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Addis Ababa, May 14 (IANS) The Ethiopian branch of a private Indian college has been barred from registering new students for four distance learning programmes until it renews its accreditation with its partner institution in India. The existing students can, however, continue.
Washington, April 15 (ANI): Watching romantic comedy films does not lead young adults to develop unrealistic expectations about relationships, according to a new study.
Washington, March 11 (ANI): Million of people will be sneezing and wheezing in the coming spring months because of seasonal allergies.
Los Angeles, Ma Mar 1 (IANS) "James Bond" star Pierce Brosnan has been honoured by a university theatre group in his native Ireland.
London, Feb 22 (IANS) Physically and mentally challenged people are more prone to being victims of violence, says a British study.
Dharamshala, Feb. 11 (ANI): Tibetans-in-exile living in Dharamshala held blood signature campaign on Monday to pay homage to self-immolators.
London, January 15 (ANI): A college has launched a course specifically aimed at helping prepare budding performers for the X Factor auditions.
Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 10 (ANI): Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has admitted that the Indian community has been a long-time 'fixed deposit' for the major political coalition in the country, Barisan Nasional, during the general elections.
Hyderabad, Nov. 7 (ANI): Clash erupted between the students of Osmania University and police following a protest demonstration on Wednesday, a day after a student committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree near the Arts College on the Osmania University campus.
Washington, Nov. 4 (ANI): It happened in 1844, and now 168 years later, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney may need to duplicate a rare achievement that James Polk, the 11th US President, made if he wants to defeat President Barack Obama in the White House race.
Washington, Nov 1 (IANS) Several Indian institutions have expressed interest in a newly-launched University of South Florida's fully online Master of Science in Management Information Systems degree programme, the Tampa Florida-based university said.
Washington, October 24 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Arizona and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made.
London, Oct 16 (ANI): People who enjoy life the most, are three times more likely to live a little longer than those who do so the least, a study has claimed.
London, October 7 (ANI): Madonna's daughter Lourdes is coming out of her mum's glitzy showbiz lifestyle as she has set her sights on studying performing arts.
Los Angeles, Oct 7 (IANS) Her mother is a pop queen and is constanly in the limelight, but Lourdes wants to evade all the attention she gets because of her mother, Madonna.
New York, Sept 9 (ANI): Al Pacino is set to play footie legend Joe Paterno in a new movie about the disgraced football coach.
London, Aug 28 (ANI): Children who watch films with a high sexual content tend to lose their virginity earlier and go on to become promiscuous, a new survey has revealed.
Washington, August 22 (ANI): An American company has developed an "electronic nose" prototype that can detect small quantities of harmful airborne substances based on the research by a professor at the University of California.
Washington, August 17 (ANI): Researchers have finally found a compound that may offer the first effective and hormone-free birth control pill for men.
London, August 3 (ANI): Archaeologists say they have found traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate in the Yucatan peninsula, the first time they have found ancient chocolate residue on a plate rather than a cup, suggesting it may have been used as a condiment or sauce with solid food.
London, July 25 (ANI): A research charity has launched an animated film with the aim to encourage debates about the surge of women seeking "designer vaginas".
Sydney, July 16 (IANS) Sea levels may rise much higher than previously thought, suggests a new study on fossil corals, which shows how warmer climes in the past promoted dramatic melting of polar ice sheets.
London, June 29 (IANS) A condition that temporarily causes heart failure among those who experience severe stress might actually protect the organ from very high adrenaline levels, says a research.
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) Delhi University officials Wednesday reassured students that last year's 100 percent cut-off debacle will not happen again.
Beijing, June 11 (IANS) One of China's two female astronaut candidates was once a hero pilot who successfully dealt with a mid-air emergency.
Washington, June 7 (ANI): President Barack Obama has a 12-point lead over presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, the latest poll in the state has found.
Washington, May 30 (ANI): Children, except the white boys, who spend hours watching the idiot box tend to feel worse about themselves, a new study has suggested.
London, May 29 (ANI): An Oxford University historian has claimed that the idea of a "Tudor era" in history is a misleading invention.
Washington, May 15 (ANI): A new study has found answer to why women choose sexy bad boys over nice guys - because they see handsome men as good fathers.
Washington, May 14 (IANS) Yahoo chief executive officer (CEO) Scott Thompson has resigned and the company has named Ross Levinsohn as interim CEO, Yahoo said Sunday.
London, May 6 (ANI): A team of researchers is focusing on growing replacement organs and body parts using a patient's own cells.
London, May 1 (ANI): A blood test that can identify women at high risk of breast cancer decades before the disease develops could be available in five years, say scientists.
Washington, April 27 (ANI): A new analysis issued by Republican strategist Karl Rove has shown that President Barack Obama held a sizable lead in the electoral college race over likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
London, Apr 15 (ANI): Infrared light can help in spotting cancerous tissue instantly, a new study has claimed.
