Asian News International An American university lecturer has started giving out extra marks to students who go on dates with each other.
Kerry Cronin, a lecturer at Boston College, was apparently disappointed by the internet’s destructive effect on her students’ social skills and was prompted to take this measure, Metro.c.uk reported.
However, the Cronin dates’ are not allowed to involve kissing, sex or even alcohol. (ANI)
Researchers have discovered the largest fresh meteor-impact crater on Mars, NASA said in a statement.
The before-and-after images of the crater were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
The crater is half the size of a football ground and first appeared in March 2012, the US space agency said.
It was captured by the orbiter’s weather-monitoring camera, the Mars Color Imager (MARCI).
Reliance Industries today hit out at Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) for suing it over KG gas dispute, saying some elements in the state-owned firm may be “misleading” the chairman D K Sarraf to hide their failure in developing the discoveries made over 13 years.
ONGC had on May 15 moved the Delhi High Court alleging that RIL may have drawn natural gas worth thousands of crores of rupees from its fields that sit next to Mukesh Ambani-run firm’s KG-D6 block Krishna Godavari basin.
How about a watch that makes and receives calls and you just need to hold your wrist up to the mouth!
Call it the next big thing, Samsung is reportedly developing a smart watch that would work as a smart phone itself. The watch phone is said to launch in June or July.
According to Wall Street Journal, the South Korean manufacturer is in talks with various telecommunications carriers to turn its smart watch into a phone.
The watch-phone will reportedly run on Samsung’s own Tizen smartwatch operating system.
Realty giant DLF on friday said it has raised Rs 525 crore through debt instruments backed by a luxury shopping mall in the national capital, marking the country’s first commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) offering.
India’s largest realty firm DLF had announced in October 2013 a plan to raise about Rs 1,000 crore through issue of securities backed by mortgage of two retail assets as part of strategy to replace costlier debt, which stood at Rs 17,400 crore two months back.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ashutosh on Saturday denied reports of party leader Shazia Ilmi being miffed with the party which might lead her to quit.
“We don’t know if she is unhappy. We were in constant touch with her and she has not said anything about quitting the party. So, until and unless we heard something from her, we will not comment on it,” said Ashutish.
Ilmi had contested both the Delhi Assembly elections and the Lok Sabha elections, and had lost both the times.
The government has ordered Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) to pay a record Rs 56,384 crore in subsidy to help state-owned fuel retailers cover part of the losses they incurred on diesel and cooking fuel in 2013-14.
Kim Kardashian is reportedly attempting to out-dress the Duchess of Cambridge and is set to rip off the UK Royals’ wedding.
The 33-year-old fiance of Kanye West’s aunt, Karen Houghton, has revealed that the reality star is set to rip off the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with her multi European city bash, the Mirror reported.
She added that Kardashian loved the British royal wedding and is a huge fan of Kate Middleton and was impressed by the way it was played out on TV around the world. (ANI)
Know why most of men just rush for sex and ignore the vital art of whole-body lovemaking? Because most men are ‘preheated’ while most women warm up to sex slowly, a report reveals.
“Learning the reasons for this difference can help men become better lovers,” said a report published by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) – a US-based nonprofit advocacy group that helps people 50 and older improve quality of their lives.
Recent research shows that women experience libido as an urge far less compelling than that.
NASA last week announced that it has activated a plant growth system on the International Space Station.
The Veggie chamber in space garden provides lighting and nutrients for seeds but relies on cabin conditions for temperature control and carbon dioxide, and astronauts have to water it, New Scientist reported.
On May 8, NASA astronaut Steve Swanson turned on the system’s LED lights and put six plant “pillows” inside the chamber.
What if you could purchase one sole and multiple uppers later? Save money and space by getting your hands on a footwear that lets you change multiple uppers on a single sole.
Co-founded by Vivek Sethi and Nitin Setia, Solester is a transformable footwear for women aged 15 and above, said a statement.
Available at www.solester.com, the uppers are made from high quality leather. Now, you can create different looks to match your dress and mood by changing uppers.
The innovative transformable system lets you purchase one sole and then you can buy multiple uppers later. IANS
Dell India has attained the top position in the domestic PC market with a 23.1 per cent market share across segments in the first quarter of the current calendar year.
Scientists have discovered a gene that when mutated leads to hunger at unwanted hours, interrupts sleep and causes overeating .
The researchers said that this pair of genes normally keeps eating schedules in sync with daily sleep rhythms and when they tested mice, they found that when the genes were mutated, they caused unusual mealtimes and weight gain.
Two French bulldogs started a medical emergency after chewing through their owner’s prescription pills and chomping on a St John medic alert panic button.
