural changes in heart muscle cells after heart failure can be reversed by allowing the heart to rest.
London, April 2 (IANS) The damage to cardiac cells after a heart failure can be undone by allowing the heart to rest, according to new study.
Lahore, Mar 16(ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said had he been scared of anyone, he would not have joined politics, and added that he would rather be jailed than re-opening the alleged money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
Lahore, Mar 16(ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said had he been scared of anyone, he would not have joined politics, and added that he would rather be jailed than re-opening the alleged money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
London, Feb 19 (ANI): Couples who compete with each other over who has had the worse day or bombard the family with their workplace problems may be on the road to divorce, experts have warned.
London, Feb 19 (ANI): Couples who compete with each other over who has had the worse day or bombard the family with their workplace problems may be on the road to divorce, experts have warned.
Washington, Feb 17 (ANI): Researchers have shed light on the role of support in households where daily stress is common to both spouses.
Washington, Feb 17 (ANI): Researchers have shed light on the role of support in households where daily stress is common to both spouses.
London, Feb 14 (ANI): It is often believed that 'love is a drug'' and now a new research has confirmed that romance really does work in a similar manner as addiction to illegal substances and activates a reaction in the same part of the brain.
Damascus, Jan 31 (ANI): Syrian President Bashar Assad's British-born wife Asma, and children have reportedly been stopped by rebel forces trying to flee the country with the help of the nation's security forces.
Damascus, Jan 31 (ANI): Syrian President Bashar Assad's British-born wife Asma, and children have reportedly been stopped by rebel forces trying to flee the country with the help of the nation's security forces.
Washington, Jan 24 (ANI): Researchers have developed a new gene therapy method that has the potential to treat a common form of blindness, which strikes both youngsters and adults.
Washington, Jan 24 (ANI): Researchers have developed a new gene therapy method that has the potential to treat a common form of blindness, which strikes both youngsters and adults.
Washington, Jan 13 (ANI): Reservation for women in leadership positions in Indian villages is having a positive role model effect and has changed the way young girls and their parents think about female leadership, a new research has said.
Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Botanists have discovered a new wild ginger from the evergreen forest of Western Ghats of South India.
Dharmapuri, Dec 23 (ANI): Forest authorities in Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri District conducted a training programme to educate and train staff on how to handle snakes and to make them aware about importance of maintaining the ecological balance.
London, Dec 12 (ANI): Women who develop diabetes while they are pregnant, or become pregnant while being overweight, put the long-term health of their children at risk, experts have warned.
Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): Scientists including one of Indian origin have for the first time found that brain plays a key role in regulating glucose (sugar) metabolism in humans.
Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): A new study including an Indian-origin scientist has found that cigarette smoking may impair pancreatic duct cell function even after quitting, putting all smokers at risk of compromised digestive function regardless of age, gender and alcohol intake.
London, Oct 28 (ANI): A leading gender expert has claimed that more and more women are turning into 'Mean Girls,' and he blames the scarcity of good men as partly responsible for this catty behaviour.
London, Oct 11 (ANI): Former Bond girl Shannon Ledbetter has been officially inducted as a canon - a permanent member of cathedral clergy - at Blackburn Cathedral after quitting her acting and modelling career for a role in the church.
Washington, Sept 18 (ANI): Are you addicted to your phone while driving? Well, it could be due to an anxiety disorder, says a new study.
London, August 21 (ANI): It is not as simple as what you eat that makes you fat, but factors like allergies, stress, insomnia and being toxic that contribute a great deal to those unwanted kilos.
London, July 26 (ANI): Palaeontologists and molecular biologists have been debating for decades about whether turtles are more closely related to birds and crocodiles or to lizards.
Washington, July 8 (ANI): An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of Britain and Ireland around 20,000 to 50,000-years-ago.
Washington, June 16 (ANI): Researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Smith College have found a diversity of 710 million-year-old fossils in rocks, suggesting life may have recovered relatively after the planet emerged from a global glaciation, or 'Snowball Earth', event.
Washington, June 9 (ANI): Researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine have discovered a new treatment for colon cancer that combines a breast cancer drug and a cancer-fighting antibody.