London, March 21 (ANI): Differences in systolic blood pressure between arms could be a useful indicator of the likelihood of vascular risk and death, scientists have said.
London, March 21 (ANI): Differences in systolic blood pressure between arms could be a useful indicator of the likelihood of vascular risk and death, scientists have said.
London, March 14 (ANI): Researchers have found that inflammation plays a major role in the development of coronary heart disease.
London, March 14 (ANI): Researchers have found that inflammation plays a major role in the development of coronary heart disease.
London, Feb 20 (ANI): Providing the first experimental evidence, King's College London scientists have confirmed a great British mathematician's theory of how biological patterns, such as tiger stripes or leopard spots, are formed.
Washington, Jan 30 (ANI): Differences in systolic blood pressure between arms could be a useful indicator of the likelihood of vascular risk and death, scientists have said.
Washington, Jan 30 (ANI): Differences in systolic blood pressure between arms could be a useful indicator of the likelihood of vascular risk and death, scientists have said.
Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a brain protein that plays a role in regulating body weight.
Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): Scientists have found that a vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto certain other bacteria - including certain human pathogens -could serve as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious diseases.
Washington, Oct 26 (ANI): Actor Ashton Kutcher has urged fans to make donations to an educational charity co-founded by Steve Jobs' wife in honour of the late Apple, Inc. boss.
Washington, Oct 25 (ANI): Rural women are more likely than women living in cities to be diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer, a new study has revealed.
Washington, Sept 27(ANI): A new poll has shown that US President Barack Obama leads over top Republican White House contenders, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney by at least 20 points in New York, though the voters are evenly divided over re-electing Obama over "someone else."
Washington, Sept 26 (ANI): A new study has found that a bone-strengthening drug could relief pain in prostate cancer patients, who develop bone metastases.
London, Sept 5 (ANI): Treating children early for anxiety would reduce their risk of developing severe mental problems in later life by 60 per cent, a new study has suggested.
Washington, August 24 (ANI): The phenomenon called "baby fever" - the physical and emotional desire to have a baby - is found in both men and women, according to a new study.
Washington, May 12 (ANI): A Northwestern University study has found that musical training can offset some of the deleterious effects of aging.
London, May 11 (ANI): A study has indicated that people with fewer qualifications are prone to age more quickly.
London, April 24 (ANI): An invention that turns buildings into pollution-absorbing "sponges" could soon offer help in the future.
Washington, April 15 (ANI): A researcher at the University of Missouri may have discovered a way to protect buildings from a terrorist attack - retrofit buildings with carbon fiber.
Washington, Jan 22 (ANI): A new study shows that Greenland Ice Sheet set new records for melting in 2010 - the 'exceptional' season stretched up to 50 days longer than average.
Washington, Jan 3 (ANI): A new discovery that fish may have once swum across the Sahara could shed light on how humanity made its way out of Africa, say researchers.
London, Dec 16 (ANI): Contrary to previous beliefs, a new study has suggested that brain does not stop developing until late 40s.
Washington, Dec 11 (ANI): Scientists have developed FReD - the Floral Reflectance Database - which holds data on what colours flowers appear to be, to bees.
Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Scientists have discovered bacteria with a remarkable range of capabilities, including eating hydrocarbons and natural gas, and "fixing" or storing carbon, in the deepest layer of ocean crust ever explored.
London, Nov 3 (ANI): Experts from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Imperial College London and the University of Sydney have learnt how ancient plants and soil fungi turned the Earth green over 470 million years ago.
Melbourne, Nov 3 (ANI): Scientists may have found a new tool to trace the Sun's journey through our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Washington Sept 16 (ANI): A new study reveals that women with low sexual arousal experienced clinically significant symptom changes after taking a placebo.
London, Sept.15 (ANI): Indian, other Asian and Black pupils have been found to be much brighter than white British children when competing in exams at the age of 16, a study has shown.
Melbourne, Sep 13 (ANI): A Melbourne youth worker has expressed fear over cyber- bullying, which he believes has reached epidemic levels, amid new claims about young girls being pressured to provide pornographic images of themselves.
London, Sep 13 (ANI): That beer belly or a "muffin top" your friends find cute is more dangerous than it appears-it can dramatically increase the risk of bowel cancer, according to a study.
Washington, Sept 8 (ANI): The University of Cambridge has attained the numero uno spot in the 2010 QS World University Rankings, as Harvard University slipped to the second position for the first time in seven years.
London, August 20 (ANI): A student in Scotland has designed a special "happy chair" to give much-needed light therapy to people suffering the winter blues.
Washington, Aug 12 (ANI): People who are angry pay more attention to rewards than to threats, according to a new study.
London, Aug 2 (ANI): Researchers at the Northwestern University have drawn 15,000 identical city skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication technology called beam-pen lithography (BPL).
Mumbai ,July 3 (ANI-Business Wire India): Loyola College from Chennai was declared the national winners at the SIFE India National Championship 2010 for their project.
