A S Kashyap Thousands of stone tools unearthed from a cave in Jordan have revealed the first bosses emerged 45,000 years ago.
Anthropologists Liv Nilsson Stutz and Aaron Jonas Stutz from Emory University found thousands of stone tools from the early Upper Paleolithic, which revealed clues about how humans might have started organizing into more complex social groups by planning tasks and specializing in different technical skills.
Hollywood actress Elisabeth Moss has been showered with multiple movie roles after her spectacular performance in ‘ Mad Men’.
The 32-year-old American actor bagged a role of self-destructive alcoholic woman in Michael Mayer’s directed film adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, where she will be sharing screen with Annette Bening, Corey Stoll and Saoirse Ronan, Deadline.com has reported.
A new study has revealed that exercise with a physiotherapist helps people with depression.
Sahlgrenska Academy researcher evaluated exercise as add-on therapy to medicating with antidepressants. The study divided 62 individuals with diagnosed clinical depression into three groups, in which two participated in two different types of exercise with a physiotherapist twice a week for 10 weeks while the third, the control group, did not participate in systematic exercise.
Ravichandran Ashwin continued to be nuisance with his bowling, picking up four wickets on the final day of the lone test between India and Bangladesh, with the hosts at 219-7 at tea in a match that is heading towards a draw.
Bangladesh started the day at 111-3 and lost Shakib al Hasan in the third over of the day.
A new study has revealed that cell density remains constant even though the brain shrinks with age.
New, ultra-high-field magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago provided the most detailed images to date to show that while the brain shrinks with age, brain cell density remains constant.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member and actor Gajendra Chauhan, who is facing a protest over his appointment as the chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), on Saturday attempted to downplay the issue, and said he was ready to resolve the matter through talks.
“I am shocked and surprised, because I am unable to understand the reason for all the opposition taking place. They should have talked to me and met me. I am trying my level best to go and meet them actually, sit with them across the table and sort it out,” Chauhan told ANI.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said he would always stand up for the poor people of India, who he felt were being suppressed by the ‘Suit-Boot’ Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA Government at the Centre and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi.
Gandhi, who met the MCD employees outside his 12, Tughlak Lane, residence here, reiterated that the demands of sanitation workers must be met.
Opening batsman Tamim Iqbal became Bangladesh’s highest Test run-scorer on day four of the lone Test against India in Fatullah on Saturday.
Iqbal became the second Bangladeshi to cross 3000-run landmark after surpassing former captain Habibul Bashar’s 3026, the BBC has reported.
The 26-year-old, who scored his maiden double-century last month, made 19 before being stumped by Wriddhiman Saha off a Ravichandran Ashwin’s delivery.
In reply to India’s 462-6, Bangladesh made 111-3 when rain crept in just minutes before lunch and since then had been pouring heavily. (ANI)
Former Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has been roped in as the new manager of reigning Chinese Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande on a two-and-a-half-year deal.
The Brazilian, who guided his nation’s football team to victory in the 2002 World Cup, said that he knew China was spending a lot to improve its football now, and added that Guangzhou is one of the pioneers, the BBC has reported.
Scolari, who also led Brazil to the semi-final in the 2014 World Cup, stepped down from Brazilian club Gremio in May. (ANI)
India and Kazakhstan have discussed bilateral prospects for cooperation and development in the transport sector.
A statement issued by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in New Delhi said Saturday that a delegation of the Kazakhstan Temir Zholy led by its president Askar Mamin had called on both Shipping and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari and Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu, and had reached understandings and agreements designed to facilitate the movement of goods between the two countries.
Addressing the 103rd passing out parade at the Pakistan Naval Academy, PNS Rahbar here on Saturday, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif, said the armed forces were ready to pay any price to ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the nation.
Maintaining that every effort would be made to counter and neutralise all forms of terrorist activity across Pakistan, General Sharif said the entire world endorses Pakistan’s security concerns with regard toceasefire violations and bloodshed in the Federally Administered tribal areas.
Incessant rain forced the fourth day’s play of the lone Test between India and Bangladesh to be called off here on Saturday.
Indian spinners appeared to have seized the momentum by reducing the hosts to 111-3 when rain crept in just minutes before lunch.
While Tamim Iqbal (19) and Mushfiqur Rahim (2) became the victims of Ravichandran Ashwin’s spin deliveries, returning spinner Harbhajan Singh scalped Mominul Haque (30).
Imrul Kayes and Shakib al Hasan were at the crease on 59 and 0 respectively with Bangladesh still trailing by 351 runs.
Chinese experts have completed restoration of an 800-year-old Buddha statue, famous for its 1,000 hands, located in the country’s southwest province after seven years.
The restoration of the important landmark in Dazu County in Sichun province had begun in 2008 and was completed at a cost of about 60 million yuan (US $9.8 million).