Washington, May 27 (ANI): An Indian-origin researcher has found that long-term exposure to estrogen can lead to higher risk of developing high blood pressure.
London, April 22 (ANI): A former anorexia sufferer has created a life-sized Barbie as a means to raising awareness about the dangers of eating disorders.
Washington, March 31 (ANI): A new study has found that breast cancer patients who become resistant to tamoxifen may have low levels of a protein called Rho GDI-alpha.
Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): Most people are willing to pay to be protected from identity theft, according to a new study.
Mumbai/New Delhi, Jan 31 (ANI): The Indian naval ship, INS Vindhyagiri, that caught fire after collision with a foreign merchant vessel at the Mumbai harbour sunk on Monday.
London, Dec 31 (ANI): A suspected paedophile has been attempting to groom UK schoolchildren on social networking site Facebook by posing as their new classmate.
London, Nov 24 (ANI): University College London researchers have found that hardy bugs like Deinococcus radiodurans could survive dormant on Mars for over a million years, at least in theory.
Melbourne, Nov 14 (ANI): A group of Aussie teenage girls have been found filming unprovoked 'tag team' attacks on fellow students and circulating the footage via mobile phones.
Washington, Oct 8 (ANI): A new study has suggested that tracing the way melanoma cells use the immune system to spread and develop into lung tumours may lead to a therapy to decrease development of these tumours.
London, Aug 31 (ANI): The standard equipment found with doctors, stethoscope, may soon be history as millions of doctors across the world are signing up for a free iphone app that can monitor heartbeat.
Kolkata, Aug 28 (ANI): A group of students here on Saturday protested the visit of the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, to the Presidency College.
Washington, Aug 11 (ANI): A study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found preliminary evidence that brain fitness programs may help frail elderly walk faster, potentially preventing disability and improving quality of life.
London, July 11 (ANI): Leading British doctors have urged ministers to impose 'fat taxes' on unhealthy food and introduce cigarette-style warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet.
Shimla, July 5 (ANI): A group of officers and employees of Indian Railways on Sunday began a three-day walk to create public awareness about the Kalka-Shimla railway line in Himachal Pradesh, a UNESCO world heritage site.
London, June 23 (ANI): A new study has found no association between a mother living near to a mobile phone base station during her pregnancy and the risk of that child developing cancer before reaching the age of five.
London, June 6 (ANI): A new study, led by a UK research team, has suggested that a single dose of radiation during surgery is just as effective as a prolonged course of radiotherapy for breast cancer.
London, Apr.21 (ANI): A far bigger Icelandic volcano, Katla, is tipped to erupt in the coming months, potentially causing much more savage and sustained disruption to industry and society, The Independent reports.
Moga (Punjab), Mar 20 (ANI): Two students of the Moga Polytechnic College have invented a tractor that can be operated with the help of a mobile phone.
London, Mar 15 (ANI): People really do have the ability of selective hearing - the power to filter out unwanted noise and conversation, a new study has found.
Washington, March 11(ANI): In a new study, an international team of scientists has determined that the long-term survival of many large species in the midst of rapid economic growth in India will require improving existing protected areas and establishing new protected areas and corridors.
London, Feb 13(ANI): Prince Charles has said spiritual care can help the healing process, and has called on healthcare providers to reintroduce patients to "mind, body and spirit" while aiding in their recovery.
London, Feb 10 (ANI): A British teacher is said to have lavished a 15-year-old schoolboy with expensive gifts and alcohol in a bid to groom him for sex.
Dharamshala, Feb 3 (ANI): Tour operators and locals in Himachal Pradesh are upbeat over the prospects of pre-independence era Kangra valley railway from Kalka to Shimla being included in UNESCO's World Heritage status.
Washington, January 22 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have discovered that some of the most fundamental assumptions about how water moves through soil in a seasonally dry climate are incorrect - and that a century of research based on those assumptions will have to be reconsidered.
Washington, November 28 (ANI): A group of researchers at the City College of New York (CCNY) is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity.
London, November 25 (ANI): The Indian government has rejected a site under Nilgiri hills at Singara in the state of Tamil Nadu for the construction of a neutrino laboratory, due to environmental issues.