London, June 1 (ANI): Researchers have given a scientific explanation to why teenagers can't concentrate.
London, March 12 (ANI): About half of Cambridge University students have slept with two people in the same week, a new survey has revealed.
London, February 20 (ANI): Apple has decided to pull the plug on its application called Wobble iBoobs after receiving "numerous complaints" from customers.
London, Feb 15 (ANI): The scientist behind the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that falsely claimed the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 has dismissed the furor over the errors as "a clamour without substance".
London, Feb 9 (ANI): The Cassini probe has detected negatively charged water molecules in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus, which gives credibility to the theory that the natural satellite hides a large body of liquid water beneath its icy skin.
Melbourne, Feb 8 (ANI): Boredom can actually kill you, a new study has revealed.
Washington, February 3 (ANI): A new research by scientists has rejected the 80-year old theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life, and has instead suggested that claims it was the Earth's chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, which kick-started early life.
Washington, February 3 (ANI): A new research by scientists has rejected the 80-year old theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life, and has instead suggested that claims it was the Earth's chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, which kick-started early life.
London, Jan 27 (ANI): A new study has proved that men prefer less powerful women.
Washington, Dec. 26 (ANI): A failed attempt by a London student to bomb a Detroit-bound trans-Atlantic flight with a mixture of powder and liquid is being seen by the United States as "an attempted act of terrorism."
London, Dec 5 (ANI): Students at Cambridge University's Newnham College were put on alert after it was found that the condoms given out had been pierced by saboteurs.
Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): Scientists have found little evidence suggesting that menopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy are at an increased cardiovascular disease risk.
Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): Scientists from Iowa State University have made a novel discovery that can possibly help cure Parkinson's disease.
Washington, October 20 (ANI): Rocker Jack White believes Britney Spears is "more authentic" than legendary rockers Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.
Washington, Oct 7 (ANI): A new review suggests that brushing removable dentures with a paste product may be the best way to keep them clean.
Washington, Sept 30 (ANI): A new study from University of Missouri has shown that nearly half of the people diagnosed with bipolar disorder between the ages of 18 and 25 are likely to outgrow the disorder by the time they reach 30.
London, Sept 2 (ANI): Five pints of beer in an evening can have greater effect on men's waist size than a regular tipple, suggests a British study.
Mumbai, Aug. 8 (ANI): Former President Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam on Saturday refused to buy the argument that there was any brain drain in the country, as a substantial amount of graduates in an academic year choose to work for country's progress.
Washington, July 31 (ANI): Kansas State University researchers say that the studies they are carrying out with collaborators from other institutions have started to reveal the characteristics of the pandemic H1N1 virus.
Washington, July 28 (ANI): A team of scientists at the University of Houston has set out to both amplify and provoke the potential in materials to produce electricity for themselves, which can be used to create nanodevices that can power electronics, such as cell phones, MP3 players and even biomedical implants.
London, July 13 (ANI): Imperial College London scientists say that slow blood flow in arteries may hinder the protective effect of statins.
London, June 16 (ANI): Drunken, bikini-clad Cambridge University students were seen collapsing and throwing up after binge drinking at midday on a Sunday afternoon.
London, June 1 (ANI): Creating healthy cells from flakes of skin and strands of hair plucked from patients, a team of U.S.-based scientists have made a big leap towards developing a potential treatment for a rare inherited disease.
Washington, May 16 (ANI): An inexpensive plastic used to manufacture CDs and DVDs will one day soon be put to use in improving the integrity of electronics in aircraft, computers and iPhones.
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Air Marshal Pradeep Naik will assume command of the Indian Air Force (IAF) May 31 when the present air chief, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, retires, it was announced here Friday.
Washington, March 13 (IANS) Researchers have developed a new mouse model that allows them to replicate normal pigment cells at the earliest stages of conversion to malignant skin cancer in humans. After testing the mice with a combination of two drug therapies, they found the treatment caused a statistically significant regression in cancer cell development.
London, Feb 26 (ANI): Just imagine-a school on the beach that awards degrees. Well, that's what a new surf course is offering students who love riding the waves.
Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): A team of scientists, including an Indian-origin boffin, has identified a specific gene that plays a key role in the weight-gain response to a high-fat diet.
London, Feb 6 (ANI): Hollywood actors Renee Zellweger and James Franco have been honoured with the title of 2009 Woman and Man of the Year at the Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society.
London, Jan 17 (ANI): Renowned British cartoonist Quentin Blake has caricatured two of Cambridge University's most famous alumni for a show to mark the institution's 800th birthday. Sketches of scientists Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton will form part of a light show which will illuminate the university's Senate House on Saturday night.
Pano Aqil (Pakistan), Jan 11 (IANS) The evidences received from India in the Mumbai terror attacks are being investigated, 'but no Pakistani would be handed over to another country', a media report quoted Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani as saying Sunday.