Cairn India on Saturday said its board of directors will meet on Sunday to deliberate on the proposed merger with Vedanta Ltd.
In a BSE filing Cairn India said: “A meeting of Board of Directors of the company will be held on June 14, 2015, inter alia, to consider and evaluate amalgamation of the company with Vedanta Limited.”
Meanwhile, as per sources, boards of Cairn India and Vedanta Ltd at a meeting tomorrow will consider ‘reverse’ merger aimed at cutting debt on Vedanta books as well as the share swap ratio and decide on the timelines for completion of the merger.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) will present British actor Julian Fellowes and the cast of British TV series Downton Abbey with a special Award on August 11.
Before Downton Abbey’s curtain call later this year, the series will be celebrated at a BAFTA gala, reported Digital Spy.
BAFTA chief Amanda Berry credits Downton Abbey with having “flown the flag for British drama” over the last five years.
“Our tribute will take us backstage with the cast and crew to reveal what’s made it both a national treasure and a global phenomenon,” she said.
National Institute of Design (NID) has set up a centre for designing passenger friendly coaches and stations for the Indian Railways.
In April, an MoU was signed between Rail Ministry and NID for setting up of Railway Design Centre at the institute’s Ahmedabad campus with a corpus of Rs 10 crore.
Over the next 10 years, the centre is “expected to bring in revolutionary changes in passenger and freight transport facilities through sustained design research and development exclusively dedicated to the Indian Railways,” a
Commerce and Industry Ministry statement today said.
In a veiled attack on India, Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif on Saturday accused it of “creating instability” through ceasefire violations and supporting militancy in different areas of the country.
“The entire world endorses our security concerns. Ceasefire violation, blood-letting in Balochistan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Karachi manifest enemy’s hostile intent,” he said, without naming India.
American singer Prince’s former wife Mayte Garcia has admitted that her relationship with the singer was the most bizarre relationship ever.
The American belly dancer said in a recent interview that her nine years love relationship with the 57-year-old pop-star, who wrote ‘The Most Beautiful Girl in the World’ song for her wife, screwed the dancers’ life as after that she wasn’t able to find lasting love, the Mirror reported.
A naval survey ship has reportedly picked up signals from the missing Indian Coast Guard’s Dornier aircraft.
The Dornier with three crew members went missing on on Monday night along the Tamil Nadu coast.
The Ministry of Defence on Saturday said in a statement that intense and sustained efforts are being made to search for the the missing aircraft. The search has been on for the last 110 hours.
Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Anant Kumar, who inaugurated the newly constructed academic and hostel blocks at Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) here today, said that the premier centre for plastic engineering would be further expanded at a cost of Rs. 13 crores.
Speaking on the occasion, Kumar said that Rs.13 crores would be utilised to build additional hostel facility at the approximate cost of Rs. nine crores and enhance the technical infrastructure facility
costing Rs. 4 crores.
After a gap of nearly five years, the toy train service has resumed in West Bengal’s Darjeeling.
The toy train ‘Queen of Hills’ shuttled yesterday between Darjeeling and New Jalpaiguri stations.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, consists of 88.48 km of narrow gauge track that connects New Jalpaiguri with Darjeeling, passing through Ghum at an altitude of 2258 meters.
The toy train service was suspended on September 2010, after a landslide destroyed about 600 meters of road and tracks running parallel to it at the Tindharia town of Darjeeling. (ANI)
The Delhi Police, which took Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former law minister Jitendra Tomar to Faizabad and Ayodhya as part of its investigation, have found that his B. Sc degree is fake.
Delhi Police sources said that Tomar had no knowledge about anything related to his educational qualification when questioned at the Faizabaad Awadh University and Ayodhaya Saket College.
No such degree has been issued by the University or college in his name, said sources.
Meanwhile, the verification of Tomar’s L.L.B. degree is still underway.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi met MCD employees outside his 12 Tughlak Lane residence on Saturday.
The MCD employees handed over a petition to him in which they had listed their grievances.
Gandhi spent a considerable amount of time hearing their issues and promised to take steps to resolve them at the earliest.
Gandhi, earlier on Friday joined a striking sanitation workers’ dharna outside the East Delhi Municipal Corporation headquarters and slammed both the Delhi Government and the Centre for not solving their problems.
The United States has urged Pakistan to allow ‘Save the Children’ and other international charities to work under a legal framework.
US State Department spokesperson Jim Kirby said that they have urged the government of Pakistan to standardise and streamline a transparent process that will allow international NGOs to work legally in Pakistan as they were concerned about Pakistan’s crackdown on international charitable organisations and other NGOs, Dawn reported.
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Saturday denied reports of a lizard being found in the food tray of a passenger on-board an Air India flight.
“We are in touch with Air India’s management. As per them, there has been no complaint, no passenger or person has come forward to claim that this picture was taken by him or her even now,” Raju told IANS here.