Asian News International Singer Shakira is confident her 15-month-old son Milan will adjust well to her soon being on tour because he likes travelling in planes.
The “Can’t Remember to Forget You” hitmaker admits it will be hard juggling a young child, but she believes Milan, whom she shares with her beau Gerard Piqué, will adjust well to being on the road.
Decisive to start a probe on Snoopgate, allegations that the Narendra Mod-led Gujarat government had mounted illegitimate surveillance on a woman architect, the Congress-led UPA government may soon approach the Allahabad High Court to seek the services of a sitting judge to head the commission of enquiry.
Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud, the Chief Justice of the Allahabad HC will be requested to nominate a sitting judge from his court.
The news was confirmed by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to ET, saying “the process is on… something is happening”.
Law Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said that by May 16, the government would be appointing a judge to probe “Snoopgate”, and questioned as to why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders are worried about such an inquiry commission being set-up.
Move over smart phones if you are interested in fitness trackers on the go. Here come headphones that can monitor your heart rate and blood pressure.
What else, it can automatically alert doctors if a dangerously high reading is taken.
If we believe Secret, an anonymous gossip app popular in Silicon Valley, Apple is set to launch such earbuds that are also expected to contain a tiny tracking device so they can tell the user where they are if lost.
Apple’s headphones could monitor the pulse of runners and automatically track their health and performance.
A woman committed suicide Friday within Rashtrapati Bhavan precincts by hanging herself from a ceiling fan, police said.
The official said that Sazia, 26, was found hanging from a ceiling fan inside a servant’s quarter allotted to her father around 5.30 a.m. Friday by her family members.
“She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead. No suicide note was recovered,” the official added.IANS
Hilary Duff has opened up about her separation from former ice hockey professional Mike Comrie saying that she is clueless about their future.
The former Disney star in an interview with Giuliana Rancic of E! Online asserted that they were frequently seen together and people were like, if they were dating again.
However, she said that they were really good friends and they had so much respect for each other and their son Luca was their No. 1 priority.
At least 40 children fell ill Friday after having their mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar’s Rohtas district, officials said. The students are now out of danger.
The children complained of uneasiness after the meals at Katar Middle School, and were admitted at a hospital, a district official said.
“All the children are now safe,” he said. “All of them, except two, were discharged after preliminary treatment at the hospital,” he added.
Samples of the meal have been collected by police for forensic examination.
Australian police have arrested a 23-year-old man for raping and murdering his two-year-old stepdaughter in a northeastern city of the country, local media reported Friday.
The attack took place April 18 when the man raped the child and punched her several times in the abdomen.
The incident occurred during 20 minutes of the mother’s absence from the house, police sources told local agency AAP.
The child was taken to a hospital in the city of Coffs Harbour, 530 km north of Sydney, where she died after three days.
One in seven people have admitted financially cheating on their partner by hiding credit card bills, under-estimating salaries and refusing to tell them how much they have spent, according to a survey.
Eight per cent of Britons said that they conceal items that they have bought for the fear of their spouse finding out that they have spent money, Daily Express reported.
According to price comparison website Confused.com, people would rather reveal their real age (31 per cent) or number of lovers they’ve had (20 per cent) before admitting the full extent of their spending.
A new study has found that the risk of divorce among older married couples rises when the wife, and not the husband, becomes seriously ill.
“Married women diagnosed with a serious health condition may find themselves struggling with the impact of their disease while also experiencing the stress of divorce,” Amelia Karraker, a researcher at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, said.
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Dubai, May 2 (IANS) Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s largest arms importers, has held its biggest military exercise over two weeks in three theaters across the country reportedly involving some 100,000 personnel from its army, navy and air force.
The Tamil Nadu special investigative wing probing the twin bomb blasts on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express suspect that the explosives could have been planted at Bangalore.
Sources in the investigation agency, which rushed a team to Bangalore to pursue the new leads it stumbled on has information that the perpetrators of the explosion could have got support from sleeper modules working in Karnataka.
An official refusing to be named told PTI here that information so far collated by it suggest that the bomb fitted with a timer devise could have been planted at Bangalore.
Dating website HowAboutWe has just launched a standalone messaging app for couples that lets two sweeties share multiple types of content and create a story together.
The app is called YouandMe and is the first standalone project out of the company, which currently provides a dating subscription service for singles and couples, as well as a series of media properties covering the topics of sex, love and relationships, Tech Crunch reported.
A new study has revealed the real difference between how men and women choose their partners.
According to the study by researchers from Concordia University, men respond more strongly to the “framing effect” when it comes to physical attractiveness, while women are more attuned to negatively framed information due to an evolutionary phenomenon called ‘parental investment theory.