The dogs, Stella and Stuart, had pills in their mouth and had activated the panic button 12 times by the time the paramedics arrived at the Orewa house north of Auckland, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The dogs were given an intestinal absorbent to try and mop up any drugs left over and their blood test showed that they were both doing well. (ANI)
Iranian movie star Leila Hatami is facing a severe backlash back home after she gave a peck on the cheek to Cannes festival president Gilles Jacob, as she arrived to take part in the judging.
Students with links to the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran are demanding that Leila Hatami, 42, should be imprisoned and given 50 lashes for the incident, the Mirror reported.
They have said that Hatami also flouted their religious beliefs by appearing in public with her head bare.
The elimination of several political formations across the country has given rise to BJP’s ambitions in areas where it has up till now hesitated to expand.
One of them is Jammu and Kashmir, where the party, with some encouragement from the RSS, is exploring a alliance with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Assembly polls are due in the state in January 2015—the Jammu and Kashmir legislative Assembly has six-year tenure, compared with five years elsewhere.
Telangana Congress leaders have held responsible the “unilateral and negligent attitude” of AICC general secretary and state party affairs in-charge Digvijay Singh in addition to former Union minister Jairam Ramesh for the party’s dismal performance in the state.
Defeated Telangana Congress MPs, Madhu Yashki Goud, Ponnam Prabhakar, S. Rajaiah, Balaram Naik and Gutta Sukhendar Reddy held a review meeting at former Union minister S. Jaipal Reddy’s home in Delhi on Thursday.
In an attempt to retain doctors and attract more specialists to government hospitals, the health department is planning a considerable hike in their salaries.
Health Minister U T Khader while addressing a press conference in Bangalore, said the department has proposed to increase the salaries of MBBS doctors from present Rs 40,000 to Rs 60,000 per month and that of post-graduate (PG) doctors from present Rs 60,000 to Rs 1.25 lakh per month.
The proposal has been sent to the finance department and will soon be placed before the cabinet for approval, Khader said.
In an attempt to reduce its financial burden, the State governmen is looking to tap into the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives of the multinational companies.
On Thursday, T B Jayachandra, Law Minister said that various departments of the government have already been approaching corporate for funding the government projects under their CSR initiative.
The (BBMP) is facing acute shortage of health inspectors. Over 50 per cent of the 132 sanctioned posts of health inspectors are vacant.
While if at all possible, each ward must have one senior health inspector, details obtained from each zone reveals that only 50 per cent of posts are filled. There are 198 wards in City.
Senior inspectors are given key responsibilities from ensuring health to proper waste management.
Main duties include issuing food trade licence, curbing mosquito menace, taking measures to control communicable diseases and dealing with sanitation problems.
On Thursday, e-retailer Flipkart said it had acquired Myntra, a leading fashion and lifestyle online retailer, putting months of speculation to rest. In is considered as the largest deal fledgling Indian e-commerce landscape so far.
The deal is estimated at $250-350 million. The timing of the acquisition indicates that it is a strategic move by Flipkart, the country’s biggest e-retailer, to take on the might of global e-commerce giant Amazon, which started operations a year ago and offers a similar proposition to customers.
Hyder Ali, alias Black Beauty, the mastermind of the Patna serial blasts has in an eye-opener disclosure revealed to his interrogators that major terror outfits operating in the Kashmir Valley like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammed had joined hands with Indian Mujahideen and Simi with the sole objective of eliminating Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi.
He (Ali), along with three others, including a juvenile, has been arrested in a major breakthrough by the National Investigation Agency along with central intelligence agencies.
C. Vittal, the Telangana Employees’ Association president, has been apportioned to Andhra Pradesh during the division of state-cadre employees.
Mr Vittal hails from Medak and his service record states the same, in spite of that he has been allotted to AP. This has shocked Telangana employees.
According to them, this incident opens the elements of the irregularities being committed by some officials, who are pulling out all the stops to keep the Seemandhra employees in Telangana and transfer the genuine Telangana employees to Seemandhra.
On Thursday, an auction house failed to find a buyer willing to pay even half the expected amount for three handwritten letters by Mahatma Gandhi, one of which point the finger at his eldest son Harilal of committing rape.
Shropshire-based Mullock’s had expected the letters locks had expected to fetch no less than £80,000. On the contrary, the letters opened for auction at just £20,000 -and failed to find a buyer even then. The lot was “passed“-meaning remained unsold.
Chief Minister, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao before taking charge as Telangana stirred up regional tensions by announcing that no Seemandhra government employee would be allowed to remain in the Telangana Secretariat. He declared it on Thursday.
He also set up a TRS `war room’, which will gather information on the Seemandhra employees endeavoring to stay back and take `appropriate action’.