Washington, November 23 (ANI): A group of researchers at the City College of New York (CCNY), US, is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity.
Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): A new study by American and British scientists has tried to explain why bird flu has not become a pandemic disease.
Chennai, Nov. 10 (ANI): A major landslide, triggered by seasonal torrential rains, has killed at least 42 people in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri district.
Coimbatore, Oct 29 (AN0: Tamil Nadu recovered heads of deer, fox and blackbucks after a surprise raid at a club in Nilgiri district on Wednesday.
Washington, Oct 2 (ANI): A regular tai chi exercise program can help people better control their diabetes, says a new study.
Washington, Sept 29 (ANI): Having a pet in your life can help you stay hale and hearty, say researchers.
Washington, September 26 (ANI): Compulsive hoarding may be inherited in some cases, with gene research lending some support to this suggestion.
London, September 23 (ANI): Reports indicate that India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh is all set to visit the site of a proposed underground neutrino laboratory next month, to try to break the impasse between physicists and environmentalists over its construction.
Palada (Tamil Nadu), Sep 3 (ANI): A museum in Tamil Nadu's Palada district provides an insight into the life of tribal communities living in Nilgiri Hills as it displays traditional tribal weapons, utensils, musical instruments, jewellery and costumes.
Coimbatore, Aug.12 (ANI): The Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri district is witnessing many visitors eager to have a glimpse of two new arrivals-a baby elephant and a panther cub.
Washington, June 25 (ANI): Organizations like Girl Scouts provide an ideal setting for girls to boost their physical activity and to promote a healthy lifestyle, according to a Kansas State University researcher.
Washington, June 20 (ANI): From the time humans came to being, males have been dubbed "bread-winners".
Mumbai, April 17 (IANS) Two more college students have been arrested for the gang rape of an American student here, taking the number of those arrested to five. One suspect was still absconding, the police said Friday.
Washington/Chennai, March 31 (IANS) US police investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Santa Clara, California that left six Indians dead and one critically injured, believe that financial distress may not have been the motive behind the crime.
Washington/Chennai, March 31 (IANS) An Indian IT professional in the US fired at his family after a quarrel with his brother-in-law, killing five people including three children. He then shot himself dead with a gun, a relative in a Tamil Nadu village said Tuesday.
Chennai, March 31 (IANS) An Indian IT professional in the US opened fire at his family members following a quarrel with his brother-in-law, killing five people, including three children. He then shot himself dead, a relative in a Tamil Nadu village said Tuesday.
Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu), Mar 31 (ANI): In a bizarre tradition followed by Toda tribals in Tamil Nadu, marriage of a couple is solemnized only after the bride successfully conceives the baby of her husband.
Bhubaneswar, Mar 28 (ANI): The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Saturday announced to campaign the upcoming elections jointly with the Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and allotted three Lok Sabha and 17 assembly seats to these parties.
Melbourne, Mar 23 (ANI): A new study by University of South Carolina researchers has found that women who work out are three times less likely to die of breast cancer.
Kolakombai (Tamil Nadu), Mar 13 (ANI): Forest authorities rescued a four-year old bear, which got trapped in solar fencing in Tamil Nadu.he bear was rescued at a cardamom estate in Kolakombai village of Nilgiri district of the state.
London, Mar 1 (ANI): Hospital beddings, curtains and even patients' pyjamas could become weapon against superbugs that kill thousands of people every year, according to researchers from Imperial College London.
Kolkata, Feb.22 (ANI): Not many may know, today there are only six living practitioners of the intricate 'Roghan' fabric painting tradition in the world, all of them belonging to the Khatri family of in Nirona Village in Gujarat's Kutch district.
Bangalore, Feb 10 (ANI): Hundreds of enthusiasts in Bangalore converged at Cocoa 09, India's first chocolate exhibition, showcasing some monuments of the world and many other items, all made of chocolate.
Washington, Jan 13 (IANS) A popular menthol compound used for relieving symptoms of cough and congestion, instead creates breathing distress in infants and small children, according to the latest research.