A new study has revealed that females prefer courtship over competitiveness when it comes to choosing mates .
The study by scientists at the University of Exeter and the Universities of Okayama and Tsukuba in Japan investigated the complicated sexual conflict over mating in Gnatocerus cornutus, the horned flour-beetle and found that female mate choice and male-male competition are the typical mechanisms of sexual selection, which do not do not always favour the same males.
Priyanka Gandhi today contemptuously dismissed reported comments by Narendra Modi that she is like a daughter to him and said she did not “appreciate” this comparison with her father.
“I am Rajiv Gandhi’s daughter,” was Priyanka’s terse reply, as Modi’s comments that he considers her as his daughter dominated her media interaction at several places during her whirlwind poll campaign in Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
Janata Dal (United) has decided to support Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Arvind Kejriwal in the elections from the high profile Varanasi seat in Uttar Pradesh where BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is in the fray.
JD(U) is opposed to both Congress and BJP, hence would support Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi and a decision regarding it has been taken in the party, JD(U) spokesman Rajeev Ranjan Prasad said on Thursday.
What sounds better: a pizza that is 90 percent fat free or a pizza with 10 percent fat? You would rush for the pizza with first message although the choice is the same. The same principle applies when you choose your mate!
This is what scientists called ‘framing effect’ that comes in the picture when we choose a partner.
And the ‘framing effect’ is even stronger in women than it is for men.
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets gained 95.82 points or 0.43 percent during the pre-noon session Friday.
Good buying was observed in banking, healthcare and IT sectors, while selling pressure was seen in capital goods sector.
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 22,493.59 points, was trading at 22,513.62 points in the pre-noon session, up 95.82 points or 0.43 percent from the previous day’s close at 22,417.80 points.
The Sensex touched a high of 22,575.62 points and a low of 22,433.55 points in trade.
Two key Hindu religious leaders will campaign against Nanrendra Modi in the holy city of Varanasi from where the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is contesting the Lok Sabha election.
While Puri Shankaracharya Swami Adhokshjanand Devtirath has blamed Modi for 2002 Gujarat riots, Dwarka Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati has also been his critic since long and had taken him on recently for ‘Har Har Modi’ slogan, inspired by a religious incantation, raised by his supporters.
Major carmakers, including Maruti Suzuki India, Toyota Kirloskar Motor and General Motors India, reported decline in domestic sales in April as demand continued to be subdued due to overall unfavourable macro-economic conditions.
Other manufacturers Hyundai Motor India Ltd, Honda Cars India and Ford, however, reported increase in April sales on the back of their new models.
The country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) reported 12.6 per cent decline in its April sales during the month at 79,119 units.
Sniffing out food or danger fine but prostate cancer? Yes, if we believe Finnish investigators, an electronic nose can very well diagnose prostate cancer – the second most common cancer in males – by smelling urine samples.
In a proof of principle study, the ‘eNose’ successfully discriminated between prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) by ‘sniffing’ urine headspace – the space directly above the urine sample.
A largely-attended tribal Jirga or council of elders has urged the Taliban insurgents and the security forces to extend their ceasefire and remove obstacles in the way of the fragile peace talks.
The council called by Jamaat-e-Islami in the northwestern city of Peshawar Thursday threw its weight behind the dialogue process in line with parliament resolutions, reported Xinhua.
The appeal came weeks after the Taliban ended their 40-day ceasefire April 10 and consequently, there has been a surge in terror attacks in the country.
Moms-to-be, take note! Yoga can reduce the risk of anxiety and depression in pregnant women, according to a first-of-its-kind UK study.
While it has long been assumed by medical professionals that yoga can help reduce stress levels in mothers, it had never been tested in a research setting, scientists said.
Researchers from Manchester and Newcastle Universities found that women who attended a yoga class a week for eight weeks had decreased anxiety scores compared to the control group who received normal antenatal treatment.
Ingredients:
5 Onions
5 Tomatoes
750gms Boneless mutton
½ tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Mustard seeds
1 tsp Kalonji (onion seeds)
5 Cloves
1 tsp saunf (fennel seeds)
1 tsp Red chili powder
2 tbsp Ginger
2 tbsp Garlic
½ cup Coriander (chopped)
8 Whole Red Chillies
1/2 cup
7 tbsp Mustard Oil
Salt (according to taste)
Procedure:
Chop onions and tomatoes.
Roast the whole spices separately. Grind them altogether.
Add the chopped ginger-garlic in a kadahi with heated oil in it. Add coarsely ground masala powder.
Keep stirring.